Library Circulation & Reserves Desk

• Your Library Account

Your RISD ID acts as your library card - bring it with you when you want to check out items

Your RISD Library Account allows you off campus access to the library's 35+ subscription Databases

Your RISD Library Account allows you entrance to and borrowing privileges
at Brown Library and the Providence Athenaeum Library

 All returning students and staff must re-activate their library account each academic year

• Get to know your way around RISD Library

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Library Staff Directory 

First Floor & Balcony Map

Second Floor Map

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RISD library website: library.risd.edu

RISD library's catalog search box is located in the * top corner of the website

• 24/7 Off Campus Access to RISD Online Collections
  
  Start at library.risd.edu
  
  Select a Collections Link to search from the Resources menu
  (examples: Art Full Text, JSTOR, Oxford Art Online)
  
  * You will be prompted for information located on your RISD ID:
  
     Type in your name (first or last name)
  
    and the 14-digit barcode number (located on the back of your RISD ID)
  
   * the log in process is necessary only once per browser session
  
  
  
• Manage your Library Account Online
  
  Renew Online - avoid overdue fines
  
  Login to My Account
  
  Once logged in, view your Reading History and look into Preferred Searches