Brown University Library News

The Center for Digital Initiatives is pleased to announce the release of our newly-designed website for finding aids (guides to personal papers, manuscript and archival collections): Brown Archival & Manuscript Collections Online (BAMCO). There are currently 48 finding aids on the site, ten of which include digital facsimiles of collection materials. There is one finding aid each for collections at the Orwig Music Library and the John Nicholas Brown Center, the remainder describing John Hay Library manuscript and archival collections. This new site replaces two earlier versions of the website. Additional finding aids will be added to BAMCO as they become available. Individual finding aids on the BAMCO site have been linked from the library?s Collections A-Z site, and from the associated JOSIAH collection-level bibliographic records. During the past year, library staff from several departments have contributed to the BAMCO effort (Digital Services, Scholarly Resources, Technical Services, Web Services) as well as a number of student workers and library school interns. Future plans call for enhancing the site with additional features:

• browse, search, and ‘limit by’ features
• feedback button (to CDI re. functionality of the site and to report errors)
• repository links for collection queries (e-mail, location/hours information)
• essays on working with primary source material and finding aids

For more technical information, read ?About this project? (at bottom of the BAMCO homepage). I welcome questions or comments about the BAMCO website. Sarah Shaw Digital Initiatives Librarian (EAD Specialist) Brown University Library Box A Providence, RI 02912 TEL: 401 863-1508 FAX: 401 863-1272 sarah_shaw@brown.edu

Library users now have more options for limiting their Josiah searches. We have installed five additional “scopes” and redefined some of the existing six, for a total of eleven. These choices appear in the drop-down menu “limit search to” on Josiah screens:
The scopes are as follows:
* Periodicals * Newspapers * Other Serials *
* Web Resources *
* Audio * Video * Multimedia *
Special Collections – John Hay Library
General Collections – All Except Hay and JCB
Location: Rockefeller Library
Location: Sciences Library
Location: Orwig Music Library
Location: Language Resource Center
Location: John Carter Brown Library
For further information contact: Bonnie Buzzell

RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds. Being web-based means no software to download and update, and you can access your personal account from any computer connected to the internet.
RefWorks helps you to:

• Organize your research and create a personal database online
• Include citations while you write your paper
• Build a bibliography in a variety of format/styles See list
• Import references from a variety of databases using the already created import filters
• Create bibliographies in different document formats (Word, RTF, HTML, etc.)

In order to use RefWorks, you must create your own login and password.

• To access your RefWorks account on-campus go to:
  https://www.refworks.com/Refworks/login.asp?WNCLang=false

• To access your RefWorks account off-campus, you will need the
  Brown University Group Code.

For more information, please see the Quick Start Guide (pdf) and/or the Tutorial.
For further assistance contact Anne Nolan, Electronic Resources Librarian