New easier way to request materials

Temple Libraries is pleased to announce a new service that greatly simplifies requests for library materials from other campus libraries and the Library Depository. When you search the Diamond catalog and you find a book or an article in a bound volume that is at the Ambler Library and you’re at Main Campus, for example, all you have to do is click on the request button at the top of the catalog record, login using your access net account, indicate where you want to pick the material up, and hit the submit button. It’s that easy. We’ve eliminated those cumbersome forms. Also, for articles in bound volumes, you will receive those electronically through your Temple email account. No need to come to the library to pick those up.

This service is available for all material that is currently requestable – that is bound journals from the Depository, journal articles in bound volumes, and circulating books. Books that don’t circulate such as reference books or books that are checked out or missing, may not be requested. This service covers material in the following libraries: Paley and Media Services; SEAL; Ambler; Harrisburg; and Health Sciences Libraries. If you want to request material from Paley, Media Services or SEAL your pickup location must be Ambler, Harrisburg, or the Health Sciences Libraries.

The screenshot below illustrates how Diamond now looks for books and journals that can be requested:

request_screenshot.jpg If you have any questions or concerns please call 215 204-0744 or email us at libcirc@temple.edu

RSS Feeds in Journal Finder

If you search for journals in our Journal Finder, you can now access RSS feeds to get notifications of new issues’ table of contents. What is RSS? We’ve created a subject guide on that very subject called “Current Awareness with RSS Feeds”. It includes information about what RSS feeds are and how you can use them for different purposes. If have you used RSS feeds before, Journal Finder can help you find RSS feeds for the tables of contents of hundreds of academic journals from a wide range of publishers such as: Sage, Wiley, Blackwells, Elsevier, Oxford, Nature, American Chemical Society, American Physical Society, and many more. When you search in Journal Finder, if a journal in your results has an associated RSS feed, you will see the standard RSS icon, which looks like this:

jf_rss-1.png Clicking on the RSS icon will take you to the url for the RSS feed. Next to the RSS icons are small information icons which will take you to the aforementioned subject guide on RSS. If you have any questions feel free to ask your subject librarian.

Derik A Badman Digital Services Librarian

New Students Gather for ceLIBration 2009

On the afternoon of Friday, August 28th it was not business as usual at Paley Library. As it has for the past two Welcome Week Fridays, the Library was the scene of a party for our new students. With a DJ spinning the tunes, the students gathered for food, games, raffles, and other entertainment. ceLIBration is designed as a fun, non-library way to learn about the library. Several hundred students, some with their parents, visited Paley Library, and many explored all that the Library has to offer.

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This year students were invited to participate in several arcade game tournaments that featured popular games such as air hockey, foosball, basketball toss and skeeball. The Library also offered a variety of board games for students who wanted to have fun with their friends. Jimmy Johns generously brought over lots of samples of their sandwiches. So while it was uncharacteristically noisy in the Library, it was for a good cause – and a good time was had by all.

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JSTOR Update 9/4/09

The following journals have been added to JSTOR.

Dante Studies, with the Annual Report of the Dante Society [1966- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=dantestudies
Previous Title: Annual Reports of the Dante Society, with Accompanying Papers [1955-1965] (1948-1608)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=annrepdantsocwap
Previous Title: Annual Reports of the Dante Society [1882-1954] (1948-1594)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=annrepdantesoc
Release Content:
Nos. 1-68/72 (1882-1954);
Nos. 73-83 (1955-1965);
Nos. 84-123 (1966-2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Dante Society of America
ISSN: 0070-2862

Journal of the Southwest [1987- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jsouthwest
Previous Title: Arizona and the West [1959-1986] (0004-1408)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=arizwest
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1959) – Vol. 28, No. 4 (Winter, 1986);
Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring, 1987) – Vol. 47, No. 4 (Winter, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Journal of the Southwest
ISSN: 0894-8410

Ornithological Monographs
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=ornithmono
Release Content:
Nos. 1-57 (1964-2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: University of California Press for the American Ornithologists’ Union
ISSN: 0078-6594

Religion & Literature [1984- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=reliandliter
Previous Title: Notre Dame English Journal [1965-1983] (0029-4500)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=notedameengj
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter, 1965/1966) – Vol. 15, No. 3 (Summer, 1983);
Vol. 16, No. 1 (Winter, 1984) – Vol. 37, No. 3 (Autumn, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: University of Notre Dame
ISSN: 0888-3769

Federal Online Documents Access Disrupted

For many years we have listed tens of thousands of United States government documents in our online catalog of holdings together with URLs to their online equivalents hosted by agencies of the federal government. These URLs have been provided to libraries nationwide by the GPO (Government Printing Office).

On August 24th the GPO server providing these URLs suffered a catastrophic failure. GPO attempts to restore service have thus far been ineffective. As of Tuesday 9/1 only 6,000 out of 116,000 URLs had been restored. On Wednesday 9/2 the GPO server went completely offline.

This is a nationwide problem. Users of the Temple University online catalog who seek to access online U.S. government publications they find through the catalog should look at the full catalog record and use the second alternate URL if one is provided in the catalog record. The purl.access.gpo.gov link will not work until further notice. We will continue to monitor the situation and will announce restoration of PURL services by GPO.

