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Announcement | Library Donates to Community Nonprofits
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Some of the Library staff donations for Crossroads Rhode Island and the Rhode Island Community Food Bank Each year during the holidays, Nancy Flynn, Senior Library Specialist, Facilities and Business, has chaired the Library’s charitable holiday drive.
In December of 2018, over the course of two weeks, Nancy inspired Library staff to donate gifts, money, and food to Crossroads Rhode Island and the Rhode Island Community Food Bank.
Donations
The mission of Crossroads Rhode Island is to help homeless or at-risk individuals and families secure stable homes. In addition to an overflowing mail bin full of new toys for children, Crossroads Rhode Island received $800 in monetary donations from the Library.
Library staff gave the Rhode Island Community Food Bank over 100 pounds of non-perishable food items and a monetary donation of $1,070. With a mission to improve the quality of life for all Rhode Islanders by advancing solutions to the problem of hunger, this local food bank provides access to healthy food to diverse communities throughout the state.
Nancy Flynn
Nancy retired in January 2019, after many years of dedicated service to the Library. A beloved and respected member of the staff, Nancy’s infectious humor, tireless work ethic, and enormous heart is sorely missed at the Rockefeller Library and beyond. One of those Rhode Islanders who knows everyone and every place, Nancy remains connected to us (thankfully) and can probably be found “getting her steps in” on Blackstone Boulevard or in the coolest new pub to open in Providence (and the surrounding area).
We thank Nancy for spearheading our community giving efforts and look forward to trying to live up to the very high bar of community philanthropy that she has set over the course of her career in the Library.
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Exhibit | Folklore Music Map of the United States
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Folklore Music Map of the United States from the Primer of American Music
Dorothea Dix Lawrence (1899–1979)
New York, New York: Hagstrom Company, Inc., 1946
Brown University Library, Special CollectionsThis colorful Folklore Music Map of the United States contains period illustrations, musical classifications and a bibliography. With its visual overlay of music and geography, the map provides useful information about the varied and unique sounds produced nationally and studied by folklorists of the 1940s. Created by opera singer turned folklorist Dorothea Dix Lawrence from her Primer of American Music radio program, the map is an example of her efforts to broadly collect and disseminate music in America. All of the music samples on the map were later published in a book entitled Folklore-Songs of the United States (1959).
Exhibit Dates: January 30 -Febuary 28, 2019
Exhibit Time: John Hay Library Hours
Exhibit Location: Second Floor Landing, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect Street, Providence -
Announcement | Emily Ferrier, Social Sciences and Entrepreneurship Librarian
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The Brown University Library welcomes Emily Ferrier as the Social Sciences and Entrepreneurship Librarian.As the primary liaison to the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship and the department of Economics, Emily will assist researchers, students, and other University stakeholders as they develop entrepreneurial projects, conduct market research, explore business models, and engage in community partnerships to strengthen the local, national, and international scholarly community. As a member of the Academic Engagement unit, Emily will work with other subject librarians, as well as the Center for Digital Scholarship, the digital repository team, and others in the Library and across campus to provide the resources and services to support this work.
Emily will provide synchronous and asynchronous instruction on topics related to business and entrepreneurship, such as market research, business analysis, intellectual property, patents, and finance, and scholarly resources to support research and teaching in entrepreneurship and economics.
Emily joins Brown from Olin College of Engineering where she has has served as the Senior Librarian since 2016. Most recently she has also served as the Acting Library Director. At Olin, Emily has supported open scholarship and Olin’s open access policy to provide preservation and access to scholarship including student and faculty research, data, and software.
Emily has demonstrated commitment to diversity and inclusion through cross-institutional activities focused on ways to design support systems to address systemic issues that result in first year students, students with disabilities, and marginalized community members feeling excluded from campus and classrooms. Along with a cross-disciplinary team consisting of faculty, student affairs and the library, Emily and her co-authors’ related peer-reviewed paper, “Proactive Inclusion of Neurodiverse Learning Styles in Project-Based Learning: A Call for Action,” was presented at the American Society for Engineering Education conference in June 2018.
Prior to joining Olin College of Engineering in 2016, Emily worked in the libraries of intellectual property law firms where she specialized in IP research, with expertise in legal, intellectual property, and business intelligence research. Emily earned her MLIS from San Jose State and a BA in History from Northeastern University.
In addition to her professional accomplishments, Emily is a media producer of titles such as COLD HUDSON: A Slow Film. Slowness is a theme that has worked its way into cooking, photography, and now to the old house she is renovating.