Summit and the new Reed catalog (WorldCat Local) will be unavailable from 11pm on Saturday 12/12 to 3am on Sunday 12/13 while maintenance is performed. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you need to search the Reed catalog during this time, please use the Reed-only catalog.
Library end of semester hours
The library will be open continuously (24-hours a day) beginning 8:00am, Thursday, Dec. 10, and will close at midnight on Thursday, Dec. 17.
Winter Break hours:
Fri. Dec. 18 8:00am – 5:00pm
Sat. – Sun., Dec. 19-20 CLOSED
Mon. – Wed., Dec. 21-23 8:30am – 5:00pm
Thu. Dec. 24 – Sun. Jan. 3 CLOSED
Tues. Jan. 4 – Fri. Jan. 22
– Mon. – Fri. 8:30am – 5:00pm
– CLOSED Weekends
– CLOSED Mon. Jan. 18 (MLK Jr. Day)
Sat. Jan 23 – Sun. Jan. 24 10:00am – 5:00pm
Regular Hours Resume Monday, January 25.
Mon. – Thurs. 8:00am – 2:30am
Fri. 8:00am – 12:00midnight
Sat. 10:00am – 12:00midnight
Sun. 10:00am – 2:30am
Reminders:
Clear all items from non-thesis desks and tables by Friday, Dec. 18 (5:00pm).
Clear all thesis desktops by Friday, December 18 (5:00pm). Books may remain on shelves above.
Seniors planning to begin a thesis in the Spring should sign up for the thesis desk lottery at the circulation desk by Thursday, February 4. The lottery will be held on Wednesday, February 10 at noon.
Access Naxos Music Library on your iPhone
Already a fan of Reed Library’s online streaming audio collections? Have an iPhone? Now you can take the music with you, wherever you go! Download Naxos Music Library’s free app from the iTunes store and access your personal Naxos playlists via your iPhone.
Spring 09 pilot digital theses now available!
Visit the new electronic theses collection in Reed Digital Collections. You can view all the theses, or do an advanced search. Are there other ways you would like to browse the eTheses collection? Email us and let us know at etheses@lists.reed.edu!
Help build the archive! Submit your senior thesis here.
EndNote Web Upgrade
Thomson Reuters will be performing an upgrade to Endnote Web starting Friday, November 20 at 9:00pm EST and ending by Sunday, November 22 at 10:00am EST. During this time, users will not be able to login to their Endnote Web account at https://www.myendnoteweb.com/. More information about the upgrade is available on EndNote’s site.
Orlando Trial
We have a 30 day trial for Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. Give it a try between now and 12/15/09.
Please send any comments to:
Jack Levine – Acquisitions Librarian – jlevine@reed.edu
Summit and new Reed catalog downtime
Summit and the new Reed catalog (WorldCat Local) will be unavailable from 11pm on Saturday 11/7 to 3am on Sunday 11/8 while maintenance is performed. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you need to search the Reed catalog during this time, please use the Reed-only catalog.
Serials review update
We are happy to report some preliminary numbers from the big serials review project we’ve been working on this year.
Number of titles cancelled completely: 186
Cost savings: $61,774.80
Number of print titles converted to online only: 416
Cost savings: $121,083.54
Number of bound volumes withdrawn: 5877
Number of those volumes sent to other institutions: 4930
Number of shelves emptied:Â 245
Thanks to all of our terrific faculty partners in this project. It’s been a big undertaking but the cost savings and shelf-spaced gained have been well worth it!
Measure for Measure exhibit
A new theatre exhibit, constructed by Rosa Schneider ’10, explores the inspirations for the production (in partial fulfillment of a thesis project by Allison Rangel) of William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. The exhibit includes pictures from other productions, costume renderings and a set model, constructed by faculty members Darrin Pufall
and Kristeen Crosser. The play will be presented in the Reed Theatre on Nov. 6, 7, 12, 13, and 14 at 7:30
Print and E-Journal list outage
The Print and E-Journal list may be unavailable from 12am to 2am on Saturday, October 24. This will also affect the links to full-text articles from within databases. We apologize for an inconvenience.