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Supporting Digital Scholarship ½ The Digital Collections at Brown ½ Brown History Goes Live ½ The Bopp Seminar Room Opens Jeffrey Schreck ’73 Chair From the University Librarian’s Office Linda Aro ’81, MA ’83 Vice-Chair Harriette Hemmasi Joukowsky Family University Librarian

Honorary Directors Maurice Glicksman ScD ’97, P ’78 Redefining Libraries Martha S. Joukowsky ’58, P ’87 Chair Emerita and Learning Fraser Lang ’67, P ’04 Chair Emeritus cademic libraries are in a remain responsive to the changing John F. Mastroianni, Jr. ’71 state of transition –– needs of the campus’s teaching, Barbara Mosbacher ’45 A a transition that reflects learning, and research environment. Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. ’45, LLD ’70 Hon., changes in higher education and With the recent incorporation P ’77, P ’88, P ’MAT ’86 society at large. The primary catalyst of Brown’s Scholarly Technology Chair Emeritus for these changes is technology. Group and the Women Writer’s President Advances in technology have altered Project into the Library, our ability the face and ultimately the to support and explore new forms of Directors

Board Board of Directors fundamentals of teaching, learning, scholarship has grown exponentially. Prof. Thomas Banchoff, P ’91 and research. How scholarship is Integral to the University’s academic Phoebe Simpson Bean ’94 generated, communicated, collected, mission, the Library has both the Alice H. R. H. Beckwith ’69 preserved, disseminated, interpreted, opportunity and responsibility to John Berylson ’75 manipulated and re-used are critical promote new scholarship and new Sophie Blistein ’41 concerns for both the academy and literacies without discarding the most Thomas Bryson ’72 the library. Technology has blurred fundamental –– reading and writing. Seth Dorsky ’03 the lines of responsibility and Literacy in the 21st century must be Jean Edwards ’45, P ’76 enabled the emergence of a global, multi-modal –– reflective of the Mary Ann Ehrlich P ’85 information-based society that relies complex fluidity between analog Jacqueline Friedman ’08 on a strong knowledge economy and digital knowledge resources, Prof. Abbott (Tom) Gleason ADE ’74 Hon. and a ubiquitous and sustainable traditional and non-traditional Herbert Iselin ’42, P ’79, P ’81 infrastructure. Rather than academic discourse, linear learning S.T. (Sunand Tryambak) Joshi ’80, MA ’82 diminishing or threatening the and interactive media, the data- Jon Land ’79 existence of libraries, technology has driven human mind and our limitless Brent Lang ’04 thus positioned us as key partners in imaginations. By embracing these Christy Law-Blanchard addressing the issues facing higher new literacies and becoming a place Bernicestine McLeod ’68, P ’99, P ’03 education. for production and processing as Ryan Roth ’05 The Brown University Library well as a place for distribution and Daniel Siegel ’57 seeks to strategically align its consumption of knowledge, the Fredi Solod ’50, P ’78 scholarly resources and services with Library enables members of the Dennis Stark the Plan for Academic Enrichment Brown community to learn in the Andrew Wendel ’85 and redesign its facilities into vibrant, language and dialect of their own Allison Whiting AM ’90 inviting learning spaces to meet the choice and expand their ability to Robert Wigod ’54, P ’84, P ’88 needs of students and faculty. As question, produce and reproduce Hon. Frank Williams the University’s trusted curator, knowledge in new and deeper ways, Richard Williamson ’65, P ’03 organizer, disseminator, preserver ultimately transforming the everyday Prof. Emeritus Don Wilmeth and mediator of carefully selected academic experiences and future of Constance Worthington ’68 scholarly resources, the Library will our students and faculty. Member Ex-Officio Edward Widmer Director and Librarian, John Carter Brown Library Harriette Hemmasi Staff Joukowsky Family University Librarian Jane Cabral Friends of the Library and Events Coordinator

Cover: Select images from the digital collections at Brown University.

