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Rock Reading Room Construction Impacts, 9/21 – 9/25
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Due to construction to renovate the Reading Room on the first floor of the Rockefeller Library, there will be no access to the Finn glass study rooms and window study carrels along College Street from Sunday, September 21 through Thursday, September 25th. The rooms and carrels will re-open on Friday, September 26.
Noisy work (grinding) will begin Sunday, September 21 at midnight through Monday, September 22 at 8:00am. Users of the Rockefeller Library between midnight and 2:00am on Sunday will be affected. Extra measures will be taken to help control dust and smell.
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Updates From Around the Library (September 2014)
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The fall semester is off to a great start at the Library. Here are a few recent highlights from various Library blogs:
- The Hall-Hoag Collection Blog did a nice recap of its summer adventures.
- Brown Curio keeps going strong with more posts about broadsides and a look at the Historia de la villa imperial de Potosí.
- The Center for Digital Scholarship Blog highlights an undergraduate researcher.
- Wired Up and Plugged In, the Library’s eResources blog, has some news about new available databases.
- The First Readings program shared some information about three First Readings’ events at the end of the month.
- Here are the latest memories from the Rock50 website. Take a moment and submit your own!
- Also, check for Library updates on: facebook, twitter, and instagram.
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Upcoming First Readings Events
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As part of the First Readings program, there will be three events at the end of September/beginning of October. The selection for this year’s First Reading program was the film Oil and Water which told the story of Hugo Lucitante (a member of the Cofan tribe in the Ecuadorian Amazon) and David Poritz (Brown ’12) as they both fought to protect the Amazon.
Upcoming First Readings Events
- Seeing With Two Eyes: Development and Environment in Ecuador | September 29, 2014 at 4 p.m. in Salomon 001 (Main Green)
David Poritz’12, Hugo Lucitante, Craig Hammer, and Juan Carlos in a discussion with Brown faculty on the intersection of environmental conservation and development. - Film Screening: Oil and Water | October 1, 2014 at 4:15 p.m. in Salomon 101 (Main Green)
- Ecuador before Ecuador : Indigenous and Early Amazon | October 2, 2014 at 4 p.m. in the MacMillan Reading Room (John Carter Brown Library)
The filmmakers (Laurel Spellman Smith and Francine Strickwerda) and film protagonists (David Poritz and Hugo Lucitante) will discuss early Amazonian history and resources at Brown for studying the indigenous past.
- Seeing With Two Eyes: Development and Environment in Ecuador | September 29, 2014 at 4 p.m. in Salomon 001 (Main Green)