Drop in for an early morning cup of coffee on Monday, December 5th, as Paley Library begins its 24/7 schedule until the end of the semester! Provided by Campus Safety Services, the free coffee will be located on the first floor of Paley between the elevators and the walkway to Tuttleman. Captain Eileen Bradley and her assistant Karin Wolok will be on hand to chat and answer questions. — Carol Lang
Placing Dance in New Communities: Preserving the Talley Beatty/Philadanco Legacy 
A special dance performance in Paley Library at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 28th, will highlight the opening of the latest exhibition mounted by the University Libraries’ Special Collections Department. The performance and opening will be followed by a small reception. The performance is of the solo, “Mourners Bench” from the 1947 masterwork, “Southern Lanscape,” choreographed by Talley Beatty. The exhibition and performance will be in the Lobby of the Samuel Paley Library with the reception in the Library’s Lecture Hall, Ground Floor. The afternoon program is one day of a week-long schedule of events which is the culmination of the project “Placing Dance in New Communities” produced by Temple Libraries’ Philadelphia Dance Collection, Bryn Mawr College, and Philadanco, with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Dance Advance (Pew Charitable Trusts). For more information about the Philadelphia Dance Collection and this grant-funded project, see the September 22nd issue of Temple Times. The exhibition, performance and reception are free and open to the public. For information, call 215-204-8230.
— Tom Whitehead
Do you have some catching up to do before classes resume on Tuesday? Paley Library will be open from 12:00 noon to 8:00 p.m. on Monday, September 5th, as well as from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 3rd. All other libraries will be closed for the 3-day Labor Day weekend. For a complete list of hours and exceptions for all library locations, click here.
You can now start your web-based research directly from all of the Libraries’ web services even if you’re off-campus. All you need is your browser and your AccessNet ID. Access to the Libraries’ restricted resources has never been easier! When you click on a link to a restricted resource in the Diamond catalog or anywhere on the Libraries’ web site, you’ll see the LibProxy login page. Simply enter your AccessNet username and password, — the same username and password you use for email or TUportal — click the “login” button, and search. Beginning August 29, JournalFinder will also be accessible this way. Your login will be valid until you end your session and close your browser. That means you only have to login once to search our entire selection of databases and ebooks. Off-campus users can still gain access to the restricted resources via TUportal or previous methods. If you use those, or are anywhere on campus, you won’t notice anything different. We hope you’ll find LibProxy makes your off-campus research much easier. If you have any questions, just contact Brian Schoolar, our Electronic Resources Librarian, at 215-204-3258 or jbrian@temple.edu. –Byron C. Mayes
The Temple Book Club calendar and selections for 2005-2006 are listed below. Discussions are open to anyone who is interested and generally run from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. in Paley Lecture Hall, which is located on the ground floor of Paley Library.
It’s always a lunchtime event, so you’re welcome to bring your lunch if you wish. Beverages and very light snacks are provided. If you would like to be added to the book club’s listserv or would like more information, contact Margaret Jerrido, mj@temple.edu or 215-204-6639.
September 22, 2005
West of Kabul, East of New York, by Tamim Ansary
A resource guide is available here.
October 27, 2005
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
November 17, 2005
The Honey Thief, by Elizabeth Graver
December 15, 2005
Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
January 26, 2006
Snow, by Orhan Pamuk
February 23, 2006
Freedomtown: A Novelette, by Jacqueline T. Small
(Ms. Small will be our guest author)
March 23, 2006
Family Resemblances, by Tanya Maria Barrientos
April 27, 2006
The Forbidden, by L. A. Banks
(Ms. Leslie Banks will be our guest author)
May 25, 2006
To be determined.
— Margaret Jerrido
On August 18th, Temple librarian Anne Harlow gave a presentation entitled “Musicians: Ambassadors for Peace” at a pre-concert talk for the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. She is a member of the Reference and Instructional Services Department in Paley Library and also serves as the library’s subject specialist in music, dance, and theater. Anne’s presentation was coordinated with a rare concert appearance of Van Cliburn with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Cliburn became a national hero when he won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958, in the midst of the Cold War, only a few months after the successful launching of Sputnik.
Anne’s research into cross-cultural communications, particularly music, between the United States and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War, was inspired by her early love of Russian music. “Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Borodin, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov … I loved all of them since I was a little girl,” she says. “As a child, I spent endless hours listening to this music and wore out my records! But, in the midst of Duck and Cover drills, I could not understand how a nation that produced such beautiful music could not be our friends.” Traveling to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Warsaw, and Kiev to pursue her research interests, she discovered how deeply the Russians love music, and how important these musical exchange concerts were during this stressful and dangerous time of World History. She hopes that her research inspires further musical exchange beyond political, social, and cultural boundaries, and believes that such endeavors are important to promote peace.
