Book Installation

Massive River of 10,000 Discarded Books Rages Through Melbourne.

Fold This! Pop-up Books & Paper Engineering

"Movable books have been around for more than 700 years." Read More. See RISD's pop-up books.

Europeana

Europeana is a single access point to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe. It is an authoritative source of information coming from European cultural and scientific institutions. On September 12, 2012 Europeana opened "up data about all 20 million of the items it holds under the CC0 rights waiver. This means that anyone can reuse the data for any purpose - whether using it to build applications to bring cultural content to new audiences in new ways, or analysing it to improve our understanding of Europe's cultural and intellectual history." For more info see: The Guardian article.

Getty Research Portal

"The Getty Research Portal™ is an online search platform providing global access to digitized art history texts in the public domain. Through this multilingual, multicultural union catalog, scholars can search and download complete digital copies of publications for the study of art, architecture, material culture, and related fields. The Portal is free to all users." http://portal.getty.edu/

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

Current Topics in Textiles + Library Research by RISD Apparel Students

http://textileincubator.wordpress.com/

Textile Incubator is a place for Rhode Island School of Design Apparel students and faculty to post information about their favorite textile and apparel happenings. From new innovations in electronic textiles to the history of denim, no topic is off-limits. If you can wear it, knit it, sew it, dye it or print it… we’ll blog it.

Library Online Catalog Down for Updates on Wednesday

Update: upgrades down last night when the library was closed. Online catalog is working.

The Library online catalog will be down for updates tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb 15 from 8:30 am to 10:30 am.

Wintersession Break Hours

Sat Feb 11 10am-6pm

Sun Feb 12 Closed

Mon Feb 13 - Th Feb 16 8:30am-8pm

Fri Feb 17 8:30am-4:30pm

Sat Feb 18 Closed

Sun Feb 19 Regular Hours Resume

About Free JSTOR Early Content - video

Watch this video to learn the details of JSTOR Early Content

Occupy Wall Street Library regrows in Manhattan

As Occupy Wall Street's physical Library regrows in Manhattan an online resource for the movement, Occupy Educated is created. See the full article here.

Rhode Island Maps Research Guide

Check out the newly published online guide to sources for Rhode Island Maps

NEW! Online Architecture Degree Project Research Guide

Check out the Architecture Degree Project Research Guide for help in starting your research. Follow up by asking an art librarian for database recommendations and research tips~

m.librarycat.risd.edu - Mobile RISD/ATH Catalog

The RISD/ATH catalog is now available in a mobile version.
Simply point your smartphone or iPod touch with wireless to m.librarycat.risd.edu

Use the mobile library catalog to search and find titles, check your library record, place holds and renew online- anywhere, any time

Early Journal Content on JSTOR, Free to Anyone in World

On September 6, 2011, JSTOR announced that they are making journal content in JSTOR published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world. This “Early Journal Content” includes discourse and scholarship in the arts and humanities, economics and politics, and in mathematics and other sciences. It includes nearly 500,000 articles from more than 200 journals. This represents 6% of the content on JSTOR.

More info.

Tutorial on accessing the free content.

JSTOR Service Alert

On Friday, September 9 and Saturday, September 10, JSTOR will be performing site maintenance that requires a “read-only” period for these two days. During this scheduled maintenance, users will be able to search, browse, and access and download PDF files for content in JSTOR. They will not be able to save citations, reset passwords, create or update MyJSTOR accounts, or purchase articles.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and appreciate your patience as we work to improve JSTOR.

Please feel free to contact support@jstor.org with any questions.

City of Providence Independence Trail - follow the Green Line

The City of Providence recently unveiled its newest historical attribute.


It's a three-mile long trail marked by a green line painted on the sidewalk that includes stops at 75 different historical locations.

"It's a circle. It goes from Memorial Boulevard to Roger Williams Baptist Church, to the Old State House, the new State House, down onto Capitol Center, to Kennedy Plaza, through the Financial District to where Lincoln spoke..." said Trail Founder Robert Burke.


Call (401) 441-6401 to listen to points of interest along the trail.

See Providence Independence Trail for more details.

ARTstor Digital Library Updates

Recently added features
Filter search results by Time Period, Classification, and Geography
Choose the number of thumbnails displayed
Mouse-over to view larger images
Compatibility with Firefox 5
ARTstor Mobile for iPad, iPod touch, iPhone
Batch download to PowerPoint

Beginning August 22, users will be prompted to register to download images.

ARTstor’s Technology team is working to make the Digital Library compatible with the just-released Firefox 6. The Digital Library is still compatible with Firefox 3, 4 and 5, as well as Safari (3+) and Internet Explorer (7+). When the Digital Library is compatible with Firefox 6 we will send a follow up email and post the news on Facebook (http://facebook.com/ARTstor) and Twitter (http://twitter.com/ARTstor).

ARTstor hopes that these changes make sense and that the ongoing enhancement of the ARTstor Digital Library workspace continues to serve you and your colleagues well. If you have questions, suggestions, or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact them at userservices@artstor.org or (212) 500-2400.

10 Things Humanities Researchers Want

The Research Information Network recently released a report on how humanities researchers do their work.

Reinventing Research? Information Practices In The Humanities (pdf)


1. Make It Easy To Use

2. Make It Easy To Cite

3. Put It In Their Workflow

4. Provide Clarity on Objects and Processes

5. Build A Community

6. Provide Research Support

7. Make The Information Easily Reusable

8. Offer Ways To Visualize Collections

9. Think About Linked Data

10. Provide A Critical Mass of Content

NEW! Science Full Text Database Trial

RISD Library is offering a database trial to Science Full Text Select.

Science Full Text includes a broad range of important science literature in a single 100% full text database. Coverage dates: 1994-current.

Science Full Text, Select includes all the full text content from Wilson’s acclaimed Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, and General Science Full Text databases, plus additional related full text science titles indexed by other Wilson databases including Readers’ Guide Full Text and Wilson OmniFile Full Text. It covers some 320 journals with full text articles, indexing and abstracts.

Subjects Covered
Acoustics, Aeronautics, Applied Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Sciences, Automatic Control, Automotive Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Communication & Information Technology, Computer Databases & Software, Construction, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Engineering & Biomedical Materials, Energy Resources & Research, Environmental Science, Fishery Sciences, Food Science, Forestry, Genetics, Horticulture, Immunology, Limnology, Marine Biology, Microbiology, Nutrition, Paleontology, Physiology, Plant Pathology, Soil Science, Veterinary Medicine, Weed Sciences, Wildlife Management, Zoology.

Access the Database from the library website: library.risd.edu > New & Noteworthy > Science Full Text Select (bottom left corner of website) Database Quick Tips

The trial will run March 10-April 10, 2011
Please email the library at risdlib@risd.edu with your feedback about this Science database