All have preamplifiers and cassette decks. All library patrons are welcome to listen to Brown Library materials using the available equipment. Circulating materials can be checked out to the carrel for convenient use in the library. Graduate students must be approved by their department before being assigned a carrel. Application forms are available at the service desk.
Access is limited to library staff only.
To have material retrieved, write down the call numbers you want and ask at the service desk. Sound recordings and oversize materials are available whenever the library is open. These machines also access a library LAN which serves as a gateway to a number of networked CD-ROMS, remote bibliographic databases, and Rice's gopher, RiceInfo. Two other PC's are attached to CD-ROM drives to be used for arts bibliographic databases. The multimedia station consists of a Mac IIsx attached to a CD-ROM drive and a videodisk player and supports a number of interactve art and music packages.