Cinema Image Gallery - Database Trial

We have a two month trial for Cinema Image Gallery. You can search it with Art Full Text. Let us know what you think.

October 2009 is National Information Literacy Awareness Month

In recognition of the 20th anniversary of the National Forum on Information Literacy, President Obama issued a proclamation declaring October 2009 as National Information Literacy Awareness Month. For more information, see the post on ACRL Insider.

Change of location for El Croquis & Lotus International

Current and Back Issues of el Croquis and Lotus International have been moved to RISD Storage. They can be requested any time the first floor of the library is open. Request issues of these magazines by filling out a Storage Retrieval form at the Reference Desk, 1st floor.

turps banana

RISD library now subscribes to Turps banana
Back issues are available on the turps website

new titles added to Project Muse in 2010

The following journals are confirmed to join MUSE in 2010:

American Book Review

Black Camera: a micro journal of black film studies

Black Music Research Journal

Canadian Theatre Review

Collaborative Anthropologies

Hispania: a journal devoted to the interests of the teaching of Spanish and Portuguese

Journal of Modern Periodical Studies

Native South

Pennsylvania History: a journal of Mid-Atlantic studies

Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences

Studies in American Fiction

RISD Wireless update

The latest information on the RISD wireless network is available as a pdf here

Library Guides

We have a new service, look for our guides, etc to the library at:
risd.libguides.com