Larry Alford, Temple’s Dean of Libraries, has been named to head the board of OCLC, the Online Computer Library Center, one of the most important international library organizations and producer of the union catalog WorldCat. Here’s an article about the appointment in the Philadelphia Business Journal.
Liberating Traditions: Essays in Feminist Comparative Philosophy Edited by: Ashby Butnor and Jen McWeeny Feminist comparative philosophy is the practice of integrating feminist and non-Western philosophical traditions in an innovative way, while still being mindful of the unique particularity of each, in order to envision and enact a more liberatory world. East-West comparative philosophy and feminist philosophy already share much in terms of methodology: a hermeneutic of openness and respect for difference, a crossing of philosophical boundaries and traditions, a rejection of the dichotomy of theory and practice, and the pursuit of new ways of looking at the world. In this volume, we seek to show how bringing diverse philosophical traditions into dialogue with each other can provide fresh insights on questions of specific interest to feminists and global theorists generally. Comparative themes may include, but are by no means limited to:
We seek any philosophical papers that engage the intersection of feminist and non- Western philosophies. Although the collection will primarily consist of comparative essays involving Asian traditions, such as Indian philosophy, Chinese philosophy, or Japanese philosophy, we also invite submissions that address North/South comparative philosophy, including African, Latin American, and indigenous philosophies. Abstract Deadline (500 words): March 1, 2008 Completed Paper Deadline: July 1, 2008 Preliminary selection based on abstracts. Final selection based on completed papers (20-25 pgs. total). E-mail submissions and inquiries to both ashby.butnor@gmail.com or jmcsweeny@jsu.edu.
Article on Slate about the Renaissance of Latin: why a dead language is becoming so popular. Thanks to Robin Mitchell-Boyask for pointing this out. ————————————————————————————————————– Subject Guides Classics // Islamic Studies // Jewish Studies // Philosophy // Religion ————————————————————————————————————–
Some great new titles added to JSTOR Arts and Sciences Collection, including Arabica (from Brill), 1954-2001; Culture, Health, and Sexuality (Taylor and Francis), 1999-2003; Gender and Development (Taylor and Francis) 1993-2003; Iran and the Caucasus (Brill), 1997-2001; and Women’s Review of Books (Old City Publishing), 1983-2003. Here’s the full list. Remember that you can look up any Temple journals on Journal Finder. Here’s a list of new titles from CREDO Reference. CREDO is a large of collection of relatively small (usually one volume) reference works. I’d use this for traditional-type reference questions, people, places, dates, events, definitions and stuff like that. ————————————————————————————————————– Subject Guides Classics // Islamic Studies // Jewish Studies // Philosophy // Religion ————————————————————————————————————–
Some great news about ATLA, the primary database for religious studies. Now, instead of full-text external links to ATLASerials on the American Theological Library Association web site, the full-text PDF’s are available from within EBSCO, making this database much more user-friendly. The linking arrangement between EBSCO’s ATLA and ATLASerials was always a klunky affair: the links were hard to spot within the ATLA results lists and records, the full-text was difficult to navigate once you got there, and printing was annoying as well. This change should make use of ATLA much more efficient and enjoyable. Take a look! Fred ————————————————————————————————————– Subject Guides Classics // Islamic Studies // Jewish Studies // Philosophy // Religion ————————————————————————————————————–
South Asian Feminisms: Gender, Culture, and Politics University of Pennsylvania, March 28-29
Just finished going through the philosophy books published by the major American university presses between 1990-1999 to try to fill in books we did not currently own. Ended up ordering 126 books from the 1990’s that should be nice additions to our collection. To do this I searched 2016 books from WorldCat, a huge amount of work that left my wrists aching. If you’re interested, take a look at the list here:.
Started i n1997, The Journal of Religion and Film is an open access journal that provides articles, movie reviews, and book reviews on religion (loosely construed) and film. Most of the films discussed are feature films, few documentaries. Philosophical Films “is a non-profit resource for philosophy teachers who want to incorporate films into their classes.” Here are some links to content from these two sources. Check them out. Fight Club: an exploration of Buddhism Using “Homemade” Documentary Video in Religious Studies Visions of the End: Secular Apocalypse in Recent Hollywood Film Memento The Corporation Mindwalk Fred
In the past year OCLC and RLG, two very large database vendors, merged. The RLG Catalog is being merged with OCLC’s WorldCat and has been removed from our database lists. The RLG platform is fading away. All the databases that it supported will move to OCLC or other companies. Anthropology Plus and History of Science, Technology, and Medicine will now be available on the OCLC platform and Francis will move onto the CSA Illumina Platform. If you haven’t used any of the databases on CSA Illumina, like Philosopher’s Index,, Index Islamicus, and Sociological Abstracts, give them a try. It’s a nice interface and allows searching across multiple databases in broad subject areas (Arts and Humanities, , Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and Technology).
We have just added a new service to TUlink. The Find Articles by Citation form allows you to enter an article citation (or part of a citation) and let TUlink find the full-text for you.
As long as you enter at least a Journal Title, ISSN, DOI, or PMID, TUlink will try to get you a link. In many cases you will get a direct link to the full-text labeled “Article”. In some cases, the best TUlink can do is get you a “Journal” link that will take you to our electronic access to the journal where your citation is found. If Temple holds the journal in question in paper, you will get a link, and if TUlink cannot find any results it will direct you to an interlibrary loan form where you can request your article.
(More information on using the TUlink Find Articles by Citation form.)
In conjunction with this new addition we have slightly altered the “Find Articles” section of our library home page. We have added Find Articles “by Citation” to the list. Also, as part of this alteration, the list of “Only Full-Text” databases has been removed. The reasons for this are two fold: a) with the addition of TUlink, even if a database doesn’t have full-text in it, full-text access is a few clicks away through the “Find Full-Text’ icon; b) the full-text database list has gotten so long that it is no longer the small, useful subset of resources it once was.
–Derik A Badman,
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