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Wireless Access Now at John Hay Library
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The John Hay Library now has wireless access in the following locations.
Reading Room
University Archives
Lobby area and extending out to the front road
Lownes Room
Bruhn RoomThe Libraries are the top location where people access wireless on campus. UCS and CIS has been conducting a survey on wireless services on campus. They received about 1350 responses. Of the respondents, about 75% indicated they had laptops with wireless capability, and about 55% of the respondents said they do use Wireless on campus. In the question about where they typically connect to wireless, the top locations fell out like this:
Libraries — 37.97%
CIT — 12.89%
Faunce — 11.41%
Blue room — 6.21%
Main green — 5.82%For more information contact Mark_Shelton@brown.edu
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LibQual+ Survey
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From April 4-27, 2005, the Brown University Library is conducting a web-based survey of faculty and students
to measure the quality of the Library’s service. LibQUAL+ is part of a suite of services offered by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) to help libraries assess and improve services to users. The survey itself is based on the SERVQUAL instrument, a popular tool for assessing service quality in the private sector, and was modified for the library setting through extensive research conducted at the Texas A&M University Libraries (supported in part by a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education). A total of 234 institutions, including some of the largest research libraries in North America, are participating in the spring 2005 LibQUAL+ survey.
On April 4, email messages were sent to all teaching faculty, all graduate and medical students, and all undergraduate students, inviting them to partici pate in the LibQUAL+ survey. This email included a link to the survey form on the web. More information about the LibQUAL+ survey is available at the LibQUAL+ web site from the Association of Research Libraries.
For further information contact Raynna Bowlby in the Office of the University Librarian at Raynna_Bowlby@brown.edu. -
Library Collections Annex Opens!
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This is the official opening day of the Library Collections Annex, the newest part of the Brown University Library system. Located at 10 Park Lane in Providence RI, about 4 miles from campus, the Annex is a high density storage facility with a capacity of 1.7 million volumes. Its opening marks a decade-long planning process, three years of development, and nearly a year of construction and renovation. A staff of four have been on the site this week, being trained and preparing the space, and the first shipment of materials previously stored at Harvard Depository have already arrived to be processed. It will take until mid-May for the move of all 250,000 volumes from Harvard Depository to be delivered and shelved. At that time, materials from campus libraries will begin to be shipped.
See the Annex web site.
For further information contact: annex@brown.edu