Category: Announcements

New Book about Manuscripts in Reed’s Special Collections

The Origins, Glory & Decline of the Humanist Cursive in Italy 1400-1650 is a new title written by Reed alumnus Steve Herold ’63 about the Early Writing Collection in the Reed library’s special collections.  Herold has traced the history of the italic cursive popularized by Professor Lloyd Reynolds in his calligraphy classes at Reed presented from 1938 until his retirement in 1969, when Robert Palladino continued the classes until 1984.  For the last 8 years, Herold has been giving various documents to Reed’s special collections to join those collected by Reynolds.  Heavily illustrated with wonderful historical examples, the title also reprints a difficult-to-find article by Stanley Morison on “Early Humanist Script and the First Roman Typeface.”  It is available in the Reed bookstore ($24.95).

IMC Summer Feature – TV time

Summer break is here and it’s time to catch up on all that television you so dutifully disregarded due to your dedicated donnish diligence.  The Reed library has a surprising number of TV series added mostly as a result of thesis projects and faculty requests – click below for a list of recommendations.  Stop by the IMC Monday-Friday, noon-5p this summer to check out DVDs.  While you’re at it, pick up a projector and screen and host your own backyard TV party!

TV rec’s

 

Summer hours

Beginning Tuesday, May 15th, the library will move to a summer schedule.
Monday-Friday: 8:30a-5p

June 8 through August 10 the library will close at noon on Fridays.

Monday, May 14 – Commencement Day
8:30a-11a, 2p-5p

Closed – Memorial Day, May 28 & July 4.

 

Laptops available

Need a laptop for the day?  We have mac laptops and one pc available for checkout in the IMC, L32.  You can also borrow a laptop from the CUS help desk in the ETC building.

Classical Music in Video Trial

From Alexander Street Press –

Classical Music in Video will contain 1,000 hours of classical music performances and masterclasses captured on video—approximately 1,500 performances in all. The collection will contain performances of all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with masterclasses and interviews with master teachers from around the world.  This release contains 435 video titles totaling 219 hours.

Please send any feedback to Erin Conor Performing Arts Librarian

Flora in the Library: Books with Flowers

Flower

February 9th through early May, 2012

Flowers surround us and yet are normally seen as merely a decoration or a passing interest beside our path.  Books that contain flower images, however, abound from early treatises on husbandry to artists’ books and include photographic essays, guidebooks, and fancy illustration.  Some interesting examples have been selected from the library’s special collections for this exhibit.

Audio/Video equipment you can check out

The Instructional Media Center, located in L32 of the library, has audio/video equipment you can check out including – laptops (mac and pc), headphones, video projectors, tripod screens, VCR/DVD players, video camcorders, portable audio recorders, computer speakers, an acoustic guitar, and more.  Laptops and headphones check out for the day.  All other equipment checks out for three days.  If you would like to reserve equipment, email Jim Holmes or stop by the IMC.

Alumni eTheses access up and running

Remote access to Reed’s eTheses Archive is now available for alumni. Log in with your Reed/kerberos username and password.

Alumni are welcome to contribute to the Archive. If you graduated in 1992 or later, you may submit your thesis online. If you graduated prior to 1992, please email a PDF copy of your thesis to etheses@lists.reed.edu. Upon receiving your thesis we will send you some brief questions to answer, in order to help us catalog your thesis in the Archive.

Historical Oregon Newspapers

The Oregon Digital Newspaper Program (ODNP) is an initiative to
digitize historic Oregon newspaper content and make it freely
available to the public through a keyword-searchable online database.
The initial phase of the program will concentrate on newspapers
published between 1860 and 1922, with a goal of approximately 150,000
pages freely available online in the first two years (2009-2011).

Oregon Newspapers