Category: Announcements

End of semester hours & reminders

End of semester Library hours:

The library will be open continuously (24 hours a day) beginning 8:00am, Thursday, December 9 and will close at 12:00 midnight Thursday, December 16.

Friday, December 17 : 8:00am – 5:00pm

Saturday – Sunday, December 18-19 : CLOSED

Monday – Thursday, December 20-23 : 8:30am – 5:00pm

Friday, December 24 – Sunday, January 2 : CLOSED

Monday, January 3 – Friday, January 28

  • Monday – Friday : 8:30am – 5:00pm
  • CLOSED Weekends
  • CLOSED Monday, January 17 (MLK Jr. Day)

Saturday – Sunday, January 29-30 : 10:00am – 5:00pm

Regular Hours resume Monday, January 31

Reminders

Spring/Fall Seniors: Turn in theses by 12:00 noon on Friday, December 17. Return locker keys.

Clear all thesis desktops and floor areas by December 17th (5:00pm). Books checked out to Fall/Spring seniors may remain on shelves above the thesis desk.

Clear all items from non-thesis desks and tables by Friday, December 17 (5:00pm).

New seniors planning to begin theses in the the Spring should sign up for the Thesis Desk Lottery at the circulation desk by Thursday, February 9th.

Reference Universe

Books in the Reference RoomNeed a reliable source for checking facts — fast?  Reference Universe allows you to search the indexes and chapter titles of hundreds of books in Reed’s reference collection, both print and online.

Try it now!

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Several new trials

The library is currently conducting trials of a number of new resources.  Trials give us the opportunity to try a resource out before we commit the funds to subscribing to or purchasing it.  Feedback from you – the Reed community – helps us make these decisions.  Go ahead and give these resources a try (from on campus) and let us know what you think!

Environment Complete

Literary Reference Center

Literary Reference Center Plus

NBC Archives on Demand

If you try one of these and really like it (or if you don’t like it!), let us know.  You can mention it to your library liaison, to a librarian at the reference desk, or send feedback to Rachel Bridgewater.

IMC Nov. feature – Spanish film

Spanish films – we’ve got a lot of them.  This list is a rather random sampling of some notable ones.  For a complete list by title, click here (includes videos with dubbed Spanish language tracks).  Or if you’d prefer to browse the collection in person, come on down to the IMC and ask the circulation desk worker to let you into the media vault.  Most Spanish films are located under call# PN1995.9.S.  If you don’t see your favorite Spanish movie on the list and want to correct this horrible injustice, send an email to Jim Holmes with the film title and a brief annotation.

Spanish films list

New exhibit: Reed Faculty Publications 2005+

Reed Faculty Publications 2005+
October 12, 2010 – January 10, 2011
Library flat cases and casework displays

An amazing number of books—and one sound recording—have been produced by Reed faculty members of the last six years:  40 faculty and nearly 50 of their books are now on display in the library.  A few are new editions of standard textbooks in the field, many are academic texts that demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of a field and insightful analyses of a specific topic, and a few are novels or poetry.

Access Reed’s streaming audio collections on your mobile device

Already a fan of Reed Library’s online streaming audio collections? Now you can take the music with you, wherever you go! Reed students, faculty and staff can access content from Naxos Music Library and Music Online via their mobile devices.

Naxos Music Library has a free app for the iPhone:

How to set up your Naxos app

Music Online users can send tracks to their iPhones or Android mobile devices via email, SMS or QR code:

To do so, click on this icon in your Music Online search results.

Questions? Contact Erin Conor, Performing Arts Librarian.

AP Images Trial

The library is running a trial of AP Images through Nov. 5th. The database contains:

-photos, graphics (maps, charts/data, timelines, logos), audio, and text
-contemporary (up to 48 hours ago) and historical coverage; images dating back to 1800s, audio files to 1920s

Try it and let us know what you think! Please send comments or questions to burgessj@reed.edu

eBooks on ScienceDirect

Now through next summer Reed College has access to over 800 eBooks on the ScienceDirect platform from publishers such as Elsevier, Pergamon and Academic Press. The eBooks are currently available in many subject areas, including biological sciences, biochemistry, chemistry, computer science, energy, economics, physics, and psychology.

Titles are accessible via the Reed library catalog or from the ScienceDirect platform. Remember, when using the ScienceDirect interface, Reed has access to titles and articles with either of these symbols:   or   . Contact your subject librarian if you have any questions.