Bryant librarians get a shout out from Library Journal

Krupp Library staff members Jenifer Bond, Pat Crawford, Laura Kohl, and Maura Keating recently gave presentations at an ACRL: NEC (that’s the Association of College and Research Librarians: New England Chapter, but you knew that, right?) event on the topic of “Portable Libraries, Mobile Students,” discussing libraries’ use of mobile and social media initiatives (Twitter, [...]

Interfacelift

If you’ve been to the HELIN catalog page recently, you may notice the left side of the screen looks a little more streamlined.  That’s because the new HELIN Encore search function has been officially set into motion.  You just type in your keywords like you would into Google or Yahoo or whatever, and click onward [...]

SurfRI is underway!

SurfRI, the Rhode Island Statewide Databases is trial, began on April 3rd, and is running until May 31st.
The trial, sponsored by The Special Legislative Commission to Study the Strengths and Weaknesses of Library Services in the State of Rhode Island, is an effort to help make Rhode Island one of the 48 states to provide [...]

HELIN service interruptions

The University of Rhode Island has taken its computing and networking services offline this weekend (March 15 & 16) for routine maintenance.  This includes the HELIN servers, which means various access to various HELIN functions like databases and the catalog will be interrupted as well.
Everyone everywhere apologizes for the inconvenience, and things will hopefully be [...]

An Encore that doesn’t require you to applaud continuously for 10 minutes before you can see it.

If you’ve always wanted your HELIN searches to be a bit more… I don’t know, Googley, maybe, then you’ll be glad to hear there’s a new interface on the horizon called HELIN Encore. You can check it out here.
Be sure to let us know what you think.