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Some FirstSearch Databases Not Available
in DatabasesFour of our FirstSearch databases are temporarily unavailable: Art Abstracts EconLit MLA RIPM Access should be restored by Wednesday morning. UPDATE: All FirstSearch databases are now working.
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Library Tours August 27 – 29
in WorkshopsNew to Reed and want to know more about the library, but don’t live in a dorm? In addition to our regularly scheduled Dorm Tours, librarians will be offering “drop-in” tours. Tours will last about 30 minutes and include a short orientation of the main level plus a demonstration of a few resources you can…
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Reed Student Literary Magazines
The history of creative writing at Reed is a lively and long one. Over thirty different titles, edited and published by students, have appeared since the founding of the college. Some titles were seen only once while several ran for over a decade. Major authors and poets had their student pieces published at Reed, including…
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English Short-Title Catalog Changes
in DatabasesFor over 20 years RLG has offered access to the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC). RLG access to the ESTC will be discontinued June 30, 2007. If you use it and have it bookmarked to the RLG site, it is now available for free from the British Library at: http://estc.bl.uk.
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Reed Campus Heritage
in ExhibitsThis exhibit shows a small selection of the many architectural drawings, historic photographs, and archival documents held in the library’s special collections. These and many other materials were used by consultants in architectural, landscape, and preservation history retained by Reed under a 2004 grant from the Getty Foundation in their Campus Heritage Initiative. The resultant…
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The Reed College Women’s Committee: 50 Years of Service
A celebration of five decades of work presenting lectures, awarding scholarships, and supporting Reed College. This exhibit honors the Committee, now in its final year, and its many activities which have greatly enriched Reed and the Portland community. Library flat and wall cases. September 2006
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2004-2005
New Books by Faculty Twenty-three books by current faculty members published since 2000 are on disply in the library cases. These titles present a diverse and vibrant body of intellectual pursuits leavened by at least one lighter study. Almost every subject field is represented as is the broad range of faculty expertise and curiosity, from…
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2003-2004
Beat Poets The connection between Reed College and the Beat Poets is a strong one. Three central figures from the movement, started in 1955 with a poetry reading in in San Francisco at Six Gallery, are Reed friends and graduates: Gary Snyder ’51, Philip Whalen ’51, and Lew Welch ’50. Influenced by their “poetic endeavors”…
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