News

Please be advised that in the wake of the tragic events of December 13, the John Carter Brown Library will be closed on Monday, December 15, 2025 and will remain closed to the public until Tuesday, January 20, 2026. 

Library staff will work a modified/flexible...

Adding to this season’s staff news, we are thrilled to share that Meaghan J. Brown has joined the JCB as Associate Director for Digital Asset Management. A scholar and experienced digital humanist, Dr. Brown holds a PhD in the History of Text Technologies and a...

The John Carter Brown Library community is celebrating the life of Clinton I. Smullyan, Jr., who passed away in October. Clint was a vital force for the JCB, having served for over four decades --and through four directors. He served on various committees during his...

Over the past few years the JCB’s team has grown exponentially, increasing our capacity to do the work of supporting research about the early Americas through our extraordinary collections. This growth has been especially intense over the past few months, as we have added three...

Summer is a bittersweet season at the John Carter Brown Library (JCB) this year, as our inaugural Associate Director for Digital Asset Management Dr. Pedro Germano Leal will be leaving at the end of July to take up a new position at University of Glasgow...

           You are sitting down in the reading room of the JCB, an open text resting on book cradles in front of you. The book is the 1504 edition of Margarita Philosophica, Gregor Reisch’s textbook on the trivium and the ...