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How to explore the embodied experience of living at sea (and learning to sail), when there were such glaring structural differences in the everyday lives of the people who crossed the Atlantic Ocean?
I selected the collection items for the October 2024 JCB exhibition, “Learning...
Have you ever pulled up a video of a fireplace on your laptop to let it crackle in the background while you work? Or perhaps you’ve seen someone in a coffee shop do so?
Over the past few years, many of us have discovered...
In the late 16th century, the era of mechanical reproduction of texts dawned in South America. When Antonio Ricardo’s first book-length product emerged from his press, the title page did more than announce his name–it proclaimed his pioneering status as the “first printer in these...
The John Carter Brown Library is excited to welcome Judy Dowling as our new Library Specialist-Metadata. Judy will be joining the Cataloging & Digital Initiatives team to assist our Head of Cataloguing Services and our Associate Director for Digital Asset Management with a wide range...
We often talk here at the JCB about libraries as the original information infrastructure. In the world of proliferating digital data, it’s been important to think about how our data structures can best serve the needs for access to our collections. A major step for...
By José Montelongo, Curator of Latin American Books
On February 24, 1805, all of the civil, military, and religious authorities of the Viceroyalty of Nueva Granada gathered at the Cathedral of Santafé de Bogotá. Among them were a few distinguished visitors—scientists and doctors who...