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  • Alumni Reunion Forum | Taking Action in the Public Square

    Jennifer Braga

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    Were you first engaged in organizing for change at Brown?  Are you engaged now? Join fellow Brown alumni to discuss the gratification and challenges of public engagement. Share your story about your participation in efforts to make your community a better place through social change, greater diversity, higher standards, and equitable structures.

    Join the Brown University Library and the Brown Alumni Association for an Alumni Reunion Forum entitled, “Taking Action in the Public Square,” on Saturday, May 26, from 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library.

    Participants:

    • Jane Beckett (Class of 1968), Jane Beckett & Associates
    • Bob Cohen (Class of 1968), Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
    • Katie Cohen (Class of 2013), North Shore (Massachusetts) Labor Council, AFL-CIO
    • Jim Dickson (Class of 1968), American Association of People with Disabilities
    • Ken Galdston (Class of 1968), InterValley Project
    • Rinku Sen (Class of 1988), Race Forward

    Date: Saturday, May 26, 2018
    Time: 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
    Location: John Hay Library, 20 Prospect Street, Providence

  • New Eresource – United Nations Digital Library

    Anne Nolan

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    Access to a new eresource has been added on the Databases A-Z list on the Library Web. The United Nations Digital Library (UNDL) is now a freely accessible online resource.

    Current and historical: provides a single access point to UN information. Allows for exploration of documents and publications, voting data, maps, speeches, images and sounds, and more. Additional collections of digital materials will be added as they are created or are made available by UN departments, offices, and agencies. Covers most UN bodies such as the General Assembly, the International Court of Justice, the Human Rights bodies, and many more. [This resource is publicly available.]

  • Exhibit | From Gospel Hymns to “Mississippi Goddam”: the Evolving Soundtrack of the Civil Rights Era and Beyond

    Tiffini Bowers

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    Music was a sonic weapon used by Civil Rights organizations against violence and oppression. Songs were used to inspire, unite and comfort participants at meetings, sit-ins, marches and in jail cells. Trace the journey for equality and the music it inspired, and discover iconic pieces that have become staples of protest movements around the world.

    For more documents related to the Civil Rights era (particularly in Mississippi), see the Library’s ‘Freedom Now!’ archive, a cooperative digitizing project undertaken by Brown University and Tougaloo College:

    Dates: May 1 – December 12, 2018
    Time: Library Hours
    Location: Orwig Music Library, 1 Young Orchard Avenue, Providence

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