On July 1, 2015, after beta testing in June (thank you, testers), the Special Collections Research Center is launching its new ‘Aeon’ system—an on-line user registration, request, and circulation tracking system.

Aeon  was developed by Atlas Systems, Inc. and replaces hand-written paper registration forms and call slips, in-house databases, Excel spreadsheets, and many other forms of tracking, with a single, centralized system for all special collections and archives circulation functions. Researchers can register online, request items from home by clicking on a “request item” link within Temple’s Diamond catalog and SCRC finding aids, and monitor their use of materials within their own accounts. Staff can track a book or box’s travels from the stacks to the reading room, exhibition, class presentation, cataloging, or digitization and back again to the stacks. 

Used by over 40 special collections and archives units in academic and independent research libraries all over the country, Aeon improves the user experience, generates reliable statistics, provides better collection security, and informs collection development.   Aeon’s usefulness is recognized across the archives and special collections research community, and researchers enjoy the familiar interface that speeds their work at major research institutions, including,  locally, the University of Pennsylvania and the American Philosophical Society.

Sign up for your SCRC Researcher Account today and engage with the rich and varied special collections and archives that Temple University Libraries offers it students and faculty, scholars from all over the world, and the general public.