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Trial of VAST – streaming video
in TrialsVAST is a new interdisciplinary collection of streaming videos from Alexander Street Press including – . 84 videos in Area Studies Video Online . 147 videos in Art and Architecture Video Online . 91 videos in Business and Economics Video Online . 124 videos in Politics and Current Affairs Video Online . 225 videos in…
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Trial of Jewish Studies Source
Jewish Studies Source (JSS) presents a multidisciplinary view into the study of Jewish civilization from its historical origins to the present. JSS contains the full-text of many academic journals, biographies of leading historical and contemporary Jews, and relevant coverage from major periodicals and newspapers – including the entire Jewish Telegraphic Agency database from 1922 to…
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New Student Multimedia Lab
The library now has a new multimedia computer lab for students! Located in the IMC (Lib32), the lab is equipped with software/hardware for audio/video – recording/editing, media extraction and image manipulation. Students can also checkout laptops, camcorders, projectors and more to capture and display media.
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AV equipment for checkout in the IMC
In addition to headphones, projectors, DVD players, speakers, and screens, you can now check out laptops and camcorders from the IMC. Laptops check out until the end of the day (midnight Sun-Thur, 6p Fri, 5p Sat) and are for library use only. Camcorders check out for 3 days. If you would like to ensure availability…
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Video trial, The Paley Center for Media
The Paley Center iCollection has over 15,000 full-length video programs. The collection is focused largely on the performing arts and history, covering a span of almost 100 years in 70 countries. Please send any feedback to Jim Holmes. Paley iCollection
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New exhibit: 100 YEARS AGO
Through August 2011 In the long display cases, located just past the circulation desk An exhibition of objects, photographs, and documents that chronicle Reed’s beginnings. Many of our earliest traditions, such as Campus Day (pictured) and the Tug-of-War, are illustrated.
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Help Build the Digital Thesis Tower!
Seniors, contribute your thesis to the searchable eTheses archive in Reed Digital Collections at: https://cdm.reed.edu/cdm4/etheses/. Contributing to the eTheses archive is completely voluntary, and your PDF will not replace the two printed library copies, which remain mandatory. Access to the eTheses archive is currently limited to Reed students, faculty, and staff. If the collection is…
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Chicago Manual of Style: A New Edition, and Online Too!
The 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, that friend of all writers and researchers, is here! You’ll find multiple copies in bright orange binding in the library reference room, and online as well. And where, exactly, can you find citation help? For the humanities style, see Documentation I: Notes and Bibliography. For the…
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New Version of EndNote Available
EndNote X.4 is currently available from downloads.reed.ed. This new version of EndNote supports, among other things, importing bibliographic data from some PDFs, increased citation editing capabilities, and updated filters, styles & connection files. For users new to EndNote, or for those who would like to see a demonstration of some of the new features, EndNote…
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Exhibit: Leslie Scalapino ’66 – Experimental Poet
February 4 – April 1, 2011 in the library flat and wall cases Leslie Scalapino ’66 is acclaimed as one of America’s most innovative poets who has more than 40 published works to her name that span poetry, prose, prose-poems, and plays from the mid-1970s through 2011. Forty of her works along with her Reed…
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