Category: General

  • Reference Assistant Spotlight: Connor

    Reference Assistant Spotlight: Connor

    Although Reed College Library employs the best library staff ever (!), we also depend quite heavily on our awesome student employees. A group I am especially partial to is our Reference Assistants, specially trained juniors and seniors who work on the reference desk nights and weekends helping the Reed community do anything from printing a…

  • Radicle: Reed Anthropology Review

    Radicle: Reed Anthropology Review

    Check out Radicle, Reed’s first open access undergraduate journal! Edited and written entirely by Reed anthropology students, the first issue spans geographically from the U.S. to Ireland, to Inner and Southeast Asia, and the topics included range from poetry, to same-sex marriage, to political propaganda, and more.

  • Reference Assistant Spotlight

    Reference Assistant Spotlight

    Although Reed College Library employs the best library staff ever (!), we also depend quite heavily on our awesome student employees. A group I am especially partial to is our Reference Assistants! Reference assistants are specially trained juniors and seniors who work on the reference desk nights and weekends helping the Reed community do anything…

  • New Library System, Intro Workshops

    New Library System, Intro Workshops

    The new library catalog is now live! Join us for an introductory workshop on best practices for navigating the new catalog. Contact a librarian (https://info.library.reed.edu/ask/) with any questions. The workshops are scheduled for: Wednesday, January 29 @ 3pm in L17 Thursday, January 30 @ 10am in L17 Friday, January 31 @ 3pm in the PARC…

  • Help Build the Digital Thesis Tower

    Help Build the Digital Thesis Tower

    Hey seniors – join your comrades in the Reed College Digital Thesis Tower! Add your thesis to the Reed Senior Theses online archive and help build the digital thesis tower. Submit your thesis after you’ve completed your orals, made last corrections, and sent your thesis for printing. The version should be identical to your final, printed…

  • Reed-Only Library Catalog Is Not Available

    Reed-Only Library Catalog Is Not Available

    The Reed-only library catalog is not available.  You may search the new Reed library catalog and request items from Summit, but information about Reed library items  may not be readily available.  Please contact us for assistance.  We apologize for the inconvenience.

  • Free pizza – Library website usability groups

    Free pizza – Library website usability groups

    The Reed College Library will be holding a couple of informal usability groups to help improve the library’s website and gather input about eTheses in Reed Digital Collections.  Come enjoy some free pizza and help us make the library better for you! Come for lunch, Wednesday March 31sth, noon-1pm in Library 17 Prefer dinner? Wednesday…

  • Women’s History Month

    Women’s History Month

    March is Women’s History Month!  To celebrate, we’d like to draw your attention to some of the great online primary source collections available from the Reed Library that are related to women’s history.  Note: you must be on-campus or using the proxy from off-campus in order to access these. Gerritsen Collection: Women’s History Online A…

  • The catalog is back.

    The catalog is back.

    Problems with the catalog have been resolved. Thank you for your patience.

  • Alert:  Catalog problems

    Alert: Catalog problems

    There are some problems at the company that hosts our library catalog this morning (Friday 2/19).  As a result, the catalog may not function properly until the problems are resolved.  You can use the Reed-only catalog to search Reed’s collection until the problems are fixed.  We are very sorry for the inconvenience.