The Library subscribes to Sage Research Methods Online, a database with over 1,000 videos, books, handbooks, and journal articles focusing on research design and methods in the social sciences. This Thursday, September 6th, a trainer from Sage will lead workshops in Library L17 on using the tool. Snacks will be provided!
1:30-2:30 pm: Quantitative Methods Workshop
3:30-4:30pm: Ethnographic Methods Workshop
In honor of May Day / International Worker’s Day (Tuesday, May 1, 2018), we want to highlight a recent acquisition in the Library, Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle.
“An extraordinary volume that provides nothing less than a detailed cognitive mapping of the terrain for everyone who wants to engage in radical politics.”—Slavoj Žižek, author of Living in the End Times
“Keywords for Radicals recognizes that language is both a weapon and terrain of struggle, and that all of us committed to changing our social and material reality, to making a world justice-rich and oppression-free, cannot drop words such as ‘democracy,’ ‘occupation,’ ‘colonialism,’ ‘race,’ ‘sovereignty,’ or ‘love’ without a fight. —Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
“A primer for a new era of political protest.” —Jack Halberstam, author
of Female Masculinity
An update to the landmark 1976 Keywords by Raymond Williams, Keywords for Radicals explores the words that shape our current political landscape.
Available online, check it out today!
Each semester, Academic Support Services and Library staff host workshops for students on general study skills, research skills, quantitative skills, and senior thesis-writing. In an effort to make it easier for students to find out about upcoming workshops, the DoJo and the Library have created a combined workshop list.
You can find it on both the Academic Support Services and Library websites.
Many thanks to Public Affairs and Conference & Events Planning for their help in creating the combined workshop list!
In honor of National Coming Out Day (Wednesday, October 11, 2017), we want to highlight a recent acquisition in the Library, the Sage Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies. 
This contemporary three volume, 1396 page, encyclopedia is available online. The encyclopedia explores the lives and experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) individuals, focusing on the contexts and forces that shape their lives through the lenses of psychology, human development and sociology, emphasizing queer, feminist and ecological perspectives on the topic. Includes bibliographical references and index. Check it out today!
It’s probably time to start writing your papers. New to using EndNote or Zotero? Need a refresher on how to create a bibliography or cite while you write? We can help. Join us for one of our 30 minute drop-in workshops.
All workshops will be in Library L17.
Introduction to EndNote – Wednesday 10/4/17 2:00-2:30
EndNote & Microsoft Word – Wednesday 10/11/17 2:00-2:30
Introduction to Zotero – Monday 10/2/17 3:00-3:30
Zotero & Microsoft Word – Monday 10/9/17 3:00-3:30
Questions? Ask A Librarian!
Come learn about the new versions of Zotero and EndNote at our September drop-in workshops.
Intro to EndNote – Monday 9/11/17 4:30-5:00 in Library 17
EndNote & Microsoft Word – Wednesday 9/20/17 10:00-10:30 in Library 17
Intro to Zotero – Monday 9/11/17 3:30-4:oo in Library 17
Zotero & Microsoft Word – Monday 9/18/17 3:30-4:00 in Library 221
Zotero and EndNote are two citation management software packages available to Reed students. Citation managers allow you to create your own personal research database to easily collect, organize , and format references. Learning to use a citation manager will help you save time when creating bibliographies.
Questions? Ask A Librarian!
Data @ Reed is a collaboration between the Library, CIS, and the DoJo to help students and faculty with their research data.
This summer, the Data @ Reed team made major changes to the website. We updated our Stata tutorials as well as our recommendations for citing data. We also added tips for students on finding and managing data.
We also added data-related historic photographs from the College Archives to the homepage.
Questions or feedback can be sent to David Isaak, Data Services Librarian.
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: