Image courtesy of lyrics.wikia.com. B.B. King (2002) Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock’s Backpages Audio, October 2002 The Chairman of the Board of Blues Singers looks back at his early days in Memphis, and on the observational nature of his songs, and their universal subject matter. File format: mp3; file size: 10mb, interview length: 10′ 55″ … Spotlight on Rock’s Backpages Database: B.B. King
As finals wind down, here is the latest from the Library: Curio has a post on Ted Berrigan’s airplane. Over at the Hall-Hoag Collection Blog, Dan Johnson says farewell. Digital Humanities shares a podcast with Professor Elias Muhanna. The Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection has a post about “archers with pikes.” Take a look at a couple of the Library’s new eresources. Here’s … Updates from Around the Library | May 2015
This exhibit features some of the best architectural models submitted as final projects for Professor Dietrich Neumann’s Nineteenth-Century Architecture class. This course surveyed stylistic developments, new building types, and changing social conditions of architectural production for the period covering 1800 to 1900. Students were asked either to write a final paper or construct an architecturally accurate … Exhibit | 19th Century Architectural Models
On Saturday, May 23 at 12:30 p.m. in this, the bicentennial year of Waterloo, curator Peter Harrington will explore the numerous artistic representations of this iconic battle in his talk, “Waterloo 1815: The Image and the Battle.” The talk will take place in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library. It is free and open to … Commencement Forum | Waterloo 1815: The Image and the Battle
What can 130 year old preserved plant specimens tell us about our past and our future? The Brown University Herbarium and the Brown University Library have teamed up to create a visually stunning walk through the historical collections of Brown plant specimens using the 7-by-16 foot digital display wall in the Rockefeller Library’s Patrick Ma Digital … Commencement Forum | A History of Brown as Told by Flowers
You’ve been waiting all semester for this… Pizza Nights! Every year the Library hosts two nights of pizza. The first (Tuesday) night will be in the Sciences Library. The next night (Wednesday) there will be pizza in the Rock. Students that enjoy studying in a library as well as eating pizza are encouraged to attend. Also, the rock … Event | Pizza Nights
The Center for Digital Scholarship at the Brown University Library presents Digital Cultural Heritage and the Healing of a Nation: Digital Sudan and the Rwanda Gacaca Archive Digitization Project. Speaker Marilyn Deegan from King’s College London will present at 12 p.m., Thursday, May 7, 2015 in the Lownes Room at the John Hay Library. Sudan is one of the most diverse … Event | Marilyn Deegan: Digital Cultural Heritage and the Healing of a Nation: Digital Sudan and the Rwanda Gacaca Archive Digitization Project
The Library is pleased to announce that Andrew Beers ‘15 is the winner of this year’s Library Innovation Prize. Andrew’s presentation entitled “Grand Banks Iceberg Mapper” used data from the U.S. Coast Guard and from a number of early print sources, including maritime newspaper accounts, to plot the location of icebergs in the Western North … Library Innovation Prize Winner 2015
On April 29, 2015, a delegation from Beijing Foreign Studies University visited Brown University and the Library. Headed by Professor Peng Long, President of Beijing Foreign Studies University, the delegation included Professors Zhang Jian, Dean of the School of English and International Studies, Li Liwen, Dean of the School of English for Specific Purposes, Wang Lidi, … Beijing Foreign Studies University Delegation Visit to the Brown University Library
JSTOR ARTS & SCIENCES XIV has just been added to the Library’s collections. The new collection is devoted to the study of culture and communication, from civilization’s earliest traces to the growth and governance of peoples. It supports research in Political Science, Language, Rhetoric & Communications, Archaeology & Anthropology, Asian Studies, and more.
