Paley Library will close early this Thursday, February 4.
Instead of closing at 2 am (Friday morning) the Library will close at midnight.
All operations in the Paley and Tuttleman Building are affected by this early closure.
We are closing owing to a building repair that requires a water shutdown at midnight.
All operations will resume at Friday, Feb. 5 at 7:00 am.
Paley Library is open Sunday January 24 from noon to 2 am – those are our regular operating hours.
The Paley Library “ASK HERE” desk will be closed. Those needing research assistance should use our Virtual Chat Service, which will be staffed from noon to 8:00 pm Sunday.
The Paley Media Services Desk is open noon to 10:00 pm on Sunday the 24th.
The Science and Engineering Library is normal hours on Sunday the 24th.
The Ambler Library is always closed on Sundays.
The Ginsburg Health Sciences Library is open at11:00 am on Sunday the 24th.
This blog post will update if and when our operations change throughout the weekend.
For information about any specific service desk or unit, check the Libraries operating hours calendar.
You can also call the Paley Library Circulation Desk at 215-204-0744 for information.
You are an undergrad student. You use Temple Libraries. Or maybe not.
Either way, you’d like to be more involved in shaping the future of the Temple Libraries.
If so, we are looking for you.
We have openings for 3-4 undergraduate students to join our Temple Libraries Student Advisory Board.
Here’s what you need to know:
The Temple Libraries Student Advisory Board is comprised of a diverse group of undergraduate and graduate students who represent the various opinions and concerns of the entire student body regarding the libraries. The Board provides a forum for students to make suggestions to library administrators and for library administrators to solicit advice from students about library programs and services.
The Board includes the Dean of the Libraries, the Associate University Librarian and 6-8 students.
The Board meets two or three times a semester. Meetings are one hour. Advance preparation is rarely necessary.
While students who are familiar with the libraries are preferred, any student regardless of their degree of library use is welcome to serve on the Advisory Board. We are looking for students who care about their university library and wish to represent students on library-related issues.
If you’d like to get involved in the future of Temple Libraries submit an application for consideration.
Temple Libraries announces an update to its policy regarding the replacement of lost or damaged books:
Effective January 1, 2016 Temple University Libraries will institute the following changes regarding lost and damaged materials.
The replacement fee for a damaged, long overdue or lost book is $100.00 per item.
Replacement copies are no longer accepted.
When long overdue or lost books are returned the $100.00 per item is removed but patrons are still responsible for applicable overdue fines.
Please note that Media Services will continue to accept new, sealed copies of DVDs as replacements, as these items require less staff time to process. Please consult with Media Services staff prior to ordering a replacement to ensure that you are ordering an identical edition to the lost or damaged item.
There are many good reasons to use open textbooks instead of costly commercially published textbooks. The obvious one is that it saves students a great deal of money. Faculty support that but may be hesitant to adopt an open textbook for their course over concerns of quality and impact on learning.
A new study by three researchers, one of whom is David Wiley, the prominent advocate for open education, may help to convince faculty that there is value in adopting open textbooks – and not just because of the savings for students. Open textbooks, in this study, proved beneficial to student learning.
“A multi-institutional study of the impact of open textbook adoption on the learning outcomes of postsecondary students” is by far the largest study of its kind conducted to date—nearly 5000 postsecondary students using OER and over 11,000 control students using commercial textbooks, distributed among ten institutions across the United States, enrolled in 15 different undergraduate courses. So what did the researchers learn?
In three key measures of student success—course completion, final grade of C- or higher, course grade– students whose faculty chose OER generally performed as well or better than students whose faculty assigned commercial textbooks. The article does discuss the challenge of identifying and using appropriate measures of student learning, but the findings should encourage faculty who may be averse to open educational resources.
The findings support the experience of Temple University faculty that have participated in our local Alternate Textbook Project. Their evaluations of student outcomes often confirm that replacing the commercial textbook with alternate learning content (including licensed library content in many cases) leads to improved student engagement with learning materials which results in better academic performance. If you are interested in additional information about open textbooks, OER or our Alternate Textbook Project contact Steven Bell, Association University Librarian(bells at temple.edu).
Will the Temple Libraries be open during the Papal visit weekend?
If so, which ones and what will the hours of operation be? Here is a listing of our operations from Friday, September 25 through Monday, September 28.
Paley Library will be open throughout this period as follows:
Friday – 9 am to 5 pm
Saturday – 9 am to 7 pm
Sunday – Noon to 2 am
Monday – 8 am to 2 am
Please be aware that even though Paley is open it will be operating with limited staff and services. The only service desk location that will be staffed is the Access Services desk in Tuttleman. You will only be able to enter the Library through the Bell Tower entrance.
All guest computing services are suspended from Friday, September 25 through Monday, September 28 at 1 pm. No applications for guest computing or guest borrowing will be accepted during this period.
Those with research questions can obtain assistance through our virtual Ask-a-Librarian service. It will be available 9-5 Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The Science and Engineering Library located in the Engineering Building is closed from Friday, September 25 through Monday, September 28 at 1 pm.
The Ambler Campus Library is closed on Friday, September 25, open from 9 am to 5 pm on Saturday, September 26 and then closed for Sunday, September 27 and the morning of Monday, September 28.
The Health Sciences Libraries, Ginsburg and Podiatry, will be closed Friday, September 25 through Monday, September 28 at 1 pm.
All other service units such as the Special Collections Research Center, Media Services Desk, Blockson Collection, etc. are closed until Monday, September 28 at 1 pm.
For more information please call the Access Services Desk at 215-204-0744.
