Join Us For Digital Day E-Resource Fairs

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Temple University Libraries will celebrate Digital Day — a celebration of our fantastic e-resources — this Wednesday, March 24, from 11:00am to 2:00pm with two e-resource fairs held concurrently in Paley and SEAL libraries. Vendors and library staff will be on hand to familiarize you with the wide range of library resources and services available for research. Vendors include:

PALEY:

  • Alexander Street Press
  • AP Images-Credo Reference
  • EbscoHost
  • Films Media Group
  • Gale
  • LexisNexis
  • Oxford University Press
  • ProQuest
  • SourceOECD

SEAL:

  • IEEE
  • Elsevier
  • ProQuest
  • Books 24 x 7
  • Web of Science
  • Reaxys
  • Biological Abstracts
  • ScienceDirect
  • Compendex
  • INSPEC
  • Avery Index
  • Safari Tech Books Online

There will be food and drink, prizes, and raffles too! Enter the raffles to win great prizes including: a Kindle, Flip Mino camcorders, a Nintendo DS, an iPod, plus gift cards to Amazon, Starbucks, Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, and more! We hope you’ll stop by and enjoy the fairs — these are fabulous ways to learn how the library’s e-resources can help you with your research!

Please know that owing to the fairs you can expect a higher noise level on the first floor of the Paley Library, particularly on the east side of the building (normally a quiet zone). In addition, there will be fewer computers available on the east side of the first floor of Paley Library, but there will still be many computers available in the Library.

Hope to see you there!

New E-Resources: Mid-March Edition

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The following new electronic resources are now available to the Temple community:

Black Women Writers

  • eventually totaling 100,000 pages of fiction, poetry, and essays
  • brings together the many voices of women from Africa and the African Diaspora

Book Review Index Online

  • more than 5 million book review citations from thousands of publications

BuildingGreen

  • features comprehensive, practical information on a wide range of topics related to sustainable building
  • includes online versions of the GreenSpec directory of products and Environmental Building News

GREENR

  • focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues
  • topic, organization, and country portals form research centers around issues covering energy systems, health care, agriculture, climate change, population, and economic development
  • portals include authoritative analysis, academic journals, news, case studies, legislation, conference proceedings, primary source documents, statistics, and rich multimedia

Patrologia Latina

  • comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216

Proquest Historical Newspapers

ARTstor Update 3/16/10

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ARTstor has announced the following:

Now available: More architecture from the Ezra Stoller Archive (Esto)
A new release of more than 7,100 images from the Ezra Stoller Archive (Esto) is now available in the ARTstor Digital Library.

Now available: More images from the Asian Art Photographic Distribution (AAPD) (University of Michigan)
ARTstor has recently added the final images from the University of Michigan’s Asian Art Photographic Distribution (AAPD) collection in the Digital Library, bringing the collection total to approximately 9,600 images of Chinese painting, sculpture, and decorative arts and Japanese painting and prints.

Now available: Additional Mark Rothko paintings
An additional 55 images from the Rothko Family Collections are now available in the Digital Library. These new images consist of Mark Rothko’s paintings from the 1930s and 1940s.

Now available: Yao ceremonial artifacts from Ohio University
Ohio University has shared approximately 2,800 images of art works and objects created by the Yao people, an ethnic minority from northern Vietnam, which are now available in ARTstor.

Now available: Final images from Canyonlights World Art Image Bank
Approximately 2,200 additional images from Canyonlights World Art Image Bank are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library.

Collection agreement: Art from the Barnes Foundation
ARTstor is collaborating with the Barnes Foundation to share approximately 2,000 images of works from their permanent collection in the Digital Library. The collection in ARTstor will include 59 works by Henri Matisse, as well as other European and American paintings, works on paper, and objects.

Collection agreement: John R. Fischetti Cartoon Archive (Columbia College Chicago)ARTstor is collaborating with Columbia College Chicago to share approximately 3,200 images of drawings and sketches by the cartoonist John Fischetti in the Digital Library.

Library Prize Info Sessions

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Would you like to win $1,000 and a prestigious award from Temple Libraries? The deadline for submitting your work to the 2010 Library Prize for Undergraduate Research is Monday, March 29, 2010. Learn more about the Library Prize at two upcoming info sessions: 1) Monday, March 22 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in Paley Library, Room 130 (mezzanine level) 2) Thursday, March 25 from 10:00 a.m. to noon in Paley Library, Room 130 (mezzanine level) These sessions are your opportunity to ask questions and get a leg up on the competition! Don’t forget to check out our Library Prize website, especially our How to Apply and FAQ pages.

Bibliography of the History of Art Ceases Publication

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The Temple University Libraries were notified today that the Getty Research Institute has discontinued publication of the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), a critical database in the field of art history. Furthermore, we regret to report that the Getty will switch off all access to the BHA at the end of March 2010. Proquest, the distributor through which Temple has had access to the BHA, confirmed in writing to us that the Getty had been looking for a buyer for the database but that as of last week, no other publisher was willing to buy and continue the database. So Getty is pulling the plug. ProQuest maintains that no extension of access for any customers will be possible after March 31.

Alternatives:

  • The Bibliography of the History of Art is a superior database and its coverage has not been duplicated in any single database available to us, but the Temple University Libraries can offer you some alternative databases that provide some overlap of BHA content.
  • ARTbibliographies Modern: Covers around 150 of the journals on BHA’s list, with unsurpassed strengths in areas such as modernism, contemporary global art and photography
  • British Humanities Index: Covers around 80 BHA journals, covering subjects such as fine art, antiques, museums, classical studies, European studies and interdisciplinary studies
  • Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI): Covers 40 BHA journals, with overlapping subject strengths in costume and dress, decorative arts and interiors

Again, all access to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) will cease on Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Please continue to use this resource until then.

— by Jill E. Luedke, Reference & Instruction Librarian / Art Subject Specialist