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Zine & Arts Programs

Check out the zine and arts programs that lead up to the final event in 2024, the Reed Zine Fest!

Read about the librarians behind the series of zine and art programs!

ANNOUNCEMENTS


📌 Masks are required for Reed Zine Fest. We are offering KN95 masks and a limited number of tests to attendees at the Zine Fest welcome desk.
👉 Follow @reedzinelibrary for updates!
🎨 Reed Zine Fest artwork by Portland-based artist Jax Ko.
📌 Check out the events below leading up to the Zine Fest on Sat, March 30! Programs are open to the public unless otherwise stated.

PRE-ZINE FEST EVENTS


Risograph Workshop with Timme Lu (students only & registration-based)
Thursday, March 21, 3 p.m.- 6 p.m. at the VRC

Learn Risograph printing techniques from Portland-based artist Timme Lu! Lu is a Portland-based book artist, printer, and furniture maker. They will be introducing the basics of the Risograph, a new printing duplicator in the Visual Resources Center that is available to students, and will lead an engaging group activity. Risograph printing experience is not required.

Drop-in RISO Printing (students only)
Mon, March 25-Fri, March 29, 12 p.m.-4 p.m. at the VRC

Need to print a zine cover or an 8-page mini zine? Drop into the VRC to print your zine cover or 8-page mini zine on the Risograph. Limited to two colors! No appointment is needed.

IPRC Tour & Zine Making Open Hours
Tue, March 26, 5 p.m.- 9 p.m. at IPRC

Looking to put the final touches on your zines just in time for the upcoming Reed Zine Fest? Join us for a tour of the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) followed by an open-hours zine-making session (supplies provided)! Learn about the IPRC’s studio, resources, Zine Library, and programs that have supported the creative community throughout Portland for the last 25 years. Don’t miss this last-minute chance to complete your zines, learn about the IPRC, and connect with Portland’s zine community!

Printing fees will be waived for Reed College students. Masks are required at the IPRC.

Drop-in Zine Printing (students only)
Tues, March 26, 12PM-2PM at the Library Reference Desk
Wed, March 27, 12PM-2PM at the Library Reference Desk

Need to print black and white pages from your zine only? Visit the Library Reference Desk to print your zines for free. Limit on the number of copies of TBA.

Unfurling: Zines, Art, Activism and Archiving
Thurs, March 28, 1 p.m.- 4 p.m. at Special Collections & Archives

Drop into the archives as we delve into the exploration of art and activism through zines, highlighting the works of Reedies, regional artists, global artists, and activists from the Reed College Special Collections and Archives.


ZINE FEST

✂️ Reed Zine Fest with keynote James Spooner
Saturday, March 30, 11 a.m.- 4 p.m. at Kaul Auditorium

Reed Zine Fest is the first zine fest organized by the Reed College Library to celebrate independent publishing, DIY, and zine making. This one-day festival will feature both local community and Reedie zinesters, workshops, and a keynote by special guest James Spooner (Black Punk Now, graphic novel The High Desert, Director of the Afro-Punk Documentary and the co-founder of the Afro-Punk Festival).

Zine Fest Schedule

TimeHappeningLocation
11AMReed Zine Fest opens!Kaul Auditorium
12PMKeynote with special guest James SpoonerPAB 320
1:15PMRemembrance table for Tonya Jones, Leader of the WOC Zine Collective, collecting donations for Tonya Jones’s sonKaul Auditorium
2PMGoodbye Cruel World and Dear John: How to Write a Letter You’ll Never Send with Olivia OliviaPARC
3PMBeyond Staples: Alternative Binding Methods with Erin MoorePAB 332
7PM-11PMZINE AFTER PARTY!!! TBA LIVE BANDS!Reed Library Lobby

MRC Student Lunch with James Spooner (MRC students only)
Saturday, March 30, from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. at the MRC

Join us for lunch at the Multicultural Resource Center (MRC) featuring James Spooner, the award-winning author of the coming-of-age graphic novel memoir, “The High Desert.” Don’t miss this unique opportunity to interact with a notable author and engage in meaningful dialogue about his work! Special thanks to Lily De La Fuente the Humanities Librarian for leading and selecting The High Desert for the Fall 2023 MRC Book Club. Due to the exclusive nature of this event, registration is required, and attendance is limited to 25 students.


