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Penn’s Van Pelt Library Will Restrict Access During Exams

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We recently received a notice from our colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania Van Pelt Library informing us that they will be instituting a restricted access policy for Van Pelt-Dietrich Library during reading days and the final exam period, This new policy will be enforced between April 28 and May 11. Weekdays beginning at 3 pm and all day on weekends, access to the Van Pelt building will be limited to PennCard and Library Courtesy Card holders. This policy change is being enacted to ensure that all seating in the building is available for Penn students during the busiest time of the semester. If you regularly visit the Van Pelt Library for research or to study there, please know that their door guards are distributing flyers that detail the change in policy to all visitors.

Some New E-Acquisitions…

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18th Century Journals Portal

-67 new periodicals from the 18th Century Journals III Collection

Books24x7

-over 1,000 finance-related ebooks added

Dictionary of Old English and the Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus

-definitions of Old English words, as well as the underlying corpus of texts upon which the dictionary is built

LexisNexis Congressional Hearings

-over 78,000 digitized congressional hearings (14 million pages) from 1824-1979

LexisNexis Serial Set

-coverage now extends to 1979 (instead of 1969) and also now includes the Senate Executive Documents & Reports, 1817-1978

LexisNexis Statistical DataSets

-provides access to more than 14 billion data points from licensed and public domain datasets within an easy-to-use interface

-select subjects and variables of interest, and view your data in side-by-side tables and charts

Oxford Scholarship Online

-297 Law titles

New JSTOR Collection Added

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JSTOR’s Arts & Sciences VIII Collection was recently purchased by the Libraries.  The collection currently includes more than 80 titles and is projected to grow to at least 140 titles by 2011.  It broadens JSTOR’s coverage of core humanities disciplines including history, language & literature, art & art history, and education.  Included is a group of rare 19th and early 20th century American Art periodicals digitized as part of a special project undertaken with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art.  A list of current and upcoming titles is available.

Credo Reference Update: 4/16/10

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Credo Reference recently added the following:

  • All Things Chaucer: An Encyclopedia of Chaucer’s World, ABC-CLIO
  • Biographical Dictionary of Transcendentalism, ABC-CLIO
  • Encyclopedia of Human Rights Issues since 1945, ABC-CLIO
  • Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World’s Cultures, Springer
  • Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latino Literature, ABC-CLIO
  • Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The Great Plains Region
  • Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The Mid-Atlantic Region
  • Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The Midwest
  • Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: New England
  • Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The Pacific Region
  • Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The Rocky Mountain Region
  • Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The South
  • Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The Southwest
  • A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and Empires, Edinburgh University Press
  • Keywords for American Cultural Studies, New York University Press

Temple Selected to Participate in Project Information Literacy Study

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Temple is honored to have been selected to participate in the University of Washington’s Project Information Literacy program! This week, a survey will be deployed to a random sampling of sophomores, juniors and seniors, seeking information on what it’s like to be a college student in the digital age. If you are selected, we encourage you to participate, and not just because you will be eligible for a $150 gift certificate from Amazon! PIL is a national study about information-seeking behaviors, competencies, and the challenges. The survey will help us learn more about the opportunities and challenges that online research presents to you — and the strategies you’ve developed to find information for course work and for use in your life. This information will help the Temple Libraries to better serve you. Watch your email for the survey announcement. Just be sure to complete the survey by the April 28, 2010 deadline.

Update on Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA): Now Available for Free

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A recent press release by the Getty announced that the art database, Bibliography of the History (BHA) will now be available free of charge via the J. Paul Getty website. You can read the entire release here. Please note that the content available is only the archive of BHA. The database is currently not being updated. There is a sigh of relief in the art research community over this news. Despite the lack of updated content, BHA remains one of the most useful resources for art historical research.

8 New Cambridge Companions

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Eight new titles have recently been added to Cambridge Companions Online:

  • Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism
  • Cambridge Companion to Arthurian Legend
  • Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill
  • Cambridge Companion to English Novelists
  • Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge
  • Cambridge Companion to Piaget
  • Cambridge Companion to Spinoza’s Ethics
  • Cambridge Companion to Tacitus