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Science Treasures in the Reed Library
January 16th – March 31, 2009 Library flat and wall cases Come see the science treasures from Reed library’s special collections. Early scientific texts that look simple today may have been seminal for their time, and many are accompanied by strange and wonderful illustrations. Reed owns numerous examples documenting significant milestones in science. The exhibit…
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Library Paideia Events
Please join us in the library for these great sessions: Reed Library’s Science Treasures Friday. Jan. 23, 10:30 am Come see the scientific treasures of Reed’s special collections. All fields of science are documented in early printed works, often in strange and wonderful illustrations and texts, and Reed owns many examples from Pliny the Elder’s…
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Planned CONTENTdm Outage and New Viewer/Workspace Launch
The Reed Digital Collections in CONTENTdm will be unavailable Tuesday Jan. 20th during a planned server outage. When service is restored on Wednesday, Reed’s CONTENTdm collections will have a new look and feel: There will be a new viewer, which optimizes the image and features more streamlined tools/controls. There will be a new, enhanced “My…
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Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry trial
Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry is designed to be a one-stop reference for all poetry-related research and learning. It features 450,000 poem citations, 250,000 of which are full text, users can browse by poem, poet, commentaries, and glossary terms. Users can also search by era, school or movement of poetry, nationality, language, cultural identity, and…
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ScienceDirect planned outage – 1/10/2009
Journals available via ScienceDirect will not be accessible on Saturday, 10 January for approximately eight hours starting at 11:30 a.m. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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Research in Dance Education trial
in TrialsReed College Library is offering trial access to the Research in Dance Education database through December 16th. Research in Dance Education is an index to research and literature in dance education written from 1926 to the present. If you try use it, do let us know what you think. Provide feedback to: Jack Levine 777-7552…
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Nov 15-16 American Chemical Society Publications website will be unavailable
On the weekend of November 15-16, 2008, beginning at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, the ACS Publications website will be unavailable while they update their site. A flash-based demo showcasing many of the features and benefits of the new site is available at: http://pubs.acs.org/flashdemo
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Passport GMID trial
Reed College Library is offering trial access to Passport GMID through the end of November. Passport GMID provides access to business and economic statistics, market reports, consumer trend information from around the world. If you try use it, do let us know what you think. Provide feedback to: Dena Hutto Director of Reference & Instruction…
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New digital image workstations in the library
Looking for digital images to view or use in papers and presentations? Looking for a scanner? Come use the new digital image workstations in the library, located upstairs in the reference room and downstairs in the IMC. These dual-screen workstations are available for students to work with images and graphics, and contain software programs such…
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Shakespeare Survey
in TrialsShakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of the previous year’s textual and critical studies and of major British performances. The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production…
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