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Thomas Lamb Eliot Papers: new digital collection!
We are pleased to announce a new RDC collection: the Thomas Lamb Eliot Papers!
T.L. Eliot (1841-1936) was an influential Unitarian minister in Portland, worked in education and jail reform, founded the Art Association and the Humane Society, helped develop the public library, worked for temperance and women’s suffrage, and played a large part in the formation and final founding of Reed College in 1911, serving as a Trustee and major advisor until his retirement in 1925. Eliot Hall was named for T.L. Eliot in 1935.
The digital collection contains scanned versions of correspondence and other documents. View a love letter sent to Eliot by his wife, Henrietta, documents issued by the Missouri Militia relating to civil war era service, and note from Eliot’s life insurance company granting him permission to travel to Oregon.
Please note, this release is only the beginning! We have finished scanning the first four boxes out of a total of 119. We will continue to add newly digitized content to this collection in small batches.
All items in this collection were digitized from the holdings of Reed College Special Collections & Archives. We welcome visitors! View the Special Collections & Archives website for hours, contact, and location information.
Reed College Book Collecting Contest
Announcing the REED COLLEGE BOOK COLLECTING CONTEST!
$1000 – top prize
$500 – second prize
$250 — third prize
Reception in April with refreshments for winners and participants!
Exhibition of winners’ books.
Open to all full-time Reed students.
Winner may participate in The National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest.
**DEADLINE**: March 21, 2017, 5pm.
Download the Book Collecting Contest Application
Unleash your bibliophilic passions, write an essay about your favorite books, enter this contest not only for the pleasure of working with your own collection and the serious monetary awards for the three prizes but an opportunity to enter the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest held annually at the Library of Congress.
Details at: http://www.himesduniway.org/
Co-sponsored by Reed College and the Himes & Duniway Society, a Portland book collecting group.
For on-campus questions contact Gay Walker, Special Collections Librarian, L014, at 7782 or walkerg@reed.edu.
To Apply
Download the Book Collecting Contest Application
The Application Form on this page or by emailing Gay Walker at walkerg@reed.edu. Please submit your application by one of the following methods:
- Email: Submit your application package to: walkerg@reed.edu with the subject line Entry: Book Collecting Contest 2015, or
- In Person: Print and fill out the Book Collecting Contest pdf form and bring it with your application package to L014, special collections & archives, Gay Walker.
Spring thesis desk lottery
Random numbers for the Senior thesis desk lottery will be drawn from the official 470 list. If you are a senior, but are not yet registered for 470, and want to be included in the drawing, please come to the circulation desk and have your name added to the lottery list by Monday, February 6th. Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Studio Art, and Psychology, majors are not eligible for thesis desks in the Library.
The list of numbers will be posted Tuesday, February 7th along with a map of thesis desk locations so that you can have preferences in mind before the actual selection.
The choosing of desks will begin at noon on Wednesday, February 8th in the library lobby. You, or your proxy, must be present when your name is called. Lottery numbers are not transferable.
NOTE: Some desks, as indicated on the map, will be shared. In order to help create the most pleasant sharing arrangement possible, the person with the better number may bring in as a partner another senior on the list who has a less desirable number. Please make those arrangements before the noon time selection and let us know that is your plan when your name is called.
Any questions contact Brian Kelley
The Library at Paideia
RARE TO MEDIUM RARE BOOKS
(Gay)
Illuminated manuscripts and early printed books, antiquarian maps and Simeon Reed’s dinnerware. Come see treasures from behind locked doors and between the most rare and intriguing covers. Calligraphy and scrounger trading cards, fore-edge paintings and the Beat Poets. View highlights from the library’s special collections!
Meet in the archives, L014 on lower level 2 (under the IMC).
Tuesday, Jan. 17th (canceled due to weather)
2pm
Thursday, Jan. 19th
11am
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ARTISTS’ BOOKS
(Gay)
What is an artist’s book? See the amazing variety of artists’ books in the library’s special collections. We will look at a wide range of book creations made by artists, and some by Reed students, from the 1960s to the present. Presented in the Pierce Room behind the locked door on lower level one.
Meet in library lobby.
Wednesday, Jan. 18th
11am
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SECRET LIBRARY TOUR
(Gay, Linda, Laura)
Description: Have you ever wondered where all those locked doors go in the library? Why there are grotesques but not gargoyles? What are those strange collections up the spiral staircase in the Pollock Room? Let us take you on a tour of discovery. You can amaze your friends with your esoteric knowledge and learn more about your library home-away-from-home.
Meet in library lobby.
Tuesday, Jan. 17th (canceled due to weather)
11am
Wednesday, Jan. 18th
2pm
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INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Beth Platte (Instructional Technology) and Angie Beiriger (Digital Assets Librarian)
This course will introduce participants to the theory and methodology of Digital Humanities. The class will address the question of what data in the humanities looks like for a variety of research projects, considering, for instance, what’s appropriate for a semester paper, versus a thesis or a longer professional research project. We’ll look at a variety of Digital Humanities projects as examples, and, given time, we’ll explore a few simple tools.
Wednesday, January 18 at 9:00am to 10:30am. ETC 205
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Using Open Tools to Remix Images and More
(David, Angie, Amy, Laura, Jim)
The Internet is full of images, audio, or video just waiting for your tweaks and personality. Learn how to find existing open resources and re-mix them without worrying about copyright. This session will demo resources for finding open images, audio, video, and the software you will need to edit them. There will be time for hands-on participation as we re-use, re-make, and re-define digital objects.
