Posted by aatticks@brown.edu on February 10, 2012
Check out the latest flicks from the Friedman DVD Collection at Sci Li! We now have over 800 movies. Browse the collection online before heading over to the service desk. Browsing allows you to see what IMDb has to say about the film, and confirm whether the DVD is currently available for check-out.
Brown students can borrow two Friedman DVDs at a time and keep them for up to three days. We also encourage suggestions for recent feature-length movies to add to the collection!
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Posted by aatticks@brown.edu on December 15, 2011
Samuel Hazard. Port-au-Prince. New York: Harper, 1873. In: Santo Domingo, past and present, with a glance at Hayti. Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, John Hay Library.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – In support of President Ruth Simmons’ 2010 Haitian Studies Initiative and the work of Brown’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Africana Studies Department, Brown University Library has recently become a contributing member of the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC). dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries and private collections.
“Through its contribution to the expansion of dLOC, the Brown Library is taking an important step in building resources on the Caribbean diaspora and furthering the advancement of Caribbean Studies and the Haitian Studies Initiative on campus,” stated Scholarly Resources Librarian, Dominique Coulombe.
The Digital Library of the Caribbean is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC’s diverse partners serve an international community of scholars, students, and citizens by working together to preserve and to provide enhanced electronic access to cultural, historical, legal, governmental, and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections in a common web space with a multilingual interface.
The Brown University Library is home to more than 6.8 million print items, plus a multitude of electronic resources and expanding digital archives serving the teaching, research, and learning needs of Brown students and faculty, as well as scholars from around the country and the world.
Contact: Amy Atticks | Amy_Atticks@brown.edu | (401) 863-6913
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Posted by Jean M. Rainwater on August 16, 2011
A cleaner, less cluttered library home page will debut on September 1, 2011. The new design will gracefully adjust to tablet and smart phone dimensions and will feature new technology for searching all of the library’s resources from a single search box. These resources include:
“Books+” — Josiah (library catalog), plus over 57,000 digital objects from special collections, full text dissertations from the Brown Digital Repository, and Library Resource Guides compiled by subject librarians
“Articles” — over 200,000,000 online articles from the library’s vast array of licensed and subscription sources
“Everything” — “Books+” and “Articles” side by side
Access to the the traditional Josiah catalog will continue to be available; some functions – such as viewing course reserves, placing requests, viewing checkouts, renewing material – are currently available only in Josiah. Use the link to Josiah in the detailed record to perform any of these functions.
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Posted by Jean M. Rainwater on March 28, 2011
The New York Times has instituted restrictions on content effective March 28, 2011. Although some content will remain free, there will be limited access to articles and features for those who do not subscribe to either the print or online version of the paper.
The Library has arranged to provide Brown readers with access to the full text and images of the New York Times via Newsbank. Newsbank offers same-day, full-image, full-text access that includes the Book Review, Magazine, and other supplements. The links are now live via the Josiah catalog. Please see: http://josiah.brown.edu/record=b4146952 (first link) or the the New York Times record in the Library’s e-journal A-Z list at:
http://rl3tp7zf5x.search.serialssolutions.com/ (search New York Times)
A number of other online versions of the Times are also available from the Josiah link above. Users who encounter access trouble should contact us at: libweb@brown.edu or eresources@brown.edu
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Posted by Sarah E. Bordac on March 17, 2011
Two $750 awards are given each spring for academic projects making original and extensive use of Library resources. The Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Library Research is open to any current undergrad for work completed in 2010.
One last thing to do before spring break – SUBMIT!
Application Deadline: March 25, 2011
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Posted by Yvonne Federowicz on March 15, 2011
Catastrophic earthquakes and tsunami hit the northeastern region of Japan on March 11, 2011. As the relief efforts still continue, the Library compiled a list of resources to help keep you up to date with the latest information.
Brown Responds to Japan:
• http://brown.edu/web/japan-response/index.html
Live TV news:
• NHK (English): http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-world-tv
• NHK (Japanese): http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-gtv
Newspapers (English):
• Asahi Shimbun: http://www.asahi.com/english/
• Mainichi Daily News: http://mdn.mainichi.jp/
• Daily Yomiuri: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/
• Japan Times: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/
Newspapers (Japanese):
• Asahi Shimbun: http://www.asahi.com/
• Yomiuri Shimbun: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/
• Mainichi Shimbun: http://mainichi.jp/
Warnings and Safety:
• Japan Meteorological Agency: http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/en/menu.html
• US Geological Survey: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/140_35.php
• Japan Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency: http://www.nisa.meti.go.jp/english/index.html
People Finder:
• Google’s Japan Person Finder: http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/?lang=en
• International Committee of the Red Cross – Family Link: http://www.familylinks.icrc.org/wfl/wfl_jap.nsf/DocIndex/locate_eng?opendocument
Official Websites:
• The Embassy of Japan in the United States: http://www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/english/html/index.html
• The Consulate General of Japan in Boston: http://www.boston.us.emb-japan.go.jp/
• The Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinets: http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/index-e.html
• The Embassy of the United States in Japan: http://japan.usembassy.gov/
• The U.S. Department of State Travel Bureau: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_5378.html
Libraries affected by the earthquakes: http://www45.atwiki.jp/savelibrary/
Other Useful Websites:
• UMASS Amherst Libraries Info on Earthquake in Japan: http://guides.library.umass.edu/jpnearthquake
• Google Crisis Response: http://www.google.com/intl/en/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html
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Posted by Jean M. Rainwater on March 4, 2011
Links to public domain digitized books from Google Books, the HathiTrust Digital Library, and Open Library now appear dynamically in Josiah. For more information contact libweb@brown.edu
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Posted by Jean M. Rainwater on February 3, 2011
The Library has just launched a New Titles service for newly cataloged titles at http://library.brown.edu/titles/
This service, which is updated daily, allows users to browse or search titles cataloged during the previous six months. Users can subscribe to an RSS feed for any browse or combination of search terms. Browsing and search results are filtered by discipline, format, library location, language, topic, subject, name, genre and geographical place.
For further information contact libweb@brown.edu
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Posted by Jean M. Rainwater on January 24, 2011
The BorrowDirect partnership, which currently includes the libraries of Columbia and Cornell Universities, Dartmouth College, Princeton University, The University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University as well as Brown, will be expanding later this year to include the Harvard and MIT libraries. With this expansion, Brown users will have direct access to an additional 20 million books (and over 50 million total books and other items in the collective collections of the Ivies and MIT).
All of the libraries of Harvard and MIT (including the professional schools) will be participating, but operations for lending and borrowing will be implemented in varying stages during this year. We expect the first of Harvard’s collections, as well as MIT’s, to be available in late spring or early summer. Other collections from Harvard will follow.
Please send questions or comments to libweb@brown.edu
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Posted by Sarah E. Bordac on December 7, 2010
Headphones, ethernet cables, and laptop chargers for Macs and PCs are available for 3 hour loan (for use in the library only) from the Rock, Orwig, and Friedman Center circulation desks.
You can ask for free earplugs there too!
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