Trial: Oxford Bibliographies Online

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We have trial access to Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) until 5/29/10.  According to Oxford, OBO is

an entirely new research tool for the social sciences and humanities. A scholar-curated library of discipline-based subject modules, OBO is designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information in half the time by directing them to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive, or data set they need for their research. Each entry is a selective guided tour through the key literature on a topic, receives multiple peer-reviews as well as Editorial Board approval, and is designed to facilitate a research experience with no dead ends.

Subject modules currently available are Classics, Criminology, Islamic Studies, and Social Work.  Your feedback is welcomed.

Improvements Coming to the Urban Archives Reading Room–Renovations May 3 through July 2

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The Urban Archives Reading Room is undergoing improvements that require extensive renovations, scheduled to take place between May 3 and July 2. During that time, some services may be limited. Full services at the Archives will resume on Tuesday, July 6. We encourage you to contact the Archives ahead of time, at 215-204-8257 or urban@temple.edu, for the best possible research assistance. Ongoing updates about these improvements will be posted at http://library.temple.edu and http://library.temple.edu/collections/urbana, so check back for additional information.

ARTstor Update 4/29/10

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ARTstor has announced the following:

Now available: Foundation for Landscape Studies
ARTstor has collaborated with the Foundation for Landscape Studies to share approximately 5,000 contemporary photographs and historical illustrations of gardens and landscapes from around the world in the Digital Library.

Now available: European popular imagery from the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin
ARTstor has collaborated with the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin to share approximately 800 images of European prints documenting popular culture in the Digital Library.

Now available: Beyond the Taj: Architectural Traditions and Landscape Experience in South Asia (Cornell University Library)
ARTstor has collaborated with Cornell University Library to make available more than 6,600 photographs of South Asian architecture from the Beyond the Taj collection.

JSTOR Update 4/29/10

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The following journals have been added to JSTOR.

Cuadernos de Pensamiento Político
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=cuapenpol
Release Content:
Nos. 1-20 (October, 2003 – October/December, 2008)
Moving Wall: 1 year
Publisher: FAES, Fundacion para el Analisis y los Estudios Sociales
ISSN: 1696-8441

Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jmiddeastwomstud
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter, 2005) – Vol. 2, No. 3 (2006)
|Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISSN: 1552-5864
Note: The content for Vol. 2, No. 2 (2006) will be released as soon as the issue becomes available to JSTOR.

Meridians
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=meridians
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn, 2000) – Vol. 7, No. 1 (2006)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISSN: 1536-6936

Papers of the British School at Rome
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=papbritschrome
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (1902) – Vol. 74 (2006)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: The British School at Rome
ISSN: 0068-2462

Philosophy of Music Education Review
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=philmusieducrevi
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1993) – Vol. 14, No. 2 (Fall, 2006)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISSN: 1063-5734

Schools: Studies in Education
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=schoolstudedu
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (March, 2004) – Vol. 3, No. 2 (Fall, 2006)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISSN: 1550-1175

Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=trancharpeirsoc
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1965) – Vol. 42, No. 4 (Fall, 2006)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISSN: 0009-1774

Translation and Literature
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=translit
Release Content:
Vol. 1 (1992) – Vol. 13, No. 2 (Autumn, 2004)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISSN: 0968-1361

Discussion with Temple Classicists

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On March 18, 2010 I had the opportunity to speak with Classics professors Dan Tompkins, Robin Mitchell-Boyask, and Sydnor Roy. I wanted to understand how Classics research–and humanities research more generally–had changed in the course of the past few decades in the wake of broad transformations in academia, technology, and society.

Dan Tompkins received his PhD from Yale University in 1968 with a dissertation entitled Stylistic Characterization in Thucydides. Robin Mitchell-Boyask graduated in 1988 from Brown University with a dissertation entitled Tragic Identity: Studies in Euripides and Shakespeare. Sydnor Roy is a 2010 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her dissertation is entitled Political Relativism: Implicit Political Theory in Herodotus’ Histories.

We began by discussing their respective dissertation experiences: where they studied, what kinds of sources they used, the technology that was available, and the scholarly community that surrounded them. Since the three dissertations spanned the years from 1968 to 2010, the discussion revealed interesting similarities and differences in the academic environment over the past forty years. Below is Part 1 of our discussion. Parts 2 and 3 will follow.

Listen to the audio of the discussion, Part I

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iTunes U link (for downloads)

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—Fred Rowland

Exhibition Cell Phone Tour Launches

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We’ve created a cellphone tour to guide you through the current exhibition at Paley Library: The Radical, The Alternative, The Political—Posters from the Contemporary Culture Collection. The exhibition presents a rare glimpse into the political, the graphic, the radical—with broadsides, posters and other print-based materials from the Contemporary Culture Collection. The exhibition, which is culled from this outstanding collection of materials from radical, alternative, and independent presses, explores the theme of accessibility and dissemination of print materials. The Contemporary Culture Collection is one of the region’s most extensive collections of publications by alternative, independent, and small literary publishers; social reform and liberation movement organizations; and political organizations of the far left and right. The collection contains 5,000 journal, newsletter and newspaper titles, books, pamphlets, microfilm, audiotapes, posters, broadsides, artist books and prints. To participate in the tour, drop by Paley Library, proceed to the exhibit cases on the first floor and dial in at 215-525-1543, then hit prompt 50# to begin.

2010 Library Prize Winners Announced

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Congratulations go to all Library Prize applicants. The honorees this year are:

Winners (alphabetical order)

Donald Bermudez – Keystone of the Keystone: The Falls of the Delaware and Bucks County 1609-1692 (History 4997) – Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Rita Krueger and Dr. Travis

Glasson Brian Hussey – Setting the Agenda: The Effects of Administration Debates and the President’s Personal Imperatives on Forming Foreign Policy During the Reagan Administration (History 4997) – Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Rita Krueger and Dr. Richard H. Immerman

Charise Young – African American Women’s Basketball in the 1920s and 1930s: Active Participants in the “New Negro” Movement (History 4296) – Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Bettye Collier-Thomas and Dr. Kenneth L. Kusmer

Honorable Mentions (alphabetical order)

Adam Ledford – A Research Based Studio Practice in Ceramics (Crafts 4162) – Faculty Sponsors: Nicholas Kripal and Chad D. Curtis

Hung Pham – The Identification of Transcription Factors Mediating Homocysteine Pathology in Human Endothelial Cells (Biology 3396) – Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Deborah Stull and Dr. Hong Wang

 

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.