Category: Announcements

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

Trial of Jewish Studies Source

Jewish Studies Source (JSS) presents a multidisciplinary view into the study of Jewish civilization from its historical origins to the present. JSS contains the full-text of many academic journals, biographies of leading historical and contemporary Jews, and relevant coverage from major periodicals and newspapers – including the entire Jewish Telegraphic Agency database from 1922 to present.

Please send any feedback to Joanna Burgess.

AV equipment for checkout in the IMC

In addition to headphones, projectors, DVD players, speakers, and screens, you can now check out laptops and camcorders from the IMC.  Laptops check out until the end of the day (midnight Sun-Thur, 6p Fri, 5p Sat) and are for library use only.  Camcorders check out for 3 days.  If you would like to ensure availability of any IMC resource, email Jim Holmes.