Your Brown University Library is thrilled to invite you back into the libraries for Fall 2020! The Library is working to meet critical student and faculty needs in the following ways: Opening space for individual student work on a reservation basis Providing enhanced digital access to materials for courses and scholarship Circulating physical materials on … Announcement | Library Spaces Open for Fall 2020
Library Services during Fall 2020 The Library is thrilled to welcome students into our large study spaces for independent work during the Fall 2020 semester. Staff onsite will be primarily engaged in helping to keep our study spaces safe and healthy. They will not be providing in-person library services. We are continuing to provide a … Announcement | Library Services for Fall 2020
Energy efficient LED light bulbs are being installed in all light fixtures throughout Library buildings. This effort to increase our energy efficiency is in direct alignment with Brown’s mission to cut campus greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2025 and to achieve net-zero emissions no later than 2040. The work will begin at the Rockefeller … Announcement | LED Light Bulbs
The interlibrary loan system ILLiad, which the Library relies on to fulfill patron requests for certain materials from other libraries, will be unavailable starting the afternoon of Wednesday, April 3, and running through the following day. Service is expected to be restored by Thursday afternoon.
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
Starting on August 1, 2018, UpToDate (UtD) will only be available through the intranets of Brown’s affiliated hospitals (Lifespan, CNE, VAMC) or by individual subscription, and not additionally through the University Library. For the vast majority of the AMS community, this change will affect only the way that you access UtD. Alpert Medical School students … Change in access to the clinical information resource “UpToDate”
The John Hay Library will be closed on Monday August 28 and Tuesday August 29, 2017. This will allow staff to attend a two day training session. The Hay will re-open at 10 a.m. on Wednesday August 30th. Please e-mail hay@brown.edu, if you have any questions. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Dear Colleague, Yesterday and today, we have been experiencing intermittent, site-wide access issues that affect use of JSTOR. Our engineers are working hard to restore stable access as quickly as possible. Please watch our Platform Updates page (http://about.jstor.org/jstor-help-support/jstor-updates) for service alerts about these issues. We will post the most current information on that page, as … Update From JSTOR
JSTOR ejournal service is available for searching, but full text articles are currently unavailable. It is a widespread problem that is not limited to just Brown University. JSTOR is aware of the problem and working to fix it. We apologize for the inconvenience.
In preparation for renovation of several floors for new tenants and services, the Sciences Library is undergoing some significant changes. Workers are moving and shifting materials around, materials are being transferred off-site, and there will be a lot of changes—some temporary, some permanent—in what is housed in the building and where. A fuller description of … Sciences Library Renovation
