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Celebrate Digital Day At Paley – March 23

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Temple University Libraries will celebrate Digital Day — a celebration of our fantastic e-resources — on Wednesday, March 23, from 11:00am to 2:00pm with an e-resource fair held in Paley Library. Vendors and library staff will be on hand to familiarize you with the wide range of library resources and services available for research. Vendors include:

  • Adam Matthew
  • Alexander Street Press
  • Films Media Group
  • Gale
  • ProQuest
  • Sage
  • SimplyMap
  • Thomson Reuters

There will be food and drink, prizes, and a raffle too! Enter the raffle to win great prizes including: Kindles, a nook, an iPod shuffle, plus gift cards to Amazon, iTunes, and more!

We hope you’ll stop by and enjoy the fair — this is a fabulous way to learn how the library’s e-resources can help you with your research! Please know that owing to the fair you can expect a higher noise level on the first floor of the Paley Library, particularly on the east side of the building (normally a quiet zone). In addition, there will be fewer computers available on the east side of the first floor of Paley Library, but there will still be many computers available in the Library. Hope to see you there!

Library Prize Info Sessions

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2011 Library Prize for Undergraduate Research 2011 Library Prize for Undergraduate Research on Sustainability and the Environment Would you like to win $1,000 and a prestigious award from Temple Libraries? The deadline for submitting your work to our two library prizes is Wednesday, March 30, 2011. Learn more at two upcoming info sessions: 1) Friday, March 18 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in Paley Library, Information Commons (1st Floor) 2) Tuesday, March 22 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in Paley Library, Information Commons (1st Floor) These sessions are your opportunity to ask questions and get a leg up on the competition!

***Coffee and Cookies provided while they last***

Who’s Harry Gold?

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Allen Hornblum has written The Invisible Harry Gold: The man who gave the Soviets the atom bomb, published by Yale University Press in 2010. Surprisingly, this is the first biography of Harry Gold. In this interview, Mr. Hornblum talks about Harry Gold’s South Philly roots, his entry into spying, and his eventual arrest and conviction. He also talks about his sources for this work, including the papers of Joseph Gold, Harry’s brother, which are housed in the Temple University Libraries’ Special Collections.

The interview is in two parts.

Harry Gold: the early years
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Harry Gold becomes a spy
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—Fred Rowland

Take Our Survey

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You may notice something different on our Temple Libraries homepage today. There – in the upper right hand corner of the page. Now you see it. Place your mouse pointer there and you’ll be invited to take our satisfaction survey. We’ll be offering this survey through the end of the semester. It’s a totally opt-in survey. You won’t receive an email asking you to take the survey. If you want to complete the survey – it’s there. There are two versions of the survey: short and long. The short version takes approximately 7 minutes to complete, while the longer version takes about 15 minutes. We hope you will take time -either less or more – to complete the survey. We are always looking for ways to improve Temple University Libraries and the services it offers. Your feedback will help us to do a better job of serving you and the Temple University community. If you have any questions or feedback about the survey, please contact Steven Bell, Associate University Librarian.

n+1 Interview: Gessen & Roth

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On October 27, Keith Gessen and Marco Roth spoke in the Paley Lecture Hall about starting n+1 in the midst of the online transformation of the early 2000s.  n+1 is a print literary journal which released its first issue in 2004.  Before the lecture, we had a long discussion about their journal, the literary and competitive pressures of publishing, the death and life of the author, the life of print after the Internet, and just how n+1 got its name.

Gessen and Roth – Part I

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Gessen and Roth – Part II

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(More on Gessen and Roth)

 

—Fred Rowland


Discussion with Temple Classicists: Part 3

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Dan Tompkins. Robin Mitchell-Boyask. Sydnor Roy.

This is the third part of my conversation with Classics professors Dan Tompkins, Robin Mitchell-Boyask, and Sydnor Roy, which took place on March 18, 2010. We talked about how they share their ideas with other scholars, publishing, classics web sites, and scholarly repositories.

Dan Tompkins received his PhD from Yale University in 1968 with a dissertation entitled Stylistic Characterization in Thucydides. Robin Mitchell-Boyask graduated in 1988 from Brown University with a dissertation entitled Tragic Identity: Studies in Euripides and Shakespeare. Sydnor Roy is a 2010 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her dissertation is entitled Political Relativism: Implicit Political Theory in Herodotus’ Histories.

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(Listen to Part I and Part II of our conversation.)

—Fred Rowland

Margery Sly Joins Temple as Director of Special Collections

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I am delighted to welcome Margery Sly to Temple University Libraries, where she will take on the newly created position of Director of Special Collections beginning today, December 20. Reporting to me, Margery will lead the merger of the collections and staff within our current Urban Archives and Special Collections operating units, and then lead the ongoing operations of this unified Special Collections division.

Margery comes to us from the Presbyterian Historical Society (PHS), where she served as the Deputy Executive Director for the past seven years. Prior to that, she held several other administrative and archival positions at the PHS and Smith College in Northampton, MA. Margery received her MA in American History and MS in Library Science at Case Western Reserve. She received a BA in German literature and history from Dickinson College.

Please join me in welcoming Margery to Temple University Libraries.

With warm wishes,

Larry P. Alford

Talking Tuna

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On September 24, Professor Daniel Levine of the University of Arkansas Classics Department spoke at Temple University about “Tuna in the Ancient Greek World”.  The Zeta Beta Chapter of Eta Sigma Phi brought him to campus after hearing him speak at a national conference.  Zeta Beta is a group on campus that promotes the teaching, study, and appreciation of Latin, Greek, and the ancient world.

Before his talk in the afternoon, Dr. Levine was kind enough to stop by my office to discuss his topic.  We had a lively conversation punctuated by lengthy classical quotes, strange-sounding Greek words, and a few laughs.  It was a thorough education on the ancient tuna, some of whose relatives still exist today, though in ever sparser numbers.  The interview is broken into two parts.

Tuna in the Ancient Greek World

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Tuna in the Ancient Greek World – Part II

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—Fred Rowland

Lost Tribes of Israel: The Interview

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On November 15, Paley Library hosted the 5th Annual Symposium on Race and Judaism. Entitled “Lost Tribes: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives”, it featured eight speakers who spoke on a range of topics from the ancient context to modern interpretations. The keynote address was delivered by Rabbi Debra Bowen, the leader of Congregation Temple Beth El in North Philadelphia.

Before the symposium, three of the speakers sat down with me for an interview: Lewis Gordon, director of the Institute for Afro-Jewish Studies and philosophy professor at Temple; Mark Leuchter, chair of the Jewish Studies program; and David Koffman, history professor at York University.

Listen to the audio of the interview: Lost Tribes

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—Fred Rowland