From Friday 4/27 until the end of final exams on Friday 5/18, the Rockefeller Library is open 45 additional hours — (7:30am – 2am Monday – Saturday and 10am – 2am Sunday). The John Hay Library will be open 10-5pm on Saturday 4/28, 5/5 and 5/12. The John Hay Library will be open from 9 … Extended Library Hours: Reading & Exam Period
ProQuest Newspapers is a database of current newspapers, including the Boston Globe, Providence Journal, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Constitution, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, and USA Today. Find the newspapers listed individually in Josiah and the Ejournal A-Z list, or collectively in the Database A-Z list under … Current Online Newspaper Subscriptions from ProQuest
A recent cnn.com travel piece devoted to H.P. Lovecraft describes the collection in the John Hay Library. See: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/03/06/lovecraft.providence.ap/index.html For further information about the collection contact hay@brown.edu
Historic maps in the John Hay Library are featured in a February 13 Providence Journal article — “The course of history – Brown’s rediscovered maps tell tale”. A selection of these maps will be on exhibit in the John Hay Library from March 26 to April 25. The Library is open Monday – Friday from … Library Map Collection in the News
Now until 12/28/06, the Library has free access online to Digital Sanborn Maps covering 1867-1970. This series of maps was created for fire insurance companies and contain information such as use and owner of each building and site. The series deals with over 12,000 American municipalities, showing great detail at 50 ft. per inch. To … New Database Trial: Digital Sanborn Maps
1795-1985; researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching. Also called the Times Digital … Database of the Week – The Times (London)
Through the IEEE Xplore search interface, IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (IEL) gives researchers a single point of access for almost a third of the world’s current electrical engineering and computer science literature and a growing collection for biomedical engineering and other cutting-edge technologies. IEL contains full text IEEE and IEE journals, magazines, transactions and conference proceedings … Library Database of the Week – IEEE/IEE Library
The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900, provides access to the printed sources of Victorian thought and opinion. While of prime interest to those studying literature, history, and Victorian life, the Wellesley Index also covers articles on politics, religion, economics, art, science, archaeology, and philosophy. Available on Library cluster workstations only. For further information contace … Library Database of the Week – Victorian Periodicals
Inspec 1969-present; created by the IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers), Inspec indexes and abstracts the world’s scientific and technical papers in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computing and information technology. Coverage includes journals and conference proceedings as well as books, dissertations and reports. Related disciplines in Inspec include materials science, oceanography, nuclear engineering, … Inspec – Library Database of the Week
Britannica Online is SO MUCH MORE than the average encyclopaedia! In addition to its excellent, signed, encyclopaedia articles on every imaginable subject, Britannica now offers WORLD DATA ANALYST (current, past statistics of different countries,) Merriam-Webster’s DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS, GATEWAY TO THE CLASSICS (significant works in literature, philosophy, history, and science,) and links to over 500 … Britannica Online – Library Database of the Week
