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.

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.

Librarian Love

Congratulations to the 10 winners
of the 2011 I Love My Librarian Award

Read Caroline Kennedy's remarks as she describes libraries as "tabernacles of personal freedom" and
watch the I Love My Librarian recipient interviews

About Free JSTOR Early Content - video

Watch this video to learn the details of JSTOR Early Content

Benezit Dictionary of Artists Trial

The Benezit Dictionary of Artists is now available online for the first time via Oxford Art Online. With over 190,000 entries on artists from antiquity to the present day and featuring regular updates, Benezit is one of the most comprehensive and definitive resources on artists in the English language. Entries are clear and concise, and Benezit contains thousands of auction records, museum holdings, and bibliographies. In addition to its outstanding scope and depth, two features in particular make Benezit unique among art reference works: its superb coverage of obscure artists and the inclusion of images of artists’ signatures, monograms, and stamps. Also check out what's new for Benezit.


Let us know what you think of this databases (risdlib@risd.edu).
Thanks!

Current Installation in the Library

Check out the newest Installation in the Library created by Interior Architecture students. Up this week until the end of November.

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.

Banned Books Week Sept 24-Oct 1, 2011

List of Banned or Challenged Books

During the last week of September every year, hundreds of libraries and bookstores around the country draw attention to the problem of censorship by mounting displays of challenged books and hosting a variety of events. The 2011 celebration of Banned Books Week will be held from September 24 through October 1. Banned Books Week is the only national celebration of the freedom to read. It was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. More than 11,000 books have been challenged since 1982. For more information on Banned Books Week, click here

According to the American Library Association, there were 348 challenges reported to the Office of Intellectual Freedom in 2010, and many more go unreported.

The 10 most challenged titles of 2010 were:

And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
Reasons: homosexuality, religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
Reasons: offensive language, racism, religious viewpoint, sex education, sexually explicit, violence, unsuited to age group

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Reasons: insensitivity, offensive language, racism, sexually explicit

Crank, by Ellen Hopkins
Reasons: drugs, offensive language, racism, sexually explicit

The Hunger Games (series), by Suzanne Collins
Reasons: sexually explicit, violence, unsuited to age group

Lush, by Natasha Friend
Reasons: drugs, sexually explicit, offensive language, unsuited to age group

What My Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones
Reasons: sexism, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, by Barbara Ehrenreich
Reasons: drugs, inaccurate, offensive language, political viewpoint, religious viewpoint

Revolutionary Voices edited by Amy Sonnie
Reasons: homosexuality, sexually explicit

Twilight (series), by Stephenie Meyer
Reasons: sexually explicit, religious viewpoint, violence, unsuited to age group

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

Central Falls' Adams Memorial Library

Central Falls' Adams Memorial Library needs your help and is throwing one helluva party to prove it!

The library is a crucial institution that saw its city funding eliminated in the face of Central Falls' municipal fiscal meltdown at the beginning of summer.

Reopened by volunteers in August, the library is currently open to the public for 3 days a week. Volunteers not only provide library services, even purchasing books if they're not in stock, but also do things like vacuum the floors and scrub the sinks. It's not glamorous, but it's necessary.

Now the volunteers are looking to take things to the next level.

We're throwing a fundraiser on September 30, hoping to raise enough money to hire a library director and expand library hours.

The Adams Memorial Library Autumn Gala will feature live entertainment, open bar, heavy hors d'oeuvres and fantastic silent auctions.

Bob Drouin & Friends are providing live music that will infuse the library with Traditional flavor. Crooner Steve Lombardi will fill the outside tents with his Rat Pack showmanship. Big Nazo and TEN31 Productions will bring their special brands of magic to the night. Tom's Market will provide heavy hors d'oeuvres while Bartending by Dennis will provide an open bar. Yep: open bar.

Add to that silent auctions that will feature the best of local merchants as well as special access to area artists and we're looking at one helluva night. The fun starts at 6:30PM.

So come share in an unforgettable night and help support Central Falls' library. Tickets can be purchased online at cflibrary.org/gala.

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.

CCS Graphic Novel Library saved from hurricane flood waters

How to Save a Graphic Novel Library

The books held in the Schulz Library at the Center for Cartoon Studies were saved through the heroic efforts of dedicated students, faculty and fans who evacuated the books to safety late Sunday night. Long live Schulz Library!

RISD/ATH Catalog Unavailable Friday morning June 24, 2011

The RISD/ATH Library Catalog will be unavailable the morning of Friday June 24, 2011. The catalog should be available by the afternoon. Please call the Reference desk, 709-5902 for assistance.

RISD/ATH Catalog - Unavailable on Monday June 6, 2011

The RISD Library Catalog will be unavailable ALL DAY on Monday June 6, 2011. The reason for the interruption in access is to install a new library server. Please call the Reference desk, 709-5902 for assistance.

500 BOOKS: a measure of absence

500 BOOKS: a measure of absence

an installation representing the yearly loss to the RISD Library collection due to book budget cuts

RISD Library Reading Room

15 Westminster
April 10 – 16, 2011

in conjunction with National Library Week

Celebrate National Library Week April 10-16, 2011

national library week videos

quotes about libraries



image: Fundació Antoni Tàpies Library (Barcelona)

New Book on Research in the Arts

Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts
The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts is a major collection of new writings on research in the creative and performing arts by leading authorities from around the world. It provides theoretical and practical approaches to identifying, structuring and resolving some of the key issues in the debate about the nature of research in the arts which have surfaced during the establishment of this subject over the last decade.

The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts addresses a wide variety of concepts and issues, including:

* the diversity of views on what constitutes arts-based research and scholarship, what it should be, and its potential contribution

* the trans-national communication difficulties arising from terminological and ontological differences in arts-based research

* traditional and non-traditional concepts of knowledge, their relationship to professional practice, and their outcomes and audiences

* a consideration of the role of written, spoken and artefact-based languages in the formation and communication of understandings.

New Hours for the Picture Collection and Materials Resource Center

Based on day and time usage statistics and your suggestions, the Picture Collection and Materials Resource Center have adjusted their hours to better serve the RISD community.

In the morning, doors will open at 10am. Evening hours will extend to 8pm.

Monday-Thursday 10am-8pm
Friday 10am-4pm
Saturday closed
Sunday 5pm-9pm

For more information contact the Picture Collection at 401 709-5938

New Hours for RISD Students visiting Brown Libraries

Message from Rockefeller Library's Circulation Department - Effective Immediately

Please share the following information about the change in access to the Rockefeller Library at Brown with your staff and library patrons.

In an effort to improve building security, the exterior doors to the Rockefeller Library will be locked weekdays at 10:00 PM -- effectively immediately. Access will be restricted to those with valid Brown cards; users will swipe their cards at the front door to gain admission.

Please note that the same card-access schedule has been in place at the Sciences Library for the last few years.

We want to emphasize that we continue to welcome your students and faculties' use of the Brown libraries and hope that the change in access to the Rock will not have a serious negative impact on their usage of our resources.

Library hours are linked here: http://library.brown.edu/libweb/hours.php . Additional information for visitors is available here http://library.brown.edu/libweb/visitors.php

W. S. Merwin named 17th Poet Laureate

W.S. Merwin has been named Poet Laureate