Support

This series of zine and arts programs is generously funded by the President’s Office, the Office of the Dean of Faculty, the Office of Institutional Diversity, the Cooley Gallery, the Office of Student Engagement, the Student Life Office, and the Library.


Past Programs

Crafting Funeral for Flaca: On DIY Publishing & The Power of Your Voice
Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023, 4 p.m.-5 p.m. at Psych Auditorium 105

Portland-based Chicana author Emilly Prado delves into the creation process for her award-winning book Funeral for Flaca, which debuted as a handmade chapbook before it was published and expanded by the press, Future Tense Books. She’ll share the various stages of the process including writing, research, revision, and artistic collaborations, as well as the importance of self-advocacy and intersectionality in publishing, particularly for writers of marginalized identities. Plus, hear Emilly give a reading from her book, have some snacks, and get inspired for the upcoming Reed Zine Fest in March 2024! 

Risograph Workshop with Timme Lu (students only & registration-based)
Thursday, November 2, 2023, 3 p.m.- 6 p.m. at the Visual Resources Center L42

Learn Risograph printing techniques from Portland-based artist Timme Lu! Lu is a Portland-based book artist, printer, and furniture maker. They will be introducing the basics of the Risograph, a new printing duplicator in the Visual Resources Center that is available to students, and will lead an engaging group activity. Risograph printing experience is not required.

Afro-Punk Documentary Screening & virtual visit with James Spooner Thursday, February 29, 2024, 7 p.m.-9 p.m. at PAB Music Room 320

Watch the award-winning documentary Afro-Punk about the Black punk experience and history of Afro-Punk in the United States. Virtually meet the Afro-Punk festival co-founder, director and author James Spooner.


Newspapers.com Trial through 4/1/24

The library has begun a trial of Newspapers.com World Collection.

With content dating from the early 1700s into the 2000s, Newspapers.com contains full runs and portions of runs of well-known regional and state titles as well as small local newspapers. The emphasis is on historical content, not current news and events.

(Note that this library edition of Newspapers.com has some differences from the consumer version, which you may be familiar with if you have a personal Ancestry.com account.)

To access this trial you must use a dedicated link and click through the ProQuest trials portal. If you try to use the general URL, you will not be recognized as an authorized user.

If you have questions about this trial, please email library-er@reed.edu.

Whether you’re a student, faculty member, or staff member, we welcome your evaluation of this resource! To share your thoughts, please complete our trial feedback form.

Did the data tell your story?

You responded on the board. By adding to the board, you offered a piece of information — data about yourself — and collectively created a dataset. Anyone walking by the board, including yourself, could view and “access” that data. One challenge with data for research is that not all of it is public, open, or accessible, though different movements nowadays are calling for accountability and transparency in data collection and sharing.

Even though you contributed to a dataset, there could be many possible flaws or issues with the data that could in its worst form be devastating for you and your communities.

What do you notice about the questions that were asked? What about the categories of food? Is that the only way people have categorized food? What kinds of food are missing? Who do you think answered the questions (what are the demographics)? Does it represent the community? Does it represent you?

By identifying existing data-driven narratives that align, or don’t, with our lived experiences and naming gaps in available information, we can start to define and create new datasets that let us tell the full stories of our communities

Opening Data Zine, page 9

Read this excerpt from the Opening Data Zine for an example documenting “retail redlining”:

Remember that data is read by humans with biases, and those biases inform how people understand data and how they attribute value, or interpret, that data, such as looking for data to back up held beliefs or pre-made claims. Also, some data sources, such as the well-known census, can be skewed in other ways, with some groups or communities underreporting and being undercounted (for various reasons). Covid-19 proved a critical moment for collecting health data on marginalized and underrepresented populations that weren’t readily available before.

