Brown University Library News

At the moment Professor Josiah Carberry has taken advantage of the non-existent, mid-semester, harvest break to go fishing for squirrels or some other kind of non-aquatic forrest animal, but in less than a month (on December 13 at 3 p.m.) he will return to campus and host a cooking demonstration and cookbook signing in the Laura and David Finn Reading Room of the Rockefeller Library.

If you happen to see the Professor on his travels snap a picture on instagram and tag it “#josiahcarberry” so it will show up on the Josiah Carberry Instagram Wall.

In leading up to the cooking demonstration, Carberry has been sharing some of his favorite recipes from The Carberry Cookbook. Here are a few:

• Chocolate Decadence Cake with Raspberry Sauce
• Antelope in Sauce
• Puffinburgers
• Shrimp in Beer

In other Carberry news, one alumni had this sighting to pass along:

We spotted dear Professor Carberry last year enjoying an opera performance in Bucharest, but unfortunately we did not have our iPad along to snap a photo. He was in the box stage left closest to the orchestra pit, his head obscured by the heavy velvet curtain separating his box from its neighbor.

Details for Cooking Demonstration and Cookbook Signing:
Date: December 13
Time: 3 p.m.
Location: Laura and David Finn Reading Room (Rockefeller Library)

Contact: Mark Baumer |  401-863-3642

John Caserta is a designer, artist, and educator.

He has created and produced information-design projects and data-driven applications for The New York Times, Reuters, The Normandy Visitor’s Center in France, NBC, the NCAA and more.

On November 14 at 5:30 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab, Caserta will give a talk titled “Data-driven Design Systems for the Web.” He will discuss his experience creating static information-design projects as well as working collaboratively on data-driven reusable systems for designers, educators, and the general public.

Since 2007, Caserta has focused his efforts locally, initiating, and fostering The Design Office—a community of independent designers centered downtown on Westminster Street. The Design Office has 16 members working in a variety of design, programming, and spatial disciplines.

In 2012, Caserta became an Assistant Professor in the Graphic Design Department at RISD, but has been teaching part-time since 2006, and a resident of Providence since 2005. Prior to his arrival in Providence, Caserta spent a year as a Fulbright Fellow in the Arts in Italy. He holds a B.A. in Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an MFA from Yale University in Graphic Design.

This event is free and open to the public.

Date: Thursday, November 14, 2013
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Location: Digital Scholarship Lab

Contact: Mark Baumer |  401-863-3642

A new environment for scholarly research is emerging out of the steady accumulation of digitized sources over the last two decades, contemporary models for accessing those sources, and novel methods for searching, sorting, and mining them in ways that forge new connections and enhance serendipity.

In his talk, “The Emerging Research Environment,” Dan Cohen—Executive Director of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)—will survey today’s and tomorrow’s electronic landscape.

It is the Digital Public Library of America’s mission to make the cultural and scientific heritage of humanity available, free of charge, to all.

Prior to the DPLA, Dan was the Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. At the Center, Dan oversaw projects ranging from new publishing ventures (PressForward) to online collections (September 11 Digital Archive) to software for scholarship (the popular Zotero research tool). His books include Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (with Roy Rosenzweig) and Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith.

The Library is proud to co-sponsor this event with the Center for Public Humanities and the John Carter Brown Library.

The lecture will be followed by a brief presentation of the MA program in Public Humanities and a reception.

Date: November 13
Time: 6 p.m.
Location: Nightingale Brown House Lecture Room