Author: holmesj

New equipment for checkout

The Instructional Media Center has new equipment for checkout – available to students, staff and faculty.  Over the summer, we added 7 more laptops, 3 digital SLRs, 2 powered subwoofers, and 6 more audio recorders.  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

3-day equipment
Projectors
Screens
Speakers and Subwoofers
DVD/VCR players
Blu-Ray USB DVD drives
Hard Drives USB/Firewire
Video camcorders
Digital SLRs
Tripods
Audio recorders
Wacom tablets
And an Acoustic Guitar!

Same day checkout (due before closing)
Laptops (mac and pc)
Laptop chargers (mac)
iPhone/iPad chargers
Headphones

IMC feature – Sports films

Reed College’s commitment to physical education extends into the film library, where we have a comprehensive collection of movies in the sporting genre. In addition to the classics, we have developed an eclectic array through courses in Anthropology, Humanities, English and foreign languages. An interesting cinematic facet about the genre – the less popular sports often make for the best movies. In fact, NFL football, easily the most watched sporting event in America, gives us very few good films, while the waning sport of boxing continues to produce films of critical success. The following list, brought to you by the annotation team of Holmes, Morefield, Silverstein, and Tovey (’97), is but a small sampling of our vast collection. As always, if you don’t see your favorite and wish to correct this injustice, send an email to Jim Holmes along with a brief annotation. AND – if you’re a softball ringer, consider playing for team IMC at Renn Fayre! AND – if sports interest you academically (particularly annotations #8-13) consider taking Paul Silverstein’s Anthropology 324 course, Sport and Society.

Sports films

Trial – Mango online language learning

Mango is a subscription-based product available for libraries. It includes a variety of resources to help patrons learn practical conversation skills for languages spoken all around the world including –

Arabic (Egyptian)
Arabic (Levantine)
Arabic (MSA)
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Bengali
Chinese (Cantonese)
Chinese (Mandarin)
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dari
Dutch
Farsi (Persian)
Finnish
French
French (Canadian)
Scottish Gaelic
German
Greek
Greek (Ancient)
Greek (Koine)
Haitian Creole
Hawaiian
Hebrew
Biblical Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Kazakh
Korean
Latin
Malay
Malayalam
Norwegian
Pashto
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Punjabi
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Slovak
Spanish (Latin America)
Spanish (Spain)
Swahili
Swedish
Tagalog
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Vietnamese
Yiddish

Click here to access the trial. Please send any feedback to Jim Holmes

Book return reminder for students

Seniors:
Return all library books before midnight Thursday, May 16.
Turn in two bound copies of your thesis to the library before
12:00 noon on Friday, May 17.

All students:  Return books and locker keys AND clear belongings from
desks and tables by 4:00pm on Friday, May 17.

Shen Bao Digital Archive

 

Shen Bao Digital Archive

The very first newspaper in China with a Chinese editorial staff, the full-image and full-text Shen Bao Digital Archive gives unique insight into the transition of China from the nineteenth century until Mao.

Established in 1872, Shen Bao (historically transliterated as Shun Pao or Shen-pao) was the most influential and longest lasting commercial newspaper of before the establishment of the People’s Republic. Published in Shanghai until 1949, Shen Bao was founded by Englishman Ernest Major, but, uniquely, as a newspaper for Chinese readers, written by Chinese reporters. During its existence, Shen Bao gradually shifted from a conservative to a more liberal perspective, and played a pivotal role in the formation of public opinion in the imperial period and into the tumultuous beginnings of modern China. Shen Bao’s innovations in printing technologies, specialized use of the telegraph, and dispatch of special military correspondents gave it an edge, and today that valuable insight is preserved and made available in the Shen Bao Digital Archive.

The Shen Bao Digital Archive presents the complete collection of all issues, from the newspaper’s founding in 1872 to 1949 and is an invaluable research tool. Containing more than 2 million articles, the database is 100% full-text searchable and contains the full-image of each page. Both the full-text and the full-image are retrieved in a single search, and full text may be easily copied from the full-image as well.

You must access the database from the Reed campus.  Please send any feedback to
Jim Holmes

Russian databases – Stalin Archive & Iskusstvo Kino

The SDA is a result of collaboration between the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI) and Yale University Press (YUP) to create an electronic database of finding aids, to digitize documents and images, and to publish in different forms and media materials from the recently declassified Stalin archive in the holdings of RGASPI.  The trial is authenticated through Reed computer IP addresses.  However, you still need to register a personal account (takes 30 sec).
Iskusstvo kino, established in 1931, is the leading journal of Russian, and formerly Soviet, cinema. Iskusstvo kino includes critical reviews of both domestic and foreign film, as well as scholarly articles on cinematic theory and history as well as the Russian culture and arts scene. It was first published under title Proletarskoe kino(1931-1932), then Sovetskoe kino(1933-1935), and finally under the present name (since 1936). This full-text/full-image presentation makes the prose and visual content of this important resource available as never before.  You must access from the Reed campus.
Please send any feedback to

Jim Holmes

Streaming trial – Independent films & shorts

Through November 3, 2012, all students, faculty, and staff may access New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts by going directly to:  http://feat.alexanderstreet.com.
The collection delivers approximately 200 full-length feature films from leading independent distributors such as Kino Lorber, First Run Features, Film Movement, MK2, and the Global Films Initiative, along with over fifty award-winning shorts. All films were shown at major festivals, many were nominated for awards, and several have won major awards. Films include the Oscar-nominated Twilight Samurai, directed by Yôji Yamada, Oscar-nominated The Scent of Green Papaya, directed by Tran Anh Hung, Oscar-nominated Dogtooth, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, and Cannes Grand Jury Prize winner The Piano Teacher, directed by Michael Haneke.

Please send any feedback to Jim Holmes.

Fall break hours

The Reed Library is open regular hours fall break with the exception of Friday 10/12 and Saturday 10/13 – closing at 8p.

Hours for the IMC are
10/13-10/14 closed
10/15-10/19 open noon-5p
10/20 closed
10/21 resume normal hours

Special Collections and the Visual Resource Center are open regular hours.