Getting Started

• Josiah is the name of the Brown University Library catalog
• Resource Guides by Subject
• Google Scholar: Browse articles and books referenced by Google (while it includes many of our collections, it does not cover everything)
• Loan periods: Faculty are granted one-year loan periods for most materials
• Deputy borrowing: Designate someone to pick up materials on your behalf
• Borrowing options: Brown's easyBorrow service facilitates interlibrary loan requests for books through WorldCat, while ILLiad is available for journal article requests.
• Request purchases on demand
• Renew Materials: Renew your materials online using MyJosiah, or bring them to the circulation desk.
• Off-Campus Access: There are three methods of off-campus access: WebVPN, Virtual Private Network (VPN) client, and EZProxy
• Questions? Our Ask A Librarian service provides chat, phone, text, and email support for quick questions
• Your subject librarian is available to you through email, phone, chat, or in person.

Specialized Services for Faculty

• E-delivery of journal articles to your desktop within 48 hrs.
• Delivery of library books to your department mail room or administrative office, Monday through Friday, during regular office hours. There is no charge for this service.
• Delivery to campus of materials held in the Library's Annex; research space is available at the Annex
• Special collections: Over five million items in multiple formats and includes many world-renowned collections notable for subject matter, age, uniqueness, or value, as well as availble digital collections.
• Digitization of Brown's library collections, including student work and faculty research
• Advise on copyright, fair use, and NIH compliance

Facilitating Teaching

The Library's collections, spaces, and services are available to expand upon and enhance your students' classroom experience.

• OCRA: Use OCRA to place books and other physical media on reserve AND to create electronic reserves: links to ebooks and other online content, digitization of articles, book chapters, full-length movies, short video clips, and audio files. Links to reserves in all formats will be added to your MyCourses site.
• Customized course guides to research and resources: Request a customized research guide for your course prepared by your subject librarian.
• Library and research skills instruction: Research skills instruction sessions led by a subject librarian are available at all levels and with a wide range of topics.
• Group and individual consultation
• Specialized exhibitions, involving students and faculty
• Archive syllabi and learning objects
• Undergraduate Research Award
• Library classroom and seminar space
• Computing clusters, networked printing, and scanning

Partnerships across campus to support your teaching activities:

• Instructional Technology Group provides support for MyCourses, course preview pages, course email lists, wikis, blogs, clickers/classroom response system, and instructional technology consultations.
• Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning provides consulting services, programming and teaching resources to all members of Brown's teaching community.

Specialized Training

Training.brown.edu provides free research workshops and software training for the Brown community.Library offerings include workshops on:

• Citation Management: EndNote, RefWorks, Zotero
• GIS Software: ArcGIS: Map Making, Geocoding
• Social Sciences Data: Federal Information, United Nations, Rhode Island Government Information
• Statistical Software Packages: SPSS: Introduction and Intermediate
• Images: ARTstor, Luna Insight

Collaboration on Digital Scholarship

• Digitize text, images, audio, video, data; build search/display interfaces
• Mentor students in digital production skills
• Support student digital research projects
• Digital repository services: Long-term maintenance and support for digital scholarly projects
• Advise on data curation and metadata practices/standards
• Support faculty who want to apply digital methods in their graduate or undergraduate courses
• Offer seminars and workshops on topics in digital scholarship and digital humanities
• Develop digital projects that express and engage the academic work of the university
• Assist faculty with original research; support systems and enhance mediated activities such as conferences, publications, and collaborative and social media tools
• Develop funding proposals to support the development of new digital tools and broaden the practice of digital scholarship at Brown