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  • Library hours fall break

    Library hours fall break

    Library hours for fall break as follows: Hauser:  Closing at 8p Fri/Sat, 10/12-10/13 IMC:  Closed Sat/Sun/Sat of fall break.  Mon-Fri, noon-5p.  Regular hours resume Sun, 10/21. PARC: Closed Sat/Sun of fall break.  Mon-Fri, 1-5p.  Regular hours resume Sat, 10/20

  • Workshops on Research Methods

    Workshops on Research Methods

    The Library subscribes to Sage Research Methods Online, a database with over 1,000 videos, books, handbooks, and journal articles focusing on research design and methods in the social sciences. This Thursday, September 6th, a trainer from Sage will lead workshops in Library L17 on using the tool. Snacks will be provided! 1:30-2:30 pm: Quantitative Methods…

  • Thesis desk lottery

    Thesis desk lottery

    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…

  • Library hours Labor Day weekend

    Library hours Labor Day weekend

      The library will close at midnight Sunday, Sept. 2.  Labor Day hours are 10a-5p for the main library.  All other locations will be closed.

  • Personal Librarian Party, Aug 27 4-7pm

    Personal Librarian Party, Aug 27 4-7pm

    Come meet your Personal Librarian in the Library Lobby on Monday, August 27 from 4-7pm! There will be a welcome party, tours, and free Library mugs!

  • Portland Muslim History Project archives collection now available in RDC!

    Portland Muslim History Project archives collection now available in RDC!

    We’re excited to announce our most recent addition to Reed Digital Collections: selections from the Portland Muslim History Project archive, recently donated to Special Collections and Archives by Reed College professor Dr. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri. View the Portland Muslim History Project archive in Reed Digital Collections The 2004 Portland Muslim History Project narrated the history of…

  • Thesis checking in L17

    Thesis checking in L17

      Schedule for thesis checking in L17 May 2-4:  1-5p May 7-10:  9a-7p May 11:  8a-noon Can’t make these hours?  Email Annie Downey to setup an appointment.

  • Senior books due Thursday, May 10

    Senior books due Thursday, May 10

    Graduating seniors – please return all library books by Thursday, May 10 (or earlier!) You can check your account to see which books you still have out here. All other students – books are due Friday, May 11. If you would like to check out books over the summer, please stop by the circulation desk…

  • NEW: Keywords for Radicals

    NEW: Keywords for Radicals

    In honor of May Day / International Worker’s Day (Tuesday, May 1, 2018), we want to highlight a recent acquisition in the Library, Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle. “An extraordinary volume that provides nothing less than a detailed cognitive mapping of the terrain for everyone who wants to engage in radical…

  • IMC Feature – Haiku Movie Review

    IMC Feature – Haiku Movie Review

      April is national poetry month and to that end, we bring you IMC resources annotated in poetry’s simplest form, the haiku.  While the original intent and nature of haiku was a bit more thoughtful (read more here) the pop-culture version requires only 17 syllables in an arrangement of three lines – 5, 7, 5. …