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Reed Electronic Theses, Wheeler Physics lecture notes, and more available in the new Reed Digital Collections
We’re in the home stretch! Five more collections have migrated to our new Reed Digital Collections (RDC) interface: Reed College Electronic Theses Nicholas Wheeler Physics Lectures Indian Converts, developed by English professor Laura Liebman. U.S. History, developed by History professor Jackie Dirk. Ara Pacis Augustae, developed by the late Charles Rhyne (professor of Art History).…
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IMC Feature – Happy Holidays!?
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 housed in the PARC (the branch library in…
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Open Access Week: State of Open Data
Figshare this week released the results of its global survey of 2,000 researchers. The report, “The State of Open Data,” highlights the extent of awareness around open data, the incentives around its use, and perspectives researchers have about making their own research data open. This accompanying infographic summarizes the reports key findings:
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Open Access Week: Journals & Scholarly Communication
As part of a growing trend toward increased access, many scholars are choosing to publish in an Open Access format. Services like the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) index “high quality, peer_reviewed Open Access research journals, periodicals and their articles’ metadata.” (doaj.org) More than 2 million articles from 900 different journals are available in…
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Reed Archives, Early Writing and Printing, and more available in the new Reed Digital Collections
Join us on our march toward a better digital collections future! Several more collections have migrated to our new system, as of today. Visit the following in the new Reed Digital Collections (RDC) interface: Reed College Archives Early Printing & Writing Collection The Cooley Art Gallery exhibit collection Three illuminated manuscripts: The Beatus vir Psalter and…
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Fall break library hours
Fall Break • regular hours except – Library Fri 10/14 8am-8pm Sat 10/15 10am-8pm Reference Closed, Sat 10/15 and Sun 10/16 On Call, Mon 10/17 – Fri 10/21, 10am-5pm IMC Closed, Sat 10/15 and Sun 10/16 Noon-5pm, Mon 10/17 – Fri 10/21 Closed, Sat 10/22 PARC Closed, Sat 10/15 and Sun 10/16 1pm-5pm, Mon 10/17…
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Radicle: Reed Anthropology Review
Check out Radicle, Reed’s first open access undergraduate journal! Edited and written entirely by Reed anthropology students, the first issue spans geographically from the U.S. to Ireland, to Inner and Southeast Asia, and the topics included range from poetry, to same-sex marriage, to political propaganda, and more.
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Reference Assistant Spotlight
Although Reed College Library employs the best library staff ever (!), we also depend quite heavily on our awesome student employees. A group I am especially partial to is our Reference Assistants! Reference assistants are specially trained juniors and seniors who work on the reference desk nights and weekends helping the Reed community do anything…
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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 12. …
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Weekend hours 8/27-8/28 and Labor Day 9/5
The library will be open 10a-5p on Saturday/Sunday 8/27-8/28. Regular hours resume Monday 8/29. We will close on Sunday at midnight 9/4 – open 10a-5p on Labor Day 9/5.
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