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Audubon’s Slender Billed Guillemot on display
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A volume of John James Audubon’s master work, The Birds of America, is on display on the main floor of the John Hay Library. Each plate will be on display for only one month. This month’s bird is the Slender Billed Guillemot. The library is open 9 to 6, Monday through Friday and Sundays between 1 and 5.This elephant folio edition of The Birds of America, bound in six volumes, was presented by Albert E. Lownes to the Library on the occasion of his 50th class reunion in 1970.
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Library Selected to Host Code4Lib 2009
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Brown University Library has been selected to host Code4Lib 2009. Code4Lib is a vibrant community for sharing ideas about programming and technology in libraries. The Code4Lib conference, held in February, serves as a counterpoint to Canada’s Access conference, held in October. Code4Lib is a single track conference that was capped at 200 this year and filled up almost immediately. Members of the Code4Lib community vote on conference program presentations and on proposals to serve as host.
More information: http://code4lib.org/
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Brown Daily Herald: WiFi Comes to the SciLi
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By Kyla Wilkes
02/28/08
Students and faculty requiring Internet access for their studying and research can now venture beyond the first three floors of the Sciences Library. All 14 floors of the concrete library have been equipped with wireless Internet.
The SciLi proved particularly challenging for wireless Internet implementation, said Mark Shelton, leader of Media Services. The high book shelves and thick concrete walls absorb the signal. In order for the signal to be available at the edges of each floor, where patrons work in cubicles or chairs, more networking equipment, such as routers and cabling, was needed.
“Because of the way the building is made, putting in that infrastructure is difficult because you have to cut through the concrete floors,” Shelton said.