Myers-Briggs Event Tonight in the Library

How Do You Prefer to Think?
Take the Myers-Briggs Personality Test (MBT1) then meet and mingle with dissimilar and like-minded thinkers.



Mon Jan 31, 2011
Starting at 7 pm
RISD Library Reading Room, First floor

New Database Subscription - Urban Studies Abstracts

Urban Studies Abstracts

Urban Studies Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 46,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline. Journals Indexed

Combine searching Urban Studies Abstracts with the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals for awesome architectural search results!

See > Guide to Searching Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals


RISD Library Databases Key
Includes some Full Text
Contains Images
RISD Library subscription database.
Licensed for RISD Students, Faculty & Staff. Available On + Off Campus - How to Login

Available to All. RISD Library includes these links on our website because they are authoritative sources of information of interest to library users.

Wintersession Writing Center Thesis Workshops Jan 11- Feb 3, 2011

The Wintersession Writing Center Thesis Workshops will be held in Library Classrooms 110 and 228 except for the *January 25th workshop which will meet in the Nature Lab.

Each week the same workshop will be offered twice

Tues Jan 11 4-6pm Room 228
Thurs Jan 13 4-6pm Room 110

Tues Jan 18 4-6pm Room 228
Thurs Jan 20 4-6pm Room 228

* Tues Jan 25 4-7pm Nature Lab
Thurs Jan 27 4-7pm Room 228

Tues Feb 1 4-6pm Room 228
Thurs Feb 3 4-6pm Room 228

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 Database subscription - Coloribus advertising archive

Coloribus Global Advertising Archive


Coloribus contains more than 2 million current and historic ads (1990-present) for viewing online and download. Browse or Search by categories: TV & Cinema, Print, Outdoor, Ambient, Online, Viral, Direct Marketing, Promo, Design & Branding, Radio, Case study, and "the Making of". Main sections: Advertising Archive, Brands catalog, Awards & Festival Winners, Ad Mirror, and Focus. Use Advanced Search to specify Region, Business sector, Media, Keywords or a range of years.
RISD Library's subscription is for 15 simultaneous users.

Coloribus is listed and linked from the risd library website at: library.risd.edu > Resources > All Resources, and library.risd.edu > Resources > Images

VDM & RISD Theses revisited

RISD Library is receiving inquiries from recent RISD graduate alumni concerning the publisher VDM. For more information, see the earlier blog entry about VDM posted in April 2010.

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