Posted by Ann Morgan Dodge on April 12, 2012
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, the staff of the John Hay Library will display several news accounts of the disaster, including articles from the 1912 Providence Journal. Additional items related to the ship (sheet music, poetry and plays) will be on display. RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg; over 1500 people perished.
Please join us at noon on Tuesday April 17th in the Lownes Room to relive history.
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Posted by Sarah E. Bordac on April 9, 2012
Librarians After Dark - 4/9 & 4/10
Working on a research project?
Are you stuck or want to dig more deeply?
Come to the Librarians After Dark session to get hands on tips to become a more effective library user, and bring your research questions for some personalized guidance. You’ll leave with tips and tricks that can lead to more efficient and productive research.
When:
April 9 & 10, 7-8pm
Where:
Rockefeller Library, main level
Hecker Center Computer Classroom
Sponsored by the University Library
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Posted by aatticks@brown.edu on April 3, 2012
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April 3, 2012
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – At 5:30pm on Monday, May 7, 2012, Dr. Guila Clara Kessous will give a lecture entitled “Theater and Human Rights” in the second floor Lownes Room of the John Hay Library followed by a reception. This lecture is sponsored by Friends of the Library and is part of the Mel and Cindy Yoken Cultural Series. It is free and open to the public.
Dr. Kessous will consider representations of humanitarian cause on stage and examine the responsibilities and challenges artists and audiences face in exploring material of this nature. The presentation will focus on scenes from plays directed by Dr. Kessous in English and in French.
Guila Clara Kessous leads the Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center’s Initiative in Theater and Human Rights. She is the recipient of the State Diploma of Performing Arts among other awards, Kessous acted, directed and produced in major theatres in the US and Europe. She received a PhD in ethics and aesthetics under the mentorship of E. Wiesel, an MBA in cultural business, and a cross-disciplinary MA in comparative dramaturgy, cinema, and pedagogy. She has taught at Harvard, Boston University, the Sorbonne, and the Wiesel Institute. Her sponsors include UNESCO (director, “Hilda”), the UN (director, “Tribute to Human Rights”), and the CNRS among others. She has collaborated with artists including John Malkovich, James Taylor, Marissa Berenson, Daniel Mesguich, and Theodore Bikel. In 2010, she partnered with the United Nations on the theme “Theater and Human Rights” and was awarded the “Chevalier Arts et Lettres” from the French Minister of Culture. In 2011, UNESCO named her an “Artist for Peace” giving her the opportunity to collaborate directly with francophone countries spanning three different continents on the Mediterranean project.
Friends of the Library is an association interested in fostering the growth and usefulness of the Brown University Library and in encouraging gifts of books, desirable collections, other scholarly materials and funds.
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: Amy Atticks| Amy_Atticks@Brown.edu | (401) 863-6913
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Posted by anolan@brown.edu on March 28, 2012
On 1 April 2012 IEEE will release the new IEEE Business Platform, a suite of applications powered by a new services-oriented architecture which includes key enhancements to IEEE Xplore.
While many new features will be added to IEEE Xplore with this release, there are two important items to note:
1. IEEE Account (personal account) user name change: After the launch, individuals signing in with an IEEE Account user name (the personal account user name which is used to set individual preferences) will be prompted to change their current user name to their e-mail address. Institutional user names and access are not affected and will remain the same.
2. Saved Searches and Search History will be deleted: All current saved searches and search history records will be DELETED with this release. We encourage all users to copy and paste their saved searches into a document so they can recreate the search after launch. IEEE has communicated to all saved search alert holders about this change. Table of Contents alerts are not affected and will remain active.
New features incorporated into IEEE Xplore with this release include:
Enhanced and more streamlined abstract page
Enhanced browsing by title with the inclusion of refinements
New placement of sign-in links for personal accounts and institutional accounts
New and improved IEEE personal account registration process
New citation diagram
And more
Learn more about the new features:
See our new features web page: www.ieee.org/newieeexplore
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Posted by aatticks@brown.edu on March 27, 2012
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March 27, 2012
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – The Preservation Department of Brown University Library has discovered an exceptionally rare engraved print by Paul Revere.
As long as two hundred years ago, Solomon Drowne, Brown University Class of 1773 and a professor in the early Brown University Medical School, tucked a little something into one of his books, The Modern Practice of Physic, by Robert Thomas, published in 1811. The John Hay Library received the book in 1940, with the rest of Drowne’s Library. During a recent inspection of the Drowne books, Marie Malchodi, of the Library’s Preservation Department, discovered this little something: an engraved depiction of Christ and John the Baptist, both of them chest deep in the Jordan River, titled “Buried with Him by Baptism” and signed “P. Revere sculp.”
