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Continued Resistance: A Legacy of Activism in the Asian American and Pacific Islander Diaspora

New exhibit now open in the library: Continued Resistance: A Legacy of Activism in the Asian American and Pacific Islander Diaspora.

The Covid-19 pandemic has seen an influx of recent racist attacks targeting Asian Americans stigmatized by misinformation and xenophobia. 2021 was marked by slogans like “We are not the virus,” #StopAAPIHate, and racially motivated attacks like the Atlanta spa shootings, which galvanized protests and community vigils throughout the country. This wasn’t the first time that Asians and Pacific Islanders stood up to demand justice for their communities. 

From Native Hawaiian activists fighting for their sacred lands to Asian Americans coalitions organizing and demanding civil rights, the activists featured in this exhibit represent intersectional identities that showcase a legacy of continued resistance and protest for change. 

With artwork featuring living and past activists such as Alok Vaid-Menon, Alice Wong, Haunani Kay-Trask and Yuri Kochiyama, Reed students can explore scholarship that showcases how the AAPI diaspora communities have come together, spoken out against injustice, and are resilient in the face of adversity. 

Find the exhibit on the main level of the library near the elevator.

As a part of the Reed College community, we welcome you to share your stories and photos of how you work toward justice in your own communities in the community response area.

You can access the materials within this exhibit through the Library’s Featured Collections. You can check out any of the materials in the display by taking the item and your library card to the front desk. You can check out ebooks by scanning the QR codes that take you to the catalog record.

Organized by Reed College librarians Ann Matsushima Chiu and Lily De La Fuente.

Artwork posters commissioned by muralist Alex Chiu.

Summer 2021: new open hours, due date extensions, and hold pickups

Update June 8th: The Library is open Monday – Thursday 1pm-5pm for students, faculty, and staff. We are closed to alumni and members of the public.

Need to keep your books over Summer 2021? Email library-circ@reed.edu to extend due dates for Reed books though the summer. Summit books can be renewed once via your library account or by emailing library-circ@reed.edu. Due dates and renewal options vary for ILL (Interlibrary loan) books; ask us about these.

Need to check out a book? The library lobby is open during the summer for holdshelf pickups. Learn about requesting materials for pickup. Summer 2021 Library Lobby hours:

  • Reed students: Swipe access 7am-8pm, 7 days/week.
  • Reed Faculty and Staff: Swipe access 24 hours/day, 7 days/week.

Returning books? The library lobby bookdrop is open, or return books by mail to:

Reed Library Circulation
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd
Portland, OR 97202

Have a question? Chat with a librarian (Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm) or send us a note anytime!

Library hours for April 12th-May 14th

The library will be open reduced hours from April 12th through the end of the semester.

  • Main Library:  open 10am-6pm, Monday-Friday.
  • Library Lobby (hold shelf pick ups): open 7am-11pm, all days.
  • Instructional Media Center (IMC): open 10a-1p April 12-16; open 10am – 4pm, Monday-Thursday; 10am-1pm Friday.
  • Performing Arts Resource Center (PARC): open 11am to 3pm, Monday-Thursday.
  • Special Collections and Archives: Closed April 12-16 for spring break. Open by appointment only 12pm-4pm Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
  • Visual Resource Center: Available on call.
  • Reference: available online.

We remain open to Reed students, faculty, and staff only, and are closed to the public.

The library will close at 5p, 5/14. Library lobby holdshelf will remain open throughout the summer.

Questions? Ask us!

Library hours for Winter Break

Updated Dec. 18th, 2020

Winter Break

The Library will be closed December 19th to January 24th for Winter Break.

The library lobby remains open Monday-Friday, 8am-6pm for hold shelf pickups throughout December and January. Please note that hold requests placed December 19th-January 3rd will be processed starting January 4th.

