The initial release of Part 6: East Europe is now available in the online edition of Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974-1996. This release includes 4,014 issues, 246,276 pages and 603,680 articles as well as a new regional map of Europe.
The Libraries’ just added the Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development to Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Temple University Libraries Announce Spring Season of Events and Programs Temple University Libraries Spring 2009 programs and events will begin on January 29 with the Temple Book Club’s annual discussion of the One Book, One Philadelphia selection; this year’s is The Soloist by Steve Lopez. Author and journalist Lopez will also be making a stop at the Libraries later this spring. Don’t miss this acclaimed Los Angeles Times writer, formerly of The Philadelphia Inquirer, on March 19 as he discusses his best-selling book: a story of second chances, human connections and the power of art and music.
The season continues on February 5 with the spring’s first installment of Chat in the Stacks. This ongoing series highlighting and promoting excellence in faculty research, creativity and scholarship will highlight Race in the Stage with a performance from The Seven, based on Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes. Director Lee Richardson, along with English professor Roland Williams and Theater professor Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon, will complete the panel.
On February 18 we welcome local scholar David Eng. A multi-disciplinary scholar, Eng is a professor in the University of Pennsylvania’s English Department, but his specialties lie within and beyond the written word. Eng is a cutting-edge scholar exploring the inter-connectedness of literature, cinema, ethnic studies, sexuality and theory. He will present his new research on “Queer Space in China” through a discussion of the film Lan Yu. Please join us in welcoming one of our city’s most engaging academics. This event is co-sponsored by Center for the Humanities at Temple.
Other season highlights include:
Check out all our events and programs, and we hope to see you at the Libraries soon.
-Nicole Restaino, Library Communications Manager
64 new engineering-related titles have been added to the Knovel Library collection.
Credo Reference recently added the following 10 new titles:
The following 19 new titles have been added to Sage eReference
The following content has recently been added to America’s Historical Newspapers:
| Publication | Issues | Publication Location | Date Start | Date End |
| Daily Record-Miner | 3 | Juneau, AK | 7/16/1910 | 10/10/1910 |
| Western Clarion | 1 | Helena, AR | 9/30/1865 | |
| Gazette-Telegraph | 3 | Colorado Springs, CO | 9/29/1903 | 9/16/1922 |
| Times Picayune | 3086 | New Orleans, LA | 1/11/1861 | 10/22/1900 |
| Boston Journal | 2176 | Boston, MA | 7/6/1866 | 8/31/1897 |
| Baltimore American | 4 | Baltimore, MD | 7/23/1905 | 7/3/1910 |
| Daily Nebraska Press | 1 | Nebraska City, NB | 3/25/1876 | |
| Albany Evening Journal | 98 | Albany, NY | 5/31/1850 | 6/1/1874 |
| Cincinnati Commercial Tribune | 1592 | Cincinnati, OH | 5/1/1869 | 6/30/1890 |
| Cincinnati Daily Gazette | 1 | Cincinnati, OH | 7/8/1881 | |
| Public Ledger | 3364 | Philadelphia, PA | 3/25/1836 | 12/31/1873 |
| Pawtucket Times | 3 | Pawtucket, RI | 1/8/1920 | 1/28/1921 |
The following 20 new titles have recently been added to our British Periodicals Collection:
The Paley Library will close on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 5:00 pm and will not re-open until Monday, January 5, 2009 at 8:00 am.
Under normal circumstances Paley Library would be open several days during the winter break. However, the University has scheduled a major electrical infrastructure upgrade for Paley that requires all power in the building be shut for at least four days. Though we understand this closure will inconvenience some members of our community, this is clearly the best time to perform this much needed electrical work without causing a major inconvenience that would impact the majority of our user community.
During this period all of the Library’s electronic information resources will be available. Owing to the electrical work we must re-route these resources to other institutional computers. Most users should experience no changes to their e-research routines. Some services, such as our Ask-A-Librarian chat will not be available, and the Library catalog system will be current only to December 18, 2008.
For additional details on access to and the status of our e-resources during the closure see the information at: http://status.library.temple.edu/2008/12/intersession-service-interruptions-dec-23-jan-5.html
As of Friday December 19, 2008 an era will end. The Tyler School of Art Library will close its doors at the Elkins Park location. The materials, including journals, housed at Tyler will be integrated into the Paley Library. Older and lesser used materials will be moved to the Library Depository. Depository items may be requested for use by filling out a form linked to the catalog record. The Diamond online catalog will reflect the new item locations when the libraries re-open on Monday January 5, 2009.
The Tyler location will be changing and the materials will be moving, but the Temple University Libraries will continue to serve the education and research needs of the Tyler population. Reference, library instruction and research services will be delivered by the Paley Library Reference and Instruction Services Department. Access services, located in Tuttleman, will handle any material location issues and course reserves. For information on course reserves call 215-204-0747.
This move will also add “new” holdings to the general and reference collections at Paley, so the rich collections of materials for students and the wider Temple community will be deeper than ever and available at main campus.
The staff of the Tyler Library will be relocating also. Andrea Goldstein, the Tyler Librarian, will be joining the Ambler Library staff. Frank Marzullo, the Tyler Library technical assistant will also be joining the Ambler Library staff. Ann Mosher, the bibliographic assistant at Tyler, will be moving to the Urban Archives in Paley Library.
New opportunities for the Tyler staff, and “new” resources at the Paley Library will ring in the New Year at the Temple University Libraries!
Addendum 08/20/09: Jill Luedke has been hired as the new Subject Specialist for Art. She can be contacted at at jluedke@temple.edu or 215-204-3166.