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.

National Newspapers and Science Encyclopedia Database Trials

The library currently has trials to two databases.

Access Science's Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

Proquest's National Newspapers Premier

Both databases are set up to work on campus.

Please email your feedback on the databases to risdlib@risd.edu

RI Council for Humanities Free Workshops

Skill Share Workshops, Tips for Thriving on a Shoestring

Mayday, M’Aidez! Surviving this economic downshift requires creative solutions for pinching every penny. Join RICH for a FREE workshop series that provides practical solutions for managing your public programming on a shoestring. All workshops are lunchtime brown bags from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. Beverages and cookies will be provided, but participants should bring their own lunches. For more details about presenters, directions, and other logistics, call 401-273-2250. Please call to RSVP.

Tuesday, May 12, Pawtucket Visitors Center, 175 Main Street
Planning Your Exhibition on a Shoestring: Tricks for Making Your Budget Exhibition Look Like a Million Bucks!
Learn what you should spend money on and where you can cut costs.

Wednesday, May 13: AS220, 115 Empire St., Providence
Surviving as a Freelancer
Three project directors under the age of 30 share some tips for making ends meet.

Monday, May 18: RI EDC, 315 Iron Horse Way, Providence
The Biggest Little: Easy and Free Ways to Promote Your Project in Lil’ Rhody and Beyond!
Included will be information on freeware that cultural institutions can use for communications to create websites and blogs.

For more info:
www.rihumanities.org

Spring Break Library Hours

RISD Library Hours
RISD Spring Break, March 21-28, 2009

Saturday, March 21 (FIRST FLOOR ONLY) 10am-6pm
Sunday, March 22 LIBRARY CLOSED

Monday, March 23 - Friday March 27 8:30am-4:30pm
First Floor + 2nd Floor- Visual Resources & Picture Collection

Special Collections & RISD Archives, 2nd Floor Hours
Monday, March 23 - Friday March 27 9am-4pm

Saturday, March 28 LIBRARY CLOSED

Sunday, March 29 - the Library Resumes Normal Hours
which are:
FIRST FLOOR - Circulation & Reference, noon-11pm
SECOND FLOOR - Special Collections & RISD Archives, Picture Collection
11am-7pm

mystery fish redux

Image Source: Journal photo/Andrew Dickerman



You may remember seeing this phenomenon last year... the Menhaden have returned

ARTstor videos on You Tube

Learn how to use ARTstor by watching these short videos:

Introducing the New Artstor
Register for an Artstor Account
Making an Image Group
Download Images to PowerPoint

Search the ARTstor wiki for FAQs and teaching tools.

Stages of man

Where can I find the image of the homo sapiens timeline...the one starting with a proto-ape and ending with modern man?

You'll find a four page, color fold-out of the image (pages 41-45) in volume 8 of Life Nature Library

New Online source for Nature Lab assignments

Oxford Reference Online includes 175 Oxford titles many of which cover areas such as astronomy, biology, chemistry, ecology, natural history, plant sciences, physics, and zoology.
It includes timelines, maps and illustrations, quotations, encyclopedia and bi-lingual dictionaries.
Subjects & Books
Try it out for Nature Lab projects.
Start at library.risd.edu > Reference > Oxford Reference Online

RI Business Recycling & Renewable Energy Resources

What are some sources of information on recycling for businesses in Rhode Island?

Green Zone Rhode Island
People's Power & Light
Rhode Island Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency
Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources
Rhode Island Resource Recovery's Resource Exchange

RI water resources

How can I find information on RI water systems?

The RI Office of Water Resources offers historic and current reports on water quality, watershed management, fresh and coastal water ecology.

Browse RI Office of Water Resources by Topic

For articles on water-related topics (not specific to Rhode Island) search these databases through the RISD Library Articles page:
Academic Search Premier
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Firstsearch > Search these databases: Basic Biosis, BioDigest, Geobase
Garden, Landscape, and Horticulture Index
GreenFile
JSTOR > Search by Discipline: ecology & evolutionary biology

RI natural habitats and species

Where can I find information on Rhode Island natural habitats, land use, plants, & animals? Do any of these sources contain maps?

Look in the RISD/Athenauem catalog under these subjects:

Birds - Rhode Island
Botany - Rhode Island
Land Use - Rhode Island
Marine Ecology - Rhode Island (includes maps)
Natural History - Rhode Island
Open Spaces - Rhode Island

Try searching the catalog with keywords such as plants, mammals, fish*, birds, ecolog*, natur* + "Rhode Island". Using the asterisk * at the end of a keyword will give more results by finding variants of the root word.
ecolog* = ecology, ecologies, and ecological

Search the Providence Public Library for additional sources.

Check out this State website for statistics and maps:
RI Department of Environmental Management
Use the site's drop down menus to locate more specific topics

Plant Explorers

Looking for information on Plant Explorers? 
Try these books and periodicals databases.

RISD Reference Books:

The Oxford companion to the garden  - SB450.95 .O94 2006.

Landscape architecture  - SB470.5 .M37 1993.

Pioneers of American landscape design  - SB469.9 .P56 2000.

Encyclopedia of gardens - SB450.95 .E52 2001.

Dictionary of gardening - SB450.95 .D53 1992.

Reference resources online:

Grove Art Online, Encyclopedia Britannica Online, & Marquis Whos Who on the Web

The Athenaeum has books on many plant explorers. RISD students & faculty can check out 5 Athenaeum books at a time.

Periodicals databases:

Academic Search Premier, Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals,

Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index, JSTOR, Project Muse, &

Readers' Guide Index