As part of Ithaka S+R’s research and support services program, twenty-six universities in the U.K. and the U.S., including Brown, investigated current practices in primary …
This report investigates the research practices of Brown’s faculty in modern languages and literatures in order to inform Library planning to address the challenges faculty …
This paper originally appeared in the 2019 Proceedings of the Association for College and Research Libraries published by the American Library Association and presented at …
This invited paper was delivered by Andrew Creamer at Transforming Research conference held at Brown University October 3-4th 2018 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. The …
Open education resources represent a great opportunity to reduce textbook costs, but many of them have not been evaluated for quality. Librarians and former students …
This slide presentation was developed by the research data management librarian in Brown University's Library Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) and a graduate student as …
While there have been several recent projects looking at situating research data management (RDM) instruction in courses focused on data literacy and in disciplines such …
Libraries that are developing their own data repositories benefit from data on the nature of objects in established data repositories so that they can prepare …
STG worked with the Department of Slavic Languages to convert all course materials, which were written using MS Word, and a variety of different Cyrillic …
William E. Foster, Brown University class of 1873, served as Librarian of the Providence Public Library from 1877–1930. Foster collected 600 volumes of Horace works …
After serving the entire Brown University community for many decades, the Art Slide Library was officially closed in 2010. Faculty were given four years to …
This poster was presented at the 39th Annual Conference and Workshop of the Canadian Association for Conservation of Cultural Property in Saint John, New Brunswick, …
Semantic heterogeneity in document encoding systems is a serious obstacle to the interoperability required to create a critical mass of content for the electronic publishing …
In collaboration with NuvoMedia, Inc., STG has provided a validation service for electronic books. This service enabled authors and publishers to test their publications for …
The US Department of Education supports numerous public access websites that provide information to educators, administrators, policy makers, and students. The WALDO project, whose goal …
This service validated XML document instances according to the February 1998 W3C XML 1.0 specification. It was based on an extensive custom-written XML validation engine …
STG worked with the Department of Slavic Languages to convert all course materials written using MS Word, and a variety of different Cyrillic comuter fonts …
Madrid, 2 April 1965: From Nizar to Nadir; short congratulatory letter regarding Nadir’s recent award from the Spanish government; praise and brief expression of pride …
Madrid, 18 October 1965: From Nizar to Salma; Rainy weather in Madrid, mention of the poet Verlaine; Qabbani’s vacation in Portugal and Northern Spain, which …
Madrid, 5 January 1965: From Nizar to Salma; attempts to smooth over a communication breakdown between the two parties; Kuzbari’s publishers interfering with the novel’s …
Madrid, 14 March 1965: From Nizar to Salma; mention of a recent soiree with members of Spanish society; the Kuzbari family’s potential future plans in …
Madrid, 28 January 1965: From Nizar to Salma; Nizar’s disgust with Ramadan dinners in Madrid; feelings of dissatisfaction and loneliness due to the departure of …
Madrid, 9 July 1964: From Nizar to Salma; poetic waxings on the eyes of women; Qabbani’s fascination with Kuzbari’s protagonist, Carmen; an attached photograph of …
Madrid, 31 March 1964: From Nizar to Salma; description of Nizar’s new apartment; Nizar’s advice on what Kuzbari should title her book; the (un)importance of …
Madrid, 1 March 1964: From Nizar to Salma; congratulations to Kuzbari for finishing her novel; more discussion of the novel’s title; theater season in Madrid; …
Madrid, 1 June 1964: From Nizar to Salma; Nizar’s commentary on other Syrian poets and their obsession with rustic imagery, from which he attempts to …