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Genesis Barrera '21 recently joined the John Carter Brown Library as Public Services Librarian. She had previously worked as the Senior Library Specialist at the John Hay Library, also at Brown University, and is finishing her MLIS at the University of Rhode Island. In addition...

The book itself was remarkable. Written primarily for marine pilots, this Regimiento de navegación (Madrid, 1606) contained much more than rudimentary notions for navigation. The author, Andrés García de Céspedes, was a mathematician and engineer who had reached the highest positions in the maritime administration...

We are very proud to share the news that three members of our staff will attend Rare Book School (RBS) this summer. Rare Book School is an unparalleled opportunity for library professionals to study the history of written, printed, and digital materials with leading scholars...

While the JCB is known as a library of invaluable printed materials, it also holds important manuscript archives. Chief among our archival collections is the Brown Family Business Records (BFBR), which spans the 18th to the 20th centuries across 1345 boxes of files, letters, and...

The JCB has long been an exceptional rare book library for the study of the British invasion of the Rio de la Plata (1806-1807), a series of failed British military campaigns that played a significant role in the rising momentum of Argentinian and Uruguayan independence...

The scale of the New York Times “The Ransom” series as well as some provocative headlines and tweets caught historians’ attention – and inspired more than a little bit of ire. In May of 2022, the Times published its extensive historical investigation into how France...