2020 Census talk with Se-ah-dom Edom of We Count Oregon

SEEDS, We Count Oregon, and the Reed Library collaborated to create a series of videos to discuss the 2020 Census with We Count Oregon, whose primary focus is to enumerate folks from hard to count communities. Check out the videos:

About Se-ah-dom Edmo

Se-ah-dom Edmo is Shoshone-Bannock, Nez Perce & Yakama, she has joined the #WeCountOregon team as the Tribal Community Coordinator. She brings deep experience in community organizing for racial and social justice work across the nation. She is co-editor of the Tribal Equity Toolkit 3.0: Tribal Resolutions and Codes for Two-Spirit and LGBT Justice in Indian Country and American Indian Identity: Citizenship, Membership & Blood. Prior to joining the #WeCountOregon campaign, she served as the Sovereignty Program Director at Western States Center where she was the coalition convener of Tribal History: Shared History (Senate Bill 13, 2017) in Oregon – this law established and funded teaching of Indian History and Sovereignty in K – 12 Schools across the state. A hallmark of her career has been fostering relationships and collaborations between tribes and organizations that do social, racial, environmental, and economic justice work across the region. She is currently a member of the Steering Committee of Oregon Recovers and is an ALF Senior Fellow. She lives in Portland with her husband James and their children Siale, Imasees and Miyosiwin, as well as her parents, Ed and Carol Edmo. Se-ah-dom’s ancestors are from Celilo, a fishing village along the Columbia River and one of the oldest known settlements in the West.

Library Lobby Survey results: book lookup & candy preferences

Two Library Lobby survey questions to report this week:

Last week, we asked: “Where do you start when you look up a library book?” 100 responses indicated starting at the library homepage, while 27 started in the catalog. One wrote in “What’s the difference?”. There really isn’t much difference! One starts on the library homepage, while the other starts within our catalog system, but both get you to library books and resources.

This week, we wanted help planning for future candy restocks. We asked, “I’d answer this survey if I was offered…”.

  • Chocolates: 18
  • Gummy candies & fruit flavors: 99
  • Hard candies & mints: 111
  • Comments: 8

Notice that the total vote for ‘chocolates’ is suspiciously low? As someone wrote in, there was a pebble voting theft: “Someone took pebbles out of chocolate! It was 1/2 full an hour ago (7:30pm ish)!! Chocolate PLEASE”.

Was the theft a comment on the current state of electoral integrity in this country, or does someone really dislike chocolate candies enough to tamper with liblob voting procedures? We remain in a state of wonder.

Library Lobby Surveys happen (almost) every Tuesday. Stop by to cast your vote and get some candy! We love to hear feedback from you all.

Library Lobby Survey results: “You can borrow laptops & ipads from the library”

We had laptops and ipads on our minds this week, and wondered about you all borrowing them.

  • Total responses: 188 stones, 30 written responses
  • “What!? I didn’t know”: 57 responses
  • “I know! I borrow those”: 43 responses
  • “I know, but I don’t borrow those [tell us why not]”:88 responses, 30 write in responses

Of the 30 write in responses to “I know [about borrowing laptops/ipads], but I don’t borrow those”

  • 17 you had your own
  • 5 related to check-out/rental periods and processes
  • 5 you didn’t need them or need filled elsewhere or with other tools
  • 1 related to programs on the laptop
  • 1 request for a microwave
  • 1 “thank you!” (you’re welcome!)

Laptops and ipads are available for checkout for 24 hour periods from the IMC and from PARC. Give the circulation assistant your Reed id card, and they’ll check it out for you!

Library Lobby Surveys happen (almost) every Tuesday. Stop by to cast your vote and get some candy! We love to hear feedback from you all.

ProQuest scheduled maintenance this weekend

Some library resources will be unavailable during ProQuest scheduled maintenance this Saturday, February 8th, from 7pm-1am. Affected resources include:

  • All databases on the ProQuest platform (search.proquest.com) and Chadwyck-Healey databases including:
    • Proquest Central
    • ABI/INFORM
    • Academic Video Online
    • Ebook Central
    • EEBO: Early English Books Online
    • Index Islamicus
    • LION : Literature Online
    • ProQuest Congressional
    • ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    • ProQuest Historical Newspapers

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