Online Image Collections

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This hands-one workshop will introduce you to online image collection databases. These databases provide high-resolution images and content that would not otherwise be freely searchable via search engines such as Google.

You will learn how to find images related to art, design, architecture, archaeology, culture and politics, as well as historic images of Philadelphia. Focus will be on ARTstor and AP Images (Associated Press Images). All are welcome.

Location: TECH Center 205-A

Time: 1-2 PM

Dates: 9/23 , 10/21

For more information and to register…

ARTstor Update 9/18/09

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ARTstor has announced the following:

Now available: Buddhist art from Lantian, China
ARTstor is collaborating with Northwestern University Academic and Research Technologies to share 20 images, including 7 Quick Time Virtual Reality (QTVR) panoramas, documenting Buddhist sculpture at Shuilu’an Temple in Lantian, Shaanxi Province, China.

New collection agreement: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
ARTstor is collaborating with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) to share approximately 1,000 images of modern and contemporary art from its permanent collection in the Digital Library.

New collection agreement: Barbara Anello: Photographs of Southeast Asia and Morocco
ARTstor is collaborating with Barbara Anello to share approximately 750 images of the architecture, arts, and culture of Southeast Asia and Morocco in the Digital Library.

New collection agreement: Emilio Sanchez Foundation
ARTstor is collaborating with the Emilio Sanchez Foundation to share 79 images of works by the Cuban-born American artist Emilio Sanchez in the Digital Library.

ARTstor Update 9/9/09

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ARTstor has announced the following:

Now available: Images from Gazette du Bon Ton (Minneapolis College of Art and Design)
The Minneapolis College of Art and Design has contributed images of early 20th-century French fashion plates from La Gazette du Bon Ton to the ARTstor Digital Library.

Wilfried Wang: Modern Architecture (University of Texas at Austin) collection now available in ARTstor
ARTstor has collaborated with the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin to make available 458 images of modern European and American architecture in the Digital Library.

America’s Historical Newspapers Content Update: 9/8/09

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The following content was recently added to America’s Historical Newspapers:

Publication

Issues

Publication Location

Date Start

Date End

City Gazette

200

Charleston, SC

1826-01-02

1826-12-30

Federal Republican

66

Baltimore, MD

1811-01-01

1811-03-18

Constitution

20

Middletown, CT

1856-12-31

1857-12-02

New York Herald

50

New York, NY

1871-06-18

1871-08-09

Montana Herold

260

Helena, MT

1893-05-04

1899-05-25

New Orleans Argus

117

New Orleans, LA

1828-01-19

1832-09-29

Chicago Times

77

Chicago, IL

1855-01-16

1856-07-03

Reconstructionist

2

Washington, DC

1866-02-10

1866-03-24

Trenton State Gazette

602

Trenton, NJ

1848-01-01

1850-12-31

Denver Mirror

33

Denver, CO

1874-06-28

1875-05-30

California Gazette

1

Benecia, CA

1851-07-12

  

Manufacturers’ and Farmers’ Journal

52

Providence, RI

1820-08-07

1870-01-03

Morning Telegraph

509

New York, NY

1870-01-02

1879-12-28

National Gazette

1558

Philadelphia, PA

1822-12-03

1841-04-08

New London Daily Star

120

New London, CT

1837-01-05

1858-09-02

Wabash Courier

18

Terre Haute, IN

1840-10-31

1841-12-25

Albany Evening Journal

1

Albany, NY

1854-08-19

  

New Hampshire Patriot

545

Concord, NH

1878-10-10

1890-04-10

New York Herald-Tribune

527

New York, NY

1858-01-01

1877-09-24

Public Ledger

1103

Philadelphia, PA

1840-09-17

1868-05-30

Weekly Civilian

126

Cumberland, MD

1859-03-17

1861-09-26

New easier way to request materials

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Temple Libraries is pleased to announce a new service that greatly simplifies requests for library materials from other campus libraries and the Library Depository. When you search the Diamond catalog and you find a book or an article in a bound volume that is at the Ambler Library and you’re at Main Campus, for example, all you have to do is click on the request button at the top of the catalog record, login using your access net account, indicate where you want to pick the material up, and hit the submit button. It’s that easy. We’ve eliminated those cumbersome forms. Also, for articles in bound volumes, you will receive those electronically through your Temple email account. No need to come to the library to pick those up.

This service is available for all material that is currently requestable – that is bound journals from the Depository, journal articles in bound volumes, and circulating books. Books that don’t circulate such as reference books or books that are checked out or missing, may not be requested. This service covers material in the following libraries: Paley and Media Services; SEAL; Ambler; Harrisburg; and Health Sciences Libraries. If you want to request material from Paley, Media Services or SEAL your pickup location must be Ambler, Harrisburg, or the Health Sciences Libraries.

