Paley Library will close early this Thursday, February 4.
Instead of closing at 2 am (Friday morning) the Library will close at midnight.
All operations in the Paley and Tuttleman Building are affected by this early closure.
We are closing owing to a building repair that requires a water shutdown at midnight.
All operations will resume at Friday, Feb. 5 at 7:00 am.
Paley Library is open Sunday January 24 from noon to 2 am – those are our regular operating hours.
The Paley Library “ASK HERE” desk will be closed. Those needing research assistance should use our Virtual Chat Service, which will be staffed from noon to 8:00 pm Sunday.
The Paley Media Services Desk is open noon to 10:00 pm on Sunday the 24th.
The Science and Engineering Library is normal hours on Sunday the 24th.
The Ambler Library is always closed on Sundays.
The Ginsburg Health Sciences Library is open at11:00 am on Sunday the 24th.
This blog post will update if and when our operations change throughout the weekend.
For information about any specific service desk or unit, check the Libraries operating hours calendar.
You can also call the Paley Library Circulation Desk at 215-204-0744 for information.
You are an undergrad student. You use Temple Libraries. Or maybe not.
Either way, you’d like to be more involved in shaping the future of the Temple Libraries.
If so, we are looking for you.
We have openings for 3-4 undergraduate students to join our Temple Libraries Student Advisory Board.
Here’s what you need to know:
The Temple Libraries Student Advisory Board is comprised of a diverse group of undergraduate and graduate students who represent the various opinions and concerns of the entire student body regarding the libraries. The Board provides a forum for students to make suggestions to library administrators and for library administrators to solicit advice from students about library programs and services.
The Board includes the Dean of the Libraries, the Associate University Librarian and 6-8 students.
The Board meets two or three times a semester. Meetings are one hour. Advance preparation is rarely necessary.
While students who are familiar with the libraries are preferred, any student regardless of their degree of library use is welcome to serve on the Advisory Board. We are looking for students who care about their university library and wish to represent students on library-related issues.
If you’d like to get involved in the future of Temple Libraries submit an application for consideration.
Temple Libraries announces an update to its policy regarding the replacement of lost or damaged books:
Effective January 1, 2016 Temple University Libraries will institute the following changes regarding lost and damaged materials.
The replacement fee for a damaged, long overdue or lost book is $100.00 per item.
Replacement copies are no longer accepted.
When long overdue or lost books are returned the $100.00 per item is removed but patrons are still responsible for applicable overdue fines.
Please note that Media Services will continue to accept new, sealed copies of DVDs as replacements, as these items require less staff time to process. Please consult with Media Services staff prior to ordering a replacement to ensure that you are ordering an identical edition to the lost or damaged item.
There are many good reasons to use open textbooks instead of costly commercially published textbooks. The obvious one is that it saves students a great deal of money. Faculty support that but may be hesitant to adopt an open textbook for their course over concerns of quality and impact on learning.
A new study by three researchers, one of whom is David Wiley, the prominent advocate for open education, may help to convince faculty that there is value in adopting open textbooks – and not just because of the savings for students. Open textbooks, in this study, proved beneficial to student learning.
“A multi-institutional study of the impact of open textbook adoption on the learning outcomes of postsecondary students” is by far the largest study of its kind conducted to date—nearly 5000 postsecondary students using OER and over 11,000 control students using commercial textbooks, distributed among ten institutions across the United States, enrolled in 15 different undergraduate courses. So what did the researchers learn?
In three key measures of student success—course completion, final grade of C- or higher, course grade– students whose faculty chose OER generally performed as well or better than students whose faculty assigned commercial textbooks. The article does discuss the challenge of identifying and using appropriate measures of student learning, but the findings should encourage faculty who may be averse to open educational resources.
The findings support the experience of Temple University faculty that have participated in our local Alternate Textbook Project. Their evaluations of student outcomes often confirm that replacing the commercial textbook with alternate learning content (including licensed library content in many cases) leads to improved student engagement with learning materials which results in better academic performance. If you are interested in additional information about open textbooks, OER or our Alternate Textbook Project contact Steven Bell, Association University Librarian(bells at temple.edu).
Will the Temple Libraries be open during the Papal visit weekend?
If so, which ones and what will the hours of operation be? Here is a listing of our operations from Friday, September 25 through Monday, September 28.
Paley Library will be open throughout this period as follows:
Friday – 9 am to 5 pm
Saturday – 9 am to 7 pm
Sunday – Noon to 2 am
Monday – 8 am to 2 am
Please be aware that even though Paley is open it will be operating with limited staff and services. The only service desk location that will be staffed is the Access Services desk in Tuttleman. You will only be able to enter the Library through the Bell Tower entrance.
All guest computing services are suspended from Friday, September 25 through Monday, September 28 at 1 pm. No applications for guest computing or guest borrowing will be accepted during this period.
