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New Digital Collection – The Great Kanto Earthquake
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The Great Kanto Earthquake collection (http://dl.lib.brown.edu/kanto) contains a mix of photographs, newspaper clippings, and travel ephemera (menus, passenger lists…) that document the encounters of a American family who were amongst the first westerners to witness the devastation of the 1923 Kanto Earthquake and resulting tsunami.
The collection is based around the family photo album of William and Vera Reynolds who were enroute to Japan when the earthquake struck. This photo album was recently donated to the Library by Lee Stewart, William and Dana’s granddaughter — a gift secured with the assistance of Professor Kerry Smith (history), whose upcoming book focuses on this very event.
Students in Professor Smith’s “History of Modern Japan” class were brought into the project to assist in the cataloging process, and to write additional narrative materials to support use of the collection. Much of what you encounter on this site is representative of their commitment and hard work. Ms Stewart contributed an introductory essay and Professor Smith provided a historical overview. Toshi Minami provided a detailed bibliography of secondary materials available in our library.
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Britannica Online – Library Database of the Week
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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 FULL TEXT JOURNAL ARTICLES relevant to the subject you’re researching in the Encyclopaedia.
Off-campus users must log in via the VPN client or EZproxy.
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New! – Library Paging Service
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The Library is piloting a new service for members of the University community. We will retrieve books from our stacks and hold them for you at the Circulation desk. Look for the request button
at the top of a record in our catalog, Josiah. If the item is currently available, we will page it within 24 hours and hold it at the Circulation desk. The service is available for books at the Sciences, Rockefeller and Orwig libraries.
This service has been available since June for items held at the Annex; this pilot project expands that service to items available in the on-campus circulating libraries.
To request paging of non-circulating items in the John Hay Library use the special collections online paging form. For more information contact hay@brown.edu.
For more information on the paging service for circulating materials, contact Bart_Hollingsworth@brown.edu