Do you need help with a research paper? Save time and frustration by contacting one of the Library’s subject librarians. Receive detailed advice on the information resources you can use in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences. Contact the appropriate subject librarian or arrange a one-on-one session online.
The Library will be awarding two awards of $750 (each) in recognition of excellence in undergraduate research projects that make creative and extensive use of the University Library’s collections. Application deadline February 18, 2009. Detailed information available here.
Think you’re smart? Register for the Brown University Library´s Digital Literacy Contest. It’s a high speed battle of minds to find information online on Wed. Oct. 8 from 4:30-6 PM: Rockefeller Library 2nd floor cluster. You get 30 min. to answer 30 questions using the Internet. Highest scores win! Free pizza and drinks. More than … Digital Literacy Contest – October 8
Putting 117 years of the Brown Daily Herald online. “It’s U.S. history through the eyes of Brown students. The day after Pearl Harbor there’s band practice,” said former Brown Daily Herald editor-in-chief Mary Catherine Lader ’08, referring to a December 1941 issue of the paper. With former Herald senior editor Anne Wootton, who graduates next … Brown Alumni Magazine: Pearl Harbor and Band Practice
The Friedman Study Center recently received its sixth major architectural and design award: Best of Category (Small Academic Libraries, under 30,000 sq ft) in the American Library Association/International Interior Design Association’s Library Interior Design Awards. The award was presented at this year’s ALA Conference in Anaheim, CA on July 1. Florence Doksansky, Associate University Librarian, … Friedman Center wins Library Interior Design Award
To ensure timely receipt of needed library material while most library users are away from campus, the library will be suppressing the recall request option during June and July. Though essential recalls may be placed with library staff assistance, we are encouraging use of the library’s direct borrowing services whenever Brown library material is not … Library online recall feature temporarily unavailable
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 Meadow Lark. The library is open 9 to 5, Monday through Friday. This elephant folio edition … Audubon’s Meadowlark on display at Hay
The Brown University Library will pay tribute to three individuals for their extraordinary service and generosity by giving them the William Williams Award. Established in 1988, the William Williams Award is the Library’s highest honor. The award commemorates William Williams, Brown Class of 1769, who sequestered the College library in his home in Wrentham, Mass., … Three to receive William Williams Award
Four prize winners were selected as part of a random drawing from the almost 1,700 members of the Brown community who responded to the Library’s recent LibQUAL+ TM survey. The winners included one faculty member, two undergraduate students, and a medical student: • Doug Cattie ’10 • Mariah Erlick’11 • Ann Kuo MD ’11 • … Four win prizes for LibQUAL+ TM
Brown students and faculty interested in improving library services and winning fabulous prizes are encouraged to participate in a web based survey currently being hosted on the Brown University Library homepage (http://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/libqual/). Entitled LibQUAL and sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the survey is designed to help libraries assess their strengths and weaknesses. … Brown University Library offers LibQUAL+ Survey in effort to improve services