Library L17
Wednesday, Jan. 18
3pm
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Project Pericles – Debating for Democracy Letter Writing Competition
(Joe, Sonia Sabnis, Meredith Dickinson and Carla Mann)
Still in progress; guiding students on how to research issues they might want to write to a legislator about
Eliot 116
Thursday, Jan 19
1pm
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LLOYD REYNOLDS & CALLIGRAPHY AT REED
Description: Lloyd Reynolds was the “Father of Calligraphy” at Reed College and literally brought calligraphy to the Pacific Northwest. Self-taught in the 1930s, his calligraphy classes were wildly popular and his impact long-lasting and now alive and well in the weekly Scriptorium on campus. Come see his library, papers, artwork, and evidence of his impact on campus.
Meet in the Library Lobby
Thursday, Jan. 19th
2pm
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Beth Platte (Instructional Technology) and Angie Beiriger (Digital Assets Librarian)
This course covers the various kinds of textual, literary, and linguistic analysis that are possible using digital methods. We will look at Digital Humanities projects to understand the sorts of research questions that computer-assisted text analysis can help to answer. This hands-on course will also introduce basic text encoding using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) schema and present various ways of digitizing texts.
Thursday, January 19 at 3:00pm to 4:30pm ETC 205
All digital collections now migrated to the new Reed Digital Collections!
With the successful migration of the last four collections, the new Reed Digital Collections is now the place to go for digital access to etheses, Artists’ Books, rare books and archival materials, and faculty teaching and research collections. The old system will remain available through January.
The four final collections are:
- Artists’ Books, which contains images of Special Collections & Archives artists’ books. The website is guided by Studio Art professor Gerry Ondrizek.
- Sexism & Racism in Advertising and Visions of Value. Both support teaching and research for Anthropology professor Charlene Makley.
- Jewish Atlantic World, which supports English and Humanities professor Laura Leibman’s teaching and research.
We want to hear back from you! Do you like the new interface? What could be improved? Let us know by filling out this survey.
What happens with My Workspace galleries?
Don’t worry; your galleries will still be available. Over the course of the Fall semester, galleries migrated and become visible in the new system. Gallery migration will be finalized in January 2017.
What is Reed Digital Collections, again?
Reed Digital Collections is where you will find many Reed theses in electronic form, digitized materials like yearbooks, photos, and manuscripts from Special Collections and Archives, images of art and architecture for use in the classroom, and many faculty-curated teaching and research collections. The Library and CIS have been working hard on rebuilding the software from the ground up to make it more functional, more intuitive, and more fun to work with.
Questions? Comments? Concerns? Have a great idea for a new collection? Contact rdc@lists.reed.edu or laura.buchholz@reed.edu
Illustrated Books: Interior Pictures – Exterior Views
December 1, 2016 to February 22, 2017
Flat and wall cases in the library
A selection of illustrated volumes from the library’s special collections is on display ranging from the early Book of Kells through contemporary artists’ books and from hand-colored pochoir to comics. Come see the beauty of book illustrations and enjoy their many forms from the Reed collections.
Reed Electronic Theses, Wheeler Physics lecture notes, and more available in the new Reed Digital Collections
We’re in the home stretch! Five more collections have migrated to our new Reed Digital Collections (RDC) interface:
- Reed College Electronic Theses
- Nicholas Wheeler Physics Lectures
- Indian Converts, developed by English professor Laura Liebman.
- U.S. History, developed by History professor Jackie Dirk.
- Ara Pacis Augustae, developed by the late Charles Rhyne (professor of Art History).
What happens with My Workspace galleries?
Don’t worry; your galleries will still be available. Over the course of the Fall semester, galleries will migrate and become visible in the new system. At first, you will only see galleries containing images from collections available in the new interface. If a collection is not yet visible in the new interface, you won’t see that collection’s images in your galleries yet. Galleries will appear as soon as the collection is moved over. If the collection is not yet visible, please continue to use galleries in the old interface at http://cdm-workspace.reed.edu//workspace.
What is Reed Digital Collections, again?
Reed Digital Collections is where you will find many Reed theses in electronic form, digitized materials like yearbooks, photos, and manuscripts from Special Collections and Archives, images of art and architecture for use in the classroom, and many faculty-curated teaching and research collections. The Library and CIS have been working hard on rebuilding the software from the ground up to make it more functional, more intuitive, and more fun to work with.
Questions? Comments? Concerns? Have a great idea for a new collection? Contact rdc@lists.reed.edu or laura.buchholz@reed.edu
IMC Feature – Happy Holidays!?
This holiday season IMC feature comes with help from guest annotator Robin Tovey ’97. In addition to classics of the Christmas variety, the Reed College library has quite the collection of odds and ends, documenting the multifaceted holiday season. Some of these are musical selections, which are housed in the PARC (the branch library in the Performing Arts Building). As always, if you notice any glaring omissions from this list and wish to correct such an injustice, please email me your suggestions. Enjoy!
Holiday movies, music and more
Open Access Week: State of Open Data
Figshare this week released the results of its global survey of 2,000 researchers. The report, “The State of Open Data,” highlights the extent of awareness around open data, the incentives around its use, and perspectives researchers have about making their own research data open. This accompanying infographic summarizes the reports key findings: