RARE TO MEDIUM RARE BOOKS
(Gay)
Illuminated manuscripts and early printed books, antiquarian maps and Simeon Reed’s dinnerware. Come see treasures from behind locked doors and between the most rare and intriguing covers. Calligraphy and scrounger trading cards, fore-edge paintings and the Beat Poets. View highlights from the library’s special collections!
Meet in the archives, L014 on lower level 2 (under the IMC).
Tuesday, Jan. 17th (canceled due to weather)
2pm
Thursday, Jan. 19th
11am
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ARTISTS’ BOOKS
(Gay)
What is an artist’s book? See the amazing variety of artists’ books in the library’s special collections. We will look at a wide range of book creations made by artists, and some by Reed students, from the 1960s to the present. Presented in the Pierce Room behind the locked door on lower level one.
Meet in library lobby.
Wednesday, Jan. 18th
11am
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SECRET LIBRARY TOUR
(Gay, Linda, Laura)
Description: Have you ever wondered where all those locked doors go in the library? Why there are grotesques but not gargoyles? What are those strange collections up the spiral staircase in the Pollock Room? Let us take you on a tour of discovery. You can amaze your friends with your esoteric knowledge and learn more about your library home-away-from-home.
Meet in library lobby.
Tuesday, Jan. 17th (canceled due to weather)
11am
Wednesday, Jan. 18th
2pm
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INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Beth Platte (Instructional Technology) and Angie Beiriger (Digital Assets Librarian)
This course will introduce participants to the theory and methodology of Digital Humanities. The class will address the question of what data in the humanities looks like for a variety of research projects, considering, for instance, what’s appropriate for a semester paper, versus a thesis or a longer professional research project. We’ll look at a variety of Digital Humanities projects as examples, and, given time, we’ll explore a few simple tools.
Wednesday, January 18 at 9:00am to 10:30am. ETC 205
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Using Open Tools to Remix Images and More
(David, Angie, Amy, Laura, Jim)
The Internet is full of images, audio, or video just waiting for your tweaks and personality. Learn how to find existing open resources and re-mix them without worrying about copyright. This session will demo resources for finding open images, audio, video, and the software you will need to edit them. There will be time for hands-on participation as we re-use, re-make, and re-define digital objects.
Library L17
Wednesday, Jan. 18
3pm
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Project Pericles – Debating for Democracy Letter Writing Competition
(Joe, Sonia Sabnis, Meredith Dickinson and Carla Mann)
Still in progress; guiding students on how to research issues they might want to write to a legislator about
Eliot 116
Thursday, Jan 19
1pm
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LLOYD REYNOLDS & CALLIGRAPHY AT REED
Description: Lloyd Reynolds was the “Father of Calligraphy” at Reed College and literally brought calligraphy to the Pacific Northwest. Self-taught in the 1930s, his calligraphy classes were wildly popular and his impact long-lasting and now alive and well in the weekly Scriptorium on campus. Come see his library, papers, artwork, and evidence of his impact on campus.
Meet in the Library Lobby
Thursday, Jan. 19th
2pm
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Beth Platte (Instructional Technology) and Angie Beiriger (Digital Assets Librarian)
This course covers the various kinds of textual, literary, and linguistic analysis that are possible using digital methods. We will look at Digital Humanities projects to understand the sorts of research questions that computer-assisted text analysis can help to answer. This hands-on course will also introduce basic text encoding using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) schema and present various ways of digitizing texts.
Thursday, January 19 at 3:00pm to 4:30pm ETC 205