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Another EndNote Workshop added
If you are just getting started organizing citations for your thesis or a paper, help is here! In this session we will look at EndNote and EndNote Web, two fabulous citation management options available for the Reed community. We will overview some of the programs’ capabilities and how well they play with others. 5 pm…
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Answers about the new Summit
Most of you have heard the news that in the next six months, the Summit catalog will be upgraded and improved. We know you probably have questions and concerns about what this will mean for you and your research.   The Orbis Cascade Alliance has prepared answers to common questions about the transition to the new…
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CONTENTdm back online!
Reed’s CONTENTdm Digital Collections are back online. You no longer need to log in from campus to search and browse Reed’s CONTENTdm Digital Collections. (Though advanced “My Workspace” features do require login.) For off campus access to restricted collections, please use the library’s remote access proxy (http://reed.edu/cis/help/proxy-overview.html). If you have any questions or concerns, please…
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EndNote Workshops: Save Yourself a Lot of Hassle
If you are just getting started organizing citations for your thesis or a paper, help is here! In this session we will look at EndNote and EndNote Web, two fabulous citation management options available for the Reed community. We will overview some of the programs’ capabilities and how well they play with others. 4 p.m.,…
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ContentDM Digital Collections downtime
We are making changes to Reed’s CONTENTdm system so that some collections can be made publicly available. These changes will also affect how you connect to restricted collections, such as Art & Architecture, Classics & Humanities, and others. The Classics Image Database and all CONTENTdm image collections will be unavailable as we implement these changes,…
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Psychiatry Online trial
The library is providing a trial subscription to Psychiatry Online published by American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. The trial concludes Sept. 11, 2008. The primary publications available on the site include the DSM-IV-TR®, DSM-IV-TR® Handbook of Differential Diagnosis and DSM Cases. Also included are the full text articles from these journals: American Journal of Psychiatry 1…
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Changes in Summit borrowing
The Orbis Cascade Alliance is a consortium of 35 Northwest academic libraries. Through its membership in this group Reed participates in the Alliance union catalog (Summit) and the patron initiated borrowing system Summit supports. Over the course of the next few months the consortium will be migrating the Summit union catalog to a different platform.…
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A. E. Doyle’s Architectural Library
May 12 – August 2008 Library flat cases A. E. Doyle, an important Oregon architect, designed the iconic first buildings at Reed: Eliot Hall and the Old Dorm Block. His architectural library, acquired by Reed in the 1990s, is now accessible to all in the library’s special collections; selections from it are on display in…
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New Online Language Dictionaries Added
The Oxford Language Dictionaries Online recently added Russian and Chinese to its French, Italian, Spanish, and German languages. You now have access to over 4 million words, translations and phrases in six languages. Native speaker audio pronunciation has also been added.
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Summit downtime Sept 6th & 7th
Summit will be down beginning late Saturday night, Sept. 6, through Sunday morning Sept. 7 about 11 AM. Please let a librarian know if you have any questions. We’re very sorry for the inconvenience.
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