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Direct borrow from 27 academic libraries
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If you discover that the Brown Library doesn’t own a book that you need or that Brown’s copy is checked out, don’t despair. You can make an online request to borrow the book from another library. It’s easy, quick, and provides access to over 75 million volumes. For more information, and a complete list of libraries involved, go to: More Borrowing Options Look for links to “Borrow from Other Libraries” or “Check InRhode” at the top of a Josiah search results screen (see screenshot) or click on “More Borrowing Options” on the Brown Library home page. Borrow Direct provides access to the Ivy League libraries (except Harvard). With InRhode you can search the collections of Roger Williams University and other Rhode Island academic libraries. The Virtual Catalog will connect you to 13 other libraries, including Tufts University and the University of Connecticut. For assistance, talk with anyone at a Library service desk or use Ask-A-Librarian -
Library Database of the Week – ARTstor
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ARTstor is a new electronic image product available through the Library Web, offering more than 400,000 digital images of art, architecture, and archaeology. ARTstor’s initial software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.
To get started see ARTstor HELP for Brown University Students
Off-campus users must log in via the VPN client or EZproxy.
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“The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox”
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006, 7 p.m.
Lownes Room
John Hay Library
“The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox”
Nancy Rubin Stuart, MAT ’67
Award-winning author Nancy Rubin Stuart MAT ’67 will give a talk and slide presentation on her latest book, “The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox.” This work depicts the true-life tale of the beautiful Victorian teenager caught in a family web of greed and deception. Maggie Fox later rose to celebrity status as one of the founders of American spiritualism. Her alleged ability to communicate with spirits in America’s first séances of 1848-1850 astounded the press, made her and her sisters the darlings of Broadway, inspired thousands of child imitators, and fascinated the most prominent men and women of her era – among them, Horace Greeley, James Fenimore Cooper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Todd Lincoln, William Lloyd Garrison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and William James. In 2005 the Washington Post considered Ms. Stuart’s book “fascinating” and the Boston Globe called it “ a richly sympathetic portrait of a fascinating and tragic woman.” For additional information about the book and the author, see: http://www.thereluctantspiritualist.com/
Some related materials from the Brown University Library Special Collections will be exhibited in the Lownes Room. Ms. Rubin Stuart will be available for questions and a book signing at the conclusion of her talk.
For further information contact hay@brown.edu