Those with research questions can obtain assistance through our virtual Ask-a-Librarian service. It will be available 9-5 Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The Science and Engineering Library located in the Engineering Building is closed from Friday, September 25 through Monday, September 28 at 1 pm.
The Ambler Campus Library is closed on Friday, September 25, open from 9 am to 5 pm on Saturday, September 26 and then closed for Sunday, September 27 and the morning of Monday, September 28.
The Health Sciences Libraries, Ginsburg and Podiatry, will be closed Friday, September 25 through Monday, September 28 at 1 pm.
All other service units such as the Special Collections Research Center, Media Services Desk, Blockson Collection, etc. are closed until Monday, September 28 at 1 pm.
For more information please call the Access Services Desk at 215-204-0744.
Starting today, Thursday, April 23, at 8:00 am, Paley Library will stay open continuously through Wednesday, May 6 at 8:00 pm.
By staying open 24/7 throughout finals, Temple Libraries provides students with a convenient study space…with all the amenities of a research library – but that’s not all.
We are once again having therapy dogs visiting the library to help students relieve exam week stress – and we have increased the number of visits by the dogs. Check the schedule to find out when the dogs will be at Paley Library.
We’ll also be providing coffee and cookies at 10:00 pm on April 30, May 1, May 4 and May 5. On Sunday, May 3 we’ll have coffee and muffins at noon. Quantities are limited.
Students enjoy the free refreshments at Paley during finals
Make Paley Library your primary study spot for making it through finals.
Do you want to save students money by not requiring them to buy a textbook?
Do you want to improve student learning?
Do you want to offer students access to more digital learning content?
If you answered “yes” to the above then please consider applying for one of ten Alternate Textbook Project awards. Faculty members whose proposals are accepted receive an award of $1,000 to subsidize the preparation of their alternate textbook.
Both full and part-time faculty are eligible. Proposals must address how the current commercial textbook will be replaced with learning material that is available at no cost to the students. This could include open educational resources (OER) and licensed library materials, such as scholarly articles, e-book chapters and educational video.
To date 37 Temple faculty have received alternate textbook awards and have so far saved Temple students over $300,000 in textbook costs.
Please consider applying for an alternate textbook award.
Proposals are now being accepted through the deadline of April 30, 2015. Awards will be announced by May 15, 2015.
For more information and the proposal submission form go to the Alternate Textbook Project information guide.
The Alternate Textbook Project is sponsored by the TLTR2 and Temple University Libraries.
Open Education Week is coordinated by the The Open Education Consortium, an association of hundreds of institutions and organizations around the world that are committed to the ideals of open education. Universities, colleges, schools and organizations from all over the world have come together to showcase what they’re doing to make education more open, free, and available to everyone.
Open Education Week is an effort to bring more attention to open courses, such as those offered by Coursera and EdX, and open educational resources (OER). OER is more than just learning content that is freely available on the web, although much of it is freely available, such as OpenStax textbooks. But to be truly “open” these resources should meet the criteria of the “5 Rs”. Those Rs stand for:
OER therefore is not only free, but allows other scholars to make all types of uses of that content in repurposing it for learning and further sharing.
Temple University Libraries supports OER by encouraging faculty to stop using costly commercial textbooks and instead use open educational content supplemented by licensed library content (the latter which is free to Temple students and faculty but not “open”). One vehicle to support that activity is the Alternate Textbook Project. To date it has enabled 35 faculty to stop using a commercial textbook. Since the launch of this project in 2011, Temple students have saved over $300,000 in textbook costs.
Take some time during Open Education Week to learn more about how faculty members are sharing their educational materials through open repositories such as MERLOT, a website where faculty can contribute and find peer-reviewed learning content, such as presentations, tutorials and quizzes. Many faculty use MERLOT resources in their courses to help support an alternate textbook. Complete open textbooks may be found by using the Open Textbook Library, a searchable catalog of open texbooks. If you have any questions about the Alternate Textbook Project or OER, contact Steven Bell, Associate University Librarian at bells @ temple.edu
In support of National Engineers’ WeekTemple Libraries hosted several events at Paley Library. In addition to a 3D printing demonstration, engineering students hosted a maker event for non-engineers on February 24 and 27, 2015.
The project had students making a digital LED die. It is a kit that is created specifically for maker events to expose people who have little experience with making anything to the challenge of building a small electronic device. It’s a great way for people to discover they have the ability to build things with their hands.
student builds digital LED die at Paley Library
. With soldering irons in hand, five students – with little making experience among them – built their die under the watchful guidance of the engineering students (Tori Slack, Qianguo Ren and Stephanie Bui). The Libraries provided the kits, while the engineering students brought the soldering irons, tools and their expertise.
Making events are growing in popularity at college libraries as students are taking more interest in getting experiences where they use their hands to put something together. When the Digital Scholarship Center opens up at Paley Library in the fall of 2015 the Libraries will sponsor more maker events. If you are interested in learning more about maker events contact Steven Bell, Associate University Librarian.
Engineering student Tori Slack helps two students build their die