2 Among Friends Spring/Summer 2009 View from the Chair

t came as a recent surprise to me Facebook? Among the reasons are as they do on personal profile pages. that Facebook has an increasingly that it is the best way to reach a These changes will make it easier for I grown-up side to it. In addition younger audience that is more likely nonprofits to have timely, responsive to Facebook’s role as a social to use such websites. Facebook also two-way exchanges with the people networking tool for teens and young allows nonprofits such as libraries they are trying to reach without adults, it has a growing role as a and museums to present digitized technical support or an undue networking site for nonprofits and information (recent additions to commitment of time. their supporters. Although there are collections or information about a many social networking sites, particular exhibit, for example), and Facebook appears to have gone the to interact with “friends” relatively furthest to reach mainstream easily and inexpensively. organizations and attract an Facebook has just introduced increasingly grown-up audience. new public profile pages that will Even the Friends of the Library have allow nonprofits to “share all types Jeffrey Schreck ’73 their own Facebook group. of content with an unlimited number Chair Why should the Brown Library of users” and allow all Facebook use a social networking site such as users to comment on posted material

A Message from the Guest Editor first became involved with Lincoln’s writings and even Brown’s Center for Digital GoogleBooks, which has digitized I Initiatives in 2007, as a senior extensive material from the editor at the Brown Daily Herald. nineteenth century and earlier, I worked with CDI director Patrick enabled certain aspects of my research Yott on a project to digitize and that would have been otherwise make searchable the Herald’s entire impossible. It is hard to keep track archive, from 1891 forward. The of the variety of growing trends in project continues successfully to this digital scholarship, which makes the day, and I find myself poised at an navigation and oversight offered by exciting moment for libraries and our own Scholarly Technology scholarship as I look forward to my Group and the CDI so vital. Digital own future working in libraries. For scholarship opens up a new universe Anne Wootton ’08.5 my undergraduate thesis on Abraham of possibilities for libraries — one Guest Editor Lincoln, I worked extensively in the that I cannot wait to be a part of. archives of the . I am especially glad to have gotten Resources like an online archive of my start at the Brown Library.

Spring/Summer 2009 Among Friends 3 Environmental History of Hispaniola John Hay Library, Lobby Gallery March 12 – April 30 Spring Events Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the land area of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. Although both of these former colonies of France and Spain have faced socioeconomic hardships and political instability in their post-colonial period, they show a sharp contrast in the current state of their natural resources. This exhibition traces the environmental history of Hispaniola from pre-Columbian times to the present and explores the evolution of its natural resources by highlighting special collection materials from the John Hay and John Carter Brown Libraries, and museum objects from the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology.

Commemorating Aimé Césaire John Hay Library, Foyer and Reading Room Cases April 3 – April 30 Aimé Césaire was the foremost black French intellectual- statesman-writer of the 20th and 21st centuries. Co-founder of the négritude school of literature in the 1930s, parliamentarian to the National Assembly in Paris for nearly five decades, and author of 16 books, plays and poetry Exhibits Calendar collections, Césaire’s recent demise is understandably mourned by francophones throughout the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa. But Aimé Césaire also inspired generations of American students, educators, and humanists who have read and pondered his inimitable poems and prose, whether in translation or the original. The exhibit is designed to offer the visitor a sense of the literary wealth and political possibilities that this extraordinary man created out of the culturally rich Samuel Bak but economically impoverished Martinique into which he was in Israel, 2008 born 95 years ago, and which he left, for the last time, on April 17, 2008. As lead-up to the Memorial Symposium hosted by the Watson An Evening with Samuel Bak Institute on April 17, a Commemorating Aimé Césaire exhibit will showcase the Brown Library’s collection of Césaire’s oeuvres Brown University Hillel, 80 Brown Street (corner of and works on the French Caribbean, along with other objets Angell and Brown Streets), Providence d’art and memorabilia (on loan from faculty) that are Monday, May 11, 2009, 7 p.m. reminiscent of Césaire and his native island. A display in the John Hay Library foyer will be dedicated to President Ruth Artist and Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak will be the Simmons, who explored The Poetic Language of Aimé Césaire speaker at the annual Mel and Cindy Yoken Cultural in her Ph. D. dissertation, completed at Harvard University Series lecture. Mr. Bak’s talk will focus on the story of in 1973. his life including his time in Paris and what it has The Origin of the Theory: Tracing Darwin’s brought to his existence, and the successive phases of his Evolutionary Thought development as an artist. He will show digital images John Hay Library, Lobby Gallery and speak about the nature and themes of his art. May 4 – June 30 In honor of the Darwin bicentennial, this exhibit at the Darwin, God and Design — John Hay Library will use the Library’s extensive holdings in the History of Science to place Darwin and his colleagues America’s Continuing Problems within the broader context of Victorian scientific endeavor. with Evolution The exhibition will include books, prints and original correspondence, and will be featured during Commencement Prof. Kenneth Miller, Professor of Biology, Brown Weekend. University For library hours and updated information on library exhibits Salomon Hall 101 visit: Saturday, May 23, 2009, 1 p.m. http://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/hours.php 2009 is the 150th anniversary of the publication of http://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/exhibits Darwin’s The Origin of the Species and the bicentennial of his birth. Prof. Miller has been speaking at many celebrations of this event and will speak at Brown as part of the University’s Commencement Forums. His talk will be in conjunction with an exhibit about Darwin at the John Hay Library which will be on display from May 4 to June 30.

