Category: Announcements

Help Build the Digital Thesis Tower!

Reed ThesesSeniors, contribute your thesis to the searchable eTheses archive in Reed Digital Collections at: http://cdm.reed.edu/cdm4/etheses/. Contributing to the eTheses archive is completely voluntary, and your PDF will not replace the two printed library copies, which remain mandatory. Access to the eTheses archive is currently limited to Reed students, faculty, and staff.  If the collection is ever made available on the open web, we will not include your thesis unless you have given us permission to do so.

The eTheses archive was started in 2009, as the result of a proposal brought to the Library Board by the Reed Students for Free Culture. Visitors to the site can browse, search, and download theses. To add your thesis, visit the archive and click the “Submit Your Thesis” button.

Please direct any questions to: etheses@lists.reed.edu.

 

Chicago Manual of Style: A New Edition, and Online Too!

The 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, that friend of all writers and researchers, is here!  You’ll find multiple copies in bright orange binding in the library reference room, and online as well.
And where, exactly, can you find citation help?  For the humanities style, see Documentation I: Notes and Bibliography.  For the author-date style, used in the sciences and social sciences, see Documentation II: Author-Date References.

New Version of EndNote Available

EndNote X.4 is currently available from downloads.reed.ed.  This new version of EndNote supports, among other things, importing bibliographic data from some PDFs, increased

citation editing capabilities, and updated filters, styles & connection files. For users new to EndNote, or for those who would like to see a demonstration of some

of the new features, EndNote Workshops will be held on Thursday, Feb. 24, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm  & Monday, March 7, 4 – 5 pm. Both workshops will be held in Library 17. Contact Linda Maddux (lbm@reed.edu) or Taylor Smith (smitht@reed.edu) with questions.

IMC Feb. feature – watch local

We’re jumping on the shop/eat/drink/play/stay local bandwagon with this month’s feature – “watch local”. This list of films includes those with local ties to writers, directors, actors and film locales in and around Portland. “Video” in the call# means VHS tape – those old giant tapes that your parents used to watch. And remember you can borrow projectors, screens, VCRs and DVD players if you’d like to host your own local film fest.
Watch Local

Trial of Women and Social Movements International

The library is currently running a trial of Women and Social Movements International.  It is comprised of primary documents from women activists from 1840 – Present

Women and Social Movements International is a new database, meant to complement Women and Social Movements in the United States, to which Reed currently subscribes.

Our trial runs until March 3rd and should be available from any computer on campus.

If you have comments about the database, please contact Rachel Bridgewater.

Same-site requesting now available

The Library is trying out a new service for Reed faculty, staff and students.  You can now place a request for a book or circulating DVD that is available on the shelf through either the Reed only catalog or WorldCat Local (the Summit/WorldCat catalog). We will retrieve the item  and place it on the hold shelf.  A notice will be sent to you when the item is ready.  We will try to have the items on the hold shelf within 24 hours.  DVDs will be placed on a hold shelf in the IMC and books in main circulation.   Items will be removed from the hold shelf and sent back to the regular shelves if not picked up within five days.

If you have any comments, questions or concerns, please to not hesitate to contact Jennie McKee, 503-777-7752, jennie@reed.edu

Museum of Contemporary Craft exhibit features Reed books

A new exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Craft, now in partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art, will focus on artists’ books from the Reed College collection.  “Object Focus:  The Book,” running from November 18, 2010 through February 26, 2011, will consist entirely of Reed books selected by Professor Gerri Ondrizek and the staff of the Museum.

Their statement about the exhibit:  “The artist’s book is an object that extends work beyond the boundaries of a gallery setting. Through selections from the significant 20th century modern and contemporary artists’ books in Reed College’s Special Collections, this exhibition explores the book as an object which defies the categories of art, craft and design through forms ranging from the recognizable to the deconstructed.”

“Survival skills for finals” workshop

Thursday, Dec. 9, 4-5:30 pm, Eliot 103

Come learn about:

  • breaking work into smaller pieces
  • setting reasonable goals (and rewards!)
  • planning & managing time effectively
  • staying balanced with healthy choices
  • strategies for different kinds of finals

This workshop is being offered by DoJo staff members. Librarians will also be in attendance. RSVP to julie.maxfield@reed.edu encouraged.