Congrats to Our Raffle and Poetry Contest Winners!

Drum roll, please… the two winners of the “Ode to the Brown Library” Poetry Contest! Student Winner: Tiffany Sparks with her poem, “Books and Libraries” Faculty/Staff Winner: Pam Woody with her poem, “A Journey with a Friend” Both winning poems, along with a selection of the other submitted entries, will be displayed on the top [...]

Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, My Favorite Library is “Brown”– How about You?

Got poetic chops? Like to improvise spoken word or jazz poetry? Then enter the “Ode to the Library” contest! We challenge you to write a poem dedicated either to our Brown Library or to the spirit of libraries in general. Your poem could be a romantic sonnet, an ode, haiku, limerick, or villanelle——jazz poetry, free [...]

Follow a Library Day

Today is Follow a Library Day on Twitter!  To give your favorite libraries (we hope we’re one of them!) a boost of attention and recognition, tweet their name or @name and include the hashtag #followalibrary. I guess this would be a good time to mention that Brown Library has been on Twitter for three days–follow [...]

Writers’ Gathering Today

Like writing poems or short stories? Maybe you’re working on a novel or play. Or maybe you’ve always been curious but have only ever written academic papers before. Please join Ruff Writers, the creative writing club on campus, for its first meeting today, Thursday, September 30th, at 4pm in the library’s large study room. (This [...]

Eaten Any Good Books Lately?

If not, here’s your chance! The VWCC Edible Book Festival is coming to the Brown Library, main floor, on April 13, 2010. In celebration of National Library Week, April 11-17, Brown and students from the Culinary Arts program are participating in the International Edible Book Festival. The Culinary Arts students will produce edible creations with [...]

Jazz Poetry Hour

Brown Library and Student Activities invite you to come express yourself at our Jazz Poetry Hour this Wednesday, March 31st, at 1pm in the Student Commons. The Elmer Coles Quintet will play behind you as you share your spoken-word, poetry, or other *short* forms of writing based on themes from the Big Read book, A [...]