Monthly Archives: June 2012

“Dealing with Data” – New Library Publication Now Availaible

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — 
Brown University Library is pleased to announce the release of its newest publication, Dealing with Data.

Dealing with Data features contributions by Library staff and Brown faculty including Harriette Hemmasi, Catherine Busselen, Ann Caldwell, Jean Bauer, Julia Flanders, Amanda Rinehart, John Cayley, Sue Alcock, and Jan S. Hesthaven. The authors discuss a range of issues related to data description, management, and preservation, data visualization and the importance of data in research and teaching.

Free, print copies of the publication are available at the John D. Rockefeller Library, Sciences Library, Orwig Music Library, and John Hay Library. A PDF of Dealing with Data is available here.

Dealing with Data is sponsored by Brown University Library and Friends of the Library, with funding provided by the Richard and Edna Salomon Publications Fund. Most recently, the Salomon Fund also supported the print and digital publication of a revised Special Collections of the Brown University Library: A History and Guide, and a brochure about Brown’s Chinese collections, which is currently being translated into Chinese.

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. http://library.brown.edu/

Contact: Amy Atticks | Amy_Atticks@brown.edu | (401) 863-6913

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First Readings Program Has Announced This Year’s Book

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This year’s First Readings book is Sons of Providence by Charles Rappleye. Here are a few things of note about Sons of Providence and the First Readings program.

  • The First Readings program provides first-year and transfer students with a common reading experience that introduces them to the pleasures and rigors of academic life at Brown University.
  • This is the program’s sixth year.
  • First Readings is sponsored by the Dean of the College and Brown Alumni Association.
  • The library has created a website to introduce new students to the resources available to them at the library.
  • Sons of Providence, is the biography of John and Moses Brown, two brothers caught at opposite ends of the slavery issue in the early beginnings of colonial America.
  • There will be frequent updates to the @firstreadings twitter feed.
  • In mid-October, Charles Rappleye, author of Sons of Providence, will visit campus and speak to the first-year students.

For more information about the author, the brown family, early maps of Providence, or timelines visit the website.

New Gorham Project Archivist Hired

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If you’re a frequent visitor of the John Hay Library and you happened to stop by in the last four hours you might not have recognized everyone. Rhonda Chadwick, the new Gorham Project Archivist, began her first day today. She will be working on the Gorham Manufacturing Company records which contain over 3,000 linear feet.  As some of you may or may not know, the Gorham Manufaturing Company of Providence was one of the premier silver manufacturers in the United States.

Rhonda comes to the Brown with her Masters in Library and Information Science from Simmons College and her B.A. in English and Anthropology from Rhode Island College.  She has worked for the Rhode Island School of Design, Smith College, the Rhode Island Historical Society and the UMass Boston on a wide range of archival projects in addition to running her own business as an accountant.