The Cochrane Library website will be unavailable for no more than 12 hours starting at 4pm New York time on Saturday 13th April 2013. During this time, anyone trying to access the site will get a “Site not found” or similar message.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause to our website users.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — In commemoration of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Brown University will host free public screenings of the documentary Two Who Dared: The Sharps’ War, on April 9 and April 16 at 7pm in the Watson Institute for International Studies at 111 Thayer Street. These screenings are part of a world-wide premiere occurring simultaneously at community churches, synagogues, theaters and schools.Two Who Dared: The Sharps’ War, tells the story of a Unitarian minister, Waitstill Sharp and his wife Martha, Pembroke class of 1926, who, just days prior to the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, left their young children in Wellesley, Massachusetts to help save Jewish children being persecuted in Eastern Europe.The film was directed by Artemis Joukowsky III (P’14, P’16), the Sharps’ grandson. Artemis explains, “As a 9th grader, I was given a homework assignment to interview someone of moral courage. When I asked my mother if she had any suggestions for a subject, to my shock she said, ‘Talk to your grandmother’! What I discovered in doing that assignment, and in many years to come, is that my grandmother and grandfather had a dramatic history that I had never heard before. This included underground espionage, working to rescue refugees and opposing the Nazi regime, in the service work that they had performed during World War II in Europe in 1939 and 1940.”The documentary is told from the point of view of Martha and Waitstill, drawing on their recorded interviews, letters, and unpublished memoirs. A gift of the Sharp Archive to the Brown University Library is planned by the family. The film also includes interviews with noted scholars and survivors who were rescued as children.
The film will open in New England with a screening hosted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum at the Boston Public Library on March 13. Over 50 public screenings will follow April 7-18, 2013 at venues around the world, including Israel, France, London, Toronto, LA, and NYC. Brown University will stream a 30-minute educational version of the film online for 48 hours from April 19 at 5pm through April 22 at 8am at http://www.watsoninstitute.org/twowhodared.
For more information on screening times and locations or to host a screening, visit http://twowhodared.com/ or contact twowhodared@gmail.com.
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/
The Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University is a leading center for research and teaching on the most important problems of our time. The Watson Institute focuses on two areas: global security, and political economy and development. Its research aims to improve policies and its use of innovative media engages the broader public in global dialogue. http://watsoninstitute.org/
Press Contact: Andrea Pass | 201-498-1600 | apass@scompr.com
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Working on a research paper? Stuck or want to dig up some new resources for your project? Not sure how to create a bibliography? Extra help is available in the Rock this week. Subject librarians will be stationed outside the Hecker Center in the early afternoons to answer any questions you might have about your research. Drop in to get one-on-one help. No appointments necessary.
When: Monday April 8th through Thursday April 11th. 1-3 pm
Where: Outside Hecker Center (First Floor Rockefeller Library)
Contact: Sarah Bordac (sarah_bordac@brown.edu)
Afternoon Research is sponsored by the University Library
Providence, RI [Brown University] – At 5:30pm on Monday, April 22, 2013, Lucette Lagnado will give a Friends of the Library sponsored talk, “IN SEARCH OF MY ARROGANT YEARS – Recalling my lost childhood from Cairo to Paris to New York” as part of the Mel and Cindy Yoken Cultural Series in the Lownes Room on the second floor of the John Hay Library. This lecture is free and open to the public, a reception and book signing will follow.
Lucette Lagnado is a cultural and investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where she has received numerous prizes for her work. She and her family left Egypt as refugees when she was a small child, an experience that helped shape and inform her two recent memoirs, The Arrogant Years and The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, published by Ecco/HarperCollins. “Sharkskin,” which received the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, has been translated in several languages including French and Arabic, and has been very popular in Egypt. She is also the co-author of Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz, which has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. Lagnado resides with her husband, journalist Douglas Feiden, in Manhattan and Sag Harbor, New York.
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
In preparation for the upcoming renovation, contractors will be working both on the exterior of the John Hay Library and in the reading room. This work will happen starting on Monday March 25th and will be completed on Friday March 29th. The Library will remain open during this time, but it may be noisy. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please e-mail Hay@brown.edu if you have any questions or concerns.
Are you curious about that giant video wall in the Rock? Wondering what you can do in that space, how to use it, or when it is available? Come and check it out up close this Wednesday, March 20. There will be free pizza.
Event: Pizza Open House in DSL
Date: Wednesday March 20
Time: 5 p.m.
Where: Digital Scholarship Lab (first floor of Rockefeller Library)
Contact: Patrick Rashleigh (email: patrick_rashleigh@brown.edu)
Providence, RI [Brown University] – The Brown University Library is excited to announce the launching of the John Hay Library renovation project. Revitalization of this historic landmark will include a refurbishment of the magnificent first floor reading room into an open, welcoming study space for students; the creation of a new state-of-the-art special collections reading room in the area which formerly housed University Archives; improvements to the service and exhibit areas in the Central Hall of the first floor; addition of a student lounge and conference room; handicapped access to the front of the Library and code compliance and fire safety improvements throughout the building.
To accommodate the extensive work involved in the renovation, the John Hay Library will close beginning June 1, 2013, and will remain closed through the duration of the construction project until Fall 2014. During the construction project, there will be no access to the building, and access to Special Collections & Archives materials by faculty, students, and other researchers will be limited.
We will be able to pull a limited amount of Special Collections & Archives materials from the Hay Library stacks prior to the Library’s closing on June 1, 2013. These materials will be shelved elsewhere temporarily for access by classes and researchers during the renovation period. We are asking faculty and others to help us identify Special Collections & Archives materials that will be needed during the period that the Library will be closed. This input must be provided no later than April 5, 2013.
