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Senior books due Thursday, 5/12
Seniors – All Reed, Summit, and ILL books are due Thursday, May 12. You must return all books or pay for any missing before you receive your diploma. If you have any questions, please email library-circ@reed.edu.
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Library hours Renn Fayre
The Reed College Library will close at 8p on Fri/Sat, 4/29-4/30. Thesis parade in the library starts at 4p Friday (seniors only). Reference service will end at 5 pm on Friday, 4/29 and resume at 1 pm on Sunday, 5/1. The IMC will be closed Sat/Sun, 4/30-5/1 The PARC will close at 3p Fri, 4/29…
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Guerrilla Girls
April 11- May 3, 2016 Flat and Wall Cases The Guerrilla Girls are a small group of women outraged at the inequality in the art world over how few women are shown, reviewed, selected as playwrights, or accepted but also in the larger world of women’s rights, status, and politics. The library owns a large…
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The Book of Kells: Insular Script & Celtic Decoration
March 10 – May 31, 2016 Flat and Wall Cases The new exhibit focuses on the Book of Kells and its Insular Script, a half-uncial form of handwriting, and Celtic ornamentation. The library’s excellent facsimile of the Book of Kells (1990) is on display along with other research on the manuscript, a note about Celtic…
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Library hours spring break
The library will close at 8p on Friday, 3/18 and Saturday, 3/19. The IMC will be closed 3/19-3/20, and 3/26. Monday-Friday, open noon-5p. Regular hours resume Sunday, 3/27. All other library branches are open regular hours.
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IMC Feature – Happy Birthday Clara “Theremin” Rockmore!
3/9/16 would have been the inimitable Clara Rockmore’s 105th birthday. To celebrate, today’s Google Doodles features a virtual theremin with a lesson! If this piques your interest, check out our IMC feature on all things theremin.
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Spring 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…
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Weekend hours 1/23-1/24
The library will be open 10a-5p this weekend, January 23-24. All branches will resume regular hours on Monday, January 25.
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Library Paideia Sessions
Wednesday, Jan 20 Rare to Medium Rare Books Mark Kuestner. 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Library 014 Illuminated manuscripts and early printed books, antiquarian maps and Simeon Reed’s dog’s collar. Come see behind locked doors and between the most rare and intriguing covers. Calligraphy and scrounger trading cards, fore-edge painting and the Beat Poets. View…
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Fall thesis books due and winter break renewals
Spring/Fall seniors – please return all of your books by midnight 12/17. If there are extenuating circumstances, email library-circ@reed.edu For students with books due over break, you can renew them online by logging into your library account. Summit books are not renewable. Have a wonderful winter break!
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