4 Among Friends Spring/Summer 2009 Technology meets elegance… Bopp Seminar Room opens to rave reviews at John Hay Library

The John Hay Library boasts a new technologically accommodate a portion of the Military Collection and to sophisticated seminar classroom thanks to the generosity provide additional exhibition space beyond its primary of alumni and brothers Walter S. and Peter D. Bopp, function as an electronic classroom. What was previously members of the classes of 1973 and 1978, respectively. The little more than a storage space has been transformed gift, made in honor of their father Walter L. S. Bopp ’35, into a state-of-the-art facility and one of the most was inspired by the latter’s fond memories of the John attractive public spaces on campus. In use for classes Hay when he was a student. and meetings since January, the Bopp Seminar Room As the younger Walter Bopp recently stated, “The has received rave reviews from faculty, students and staff Hay was the main library when our father attended for its electronic capabilities, spatial flexibility, elegant Brown so it is a particularly fitting site. Being an alumnus atmosphere and even acoustics. Tof Brown has been a great source of pride to our father What sets the Bopp Seminar Room apart from and the rest of our family. Our father celebrated his 93rd other teaching spaces in the John Hay? The answer lies birthday at the dedication of the room with President in the room’s electronic capabilities that allow staff, Simmons leading a chorus of “Happy Birthday.” It is our faculty and students to interact with the Hay’s rare and hope the Bopp Seminar Room will open up this unique materials in ways heretofore not possible. An wonderful space and its special collections to a broader overhead document camera can project an image from a cross-section of the Brown community and help meet physical item — for example, a map or a book page — the goals of the Plan for Academic Enrichment.” Peter onto a screen. The resulting image can be manipulated adds that the classroom is intended as “a state of the art electronically with a zoom feature that greatly magnifies seminar room for the study of the multitude of historical detailed portions of the image. In this way, minute documents and treasures housed in the Hay. Dad was subtleties of printing, illustration techniques and quite moved to see the finished room when we visited in manuscript variations can be viewed in ways not November — the same week that he turned 95.” observable to the naked eye. A split-screen capability Located adjacent to the Anne S. K. Brown Military that enables a projected image, as described above, to be Collection gallery on the third floor of the John Hay, the compared with a digitized image, either from Brown’s Bopp Seminar Room has been handsomely renovated to own collections or from a digitized collection across the country and made available via the Internet. “Smart-screen” technology — in effect, an electronic blackboard — allows users to interact with digital images through a touch-screen stylus, highlighting or “writing” notes over the screened image in digital “ink,” and projecting the edited image onto the large screen. Thanks to the Bopp family’s generosity, students and researchers now have access to John Hay materials that combines physical objects with 21st century technology in ways that were inconceivable only a few years ago.

Associate Professor of English Tim Bewes and his spring 2009 seminar ENGL 1760-I,“Terrible Beauty: Literature and the Terrorist Imagery,” meet in the Bopp Seminar Room.