Project Muse Content Update: 9/2/09

The following 14 new journals went live in Project Muse between May – August 2009:

American Music
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Archives of Asian Art
Publisher: University of Hawai’i Press

Black Women, Gender & Families
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

The Byron Journal
Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Conservative Judaism
Publisher: Rabbinical Assembly

Genocide Studies and Prevention
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Publisher: Harvard-Yenching Institute

Journal of Education Finance
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Revista Hispánica Moderna
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Romani Studies
Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Studies in American Jewish Literature
Publisher: Purdue University Press

Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Publisher: The New Chaucer Society

U.S. Catholic Historian
Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press

Western American Literature
Publisher: Western Literature Association

Alexander Street Press Music & Performing Arts Content Update : 9/1/09

Classical Scores Library has added 918 new works totaling 47,488 pages. New scores from Faber and contemporary music publisher Universal Edition include works by Joseph Achron, Richard Rodney Bennett, Alban Berg, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Anne Boyd, Anton Bruckner, Frederick Delius, Morton Feldman, Leos Janacek, Gustav Mahler, Frank Martin, Claudio Monteverdi, Arvo Pärt, Max Reger, Wolfgang Rihm, Steve Reich, Jean Sibelius, Richard Strauss, Anton Webern, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and more. The collection now includes a total of 13,558 scores totaling 277,028 pages.

Contemporary World Music has added 304 albums, bringing the total to 1,750 albums (23,235 tracks). New content includes albums licensed from Appleseed Recordings, Black Sun Records, Buda Musique, Celestial Harmonies, Fortuna Records, Piranha Records, and World Music Network. New music includes afro-pop, ambient, chant, contemporary Celtic and British folk music, electronic, jazz fusion, new age, ska, and more.

Jazz Music Library has added 583 albums (7,577 tracks), bringing the total to 2.549 CDs and 26,599 tracks. New works have been licensed from Audiophile, Concord Records, Contemporary Records, Jazzology Records, Original Jazz Classics, Pablo, and Prestige Records. New material includes recordings from Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Art Tatum, Count Basie, Karrin Allyson, Benny Carter, Eric Dolphy, Etta Jones, Louie Bellson, Milt Jackson, Sarah Vaughan, Zoot Sims, and more.

Dance in Video has added 39 new titles, bringing the total to 189 videos. New titles added to the collection include videos from the Alive and Kicking Series; performances by the Cullberg Ballet, the Nederlands Dans Theater, Li Chiao-Ping, the American Dance Festival Repertory Company, the National Ballet of Canada, Kaeja d’Dance Company, Pennsylvania Dance Theatre, the Dutch National Ballet, and the American Dance Festival Repertory Company; interviews with Trisha Brown, Wu Jing Shu, Honi Coles, Ethel Butler, Molissa Fenley, and members of the Exit Dance Theatre; and documentaries on ballroom dancing, the dance art of Thailand, the Royal Academy of Dancing, and the restaging of “State of Darkness” with Molissa Fenley and Peter Boal.

Opera in Video had added 45 new operas, bringing the total to 108 titles. New titles from Opus Arte and the Bel Canto Society include operas from composers Albeniz (Merlin, 2003 Madrid); Bernstein (Trouble in Tahiti, 2001, London); Bizet (Carmen, 2007 Covent Garden), 1946 and 1954 films of Donizetti’s L’Elisir D’Amore; 1955 film of Giordano’s Andrea Chenier with Mario Del Monaco; Gounod (Romeo et Juliette, 1994 Covent Garden); Monteverdi (L’Orfeo, Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda); Mussorgsky (Khovanshchina, 2007 Liceu); Rameau (Les Boréades, Les Indes galantes, Castor et Pollux); Wagner (Das Rheingold, Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung).

African American Music Reference has added 11 new sources.  New titles include:

  • Jazz from the Beginning, by Garvin Bushell and Mark Tucker (Da Capo Press, 1998).
  • Nuthin’ but a “G” Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap, by Eithne Quinn (Columbia University Press, 2005).
  • Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete Biography, by Stuart Nicholson (Routledge, 2004).
  • Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement, by S. Craig Watkins (Beacon Press, 2005).
  • Two books by Douglas Henry Daniels: One O’Clock Jump: The Unforgettable Story of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils (Beacon Press, 2005) and Lester Leaps In: The Life and Times of Lester "Pres" Young (Beacon Press, 2002).
  • The Velvet Lounge: On Late Chicago Jazz, by Gerald Majer (Columbia University Press, 2005).
  • The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech, by Shane White and Graham White (Beacon Press, 2005).
  • Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, by Gayle F. Wald (Beacon Press, 2007).
  • Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit, by Suzanne E. Smith (Harvard University Press, 1999).
  • A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and the American Popular Song, by Jeffrey Melnick (Harvard University Press, 1999).

Welcome Back! Preview Our New Homepage

The staff of the Temple University Libraries welcomes all of our new students and faculty and all those returning to campus. We look forward to being your partner in helping everyone to achieve academic success this fall. Over the summer we have worked to improve the Libraries. You will find new computers in many areas of the Libraries. All of the computers at the Science, Architecture and Engineering Library are new. We have also replaced many of our laptops, added additional laptops and even a few netbook computers – all availble for loan at our Circulation/Reserve Desk. One of our big summer projects was to develop a prototype for a new Libraries homepage. We hope you will look at our preview and provide us with your feedback. We will introduce the new homepage at a later date. Best wishes for a great fall semester and academic year.