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New Library Home Page and Search Technology — Coming September 1
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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 sideAccess 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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Brown University Library Hires New Digital Humanities Librarian
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It is our pleasure to welcome Jean Bauer as our new Digital Humanities Librarian. Jean Bauer is a historian, database designer, and photographer. She holds degrees in history from the University of Chicago and the University of Virginia, where she is completing her doctoral dissertation, “Revolution Mongers: Launching the U.S. Foreign Service, 1775-1825.”Jean has worked for the Archives of the New York Philharmonic and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Library and has held research fellowships at the University of Virginia Library’s Digital Scholars’ Lab and NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship). She has also transcribed, translated, and decrypted letters for The Papers of James Madison, designed a database for The Dolley Madison Digital Edition, and served as Design Researcher for Documents Compass, a digital consulting organization for documentary editors.
Jean is the lead developer of two open source projects: DAVILA, a relational database schema visualization and annotation tool, and Project Quincy, a Ruby on Rails application with a MySQL database that uses information about people, places, and organizations to trace how social networks and institutions develop over time and through space. The flagship application for Project Quincy is The Early American Foreign Service Database, which allows researchers to trace Early American diplomats, consuls, special agents, and their clerks all over the globe.
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New Manuscripts Processing Archivist Hired
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It is our pleasure to announce that Karen Eberhart has joined the Brown University Library as the Manuscripts Processing Archivist. She received her undergraduate degree in History from the College of Wooster and her Masters in Library and Information Science (MLIS) from the University of Texas at Austin. During her career she has worked in the archives at the University of New Hampshire and Smith College. Her most recent position was as the Special Collections Curator in the Rhode Island Historical Society Library. Karen’s office is located in the John Hay Library.