Spring/Summer 2009 Among Friends 5 Digital Scholarship at Brown: The New Public Faces of Primary Sources

When Annie Valk began teaching American Civilization digital media. We are all very excited about the possibilities 1903G: Oral History and Community Memory, she did that this new union will provide,” said Patrick Yott, not anticipate that her students’ research would engage director of the Library’s Center for Digital Initiatives many Providence residents in a collaborative project that (soon to be renamed Center for Digital Scholarship). has reached far beyond her semester-long course. One responsibility of members of Brown’s Center As part of the course, students recorded oral histories for Digital Scholarship is to research the digital humanities from Fox Point, a Providence neighborhood that borders and the many different methodological approaches to Brown’s campus, in addition to collecting associated digital scholarship, while supplementing that work paperwork, photos and scrapbooks, and collaborating through numerous with the University’s Scholarly Technology Group to innovative projects Wdevelop an interactive online resource, “Mapping Fox with University Point,” that used GoogleMaps to illustrate the localities faculty and described in the oral histories — what Valk calls students. “How do “memory mapping.”Perhaps the greatest success of Valk’s you bridge that Below: Thumbnails from the Fox Point students’ work is a public, online collection of Fox Point gap between the Oral History Project photographs (www.flickr.com/groups/foxpointoralhistory real and the site on flickr.com. At right: The home project) created with the public photo-sharing site digital? How does page for the Women flickr.com,where Fox Point residents are very active to methodology alter Writers Project, which celebrates its this day in posting photographs and comments that the way that we 20th anniversary this identify the photos’ subjects and locations. interact with year and has been incorporated as part Valk, associate director for programs at the John texts?” asks Julia of the emerging Nicholas Brown Center for the Public Humanities and Flanders, associate Center for Digital Scholarship at Brown. Cultural Heritage, has hopes that the related Fox Point director for documents will eventually all textbase development in the STG. Flanders is also the be photographed and made director of the Women Writers Project, an online publicly available and anthology of text by women currently in its twentieth documented online — in year of existence and one of the earliest and most other words, compiled into a successful attempts at reaching a broader audience digital collection of Fox Point through digital media (www.wwp.brown.edu). history. Valk’s Fox Point oral “We start with the information structures — we have history course is one example both the luxury and the imperative of engaging with the of how the Library helps object at that level,” says Elli Mylonas, director of the faculty and students use the STG. “We are taking a step back and thinking about the Internet to change archival information — not only what we want to do with it, but processes and the accessibility what it is.” Thus for Mylonas and Flanders, the process of of primary source material. organizing information is in many ways a primary source Today, Brown’s campus itself, requiring documentation and methodological is overflowing with a variety awareness. “You want to show a conclusion, but also the of digital initiatives, many of which are spearheaded by the queries and methods you used to get the info,” Mylonas Library’s emerging Center for Digital Scholarship, which says. Adds Flanders: “Self-consciousness arises from the has recently incorporated members of the Scholarly idea that you’re not just recording information but Technology Group (STG) and the Women Writers Project infusing it with scholarly expertise. It’s treating the (WWP). Opportunities for collaboration and unique process as primary source data.” relationships among these groups and the campus will The University Steering Committee on Slavery and only grow in the coming months. “This merger will allow Justice, appointed in 2003 by President Ruth Simmons the Library to develop a cohesive and far-reaching with the task of investigating and reporting on Brown’s program that supports scholars engaged in using, creating historical relationship to slavery and the transatlantic and disseminating scholarly materials in a wide range of slave trade, used digital resources as an integral aspect of

6 Among Friends Spring/Summer 2009 Some other notable digital collections at Brown:

The Theatre that was Rome http://dl.lib.brown.edu/rome This digital collection makes available a selection of 16th to 18th century Italian books and prints from the extraordinary collection of Vincent J. Buonnano ’66, as well as festival prints and architectural treatises from the collection of the John Hay Library.

