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New Brochure Listing Brown University Library Events and Exhibits
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The Brown University Library is pleased to share a new brochure listing fall 2012 events and exhibits which are free and open to the public. A digital version is available here. Hard copies are available at Library locations. More information about these and other programs will continue to be made available in the announcements section of the Library website. -
Website for Digital Art & Humanities Lecture Series, Now Live!
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] –The Brown University Library is launching a new website which hosts abstracts and videos from the 2011-2012 Digital Arts and Humanities Lecture Series. The series was jointly sponsored by Brown University Library and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage.Over the course of the fall and spring semesters, five nationally recognized digital scholars came to campus to meet with graduate students, faculty, and digital staff, and to present on their research during an evening lecture. The series kicked off on October 3, 2011 with “Remembering Networks: Agrippa, RoSE and Network Archaeology” by renowned digital scholar, Alan Liu. The October lecture preceded Richard White’s “The Spatial Turn in History,” and “In the stack of the livebrary” by Jeffrey Schnapp. The last two lectures, “Post-archive: Scholarship in the Digital Age” by Tara McPherson, and “A Noisy Archaeology” by Paul DeMarinis, were filmed and are available for viewing.
The John Nicholas Brown Center helps connect academic communities and the broader public through history, art, and culture. We support people and organizations that explore, preserve, and interpret cultural heritage. Our programs explore the ways in which the humanities enrich everyday life.
The Brown University Library is home to more than 6.8 million print items, plus a multitude of electronic resources and expanding digital archives serving the teaching, research, and learning needs of Brown students and faculty, as well as scholars from around the country and the world.
Contact: Jennifer Braga | 401-863-6913
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The New Digital Library Programmer
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The Library is pleased to announce that Ben Cail has joined the Library as the new Digital Library Programmer in Repository Services.
Ben comes to the library from Charlotte, NC where he worked as an applications programmer/analyst on the application support team at Wachovia/Wells Fargo. He has extensive experience in ESQL, JAVA, Bash, C++, Python, and XML technologies.
Additionally, he is a Google “Summer of Code” alumnus in which he worked on expanding the open source project KOffice; specifically improving it’s ability to interact with Microsoft Office files.
Ben holds a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from LeTourneau University. He will be located in the SciLi. Please join us in welcoming Ben to the Brown community.