ARTstor Update: 10/12/10

ARTstor has announced the following:

Now available: Editorial cartoons and sketches by John R. Fischetti ARTstor has collaborated with Columbia College Chicago to share more than 3,200 images of drawings and sketches by Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist John R. Fischetti in the Digital Library.

Now available: Lantern slides of the Samuel H. Kress Collection ARTstor has collaborated with the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to share more than 800 images depicting paintings from the distributed Kress Collection.

Now available: Final launch of images for the Moreen O’Brien Maser Memorial Collection (Skidmore College) With the addition of 64 images of Ancient archaeological and architectural sites in Egypt, Greece, and Peru, the Moreen O’Brien Maser Memorial Collection in ARTstor is now complete.

Now available: Photographs of Tibetan and Buddhist art by Rob Linrothe More than 1,200 images of Tibetan and Buddhist art from Rob Linrothe are now available in the Digital Library.

Now available: Final release of South Asian art and architecture from Alka Patel More than 3,330 additional images of Islamic art and architecture from South Asia from Alka Patel are now available in the Digital Library.

Now available: World art and architecture from the Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives More than 1,300 additional images of art and architecture from Asia, the Pacific Islands, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa from the Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives are now available in ARTstor.

Credo Reference Update: 10/12/10

Credo Reference recently added the following titles:

  • American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present, Grey House Publishing
  • From Suffrage to the Senate: American’s Political Women, Grey House Publishing
  • Political Corruption in America: An Encyclopedia of Scandals, Power & Greed, Grey House Publishing
  • The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, Princeton University Press
  • The Religious Right: A Reference Handbook, Grey House Publishing
  • Speakers of the House of Representatives, 1789-2009, Grey House Publishing

JSTOR Update 10/12/10

The following journals have been added to JSTOR:

  • Black Camera Vol. 1, No. 1 (Summer, 1985) – Vol. 21, No. 2 (Fall/Winter, 2006) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: Indiana University Press ISSN: 1536-3155
  • Feminist Teacher Vol. 1, No. 2 (Winter, 1985) – Vol. 17, No. 1 (2006) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISSN: 0882-4843
  • History and Memory Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring/Summer, 1989) – Vol. 10, No. 2 (Fall, 1998) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: Indiana University Press ISSN: 0935-560X Note: The content for 1999-2006 will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.
  • Indiana Magazine of History [1913- ] Previous Title: The Indiana Quarterly Magazine of History [1905-1913] (0147-2259) Vol. 1, No. 1 (First Quarter, 1905) – Vol. 9, No. 1 (March, 1913); Vol. 9, No. 2 (June, 1913) – Vol. 103, No. 4 (December, 2007) Moving Wall: 2 years Publisher: Indiana University Department of History in cooperation with the Indiana Historical Society. ISSN: 0019-6673
  • International Legal Materials Vol. 1, No. 1 (August, 1962) – Vol. 46, No. 6 (November, 2007) Moving Wall: 2 years Publisher: American Society of International Law ISSN: 0020-7829
  • Journal of Film and Video [1984- ] Previous Title: Journal of the University Film and Video Association [1982-1983] (0734-919X) Previous Title: Journal of the University Film Association [1968-1981] (0041-9311) Previous Title: Journal of the University Film Producers Association [1949-1967] (2155-8159) Vol. 1, No. 1 (March, 1949) – Vol. 19, No. 3/4 (1967); Vol. 20, No. 1 (1968) – Vol. 33, No. 4 (Fall, 1981); Vol. 34, No. 1 (Winter, 1982) – Vol. 35, No. 4 (Fall, 1983); Vol. 36, No. 1 (Winter, 1984) – Vol. 58, No. 4 (Winter, 2006) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISSN: 0742-4671
  • The Journal of General Education Vol. 1, No. 1 (October, 1946) – Vol. 53, No. 3/4 (2004) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University-Penn State University Press ISSN: 0021-3667
  • The Journal of Speculative Philosophy Vol. 1, No. 1 (1867) – Vol. 22, No. 4 (December, 1893); New Series, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1987) – New Series, Vol. 18, No. 4 (2004) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University-Penn State University Press ISSN: 0891-625X Note: No issues were published in 1894-1986.
  • Math Horizons Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter, 1993) – Vol. 14, No. 2 (November, 2006) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America ISSN: 1072-4117
  • Pennsylvania History Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1934) – Vol. 71, No. 4 (Autumn, 2004) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University-Penn State University Press ISSN: 0031-4528
  • Pennsylvania Legacies Full Text Content: Vol. 1, No. 1 (November, 2001) – Vol. 4, No. 2 (November, 2004) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: Historical Society of Pennsylvania ISSN: 1544-6360
  • Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (American Society of International Law) [1974- ] Previous Title: Proceedings of the American Society of International Law at Its Annual Meeting (1921-1969) [1921-1969] (0272-5045) Previous Title: Proceedings of the American Society of International Law at the Meeting of Its Executive Council [1918-1920] (0272-5053) Previous Title: Proceedings of the American Society of International Law at Its Annual Meeting (1907-1917) [1907-1917] (0272-5061) Vols. 1-11 (April 19-20, 1907 – April 26-28, 1917); Vols. 12/13 – 14 (April 27, 1918/April 17, 1919 – November 13, 1920); Vols. 15-63 (April 27-30, 1921 – April 24-26, 1969); Vols. 68-101 (1974-2007) Moving Wall: 2 years Publisher: American Society of International Law ISSN: 0272-5037
  • Prooftexts Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1981) – Vol. 19, No. 3 (September, 1999) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: Indiana University Press ISSN: 0272-9601 Note: The content for 2000-2006 will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.
  • Qui Parle Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring, 1988) – Vol. 15, No. 1 (Fall/Winter, 2004) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: University of Nebraska Press ISSN: 1041-8385
  • symploke Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter, 1993) – Vol. 12, No. 1/2 (2004) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: University of Nebraska Press ISSN: 1069-0697
  • Women in German Yearbook Vols. 1-20 (1985-2004) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: University of Nebraska Press ISSN: 1058-7446