The screenshot below illustrates how Diamond now looks for books and journals that can be requested:

request_screenshot.jpg If you have any questions or concerns please call 215 204-0744 or email us at libcirc@temple.edu

RSS Feeds in Journal Finder

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If you search for journals in our Journal Finder, you can now access RSS feeds to get notifications of new issues’ table of contents. What is RSS? We’ve created a subject guide on that very subject called “Current Awareness with RSS Feeds”. It includes information about what RSS feeds are and how you can use them for different purposes. If have you used RSS feeds before, Journal Finder can help you find RSS feeds for the tables of contents of hundreds of academic journals from a wide range of publishers such as: Sage, Wiley, Blackwells, Elsevier, Oxford, Nature, American Chemical Society, American Physical Society, and many more. When you search in Journal Finder, if a journal in your results has an associated RSS feed, you will see the standard RSS icon, which looks like this:

jf_rss-1.png Clicking on the RSS icon will take you to the url for the RSS feed. Next to the RSS icons are small information icons which will take you to the aforementioned subject guide on RSS. If you have any questions feel free to ask your subject librarian.

–Derik A Badman Digital Services Librarian

New Students Gather for ceLIBration 2009

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On the afternoon of Friday, August 28th it was not business as usual at Paley Library. As it has for the past two Welcome Week Fridays, the Library was the scene of a party for our new students. With a DJ spinning the tunes, the students gathered for food, games, raffles, and other entertainment. ceLIBration is designed as a fun, non-library way to learn about the library. Several hundred students, some with their parents, visited Paley Library, and many explored all that the Library has to offer.

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This year students were invited to participate in several arcade game tournaments that featured popular games such as air hockey, foosball, basketball toss and skeeball. The Library also offered a variety of board games for students who wanted to have fun with their friends. Jimmy Johns generously brought over lots of samples of their sandwiches. So while it was uncharacteristically noisy in the Library, it was for a good cause – and a good time was had by all.

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JSTOR Update 9/4/09

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The following journals have been added to JSTOR.

Dante Studies, with the Annual Report of the Dante Society [1966- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=dantestudies
Previous Title: Annual Reports of the Dante Society, with Accompanying Papers [1955-1965] (1948-1608)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=annrepdantsocwap
Previous Title: Annual Reports of the Dante Society [1882-1954] (1948-1594)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=annrepdantesoc
Release Content:
Nos. 1-68/72 (1882-1954);
Nos. 73-83 (1955-1965);
Nos. 84-123 (1966-2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Dante Society of America
ISSN: 0070-2862

Journal of the Southwest [1987- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jsouthwest
Previous Title: Arizona and the West [1959-1986] (0004-1408)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=arizwest
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1959) – Vol. 28, No. 4 (Winter, 1986);
Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring, 1987) – Vol. 47, No. 4 (Winter, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Journal of the Southwest
ISSN: 0894-8410

Ornithological Monographs
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=ornithmono
Release Content:
Nos. 1-57 (1964-2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: University of California Press for the American Ornithologists’ Union
ISSN: 0078-6594

Religion & Literature [1984- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=reliandliter
Previous Title: Notre Dame English Journal [1965-1983] (0029-4500)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=notedameengj
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter, 1965/1966) – Vol. 15, No. 3 (Summer, 1983);
Vol. 16, No. 1 (Winter, 1984) – Vol. 37, No. 3 (Autumn, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: University of Notre Dame
ISSN: 0888-3769

Federal Online Documents Access Disrupted

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For many years we have listed tens of thousands of United States government documents in our online catalog of holdings together with URLs to their online equivalents hosted by agencies of the federal government. These URLs have been provided to libraries nationwide by the GPO (Government Printing Office).

On August 24th the GPO server providing these URLs suffered a catastrophic failure. GPO attempts to restore service have thus far been ineffective. As of Tuesday 9/1 only 6,000 out of 116,000 URLs had been restored. On Wednesday 9/2 the GPO server went completely offline.

This is a nationwide problem. Users of the Temple University online catalog who seek to access online U.S. government publications they find through the catalog should look at the full catalog record and use the second alternate URL if one is provided in the catalog record. The purl.access.gpo.gov link will not work until further notice. We will continue to monitor the situation and will announce restoration of PURL services by GPO.

Project Muse Content Update: 9/2/09

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The following 14 new journals went live in Project Muse between May – August 2009:

American Music
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Archives of Asian Art
Publisher: University of Hawai’i Press

Black Women, Gender & Families
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

The Byron Journal
Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Conservative Judaism
Publisher: Rabbinical Assembly

Genocide Studies and Prevention
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Publisher: Harvard-Yenching Institute

Journal of Education Finance
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Revista Hispánica Moderna
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Romani Studies
Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Studies in American Jewish Literature
Publisher: Purdue University Press

Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Publisher: The New Chaucer Society

U.S. Catholic Historian
Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press

Western American Literature
Publisher: Western Literature Association