Center of Digital Epigraphy at Brown University Digital materials (CoDE) related to the work of the University www.brown.edu/Research/CoDE Steering Committee on Slavery and The CoDE is dedicated to research that relates to the digital Justice. encoding of inscriptions. Co-directed by classics and history professor John Bodel and Michael Satlow, associate professor of Judaic studies and religious studies, its its commitment to publicize its findings. As part of its work currently work, the committee identified materials in the John Hay, includes two projects: John Carter Brown and Rhode Island Historical Society the U.S. Epigraphy libraries, and worked with staff at the CDI to create a Project, which aims to gather and digitize public, online catalogue of documents relating to Brown’s ancient Greek and ties to slavery (http://dl.lib.brown.edu/slavery andjustice). Latin inscriptions The result was a “teaching resource” from which public preserved in the U.S., and Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine, programming was organized, said James Campbell, former which digitizes and translates inscriptions from the sixth professor of history and chair of the committee. Research century BCE to the seventh century CE. in locations beyond Brown’s campus resulted in a traveling The MonArch Project at the Abbey exhibit of the Brown brothers-funded voyage of the slave of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes ship Sally with accompanying website (www.stg.brown. http://polo.services.brown.edu:8080/exist/monarch/ edu/projects/sally). index.html As the digital age moves forward, online collections Started in 1982, this project — co-directed by Sheila Bonde, range from the creation of new, online-only collections Dean of the Graduate School and professor of archeology like the Slavery and Justice — takes monasticism rather than the monastery itself as materials, or interactive user the object of its study, through an ongoing archaeological investigation at a monastery in northern France. experiences like “Mapping Fox Point,” to the digitization — that Perry Visits Japan: A Visual History is, making publicly available http://dl.lib.brown.edu/japan/index.html online — of preexisting collec- This project serves as an extensive supplement to a Japanese tions. Examples of this latter type scroll held in the collections of the John Hay Library, which of digital collection include the illustrates Commodore Matthew Perry’s 1854 landing in CDI’s The Great Kanto Japan. In conjunction with the American Civilization Earthquake of 1923: Materials course, “From Perry to Pokemon: Japan in the U.S.; the U.S. in Japan,” taught by associate professor Susan Smulyan, the from the Dana and Vera Reynolds Perry Visits Japan project has grown out of the work of Collection,which offers a digital Brown students, faculty and library staff. recreation of an album of photos and newspaper clippings donated The home page for to the Brown Library in 2005 by the Reynolds’ grand- The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923: daughter (http://dl.lib.brown.edu/kanto). The site pro- Materials from the vides a unique glimpse into the culture of Americans Dana and Vera Reynolds Collection. traveling to Asia in the early twentieth century and also coincides with the research of Brown Associate Professor of History Kerry Smith, who has written a book on the subject of the earthquake. Through the efforts of Senior Lecturer in American Civilization Paul Buhle and the CDI, the public can now access a digital version of For more on the many digital collections and projects at Radical America,a periodical published from 1967 to Brown, visit www.stg.brown.edu/projects and Continues on page 8 http://dl.lib.brown.edu.

Spring/Summer 2009 Among Friends 7 Spotlight on Friends of the Library

marriage to Elmer Blistein ’42. Sophie and Elmer never left Brown, as he joined the faculty of the Department of English upon receiving his Ph.D. in 1953. Elmer was a Sophie Blistein ’41 at her 90th birthday teacher and mentor to Brown students for the next 39 party in the John years and throughout that time the Blistein household, Hay Library, pictured with son David augmented by sons Adam and David, was a vibrant center Blistein and his wife of Brown’s social and intellectual life. The Library was Wendy O’Connell. central to Elmer’s work and both he and Sophie served on myriad committees, task forces and informal groups Sophie Blistein ’41 that helped guide the Library as it strove to meet the Of all the Friends of the Library, perhaps Sophie Blistein ever-changing demands of faculty and students. At the requires the least by way of introduction as she has been University level, Sophie served for seven years on the a mainstay of both the Library and the University for Corporation Library Committee, as President of Women over half a century. A wise and witty counselor, a gadfly at Brown and as Alumnae Trustee of the University from in the interests of increasing Friends memberships, a 1971 to 1976. catalyst for donors and a donor herself, Sophie epito- For their many contributions, Sophie and Elmer mizes the best qualities of the Friends and of the Brown were awarded the Library’s highest honor in 1990, the community. William Williams Award, which “honors those individuals To celebrate Sophie’s 90th birthday, the Friends who have provided extraordinary support” to the Brown hosted a party on January 24 in the Reading Room of University Library. the John Hay Library, a gathering that drew some 100 of In addition to the Blistein Book Fund, much of her friends and family. As was true at her birthday party Sophie’s involvement with the Library has centered upon a decade ago, Sophie would only allow the festivities to the Friends, both in her capacities as Board member and proceed on the condition that the Elmer and Sophia as long-time chair of the Membership Committee, which Schaffer Blistein Book Fund be the beneficiary. As a under her leadership achieved a total of over 1,000 result, the fund currently stands at $115,798.23 with members nationwide. The Board continues to benefit over $10,000 being added as a tribute to Sophie on the from her good counsel and cheerful presence. We are occasion of her birthday. thankful for her dedication and tireless efforts on behalf Sophie’s involvement with the Brown Library of the Library, and consider ourselves very lucky to be extends back to her days as a Pembroker and her 1946 counted among her many friends.

