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.

Cool database feature - country comparisons

A tropical rainforest in Puerto Rico.
Credit:Carlos Navajas—Stone/Getty Images

Use Encyclopedia Britannica Online to compare statistics, maps, flags, and multimedia about any two countries in the world.

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! 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

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.