Laptops & Chargers & Headphones & More…

We’ve got all kinds of equipment to copilot your studies as you head into these final weeks.  Here’s a list of equipment available at the IMC for checkout.

Mac laptops
Mac chargers – old & new
Headphones
iPhone/iPad chargers – old & new
Micro USB chargers – for non-Apple phones and tablets
Projectors
Speakers
Camcorders
Digital SLRs
Audio recorders
USB hard drives and DVD drives

And over at the PARC, in addition to laptops, chargers, and headphones, they have iPads!

PBS video collection trial

The PBS Video Collection assembles hundreds of the greatest documentary films and series from the history of the Public Broadcasting Service into one convenient online interface. A core of 245 titles, selected for their high quality and relevance to academic curricula, covers many educational disciplines, including history, science and technology, diversity studies, business, and current events. This collection provides access to the films and series users already know and trust, including Frontline, NOVA, American Experience, Odyssey, and films by Ken Burns and Michael Wood.

Please send any feedback to Jim Holmes.

Trial – Chinese Newspapers Collection (1832-1953)

ProQuest Historical Newspapers – Chinese Newspapers Collection
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Format:
Abstract and Index, Full Text Image

Coverage: 1832-1953

From the website – “Gain insight into Chinese political and social life during the turbulent 120 year period from 1832 to 1953 with 12 English-language Chinese historical newspapers. Included are critical perspectives on the ending of more than 2,000 years of imperial rule in China, the Taiping Rebellion, the Opium Wars with Great Britain, the Boxer Rebellion and the events leading up to the1911 Xinhai Revolution, and the subsequent founding of the Republic of China. In addition to the article content, the full-image newspapers offer searchable access to advertisements, editorials, cartoons, and classified ads that illuminate history.”

Upon completion, titles will include:

  • North China Herald (1850-1941)
  • Canton Times (1919-1920)
  • China Critic (1939-1946)
  • The China Press (1925-1938)
  • China Weekly Review (1917-1953)
  • Chinese Recorder (1868-1940)
  • Chinese Repository (1832-1851)
  • Peking Daily News (1914-1917)
  • Peking Gazette (1915-1917)
  • Peking Leader (1918-1919
  • Shanghai Gazette (1919-1921)
  • Shanghai Times (1914-1921)

Please send any feedback to Jim Holmes

IMC Feature – The Other Oscars

The Academy Awards serve as the pinnacle of American cinematic accolades and to that end the IMC has most notable nominees and winners since its inception.  More impressive, however, is our comprehensive collection of award winning films from notable international film festivals – an eclectic array built over the past 30 years through curriculum and student/faculty interest.  Following is a list of award winning films from three of the biggest international film festivals – Cannes, Berlin, and Venice.  Many thanks to Max Carpenter (’14) for his meticulous  work in compiling this list.
Jim Holmes – Instructional Media Center

The Other Oscars

Library hours winter break

Winter Break, Dec. 20 – Jan. 26

Thurs (1/2) – Fri (1/24) 8:30am – 5pm; CLOSED WEEKENDS
Sat (1/25) – Sun (1/26) 10am – 5pm

Exceptions

Mon (1/20) CLOSED

Instructional Media Center

Thurs (1/2) – Fri (1/24) Noon – 5pm
CLOSED WEEKENDS
Monday, 1/20 closed

 

PARC

1/2-1/17 M-F 1-5pm
1/21-1/24 T-F, 8:30am-5pm
1/25-1/26 closed
Monday, 1/20 closed

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