Continued from page 7 can do,” said Steven Lubar, professor of American 1999 which is very difficult Civilization and director of the John Nicholas Brown to find in libraries (http://dl. Center, who is developing Brown’s new program in lib.brown.edu/radicalamerica). public humanities. Lubar noted that digital scholarship And collaboration between is currently in a “strange stage... because it’s partly public, the Library and the Brown partly private, and libraries have to figure out what they Daily Herald has resulted in add to that. There’s a public face and an archival face, a project to digitize and make and the question is how to make those work together... text searchable the entire projects merge more into exhibitions than collections, archive of Brown’s daily and libraries start to look more like museums and less paper since 1891 (http://dl. like archives,” he said. lib.brown.edu/dbdh). Many of Brown’s existing digital projects, including The very first issue Projects like these reflect a major shift occurring in those mentioned above, have tackled the balance of the Brown Daily Herald as displayed the way research is done and scholarship is disseminated between the public and private spheres in interesting and in the Brown Daily around the world. Not only has the Internet enabled innovative ways. But the task remains to institutionalize Herald Digital Archive. universal access to materials that could previously only these digital practices in an academic climate that has be viewed in libraries and museums, but it has also historically relied solely on peer-reviewed, printed media changed the way in which researchers and the public alike such as journals and reviews. Members of the Center for can interact with, or present, these materials. Digital Scholarship work with approximately 40 faculty “There’s really a wonderful moment in historical and staff who are currently engaged in digital humanities scholarship — it’s fascinating to see how [digital at Brown and address these sorts of questions every day capability] changes what historians are interested in doing, as part of their work.

8 Among Friends Spring/Summer 2009 The Digital Collections: 250 Years of Brown History Meet the Web

In addition to collections that support the research and teaching needs of Brown’s faculty and students, the John Hay Library holds significant material that documents Brown’s history. Through the efforts of the Center for Digital Initiatives, the University Archives, the Brown Daily Herald and several faculty members, many of these collections are now available for use through the Library’s website. While each collection is a valuable research tool on its own, the true benefits of digitization lie in making these collections accessible and the ability to easily search Iacross multiple collections. A researcher interested in the history of Bruno, the Brown mascot, will find photos of the live bear traveling by airplane en route to a 1937 sports game from the online Images of Brown collection, coverage in The Brown Daily Herald Digital Archive of inter-campus Above: Bruno, the mascot kidnappings — such as the 1941 abduction of contributed. Through this effort historians, live mascot, disem- barks from a plane Butch Bruno VII by Rhode Island State, known today as scholars and novelists will be able to read about the ride. Right: Postcards the University of Rhode Island, as well as a student essay thoughts and lives of Brunonians over the course of two of University Hall over the decades. from the online Chronicles of Brunonia that provides a World Wars, the Civil Rights movement, man’s first walk Below: Home pages humorous look at Brown’s history of live mascots. on the Moon and September 11, 2001. from several of the And anyone looking for information on University historical Brown col- Brown Portrait Database lections featured on Hall will find the original accounting of construction this page. (http://dl.lib.brown.edu/ portraits) costs as well as a letter from Rhode Island’s governor For almost two centuries Brown has acquired announcing the need to use University Hall as a hospital portraits of men and women whose lives have had during the Revolutionary War from the Brown Archival meaning for the University in one way or another. These and Manuscript Collections Online, photographs and likenesses date from every period in Brown’s history from postcards from Images of Brown depicting the building its founding years to the present, and taken as a whole across the 20th century, including its renovation in 1940, reflect the University’s concerns and priorities at any given in addition to descriptions and histories from the time in history. This project provides digitized copies of Historic Clocks Database of four clocks found within its the portraits as well as historical information on both walls. These sorts of connections between digital the subject and artist. resources will only grow as we bring more historical resources to the web. Images of Brown (http://dl.lib.brown.edu/images_ of_brown) Some of the collections currently in development are: The Library will release this new online collection Brown Archival and Manuscript Collections Online in late spring of 2009. At its initial release, the collection (BAMCO) (http://dl.lib.brown.edu/bamco) will include nearly 4,000 digitized photographs that span This project, which provides access to primary source almost 150 years of Brown history, covering architecture material through finding aids that represent manuscript and campus views, student theatre, presidents, faculty and archival holdings at Brown University, is a joint and nineteenth century student life. project between the University Archives and the Center Chronicles of Brunonia (http://dl.lib.brown.edu/cob) and for Digital Initiatives. Historic Clocks (http://dl.lib.brown.edu/clocks) Brown Daily Herald Digital Archive These two projects, an archive of student creative (http://dl.lib. brown.edu/dbdh) non-fiction and one student’s independent study in The Brown Daily Herald digitization project is American Civilization, respectively, provide context for making accessible and searchable online the Herald’s and interpretation of previously untold stories from entire archive, from 1891 forward, as funds are Brown’s history.