Interested in learning more about data research? Check out these resources:

Love Data Week 2024‘s theme is “My Kind of Data” and is all about data equity, inclusion, and creating a kinder world through data.

Spring/Fall thesis desk lottery Feb. 7

Thesis Desk Lottery

Senior thesis desk lottery numbers will be drawn from the official 470 list.  Eligible seniors will get an email request to opt-in on Tuesday 1/30. If you are a senior are not yet registered for 470, and want to be included in the drawing, please come to the circulation desk and have your name added to the lottery list by Monday, February 5.  Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Studio Art, majors are not eligible for thesis desks in the library.

The list of numbers will be posted Tuesday, February 6 along with a map of thesis desk locations, so that you can have preferences in mind before the actual selection. For a map of available thesis desks click here.  Seat maps will also be posted in thesis desk areas.

Desk selection will begin at noon on Wednesday, February 7 in library room L17.  You or your proxy must be present when your name is called.  Lottery numbers are not transferable.

PLEASE NOTE:  Thesis desks are shared – two students to each side of a desk.  In order to create the most pleasant sharing arrangement possible, the person with the better number may bring in as a partner another senior on the list.  If you do not have a partner, the seat next to you will be assigned as needed.  Please make those arrangements ahead of time and let us know when your name is called.

About thesis desks

Desks assigned to seniors are for their sole use through the end of the school year or as long as they remain registered for 470. Only thesis desks are assigned to individuals. All other seating in the library is open to the Reed Community. You may not claim or reserve these desks.  Please take your belongings with you when you leave.  Items left on open study desks and tables will be removed and can be retrieved from the circulation desk.

Thesis desk restrictions

The staff, assisted by student monitors, will remove the following from thesis desks:

  •     Library materials that are not checked out.
  •     Plants, flowers, etc.  Sorry – they attract bugs.
  •     All dishes and silverware.  You can return commons dishes to the container in the lobby
  •     All opened packages or containers of food and beverages.  Sorry – bugs again.
  •     All electrical appliances and extension cords (per the fire marshall).

Asian Life in America Trial through 2/29/24

The newest entry in the series that started with Black Life in America and Hispanic Life in America, Asian Life in America is a collection of primary source documents about the histories and daily lives of Americans of Asian and Pacific Islander heritage—including those of Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, South Asian, and Vietnamese backgrounds, among others. It is sourced from 35 million primary source documents in 41 languages.

Our new, quick-start trial is for the first two series:

Series 1: 1704-1941 – Early 18th Century to US Entry into World War II
Series 2: 1942-2017 – World War II to the 21st Century

You will need to use a dedicated link in order to access this resource during the trial, which ends on January 31 has been extended to February 29.

If you have questions about this trial, please email library-er@reed.edu.

Whether you’re a student, faculty member, or staff member, we welcome your evaluation of this resource!

To share your thoughts, please complete our trial feedback form.

Sovetskii Ekran Trial through 12/31/23

The library has just begun a trial of Sovetskii Ekran Digital Archive.

Sovetskii Ekran (Советский экран, Soviet Screen) is the preeminent Soviet film magazine. This online archive contains all obtainable published issues from 1925 on, representing more than 50 years and approximately 32,000 pages of content. It offers full page-level digitization, complete original graphics, and searchable text, and is cross-searchable with other East View digital resources.

If you have questions about this trial, please email library-er@reed.edu.

Whether you’re a student, faculty member, or staff member, we welcome your evaluation of this resource!

To share your thoughts, please complete our trial feedback form.

PEP-Web Archive Trial through 10/25/23

The library has just begun a trial of Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing’s online archive.

PEP-Web provides a centralized search of psychoanalytic literature in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, and Turkish. It includes journals, books, and videos (including full transcription).

Note that most of the journals have a 3- to 5-year embargo, so content later than 2019 will not be available. 

If you have questions about this trial, please email library-er@reed.edu.

We welcome your evaluation of this resource! To share your thoughts, please complete our Library Database Feedback form.