Headphones, ethernet cables, and laptop chargers for Macs and PCs are available for 3 hour loan (for use in the library only) from the Rock, Orwig, and Friedman Center circulation desks. You can ask for free earplugs there too! http://library.brown.edu/libweb/loanequipment.php
The Library now subscribes to Library PressDisplay, which provides same-day, online, full-color, full-page-image access to about 1700 newspapers from 92 countries in 48 languages. This not only vastly increases the number of current newspapers we have “instant” daily access to, but also provides a two-month archive, full-text searching of current and archived content (going back … Library PressDisplay: 1700+ Newspapers, 92 Countries, 48 Languages
Brown University Library on the go – catalog (Josiah), hours, locations, news, computer availability, and easy contact information. Get instant mobile access to information from the library through this free app, including: Library hours and locations Josiah, the Library catalog Real-time computer cluster availability and more! Read the write up in the August 30, 2010 … moBUL – free Library app for smartphones
Browse 5,000 journals in your pajamas! Thanks to a two-year pilot program from the Brown University Library, Brown alumni can now stay up-to-date with a wide variety of news and research from the convenience of any computer with internet access. The Library has contracted with EBSCO Inc. to give alumni access to three distinct resource … Alumni access to scholarly research, business publications & news archives
Faculty and graduate students who use the foreign language video collection housed at the Sciences Library have new options for reserving and picking up DVDs or videocassettes. If you know one day or more in advance that you would like a particular video for personal or classroom use, you may now use the “Request It” … Language Resource Center Videos at Sciences Library
The Brown University Library, OVPR, & ADVANCE Program announce the acquisition of a new GRANTS DATABASE. Community of Science (CoS) Funding Opportunities is a frequently updated database of announcements for funding opportunities ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES. COS Funding Alert provides a weekly e-mail with a customized list of funding opps based on previously specified criteria provided … Looking for grant information? Check out the new Community of Science (CoS) Funding Opportunities Database!
RefShare provides RefWorks users with a quick and easy way to share their research information, further enhancing collaborative research. Users can share their RefWorks references with both members of their own institution and globally with any researcher having Internet access. For more information, contact Frank_Kellerman@brown.edu.
Ever get lost in the stacks of the Rock looking for a book? Now you can get the floor and aisle information directly in Josiah. Click on the text below “Locate This” and you’ll get a map of the floor with the location of your book or other item highlighted (see image below). Remember you … Book Locator – Dynamic Floor and Aisle Maps Now in Josiah
In response to many requests, the Library has recently purchased the Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO) database. The 180,000 titles represented in the collection now have records in Josiah, the Library’s online catalog. Consisting of books, pamphlets, broadsides, and ephemera, ECCO includes every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with … Library Acquires Major Database of 18th Century Texts
The Brown University Library has received the books and papers of the late Michael V. Bhatia ’99, an Afghanistan expert and coauthor of Afghanistan, Arms and Conflict: Armed Groups, Disarmament and Security in a Post-War Society, who was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan in May 2008 while serving as a civilian member of … The Books and Papers of Michael V. Bhatia ’99 at the Brown University Library
