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In libraries, we assume that discovery and access are linked; if you make more materials discoverable via cataloging, for example, they are more accessible. In our case, creating more accessibility has led directly to ongoing, important discoveries about our collections.

In the course of...

We’re delighted to unveil today a new virtual exhibit, and we invite you to explore “Simon Bolivar, The Libertador: A Virtual Experience in the Bromsen Room" at jcblibrary.org/bolivar.

This exhibit was originally designed in 2000 to mark both an extraordinary gift from Maury Bromsen...

This Thursday, our Curator of Maps and Prints, Bertie Mandelblatt, will give a lecture in the Warburg Institute's Maps and Society series:

‘Mapping Revolution, Mapping Slavery: the Vicomte de Rochambeau and Cartographic Dreams of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity in the Caribbean’

The talk features an...

The JCB collection boasts an extraordinarily rich subset: the earliest products of the printing press in the Americas. These 16th-century Mexican imprints offer a window into a tumultuous era, revealing violent political and religious transformations, complex epistemic exchanges, diverse linguistic landscapes, the educational aspirations of...

On November 4-5, I participated in Mount Vernon’s annual George Washington seminar whose theme this year was “Mapping the American Revolution.” The symposium was the showcase for a series of exciting papers that showed the direction of current map history scholarship: a paper on the...

The John Carter Brown Library is excited to welcome Mark Armstrong as our new Rare Material Research and Reference Librarian. Mark will be joining the reading room staff to assist researchers in the use of the JCB’s collections.

Mark served previously as the Archivist and...