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Delphine Khanna joins Temple University Libraries as Head of Digital Library Initiatives
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I am delighted to welcome Delphine Khanna to Temple University Libraries, where she will take on the role of Head of Digital Library Initiatives beginning today, December 1. Delphine will create a Digital Initiatives Department, where she will oversee the digitization of special collections and other library materials in text, image, and video formats. She will also lead the development of digital repository systems to preserve and make accessible the intellectual output of Temple University, and the implementation of discovery tools related to these initiatives.
Delphine comes to us from the University of Pennsylvania, where she served as the Digital Projects Librarian for over ten years. Prior to that, she held several digital librarianship positions at Rutgers University. Delphine earned her MLS from Syracuse University, and her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Linguistics and Computer Science from the University of Paris.
Please join me in welcoming Delphine to Temple University Libraries.
With warm wishes,
Larry P. Alford
Paley Open 24 Hours Starting Monday December 6
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
Climatologist Michael Mann
On October 13, climatologist Michael Mann spoke to a packed house in the Paley Library Lecture Hall about global warming and the politicization of science. He is the director of the Earth System Science Center and a professor at the Pennsylvania State University. In 2007, he and other members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2009, many of his emails and the emails of other climatologists were hacked from a server at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, an incident which came to be known in the popular press as “climategate.”
Before his lecture, I interviewed Michael Mann about some of the details of climate change research and the email hack that spilled across the Internet.
Listen to the interview with Michael Mann
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2010-2011 Library Prize Dates
The dates for the 2010-2011 Library Prize for Undergraduate Research have been set. The submission date for student applications is March 30, 2011 at 5:00 pm. The awards ceremony will be held on Tuesday, May 3 from 4:30 to 6:00 pm. The application consists of a number of different items including the research paper or project, research essay, and faculty recommendation. For full details on the Library Prize and a look at last year’s winners, visit the prize web site.
The Library Prize for Undergraduate Research is now in its seventh year and was created to highlight Temple University’s best undergraduate library research. The winning papers/projects are vetted by a panel of four librarian and three faculty (one each from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences) judges. Winners receive $1000 and their prize-winning submissions are made permanently available on the library’s web site. The Temple University Libraries take research seriously.
If you’re an undergraduate we hope you’ll consider participating in the 2010-2011 Library Prize for Undergraduate Research. If you’re a faculty member, please encourage your students to submit their best work. Whether student, faculty, staff, or public, join us at the awards ceremony on May 3!
6 New Cambridge Histories
The following six new volumes have been added to Cambridge Histories Online:
- Carolyn Hamilton, Bernard K. Mbenga, Robert Ross, The Cambridge History of South Africa, Volume 1: From Early Times to 1885
- Michael F. Suarez SJ, Michael L. Turner, The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume 5: 1695-1830
- Coral Ann Howells, Eva Marie Kroller, The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature
- Melvyn P. Leffler, Odd Arne Westad The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Volume 1: Origins
- Melvyn P. Leffler, Odd Arne Westad, The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Volume 2: Crises and Detente
- Melvyn P. Leffler, Odd Arne Westad, The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Volume 3: Endings
JSTOR Update 10/25/10
The following journals have been added to JSTOR:
- Buffalo Criminal Law Review Vol. 1, No. 1 (1997) – Vol. 9, No. 2 (2006) Moving Wall: N/A Publisher: University of California Press ISSN: 1933-4192
- Journal of Nietzsche Studies Nos. 1-28 (Spring, 1991 – Autumn, 2004) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University-Penn State University Press ISSN: 0968-8005
