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  • Open Access Week: Journals & Scholarly Communication

    Open Access Week: Journals & Scholarly Communication

    As part of a growing trend toward increased access, many scholars are choosing to publish in an Open Access format. Services like the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) index “high quality, peer_reviewed Open Access research journals, periodicals and their articles’ metadata.” (doaj.org) More than 2 million articles from 900 different journals are available in…

  • Reed Archives, Early Writing and Printing, and more available in the new Reed Digital Collections

    Reed Archives, Early Writing and Printing, and more available in the new Reed Digital Collections

    Join us on our march toward a better digital collections future! Several more collections have migrated to our new system, as of today. Visit the following in the new Reed Digital Collections (RDC) interface: Reed College Archives Early Printing & Writing Collection The Cooley Art Gallery exhibit collection Three illuminated manuscripts: The Beatus vir Psalter and…

  • Fall break library hours

    Fall break library hours

    Fall Break • regular hours except – Library Fri 10/14 8am-8pm Sat 10/15 10am-8pm Reference Closed, Sat 10/15 and Sun 10/16 On Call, Mon 10/17 – Fri 10/21, 10am-5pm IMC Closed, Sat 10/15 and Sun 10/16 Noon-5pm, Mon 10/17 – Fri 10/21 Closed, Sat 10/22 PARC Closed, Sat 10/15 and Sun 10/16 1pm-5pm, Mon 10/17…

  • 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…

  • Thesis Desk Lottery

    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, September 12. …

  • Weekend hours 8/27-8/28 and Labor Day 9/5

    Weekend hours 8/27-8/28 and Labor Day 9/5

    The library will be open 10a-5p on Saturday/Sunday 8/27-8/28.  Regular hours resume Monday 8/29.  We will close on Sunday at midnight 9/4 – open 10a-5p on Labor Day 9/5.

  • Realia: Objects from the Archives

    Realia: Objects from the Archives

    August 4 – mid-November 2016. Flat and Wall Cases The new exhibit in the library’s flat and wall cases is “Realia: Objects from the Archives”. The Reed College Special Collections contain many objects from the history of the college, its founders, and its activities. These are documented and stored in the library’s many rooms devoted…

  • New interface for Reed Digital Collections (RDC)

    New interface for Reed Digital Collections (RDC)

    Reed Digital Collections (RDC) is getting a new interface! 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. We will be moving to the new system slowly. As of today, the Art & Architecture collection,…

  • End of semester library hours and information

    End of semester library hours and information

    Thursday, May 12  :  closed at midnight – all senior books due Friday, May 13  :  8:00am – 5:00pm – all student books due Saturday, May 14  :  10:00am – 4:00pm Sunday, May 15  :  CLOSED Monday, May 16, Commencement Day: 8:30am – 11:00am & 2:00pm –  5:00pm Reminders Seniors:  Return all library books before…