RISD/Athenaeum Catalog online catalog
Providence Athenaeum & RISD Library share an online catalog and have reciprocal
borrowing.
The Athenaeum is located on the corner of
College Hill Libraries (CHiL) is an agreement between the RISD Library and the Brown Libraries for borrowing. You must be in good standing with the RISD Library (owe no fines) and have an up-to-date record. Use your RISD ID at the Brown Libraries to check out books by first registering at Brown's Rockefeller Library. Once you have a library record at Brown, you may renew and request items with My Josiah just as you do in the RISD/Ath catalog's My Record.
Search Brown's catalog easily with the link in the RISD/Ath Catalog.
Start with an initial
search in the RISD/Ath catalog.
Click on the Search Brown button that
appears on the right side of your search result.
This will repeat
the search in Brown’s catalog.
To return to the RISD/ATH catalog,
click on Return Home.
http://www.oslri.org/osl/ Providence Public Library is located at 150 Empire
Worldcat.org search library catalogs from around the world simultaneously
To do a simultaneous global search of the library catalog, most of the library databases, e-books, and more, search Fleet Search. To help get you get started and answer questions you might have about using this, go to Fleet SEARCH
To search for e-books click on the links below:
or see the see the Research Guide to answer any questions: eBooks
Use the library Tutorials for self-guided help.
Search the online
catalog by keyword, subject, author, title or call number. For topical subjects, start with a keyword search of one or more relevant terms. A keyword search finds words anywhere in a record. Browsing the titles of the relevant search results will lead you to records with the appropriate subject headings. Select some of the titles that look interesting to you and look at the subject headings listed in each record. Clicking on the subject headings will lead you to related items in the catalog. Please note that our catalog is shared with the Providence Athenaeum. A location ATH denotes Athenaum and RISD denotes our library. Always check location and status of the titles you're interested in.
Search keywords:
glass blowing AND technique
etched glass OR engraved glass
glass AND videorecording
glass AND Germa* (* truncates a word to simultaneously search other words with the same root i.e. German, Germany)
Search a broad subject heading:
glass art
glass artists
glass manufacture
glass painting and staining
Search a broad subject heading with sub-divisions:
glass art -- 21st century
glass artists -- Germany -- exhibitions
glass manufacture -- history
glass painting and staining -- periodicals
Search a narrow subject heading:
crystal glass
glass beads
glass flowers
glass engraving
Search a proper name (surname first), or a firm:
Tagliapietra, Lino
Steuben glass, inc.
This guide was created and maintained (2005-2014)
by Ellie Nacheman, Former Cataloger/Reference Librarian.