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Announcement | New Database: Political Extremism and Radicalism in the Twentieth Century
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The Brown University Library has acquired access to the database, Political Extremism and Radicalism in the Twentieth Century, a compilation of rare and unique archival collections covering a wide range of fringe political movements from the 1900s – 2010s. This archive is one of the first digital archives covering such a broad assortment of both far-right and left political groups. It offers a diverse mixture of materials, including periodicals, campaign propaganda, government records, oral histories, and various ephemera.Includes materials from the Hall-Hoag Collection of Dissenting and Extremist Printed Propaganda from the John Hay Library here at Brown University.
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Announcement | Laurie Rossi, Senior Library Associate Specialist, Special Collections, Reader Services
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The Brown University Library welcomes Laurie Rossi to Reader Services as a Senior Library Associate Specialist for Special Collections.Laurie comes to Brown from the Pawtucket Public Library and, prior to that, the West Warwick Library, where she ran many music programs in addition to working in circulation.
A classically trained vocalist, Laurie also plays guitar, piano, clarinet, and saxophone.
Laurie’s first day at the Library was March 18.
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Planned maintenance and service interruption: multiple library systems
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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 by downtime.
We don’t expect the system to be down for more than eight hours, but we will send out an update should that time be extended for any reason. This update from version 3.4 to 4.2 will bring the library to the current release of this software and should resolve many outstanding issues.
Services interrupted include:
- Requesting/paging items from any library or the Library Annex will be delayed
- Patron records may not immediately reflect item returns and checkout
- BorrowDirect requests will not work, but ILLiad will remain online
- Classic Josiah will be down. Patrons will still be able to search ‘New’ Josiah though item availability information will not populate
- Any link using josiah.brown.edu from Canvas, syllabi, various content management systems, or other communications will not work during downtime
Thank you for your patience and understanding while we work to improve services and facilitate world-class, innovative research.