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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…
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Video trial, The Paley Center for Media
The Paley Center iCollection has over 15,000 full-length video programs. The collection is focused largely on the performing arts and history, covering a span of almost 100 years in 70 countries. Please send any feedback to Jim Holmes. Paley iCollection
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New exhibit: 100 YEARS AGO
Through August 2011 In the long display cases, located just past the circulation desk An exhibition of objects, photographs, and documents that chronicle Reed’s beginnings. Many of our earliest traditions, such as Campus Day (pictured) and the Tug-of-War, are illustrated.
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Help Build the Digital Thesis Tower!
Seniors, contribute your thesis to the searchable eTheses archive in Reed Digital Collections at: https://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…
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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…
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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…
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Exhibit: Leslie Scalapino ’66 – Experimental Poet
February 4 – April 1, 2011 in the library flat and wall cases Leslie Scalapino ’66 is acclaimed as one of America’s most innovative poets who has more than 40 published works to her name that span poetry, prose, prose-poems, and plays from the mid-1970s through 2011. Forty of her works along with her Reed…
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IMC Feb. feature – watch local
We’re jumping on the shop/eat/drink/play/stay local bandwagon with this month’s feature – “watch local”. This list of films includes those with local ties to writers, directors, actors and film locales in and around Portland. “Video” in the call# means VHS tape – those old giant tapes that your parents used to watch. And remember you…
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Trial of Women and Social Movements International
The library is currently running a trial of Women and Social Movements International. It is comprised of primary documents from women activists from 1840 – Present Women and Social Movements International is a new database, meant to complement Women and Social Movements in the United States, to which Reed currently subscribes. Our trial runs until…
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Same-site requesting now available
The Library is trying out a new service for Reed faculty, staff and students. You can now place a request for a book or circulating DVD that is available on the shelf through either the Reed only catalog or WorldCat Local (the Summit/WorldCat catalog). We will retrieve the item and place it on the hold shelf. …
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