Specifically, faculty who will be teaching a course during Fall 2013 or Spring 2014 that will utilize Hay Library materials must contact the Library at HayRenovation@brown.edu by April 5, 2013.
Also, graduate students or undergraduate honors thesis students planning to do research using Special Collections & Archives materials during this period (June 2013 thru Fall 2014) must contact the Library at HayRenovation@brown.edu by April 5, 2013.
Please note that any Special Collections & Archives materials located at the Library Collections Annex (as denoted in the Josiah catalog record) will continue to be available throughout the renovation period. These materials may be used at the Annex (10 Park Lane, Providence) or requested for use on campus.
A temporary special collections reading area will be established in the Rockefeller Library to consult Special Collections & Archives materials retrieved from the Annex or that have been requested in advance of the Hay Library’s temporary closing. In addition, the Library encourages use of its digitized Signature Collections (selected Special Collections materials which have been digitized for public use) during the renovation period.
The John Hay Library renovation project is scheduled to be completed by the start of the Fall 2014 semester. With the capable guidance of Seldorf Architects, known for their elegant treatment in designing and renovating cultural institutions, the renewal of this space not only will fulfill important scholarly and programmatic needs of the Library and campus. The project’s completion also will serve to honor the John Hay Library’s founding donor, Andrew Carnegie, whose philanthropy was intended to do “real and permanent good,” benefitting Brown both today and tomorrow. We are most grateful to our generous donors for making this wonderful project possible. The results promise to be a space that will better protect and service the Library’s unique Special Collections, and open both the Library and its collections to inspire Brown students today and for generations to come.
We greatly appreciate the cooperation of all Brown faculty and students and other researchers and friends of the Hay during the period that the Library will be closed. We will provide regular updates on the progress of the John Hay Library renovation throughout the project. Additional information will be available at the project web site (coming soon).
Please contact Tom Horrocks, Director of Special Collections and the John Hay Library, for additional information regarding services during the renovation or other questions about the John Hay Library.
Contact: Thomas Horrocks | Thomas_Horrocks@Brown.edu | 401-863-9480
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — This spring, Brown University Library is launching a series of talks by Brown faculty and visiting scholars across the disciplines to celebrate the opening of the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab at the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library. All talks for Showcasing the Digital Scholarship Lab: Spring Series, 2013 are free, open to the public, and followed by catered receptions. Space is limited. Seating is first-come, first-serve.
Series speakers will discuss and demonstrate ways in which digital technologies, especially those enabling data visualization and analysis, have impact on their teaching and research and enable new forms of student learning and interaction. Talks are scheduled for Thursday evenings (and one Tuesday evening) starting at 5:30pm.
The series will kick off on March 14. Sheila Bonde, Professor of the History of Art and Architecture and Professor of Archaeology at Brown, will give a lecture titled “Re-presenting the Past,” examining the challenges of representing the past through the lens of archaeological work at the French medieval monasteries of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes in Soissons and Notre Dame d’Ourscamp. Bonde will look at the challenges of incomplete data, of representing time and movement, and of going beyond visual representation.
Massimo Riva, Professor of Italian studies at Brown, Director of the Brown Center in Bologna and Director of the Virtual Humanities Lab at Brown will give the second talk on Thursday, March 21. Riva’s talk, “The Virtual Life of Books and Other Curious Artifacts,” will examine how great books, such as Boccaccio’s Decameron, and curious historical artifacts, like the Garibaldi panorama, help us rethink research and teaching in the digital age.
Speaker schedule:
Thursday, March 14 – Sheila Bonde, Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Professor of Archaeology at Brown University
Thursday, March 21 – Massimo Riva, Professor of Italian Studies, Director Brown Center in Bologna and Director, Virtual Humanities Lab at Brown University
Thursday, April 4 – Rachel Franklin, Assistant Professor of Population Studies at Brown University
Thursday, April 11 – John Cayley, Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University
Thursday, April 18 – Eben Gay, REVEAL architect.
Thursday, April 25 – Jill Pipher, Professor of Mathematics at Brown University and Director, of ICERM, The Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics
Tuesday, April 30 – Andries Van Dam, Thomas J. Watson, Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education and Professor of Computer Science at Brown University
Thursday, May 2 – Shawn Greenlee, Assistant Professor of Foundation Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design
The Lab, located on the first floor of the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, features a 7′x16′ video wall composed of over 24 million pixels for data visualization and analysis. The wall can be configured to display up to twelve independent video sources simultaneously, making the Lab an effective collaboration space. The Lab is also outfitted with a wide range of software for scholars across the disciplines, a state-of-the-art audio system, video conferencing capabilities, programmable lighting, and two 50″ touch-screen displays that can be used independently or linked to the video wall for collaborative display and interaction.
For updates on the series visit library.brown.edu/dsl.
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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The John Hay Library has a new exhibition celebrating the artistic innovations of Rite of Spring with a selection of works illuminating the original Paris production. The items displayed are from the Brown University Library’s Bryson Dance Collection.
The exhibit is one of a series of events taking place in Rhode Island this spring to mark the FirstWorks presentation of the Joffrey Ballet’s recreation of the original ballet. The Joffrey’s performance will take place on March 19th at the Providence Performing Arts Center.
Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring was commissioned for the Ballets Russes in Paris and was designed by Russian artists on a Russian theme, in an attempt to inform Paris of Russia’s interpretation of modernism.
Title: A Picture of Avant-Garde Russia: The Rite of Spring and the Ballets Russes in 1913, Selections from the Bryson Dance Collection
Date: Monday, March 4 – May 31, 2013
Location: John Hay Library, Gammell Gallery
Contact: Holly Snyder | (401) 863-1515 | Holly_Snyder@brown.edu