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Announcement | Library Services during COVID-19 Pandemic

Though the Brown University Library buildings remain closed, online services are available at rock@brown.edu, hay@brown.edu, and library.brown.edu. Read the latest on Brown’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. RESUMPTION OF LIMITED LIBRARY SERVICES As of June 29, the Library is providing limited in-person, contactless services. Expanded Access to Digital Content As a response to the global Announcement | Library Services during COVID-19 Pandemic

Library Closing at Noon on January 17

The following Brown University Libraries will close at 12 p.m. on Friday, January 17, 2020 to allow Library staff to attend our annual winter celebration: John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library John Hay Library Sciences Library (Friedman Study Center will remain open) Library Collections Annex Orwig Music Library will remain open. Hours of operation for all Library Closing at Noon on January 17

Planned maintenance and service interruption: multiple library systems

The library has scheduled an update and associated maintenance for the library catalog software on Tuesday, March 26 beginning at 10 am. This will require approximately eight hours of downtime for the library catalog and services tied to the software API. We chose this date to reduce the number of faculty, staff, and students affected Planned maintenance and service interruption: multiple library systems

Planned system outage

The Library will be updating one of its core servers on Thursday morning, March 21. You may see instability in some Library services for a brief period of time. All buildings will remain open and all in-person services will continue to operate normally during the system update.

Library Services Restored

The following Library services have been restored as of this morning: “My Library Account” link from josiah.brown.edu “Request This” link from search.library.brown.edu We apologize for any inconvenience.

Library Paging Service Down

The single-sign-on service (SSO) for Josiah that is hosted by Innovative is down.  This has been reported as an urgent problem. Losing SSO means graduate / med / faculty patrons cannot page items from the Rock until service is restored. In the meantime, users can request most materials from the Annex using the Blacklight discovery Library Paging Service Down

Exhibit | Black Panther Comics

“T’Challa is the Black Panther – a righteous king, noble Avenger, and fearsome warrior. Under his leadership, the African nation of Wakanda has flourished as one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world. And though he’s a card-carrying member of the Avengers, his first loyalty lies with his people, and he will defend Exhibit | Black Panther Comics