After many years of loaning laptop computers to Temple University students, the Paley Library will no longer loan laptops from its Circulation/Reserve Desk in the Tuttleman Building as of August 17th 2012. The decision to end the program was brought about by a confluence of factors. While this has been a valued service for many years, as more students bring their own laptops to campus there is a declining need to make laptops available for loan. To responsibly manage the Libraries’ budget we must make careful and informed decisions about the library services in which we will invest.Tablet computers, such as iPads, have grown in popularity, so we will be increasing the number of tablet computers available for loan. For those who still want to borrow a laptop, the TECH Center continues to have laptops available for short-term (three hour) loan periods.

Starting on Monday July 16th your E-ZBorrow books can be borrowed for six weeks, with one six week renewal.  Formerly the loan period was four weeks.

This change has been made in response to many requests from our borrowers for a longer  loan period.

If you have questions please call 215 204-0744.

Penelope Myers

On Monday March 28th we anticipate launching a new version of EZBorrow. This new version is intended to improve and simplify the system, improve the quality of the search engine, and streamline the results and request process. Although the new system has undergone development and testing over the past few months, this will be the first large-scale use of the new interface. While we hope it will go well, we wanted the Temple University community to be aware of the migration to the new interface and the possibility of bugs that might require our attention. We believe you will find this new version of EZBorrow a nice improvement, but please let us know if you encounter any difficulties or problems. Please contact Penelope Myers at pmyers@temple.edu, or call the Circulation Services Desk at 215-204-0744.

Starting Monday morning December 6th, Paley Library will be open 24 hours a day through the end of finals on Saturday December 18th. Paley will close at 5 p.m. on Saturday December 18th. During this time, the circulation/reserve desk in Tuttleman and the reference desk in Paley will close at their regular times, but the building will be open 24/7 for studying and research. Hours for other library locations are available here.

Students can access all articles on course reserve through our e-reserve service in the Diamond catalog by following the links for Reserve / E-Reserve. Books can be checked out using the 2 self-check machines in Paley opposite the reference desk.

— Penelope Myers, Head of Access Services

ILLIAD is our new service for requesting materials not available or not owned at any of our Temple University Libraries. To use ILLIAD you need to register as a first time user, and once you have done that all you need to do to use ILLIAD is to login with your Temple access net account and password. Then you can request articles, book chapters, books not available at Temple or through E-ZBorrow, dissertations, conference proceedings, and anything else you need. Using ILLIAD you can check on the status of your requests, request renewals, and access articles you requested. It also keeps a history of your requests. A video is available to help you if you are using ILLIAD for the first time. Library patrons at the Paley, Law, Ambler, Tyler, SEAL, and Harrisburg Libraries need to use this login. For Kresge and South Libraries use this login. For the Podiatry library use this login. If you have any questions about this service please feel free to contact Penelope Myers at pmyers@temple.edu or 215 204-0749, or Justin Hill at jhill@temple.edu or 215 204-0752.

Temple University Libraries is pleased to announce our new Interlibrary Loan service ILLIAD. If you want to order material that is unavailable or not owned by Temple libraries just go to ILLIAD and log in as a first time user and then you can request what you need. Whenever you return to ILLIAD all you will need to do is log in with your Temple access net login and password. Then you can request articles, book chapters, books not available at Temple or through E-ZBorrow, dissertations, conference proceedings, and anything else you need. Using ILLIAD you can check on the status of your requests, request renewals, and access articles you requested. It also keeps a history of your requests.

If you have any questions about this service please feel free to contact Penelope Myers at pmyers@temple.edu or 215 204-0749, or Justin Hill at jhill@temple.edu or 215 204-0752.

As part of the first floor renovations happening this summer, we are moving the leisure reading collection today to the shelves at the end of the first floor east across from the windows looking out on the Bell Tower. They will stay there until the renovations are finished. Their new home will be where the current reference desk is. We will have signs pointing to the new location. Please ask staff if you have any questions or need any help.

For the duration of the first floor renovations this summer we have moved the new books to the area in front of the circulation/reserve desk in Tuttleman. You may check out as many new books as you want. We change the displays every Monday and we send all the new books from the previous week to be shelved in the Paley stacks. They will stay in this new location until the renovations are finished. Their new home will be where the current reference desk is.