The Great Kanto Earthquake collection (http://dl.lib.brown.edu/kanto) contains a mix of photographs, newspaper clippings, and travel ephemera (menus, passenger lists…) that document the encounters of a American family who were amongst the first westerners to witness the devastation of the 1923 Kanto Earthquake and resulting tsunami.
The collection is based around the family photo album of William and Vera Reynolds who were enroute to Japan when the earthquake struck. This photo album was recently donated to the Library by Lee Stewart, William and Dana’s granddaughter — a gift secured with the assistance of Professor Kerry Smith (history), whose upcoming book focuses on this very event.
Students in Professor Smith’s “History of Modern Japan” class were brought into the project to assist in the cataloging process, and to write additional narrative materials to support use of the collection. Much of what you encounter on this site is representative of their commitment and hard work. Ms Stewart contributed an introductory essay and Professor Smith provided a historical overview. Toshi Minami provided a detailed bibliography of secondary materials available in our library.
For further information contact Patrick_Yott@brown.edu

The Library is piloting a new service for members of the University community. We will retrieve books from our stacks and hold them for you at the Circulation desk. Look for the request button at the top of a record in our catalog, Josiah. If the item is currently available, we will page it within 24 hours and hold it at the Circulation desk. The service is available for books at the Sciences, Rockefeller and Orwig libraries.
This service has been available since June for items held at the Annex; this pilot project expands that service to items available in the on-campus circulating libraries.
To request paging of non-circulating items in the John Hay Library use the special collections online paging form. For more information contact hay@brown.edu.
For more information on the paging service for circulating materials, contact Bart_Hollingsworth@brown.edu

The Library would like to announce the following data news:
1. A new data resources guide has been posted for psychology — http://dl.lib.brown.edu/gateway/ssds/Psychology.htm.
2. We now have the International Financial Statistics (IFS) available online — http://library.brown.edu/record=b1296434. This data set covers all aspects of international and domestic finance.
3. We would like to follow through and assist people who suggested research ideas in last October’s needs assessment. If you suggested any of the ideas listed here — http://dl.lib.brown.edu/gateway/ssds/requestsfordata.htm — please contact Thomas_Stieve@brown.edu.

• Log in to Josiah with your Brown Username and Password
  You can now log in to view personal circulation information and renew books using your Brown username and password as an alternative to your 14-digit barcode. Log in to Josiah to view your account or renew your books.

• Add to RefWorks
  RefWorks allows you to create your own personal database of references and to automatically format them as footnotes and bibliographies. In order to use RefWorks, you must create a personal account with your own login and password. When viewing a Josiah record, you can now click the Add to Refworks button to transfer the citation to your RefWorks account. Further information on accessing RefWorks.

• Report a Josiah Error
  If you find an error in a Josiah catalog record you can report it by clicking on “Report an Error” at the bottom of the screen — See a screenshot. The record details will be transferred to the Catalog Department – just describe the error and give us your name and email. You can also use this form to report an error in your Josiah account. Report an error.

• Permanent Link to a Josiah record
  The only reliable way to link to an individual Josiah record is in the format, http://library.brown.edu/record=b1234567. This permanent/durable URL is now available on all Josiah records by using the “Permalink to this Josiah record” link. ( What does this look like?) Click on it to display the durable URL in the browser’s address bar, or right-click and “copy shortcut”.

• Josiah Help
  For assistance in using Josiah consult the recently updated Josiah help screens or Ask-A-Librarian.