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Jump Start your Research with InfoGate
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InfoGate is an exciting new search service offered by the library. InfoGate offers a quick, easy, and personalized interface which can simultaneously search a variety of information resources including library catalogs, reference databases, digital repositories, and subject-based gateways. InfoGate provides researchers with multiple tools to customize searches and database sets, save results for future reference, and export citations to a bibliographic database, such as Refworks.
For more information about InfoGate, take a look at the InfoGate FAQ at
http://www.brown.edu/library/eresources/metalib/infogate2.html
or sign up for an InfoGate PASS class at http://comped.brown.edu
If you have specific questions about InfoGate, please feel free to email us at libweb@brown.edu -
Library Catalog will be down Tuesday morning
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A software upgrade will be installed on Josiah, the library’s online catalog, Tuesday morning, October 18. Most library services will be unaffected by this, and Josiah should be fully functional before noon. While Josiah is unavailable, Brown’s library holdings may be searched on InRhode, the shared catalog of Rhode Island academic libraries: http://inrhode.uri.edu/search
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Perry Visits Japan: New Media and Old Manuscripts in the Classroom
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Salomon Auditorium
Susan Smulyan, Associate Professor of American Civilization, will present a Faculty Forum that will highlight the Library’s project to digitize the John Hay Library’s copy of a fascinating Japanese scroll that beautifully illustrates Commodore Matthew Perry’s landing in Japan, the first official contact between Americans and Japanese.
For more information see: http://dl.lib.brown.edu/japan/index.html