Spring/Summer 2009 Among Friends 9 Spotlight on Gifts-in-kind

Reconstructing Realities

owards the end of 2008, Dan Siegel ’57 once again Other than their iconic importance, how are such made a magnificent contribution to the John Hay books used by Brown faculty and students? Take these T Library. The gift totaled 130 titles in all — among two examples: the most important books ever printed in their respective Giambattista Vico, Cinque Libri (1730). Philosopher subjects. Although wide-ranging in scope, the fields most Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) has been heralded as the heavily represented are American and European literature creator of historical science for his proposition that and the history of science and mathematics. An arbitrary “there shines the eternal and never failing light of a truth sample of the authors and titles represented by first beyond all question: that the world of civil society has editions of their major works provides insight into the certainly been made by men, and that its principles are importance of the gift as a whole; Descartes’ Discours de therefore to be found within the modifications of our la Methode,Pushkin’s Boris Godunov, Newton’s Optical own human mind.” How fitting, then, that the Cinque Lectures,Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus, Euclid’s Libri will allow scholars to understand the contruction of Elementa and Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward Angel. Vico’s own thinking. This copy of the second edition of These books join Dan’s gifts of earlier years, including his Principi d’una Scienza Nuova is one of 63 extensively the manuscript of George Orwell’s 1984 and his gift of annotated by the author with his corrections and notes. just a year ago, the first edition of The Great Gatsby, As Professor Massimo Riva of Brown’s Department of inscribed by F. Scott Fitzgerald to T. S. Eliot. Italian Studies notes, Vico’s corrections differed from copy to copy and the Center for Vico Studies in Naples will be especially interested in Brown’s Siegel copy. Riva added, “I can imagine devoting an entire seminar to comparing our copy to the existing critical edition of the 1730 Scienza Nuova which also includes variants from other copies.” Another treasure among Siegel’s gifts is a copy of the first printing of the Journal of the Proceedings from the First Continental Congress,from the convention at Philadelphia in September 1774. Though copies of these printed proceedings are held at other rare book collections across the nation, this particular copy has special significance — it was presented by Boston radical Samuel Adams, then serving as a delegate to Congress, to friend and fellow patriot Rev. John Lathrop, the Congregational pastor of Boston’s Second Church. Adams’ inscription reads, “The Rev. Mr. Lathrop (at the Request of Messrs. Bradford, the Printers) from his Friend and humble Servant, Sam Adams.” Few records exist that pertain to connections between Adams and The title page of the Journal of the Proceedings of the First Continental other Boston activists. Lathrop was certainly important Congress, including the inscription of delegate Samuel Adams to his friend, the Rev. John Lathrop. The Journal is among 130 titles generously in these circles, interpreting key events for the public donated by Dan Siegel ’57. through his sermons, such as his “Innocent Blood Crying to God from the Streets of Boston” (1770) delivered after the Boston Massacre. The inscription is therefore an important one, allowing scholars to further document the network of formal and informal ties — in this case, among Adams, the Bradfords and Lathrop — that created For more information about giving to the Library, and sustained America’s Revolution against Britain, email Gillian Kiley at [email protected] leading to the birth to the United States. or call 401-863-1518.

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