Trial of VAST – streaming video

VAST is a new interdisciplinary collection of streaming videos from Alexander Street Press including –

.    84 videos in Area Studies Video Online
.    147 videos in Art and Architecture Video Online
.    91 videos in Business and Economics Video Online
.    124 videos in Politics and Current Affairs Video Online
.    225 videos in Ethnic Studies Video Online
.    126 videos in Health and Healthcare in Video
.    173 videos in Humanities Video Online
.    197 videos in Criminal Justice and Law in Video
.    92 videos in World Languages and Literature in Video
.    115 videos in Philosophy and Religious Studies in Video
.    92 videos in Psychology Video Online
.    111 videos in Science Video Online
.    88 videos in Women’s and Gender Studies Video Online

Videos can be linked or embedded on webpages.  Each video has a full transcript and an editor for making clips.  Please send any feedback to Jim Holmes

Trial of Jewish Studies Source

Jewish Studies Source (JSS) presents a multidisciplinary view into the study of Jewish civilization from its historical origins to the present. JSS contains the full-text of many academic journals, biographies of leading historical and contemporary Jews, and relevant coverage from major periodicals and newspapers – including the entire Jewish Telegraphic Agency database from 1922 to present.

Please send any feedback to Joanna Burgess.

AV equipment for checkout in the IMC

In addition to headphones, projectors, DVD players, speakers, and screens, you can now check out laptops and camcorders from the IMC.  Laptops check out until the end of the day (midnight Sun-Thur, 6p Fri, 5p Sat) and are for library use only.  Camcorders check out for 3 days.  If you would like to ensure availability of any IMC resource, email Jim Holmes.

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.