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About Reed College Digital Collections

Reed College Digital Collections consists of more than 80,000 images and other digital materials, including works of art, photographs, maps, and primary source documents. The collections are maintained in Reed’s CONTENTdm digital asset management system, which has been designed to support the use of digital materials in the curriculum, to provide in-class presentation and teaching tools, and to facilitate access to the collections outside of class for study and research.

Reed College received grants from the Keck and Booth Ferris Foundations to acquire a digital content management system (CONTENTdm), hire staff, and acquire content to support teaching with digital images. The digital asset management program is an active collaboration between Computing and Information Services, the library, and the Visual Resources Collection. Staff from these departments work in collaboration with faculty members to maintain and build collections, enhance system capabilities and design customized web interfaces, and develop metadata and cataloging practices to support access to the digital collections. The result is a dynamic, central repository that supports Reed’s curriculum for students and faculty inside and outside the classroom.

For more information about the history of the collections, visit:
http://www.reed.edu/digital_asset_mgmt/grant_overview.html

Standards & Metadata

• Art & Architecture Data Dictionary (PDF)
• Visual Resources Collection Workflow Outline (PDF)
• Collection Development & Workflow (PDF)

Copyright & Image Usage

Images in Reed Digital Collections digital collections are provided to support research, teaching and study and may be used for education purposes only. Reed College students, faculty, and staff may use images for in-class display, as well as academic presentations, papers, assignments, and senior theses. Cite the source of the image as "Reed Digital Collections" and when available also add the statement "Courtesy of [individual/organization listed as Copyright Holder]" or "Public domain image." Unless an image's Copyright Holder is "public domain," uses other than those described above - such as inclusion in a published or commercial work or a non-Reed-password-protected website - may require permission from the copyright holder.

For more information about copyright, please visit:
http://www.reed.edu/policies/copyright_guide.html

For more information about citing images, please visit:
http://academic.reed.edu/image-workstation/citing.html

Access to Collections

Access to some Reed College digital collections is restricted to Reed students, faculty, and staff. Restricted collections are accessible off campus through the library's remote access proxy (see proxy setup instructions). You must also log in – both on and off campus – using your email/kerberos username and password in order to utilize My Workspace features such as galleries and slideshows.

Ask Us a Question or Get Involved

For help finding images, you may wish to visit the Visual Resources Collection.

For questions or information about CONTENTdm, including creating a new collection for your images or other digital materials, please email contentdm@lists.reed.edu.