Trial: Sage Research Methods Online

We are running a trial of Sage Research Methods Online (SRMO) through 12/31/10. SRMO provides advanced search and discovery tools to support researchers and students as they explore relevant research methods content across the social and behavioral sciences, covering quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods (includes the well-known Little Green Books)

Biography Resource Center is now Biography in Context

Gale has rolled out a new interface to Biography Resource Center and re-named it Biography in Context. Besides a change to the look, other changes include:

  • Search occupations, nationalities, birthplaces and deathplaces right from the homepage — not just names
  • Sharing tools for any social media app you can think of
  • Citation generation in MLA and APA format
  • Print or email as PDF
  • Search assist for person topic pages
  • ReadSpeaker text-to-speech on every document
  • Translation for Chinese (simplified), French, German, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish..and back to English again
  • Thousands more photos than ever before
  • Embedded videos
  • Podcasts and audio files
  • Citation generation
  • Advanced search by document type, content type
  • Factboxes on person topic pages

Integrating the Library into Blackboard 9

Temple University Libraries’ subject specialists create guides to library resources for general subjects as well as for specific courses and assignments. Faculty should contact Subject Specialists to get more information on these. Here is the Research Guides homepage.

Blackboard is a great place to make these guides available to students. View the Screencast below to see how easy it is to embed a library guide into your Blackboard course.

For more information, see Integrating the Library Into Blackboard.

Welcome Back Temple Students! ceLIBration Welcomes New Students

The staff of Temple University Libraries are excited about the start of the fall 2010 semester. We want to welcome all of our returning students back to campus, and we welcome all of our new students as well. Temple University Libraries has some new and exciting things in store for the fall campus, plus lots of interesting events for you to attend. Be on the lookout for our “Guide for Library Users” that will appear as an insert in the Temple Student News, and keep following our library blog throughout the semester.

You can also follow us on Twitter at /templelibraries and on Facebook.

On Friday, August 27 the Temple University Libraries held its fourth annual ceLIBration event in Paley Library as apart of all the Welcome Week festivities. The several hundred students who attended ate over 300 hot dogs, 400 cookies, 500 soft pretzels, 100 Jimmy Johns sandwiches, and more water and soda then we can count. In addition to the music and games, a highlight of ceLIBration was the Great Library Scavenger Hunt. Participants had to complete a series of tasks to find the answers to the questions, and in doing so they traveled to every corner of Paley Library.

The winners of the first hunt were Dion Trinidad (first place – shown below on the left), Dannielle Harrington (second place) and Laura Carione (third place). The winners of the second hunt were Katie Gensemer (first place), Kevin Chaya (second place) and Jennifer Cubbler (third place) – all three shown below on the right.

The Temple University Libraries thanks all the students who came out to ceLIBrate with us, and we look forward to a good fall semester. As always, we are here to help you succeed.

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