Starting today, Thursday, April 23, at 8:00 am, Paley Library will stay open continuously through Wednesday, May 6 at 8:00 pm.
By staying open 24/7 throughout finals, Temple Libraries provides students with a convenient study space…with all the amenities of a research library – but that’s not all.
We are once again having therapy dogs visiting the library to help students relieve exam week stress – and we have increased the number of visits by the dogs. Check the schedule to find out when the dogs will be at Paley Library.
We’ll also be providing coffee and cookies at 10:00 pm on April 30, May 1, May 4 and May 5. On Sunday, May 3 we’ll have coffee and muffins at noon. Quantities are limited.
Students enjoy the free refreshments at Paley during finals
Make Paley Library your primary study spot for making it through finals.
April 12-18, Temple University Libraries joins libraries in schools, campuses and communities nationwide in celebrating National Library Week, a time to highlight the changing role of libraries, librarians and library workers.
The Temple University Libraries are committed to collecting the books, electronic resources and materials that serve our communities in research, teaching and learning. We are also committed to transforming lives through innovative educational resources and forward-thinking programming.
Please join us for a host of activities taking place at Paley Library, the central facility on main campus, throughout National Library Week:
Research Paper Clinics, April 13-16, Noon-5:00 PM, Paley Library Think Tank
Chat in the Stacks—50 Years Later: Voting Rights and Civil Rights, Thursday, April 16, 2:30 PM, Paley Library Lecture Hall
Film Friday: CitizenFour, Friday, April 17, Noon, Paley Library Lecture Hall
Digital Humanities Scholars: Project Presentations, Friday, April 17, 2:30 PM, Paley Library Lecture Hall
First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April.
Intellectual Heritage Program and Libraries’ Beyond the Page Public Programming Series Team Up to Examine Data, Privacy, and Surveillance…from 1971 through the digital age
Temple University Libraries Beyond the Page Public Programming Series and the Intellectual Heritage Program present three compelling events on data collection, surveillance, your rights, and your privacy.
“Big data” is a big question in today’s digital culture, but government information farming is nothing new. We will examine the then and now of data collection and spying, and learn about how citizen activists have intervened in government spying efforts over the course of the past 40 years.
Please join us for the following programs, which are free and open to all:
Wednesday, April 8, 4:00 PM, The Reel Cinema, Lower Level,Student Center South, Screening of 1971 and post-film discussion with director Johanna Hamilton and co-stars John and Bonnie Raines and Keith Forsyth
On March 8, 1971 eight ordinary citizens—calling themselves the Citizen’s Commission to Investigate the FBI—broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, took hundreds of secret files, and shared them with the public. In doing so, they uncovered the FBI’s vast and illegal regime of spying and intimidation of Americans exercising their First Amendment rights. Mailed anonymously, the documents started to show up in newsrooms. The heist yielded a trove of damning evidence that proved the FBI was deliberately working to intimidate civil rights activists and Americans nonviolently protesting the Vietnam War. Despite searching for the people behind the heist in one of the largest investigations ever conducted, the FBI never solved the mystery of the break-in, and the identities of the members of the Citizens’ Commission remained a secret. Until now. For the first time, the members of the Commission have decided to come forward and speak out about their actions. 1971 is their story. https://www.1971film.com/
Friday, April 17, Noon, Paley Library Lecture Hall
Film Screening: CitizenFour
In January 2013, director Laura Poitras (recipient of the 2012 MacArthur Genius Fellowship and co-recipient of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service) was several years into making a film about surveillance in the post-9/11 era when she started receiving encrypted e-mails from someone identifying himself as “citizen four,” who was ready to blow the whistle on the massive covert surveillance programs run by the NSA and other intelligence agencies. In June 2013, she and Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with the man who turned out to be Snowden. She brought her camera with her. The film that resulted from this series of tense encounters is absolutely sui generis in the history of cinema: a 100% real-life thriller unfolding minute by minute before our eyes. Executive Produced by Steven Soderbergh. https://citizenfourfilm.com/
Monday, April 20, Noon, Paley Library Lecture Hall
Mass Surveillance, Privacy, and Your Rights in the Digital World
Join Temple alum April Glaser in conversation with Professor of Journalism Meredith Broussard for a conversation on government and corporate dragnet surveillance and the legal, political, and grassroots challenges mounting worldwide. We will discuss the various ways corporate and government digital profiling perpetuates injustice in our digital spaces, and how the surveillance programs that have been revealed since Edward Snowden began to disclose details about government spying in 2013 have had a profound effect on journalism and activism in the U.S. and around the world.
Do you want to save students money by not requiring them to buy a textbook?
Do you want to improve student learning?
Do you want to offer students access to more digital learning content?
If you answered “yes” to the above then please consider applying for one of ten Alternate Textbook Project awards. Faculty members whose proposals are accepted receive an award of $1,000 to subsidize the preparation of their alternate textbook.
Both full and part-time faculty are eligible. Proposals must address how the current commercial textbook will be replaced with learning material that is available at no cost to the students. This could include open educational resources (OER) and licensed library materials, such as scholarly articles, e-book chapters and educational video.
To date 37 Temple faculty have received alternate textbook awards and have so far saved Temple students over $300,000 in textbook costs.
Please consider applying for an alternate textbook award.
Proposals are now being accepted through the deadline of April 30, 2015. Awards will be announced by May 15, 2015.
For more information and the proposal submission form go to the Alternate Textbook Project information guide.
The Alternate Textbook Project is sponsored by the TLTR2 and Temple University Libraries.