Author: holmesj

 

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Exceptions
Library	8:30a-5p	8:30a-5p	8:30a-5p	8:30a-5p	8:30a-5p	CLOSED	CLOSED	Closed 12/24-1/3, 1/18, Open 10a-5p 1/23-1/24
Reference	10a-5p (on call)	10a-5p (on call)	10a-5p (on call)	10a-5p (on call)	10a-5p (on call)	CLOSED	CLOSED	Closed: 12/24-1/3, 1/18
IMC	Noon – 5p	Noon – 5p	Noon – 5p	Noon – 5p	Noon – 5p	CLOSED	CLOSED	Closed 12/24-1/3, 1/18
Special Collections	10a-12p, 1p-4p, or by appt.	by appt.	10a-12p, 1p- 4p, or by appt.	10a-12p, 1p- 4p, or by appt.	by appt.	CLOSED	CLOSED	Closed: 12/24-1/3, 1/18
VRC	9a-5p	9a-5p	9a-5p	9a-5p	9a-5p	CLOSED	CLOSED	Closed 12/24-1/3, 1/18
PARC	1-5p	1-5p	1-5p	1-5p	1-5p	CLOSED	CLOSED	Closed, 12/19-1/3, 1/18, Open 8:30a-5p, 1/19-1/22

Due to a growing number of requests for calculators, we put a couple of apps on the IMC iPads.  Try them out and let us know if these work for you.
Jim Holmes

 

The Instructional Media Center has 10 new portable projectors – available for checkout to students, staff and faculty.  Equipment can be reserved online here.  See below for a full list of circulating AV equipment.  Only 3-day checkouts can be reserved.  Same day checkouts are first come, first serve.  Questions? Email Jim Holmes

Contemporary comedy film is in decline.  Big budget studios are reluctant to provide major financial backing due to poor overseas performance – the “lost in translation” effect.  Some funny films have fallen out of favor due to shifts in cultural sensitivity.  Academia has long ignored the craft of cinematic comedy (an interesting thesis on the topic here).  When choosing to, the concentration is often limited to the canon of Chaplin/Keaton/Marx and other pioneers, with a focus on the foundations of comedy in the medium but rarely progressing into modern works.  The recent explosion of television/streaming content has pushed the majority of comedic talent towards the more lucrative, small-screen arena.  Given these formidable challenges, it seems all the more important to highlight achievements of this genre, films that have provided endless ill-advised watercooler reenactments, quote fodder, and intellectual maturity stunting milestones.  To that end, the IMC brings you the best contemporary comedy films in our collection, starting in 1970 because that is this author’s arbitrary dividing point.  But if you want a pseudo-cultural-generational definition, it’s something about post-60s social commentary in 70s cultural ennui, combined with a paradigm shift in censorship, and the U.S. film rating system of 1968.

Modern comedy films – 1970+

We have iPads available for checkout in the IMC (also available at the PARC).  You can check availability in the catalog.  IPads checkout until the end of the day.  For a complete list of IMC equipment available to students, staff, and faculty, click here.  And if you have equipment or movie suggestions, let us know!

Jim Holmes

The library and all branches will close at 5p on Friday, 12/19.  Library hours for winter break are as follows.

	Winter Break, 12/19 – 1/25
	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Exceptions
Library	8:30 – 5	8:30 – 5	8:30 – 5	8:30 – 5	8:30 – 5	CLOSED	CLOSED	Closed: 12/24, 12/25,12/31, 1/1, 1/19
Reference	10 – 5 (on call)	10 – 5 (on call)	10 – 5 (on call)	10 – 5 (on call)	10 – 5 (on call)	CLOSED	CLOSED	Closed: 12/24-26, 12/31-1/1, 1/19
IMC	Noon – 5	Noon – 5	Noon – 5	Noon – 5	Noon – 5	CLOSED	CLOSED	Closed: 12/24, 12/25,12/31, 1/1, 1/19
Special Collections	10am – 12pm, 1pm – 4pm, or by appt.	by appt.	10am – 12pm, 1pm – 4pm, or by appt.	10am – 12pm, 1pm – 4pm, or by appt.	by appt.	CLOSED	CLOSED	Closed: 12/22-26, 12/31-1/2, 1/19
VRC	9 – 5	9 – 5	9 – 5	9 – 5	9 – 5	CLOSED	CLOSED	Closed: 12/24, 12/25,12/31, 1/1, 1/19
PARC	1 – 5	1 – 5	1 – 5	1 – 5	1 – 5	CLOSED	CLOSED	Closed: 12/20-1/2, 1/19

This holiday season IMC feature comes with help from guest annotator Robin Tovey ’97.  In addition to classics of the Christmas variety, the Reed College library has quite the collection of odds and ends, documenting the multifaceted holiday season.  Some of these are musical selections, which are now housed in the PARC (the branch library in the Performing Arts Building).  As always, if you notice any glaring omissions from this list and wish to correct such an injustice, please email me your suggestions.  Enjoy!
Jim Holmes

Happy Holidays!? – Movies & Music

The library will be open regular hours during fall break with the following exceptions.

Main library – closes at 8p on Friday 10/17 and Saturday 10/18.

IMC – closed 10/18-10/19.  Open noon-5p, 10/20-10/24.  Closed 10/25.

VRC – closed 10/24

Reference service will be unavailable Saturday 10/18 & Sunday 10/19, will be available 10 am – 5 pm Monday 10/20 – Friday 10/24, and resume regular hours on Saturday, 10/25.

PARC and Special Collections will be open regular hours.

SENIOR THESIS DESK LOTTERY

Random numbers for the Senior thesis desk lottery will be drawn from the official 470 list.  If you are a senior, but 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, September 15.  Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Studio Art, and Psychology, majors are not eligible for desks in the Library.  Seniors who plan to start their theses in Spring 2015 are not assigned desks until the beginning of next semester.

The list of numbers will be posted Tuesday, September 16 along with a map of thesis desk locations so that you can have preferences in mind before the actual selection.

The choosing of desks will begin at noon on Wednesday, September 17 in the library lobby.  You, or your proxy, must be present when your name is called.  Lottery numbers are not transferable.

NOTE:  Some desks, as indicated on the map, will be shared.  In order to help create the most pleasant sharing arrangement possible, the person with the better number may bring in as a partner another senior on the list who has a less desirable number.  Please make those arrangements before the noon time selection and let us know that is your plan when your name is called.

Any questions contact Brian Kelley