RDC

Reed Digital Collections

About Reed Digital Collections (RDC)

Reed Digital Collections (RDC) is a discovery and access system that provides digital materials to support instruction, scholarship, and research across the Reed curriculum. RDC includes thousands of digital items: images of artwork, maps, Reed theses, videos, and other primary sources.

The digital collections are stewarded by staff across library departments, primarily from Reed Special Collections and Archives and the Visual Resources Center (VRC).

If you have questions, please email rdc@groups.reed.edu.

Special Collections and Archives

Includes digitized Special Collections and Archives materials, including the Quest archives, historical photographs and documents, and more; the digital repository for senior and MALS theses, the Reed College Etheses Collection.

Visual Resources Center

Supports teaching and learning at Reed College by providing access to high-resolution licensed images for in-classroom use. The Art & Architecture digital collection is primarily used in Art History and Humanities 110 courses. Faculty and students have the ability to export individual images, share basket links, and more. The VRC also manages the Ara Pacis Augustae and the Studio Art Thesis Exhibition digital collections.