The print is characterized by Clarence S. Brigham in Paul Revere’s Engravings, the standard reference, as “one of the scarcest of the plates signed by Revere.” The Brown University Library’s copy is the fifth known to exist. Other copies are housed at the American Antiquarian Society, the Worcester Art Museum, and a private museum collection in Massachusetts; another, which Brigham mistakenly thought had been acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), was offered at auction by Sotheby’s in 2007.
As Richard Noble, Rare Materials Cataloger explains “The print is of considerable interest simply because Revere made it, but it is also an intriguing and very serious theopolitical cartoon, depicting the baptism in a manner that was the subject of lively debate in eighteenth-century New England religious circles. Brigham was unable to identify a model for it in any English book or periodical, or connect it with any of the tracts on baptism published on this side of the Atlantic from 1760 to 1780. It appears to be an American original, by an American original, the son of French Huguenot refugees who eventually became, by all accounts, a Unitarian. The print thus marks a stage in the evolution of that aspect of Revere’s 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: Ann Dodge| Ann_Dodge@Brown.edu | (401) 863-1502
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Posted by aatticks@brown.edu on March 21, 2012
Culture and Art from the Divine Land: An Exhibition of Chinese Collections in the Year of Dragon
来自神州大地的文化艺术–布朗大学龙年中文馆藏特展
John Hay Library, Brown University, Feb. 6 – April 19, 2012
Culture and Art from the Divine Land, an exhibit which is part of Brown’s Year of China, has been extended to April 19th. New exhibition items include the BFSU Scholars Selections, received recently from China. Curator Li Wang was honored to attend the ceremony for publishing on the 70th anniversary of Beijing Foreign Studies University in September 2011. The Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, BFSU’s publishing house, donated a set of this valuable Scholars series including works by late Professors Wang Zuoliang, Xu Guozhang, Zhou Jueliang and other distinguished scholars to Brown University Library. The gift books also include a set of bi-lingual renowned scholars’ works in humanities and social sciences.
For more information about the exhibition, see: http://library.brown.edu/exhibits/ChineseCollections.pdf
The exhibit locations include the Gammell Gallery, the North Gallery, Lobby Case and Reading Room Glass Cases in the John Hay Library.
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Posted by aatticks@brown.edu on March 20, 2012
"Firebirds" (2004) credit: Roman März
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – On Tuesday, April 17, 2012, Brown University will host the fifth and final speaker of the Digital Arts & Humanities 2011-2012 Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage and the Brown University Library. Paul DeMarinis will give a talk entitled “A Noisy Archaeology” at 5:30pm in the Lownes Room, John Hay Library, followed by a reception in the lobby. This event is free and open to the public.
The Digital Arts and Humanities Lecture Series kicked off on October 3, 2011 with “Remembering Networks: Agrippa, RoSE and Network Archaeology” by renowned digital scholar, Alan Liu. Since October, Brown has hosted Richard White, Jeffrey Schnapp, and Tara McPherson.
As series organizers Steven Lubar and Harriette Hemmasi explained at the outset of the series, they hope “to engage Brown faculty and students in the digital arts and humanities by revealing the power of new digital approaches to transform traditional scholarship.”
Portrait of Paul DeMarinis credit: Rebecca Cummins
Paul DeMarinis is a Professor of Studio Art at Stanford University. He specializes in electronic media art production, and is a pioneer in the use computers for performance art. He has performed internationally, at The Kitchen, Festival d’Automne a Paris, Het Apollohuis in Holland and at Ars Electronica in Linz. His interactive audio artworks have been exhibited at the I.C.C. in Tokyo, Bravin Post Lee Gallery in New York, The Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco and the 2006 Shanghai Biennale. He has received major awards and fellowships in both Visual Arts and Music from The National Endowment for the Arts, N.Y.F.A., N.Y.S.C.A., the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and was awarded the Golden Nica for Interactive Art at Ars Electronica in 2006.
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: Amy Atticks | Amy_Atticks@brown.edu | (401) 863-6913
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Posted by mbaumer@brown.edu on March 19, 2012
Erika Sevetson is our new Health Sciences Librarian. Erika comes to us from the Ebling Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where she has worked since 2000. She was a Senior Academic Librarian there, with liaison responsibilities in Medical Education, Public Health, and Global Health, and also served as Ebling’s statewide Outreach Librarian.
Her other library experience includes a reference assistantship at Harvard’s Schlesinger Library.
Prior to her time at UW, Erika worked at Brown as Course Coordinator in the Office of Medical Curriculum Affairs, and before that in the Office of Alumni Relations and as Administrative Assistant for the Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences.
She has a Bachelor’s Degree from Mount Holyoke College and a Master of Science in Library Science from Simmons College.
Erika’s office will be in the Champlin Library at the Alpert Medical School.