- Legacy Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1984) – Vol. 21, No. 2 (2004) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: University of Nebraska Press ISSN: 0748-4321
- Mystics Quarterly [1984-2009] Previous Title: 14th Century English Mystics Newsletter [1974-1983] (0737-5840) Vol. 1, No. 1 (December, 1974) – Vol. 9, No. 4 (December, 1983); Vol. 10, No. 1 (March, 1984) – Vol. 30, No. 3/4 (September/December, 2004) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University-Penn State University Press ISSN: 0742-5503
- The Pluralist [2006- ] Previous Title: The Personalist Forum [1985-1999] (0889-065X) Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1985) – Vol. 15, No. 2 (Fall, 1999); Vol. 1, Nos. 1-3 (Spring-Fall, 2006) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISSN: 1930-7365
- The Radical Teacher Vol. 1, Nos. 1-2 (December, 1975 – June, 1976); Nos. 3-77 (November, 1976 – Winter, 2006) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISSN: 0191-4847
- Shaw [1981- ] Previous Title: The Shaw Review [1959-1980] (0037-3354) Previous Title: Bulletin (Shaw Society of America) [1951-1958] (2156-8928) No. 1 (February, 1951) – Vol. 2, No. 6 (September, 1958); Vol. 2, No. 7 (January, 1959) – Vol. 23, No. 3 (September, 1980); Vols. 1-24 (1981-2004) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University-Penn State University Press ISSN: 0741-5842
- Utopian Studies Nos. 1-4 (1987-1991); Vol. 1, No. 1 (1990) – Vol. 15, No. 2 (Winter, 2004) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University-Penn State University Press ISSN: 1045-991X
- Visual Arts Research [1982- ] Previous Title: Review of Research in Visual Arts Education [1975-1982] (0160-3221) Previous Title: Review of Research in Visual and Environmental Education [1973-1974] (0160-3256) Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1973) – Vol. 2, No. 1 [3] (Winter, 1974); Vol. 2, No. 2 [4] (Spring, 1975) – Vol. 8, No. 1 [15] (Winter, 1982); Vol. 8, No. 2 [16] (Fall, 1982) – Vol. 32, No. 2 [63] (2006) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISSN: 0736-0770
Talking about the Roman Wedding
Professor Karen Hersch is the author of The Roman Wedding: Ritual and Meaning in Antiquity, published by Cambridge University Press in 2010 (Temple catalog record).
I spoke with her on September 20 about her new book. We discuss ancient sources and modern scholarship. She explains the social, legal, and religious significance of the Roman Wedding and its similarities to the modern American wedding. The role of the Roman woman, the significance of the (mythic) Sabine women, and details of the wedding day are covered. The listener will come away with a much greater appreciation of the lives of women in the ancient world.
The first recording is a snippet from the full-length interview. The complete interview appears directly below it.
Weddings, ancient and modern
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Roman Wedding
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New York City Writers Descend on Paley Library
New York City Writers Descend on Paley Library Prolific and well-versed writers Emily Gould and Keith Gessen come to Philadelphia on October 26 and 27 for a two-day program on writing and publishing. Marco Roth, a 2009 Pew Fellow for the Arts, will join Gessen to discuss their literary journal, n+1, on the 27th.
These young writers have emerged on the Philadelphia and New York scenes over the past five years and amongst them boast publication in the New York Times, The New Yorker, the Nation and the London Review of Books. Both discussions take place at Paley Library Lecture Hall located at 1210 Polett Walk on Temple’s Main Campus. On October 26 at 5:30 p.m. Emily Gould will be joined by scholar/poet Rachel Blau DuPlessis. They will explore the craft of writing, popular culture and media, and their love of pets. Gould wrote a cover story for the New York Times magazine, and has written a plethora of articles, commentary, and opinion pieces for myriad online and print sources. She recently published her first full-length book And the Heart Says Whatever.
On October 27 at 3:30 p.m. Keith Gessen and Marco Roth will discuss the establishment of their new literary journal, n+1. This journal has lead to multiple offshoots including a mini-book series, a film review print journal, and an online book review periodical. Their latest mini-book, What Was the Hipster? has just been released, and the n+1 inventors have held a series of discussions on this post-modern cultural phenomenon.
Films on Demand October Content Update
116 new titles have been added to Films on Demand. To see a listing of the new titles, go to Films on Demand, click on “Recently Added Videos”, and select October 2010 for the most recent additions.