Celebrate Books by Day & Night

Celebrate UNESCO's World Book Day today, Monday April 23, 2012 and World Book Night by reading from a list of 30 chosen titles.

Future of the Book Symposium at MIT

Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the Book This symposium explores the future potential of the book by engaging practitioners and performers of this versatile technology to ask some key questions: is the book an artifact on its deathbed or a mutable medium transitioning into future forms? What shape will books of the future take? Grounded in this technology’s history, we will reflect critically on possible futures, promises, and challenges of the book, showcasing practices by writers and artists, putting them in conversation with scholars and thinkers from across the disciplines who are framing discourse and questions about book-related technotexts. This symposium hopes to foster a lively discussion where audience members participate and invoke their multiple perspectives of the book.

Library Survey!

Hi from the Fleet Library at RISD!

This is National Library Week, and we would love to get your thoughts and ideas on the RISD Library. Please take 5 - 10 minutes to fill out the following survey. (It will be available until April 20.)

Link to survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RISDLibrarySurvey

Thanks from all the staff at the library.

Google Art Project

Learn more about the Google Art Project here.

Bibliophilia - books we love & why

To celebrate National Library Week, April 8-14, 2012, we invite RISD Students, Faculty and Staff to select 1-3 of their favorite RISD Library items to be displayed on the stadium seating in the first floor Library Reading Room. Favorite items may include any combination of Media, Reference, Oversize and Main books as well as circulating Picture Collection and Material Resource Center items. Include 1-2 sentences about what sets this particular book, film or visual material apart from others. Comments are optional and will be included in the display.

Just fill out the online form for the Bibliophilia exhibition or the printed cards which are available at service desks throughout the Library.
We'll pull the items and put them on display.

Spead the word - tell your friends, colleagues, and student workers about the exhibition.
Invite them to select a favorite book, film or material from our collection.

The display will run Sunday April 8 - Sunday April 22, 2012