RISD/Athenaeum online catalog

Providence Athenaeum & RISD Library share an online catalog and have reciprocal borrowing. 
The Athenaeum is located on the corner of College Street and Benefit Street on College Hill.  You must have an up-to-date record and be in good standing (owe no fines) with the RISD Library.

College Hill Libraries (CHiL) is an agreement between the RISD Library and the Brown Libraries for borrowing.  You must have an up-to-date record and be in good standing (owe no fines) with the RISD Library. 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.

Providence Public Library is located at 150 Empire St. 

Search the online catalog by keyword, subject, author, or title. Starting with a keyword search can lead you to appropriate subject headings.  First do a keyword search, and then browse the titles of the books retrieved. Select useful titles and look at the subject headings of the books selected.  These subject headings can lead you to further books on your topic.

Keyword Search: natural language searching (broad)

natural AND phenomenon (can use AND, OR, NOT to combine terms)

phenomen* (retrieves phenomenon, phenomena…)

Subject Search:   controlled vocabulary searching

- Library of Congress Subject Headings (narrow)

Weather

Storms

Hurricanes

proper names:  last name, first name