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Posted by aatticks@brown.edu on March 19, 2012
Taoist Priest Zhou Xuan Yun
Dr. Li Wang
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – On Tuesday, April 3, 2012 from 2:30 to 5pm, Taoist Priest Zhou Xuan Yun and Brown University Library East Asian Curator Li Wang will discuss Chinese internal arts and the influence of Daoist philosophy and practice on Taiji Quan in the Crystal Room of Alumnae Hall. This interactive workshop, co-sponsored by the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, is free and open to the public.
Dr. Li Wang will introduce the workshop with a talk entitled “The Way for Energy, Harmony and Well-being: Philosophy, Principles and Methods of Chinese Internal Arts.” His talk will highlight traditional Chinese internal arts and their benefits, including self-cultivation in modern life. Then, Taoist Priest Zhou Xuan Yun will share his experiences growing up in a Taoist temple and teach sections of the Wudang Mountain traditional Taiji form.
Taiji Quan (T’ai Chi Chuan, Supreme Ultimate Fist) is approximately 1,000 years old, and the most popular Chinese martial art in the world. Many people today practice Taiji mainly for its health benefits, and as a kind of moving meditation. Taiji philosophy predates Taiji Quan. The “Taiji diagram” (known as the Yin/Yang diagram in the West) explains the dynamic way in which one thing changes into another through a “great ultimate” process, which makes a balanced and interlocking natural world possible. Taiji philosophy is one of the central concepts of Taoism (Daoism), which is the study of the Dao, or the Natural Way.
Taoist Priest Zhou Xuan Yun (pronounced Joh Sh-when Yoon), grew up in a temple on Wudang Mountain, China where he was a student and later an instructor of Taiji and Kung Fu. He belongs to the Orthodox Unity sect of Taoism, and is trained in ritual arts, chanting, divination, and internal alchemy. He is formally recognized as a disciple of Li Guang Fu 李光富 the Abbot of Wudang Mountain (武当山道教协会会长). Now based in Boston, he offers classes and workshops on the Taoist arts and teaches the traditional arts in classes around the world. More information about Zhou Xuan Yun is available on his web site www.DaoistGate.com
Dr. Li Wang, Curator of East Asian Collection in Brown University Library, is a specialist in Chinese philosophy and religion, especially Daoist history and inner alchemy. He is also a veteran master of Chinese internal martial arts and Qigong (meditation). He began to practice martial arts as a young man and studied from several famous Chinese masters. For the past 30 years, Dr. Wang has taught Chinese internal arts to hundreds of students in China and the United States. The programs he has taught include Chen style and Yang style Taiji Quan (Tai Chi Chuan), Taiji swordplay, pushing-hands, Xingyi Quan (Hsing-I Chuan), Bagua Zhang (Pa-Kua Chang), Dacheng Quan (aka Yi Quan) and Zhanzhuang Qigong (standing meditation). All these are known as internal arts that share principles and methods derived from traditional Chinese philosophy, martial techniques, and medical theories.
The Year of China explores the rich culture, economy, and politics of Greater China, investigating its past, examining its present, and contemplating its future. Throughout the 2011-2012 academic year, Brown will host public lectures, cultural events, academic conferences, and exhibits in an integrated exploration of China. For more information about the program and upcoming events, please visit: www.brown.edu/yearofchina
The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology is Brown University’s teaching museum. A resource across the University, we inspire creative and critical thinking about culture by fostering interdisciplinary understanding of the material world.
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: Amy Atticks | Amy_Atticks@brown.edu | (401) 863-6913
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Posted by aatticks@brown.edu on March 14, 2012
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – Brown University has announced Thomas A. Horrocks as the new Director of Special Collections and the John Hay Library, effective July 9, 2012.
Horrocks has been employed at Harvard University for the past fourteen years, eight as Director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine and six as Associate Director for Collections at Houghton Library. During his tenure at Countway, he reorganized and expanded the special collections staff, managed the renovation of the special collections department, established an exhibition program, revived and revamped the Warren Anatomical Museum, designed the library’s first fellowship program, raised funds for various cataloging and processing projects, and created the Center for the History of Medicine.
At Houghton Library, where Horrocks is responsible for collection development, collection promotion, and collection preservation, he has been involved with several notable acquisitions, created the library’s first preservation program, revitalized the contemporary poetry department, produced the library’s first collection development guidelines, enhanced and streamlined the exhibition and fellowship programs, and, working with Harvard faculty and local cultural organizations, organized major national and international conferences on Abraham Lincoln and Samuel Johnson.
Before coming to Harvard, Horrocks was employed at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia for thirteen years, where he served as Director of Historical Programs and Director of the Library. Holding a library degree from Drexel University and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania, Horrocks has published many articles and has written, edited, and co-edited five books, including Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Health Advice in Early American Almanacs (2008), The Living Lincoln (2011), and Johnson After Three Centuries: New Light on Texts and Contexts (2011). He is currently writing a biography of James Buchanan and a book on Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 campaign biographies.
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: Amy Atticks | Amy_Atticks@brown.edu | (401) 863-6913
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