— Carol Lang
Most of you should already know that the University is switching over to a new TUid number in July. Everyone is being issued a new ID card, called an OWL Card, which has your new TUid printed on the bottom right corner. It is a nine digit number that will replace almost all uses of the Social Security number in the University. This means that in the library you will now use your new TUid number and OWL Card for: a) Checking out books. You will be expected to have your OWL Card to check out books. Previous to September 30, 2005 we will still accept the old Temple ID card. b) Requesting books through PALCI. c) Requesting Intralibrary loans, Interlibrary Loans, or placing recalls, as well as most of the other services with online forms. d) Logging into My Library Account to see your currently checked out items, renew items, or create saved searches. All these functions will require your new TUid number starting on the weekend of July 1st.
Staff Recognition Awards were presented to three library staff members on May 24th during a special Temple Libraries luncheon hosted by Larry Alford, Vice Provost for Libraries. 
Award recipients (from left to right) were Royce Sargeant, Assistant Director of the Health Sciences Center Libraries; William H. Stout, supervisor of the lending side of Paley Library’s Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan unit; and Ethel Fiderer, Assistant Cataloger in the Law Library.
The Library is currently conducting a trial of a new online service — Computing Reviews. Using any computer on campus, you can link to the trial via ourComputer and Information Science subject guide page or via the Reviews.comweb site. Send your comments to Kathy Szigeti, Science Librarian, or call her at 1-4725. The trial period will end on April 27, 2005.
Computing Reviews (CR) is the authoritative publication of reviews in computing literature. With new reviews published each day, CR reflects the rapid evolution across all areas of computer science. Through its community of over 1,000 reviewers, CR provides its readers with the timely commentary and overview needed in identifying the most essential books and articles.
It allows readers to explore topics both broadly and in great detail. On the home page, reviews are divided into two sections, Articles and Books, with the most current reviews at the top. Here, readers can browse the beginning of reviews. CR’s powerful navigational tools enable users to find the information most relevant to their work and research. Readers can follow their interests by creating customized searches and use personalized alerts to receive notice of the latest developments.
The database is a collaboration between Reviews.com and the ACM. Since the first online version of Computing Reviews went live in 2001, the coverage has expanded dramatically and the number of books and articles reviewed has more than tripled.
May 3, 2005 – June 30, 2005 Paley Library, main floor and ground floor lecture hall
Paley Library’s latest pictorial exhibition will feature the works of award-winning photographer Salvatore C. DiMarco, Jr. and illustrator Gilbert J. Tucker, both of whom worked for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. The exhibition’s photographs, illustrations, and editorial cartoons are all part of the George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection, which the Temple Libraries acquired after the newspaper ceased publication in 1982. Founded in 1847, the Bulletin published a daily afternoon edition for over 125 years. For decades, the newspaper’s signature slogan was “Nearly everybody reads the Bulletin.” The event is sponsored by the Temple University Libraries’ Urban Archives Department and Friends of the Libraries. An online version of the exhibition, featuring highlights, also opens May 3rd.
About the artists:
Salvatore C. DiMarco, Jr. was born in 1947 in Drexel Hill, PA. He learned photography from his father, a portrait painter in Philadelphia. In 1970, he graduated with a B.S. degree from the School of Communications and Theater at Temple University. Mr. DiMarco first joined the staff of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin in 1967 as a summer intern. He eventually became Chief Photographer, overseeing a department of more than 30 photographers, editors, and technicians. After the Bulletin closed in 1982, he became a free lance photographer and divided his time between editorial, corporate and industrial magazine assignments. His photographs have appeared in many of the world’s leading magazines, including Time, and he won more than 150 international, national and regional awards for his work. He passed away on June 11, 2004.
Gilbert J. Tucker was born in Philadelphia in 1930. From an early age, he showed an interest in illustration. Upon graduating from Simon Gratz High School, he was awarded a scholarship to the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art, now called The University of the Arts. In 1951, he graduated from the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art with a diploma in illustration. Later, he continued his education at the Philadelphia Museum College of Art, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1962. After working for a number of years as a technical and commercial illustrator, Mr. Tucker joined the staff of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin‘s Editorial Art Department from 1968 to 1980. There, he was able to exercise the full range of his abilities by providing illustrations to accompany articles and editorials. Since retiring in 1993, he devotes much of his time to watercolor painting, including landscapes and cityscapes around Philadelphia and the New Jersey shore.