New & Updated Titles in Credo Reference

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Credo Reference recently added the following new or updated titles:

New

  • Chambers Dictionary of Literary Characters, Chambers Harrap
  • The Elgar Companion to Consumer Research and Economics Psychology, Edward Elgar
  • The Elgar Dictionary of Economic Quotations, Edward Elgar
  • A Handbook of Globalisation and Environmental Policy, Edward Elgar
  • The Human Body Book: An Illustrated Guide to Its Structure, Function and Disorders, Dorling Kindersley
  • Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches, Perseus

Updated

  • Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms, Barron’s
  • Dictionary of Optometry and Visual Science, Elsevier
  • The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography in Science
  • Mosby’s Dental Dictionary, Elsevier
  • The New Food Lover’s Companion, Barron’s
  • The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women’s Biography, Macmillan
  • The Wisden Archive of Cricketers’ Lives 2009

Web Service Makes Corrupted Files Easy to Send

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In this day and age it is often surprising to receive a corrupted document from a student or colleague. Most of us know how to properly save our documents and either send them as e-mail attachments or upload them to an external site, such as a Blackboard course. But a new web business sells corrupted files that can then be sent in order to meet a deadline, but which the receiver won’t be able to use. The site, Corrupted-Files.com charges $3.95 for a corrupted file. The information on the site makes it clear that it is intended for students who need to buy more time to complete their work. The idea is that the student submits the corrupted file to meet the assignment deadline. Then, after a few days, when the professor is unable to read the garbled document he or she e-mails the student to request a working version of the file. The student feigns surprise about the corrupted file and then proceeds, several days later, to send a working file. Thus the student technically meets the assignment deadline yet actually has extra time to complete the work.

News about Corrupted-Files.com was originally reported in InsideHigher Ed, and it was interesting to read that the site creator just set up the service as a joke and really didn’t expect anyone to take it seriously. Yet when he started getting requests from students and others for corrupted files he decided to make a profit off the service. It is worthwhile to review the comments to the story from faculty, some who are amazed that any student would go to such efforts to avoid an assignment deadline to others who offer advice on how to prevent getting duped this way, and yet others who point out that Microsoft products aren’t perfect and that sometimes files really do get corrupted. While the site is still up and appears to be doing business as usual, the “secret” the site asks you not to share is now out of the bag. It now is just a question of time as to whether or not students will realize their professors are going to be a bit more wary about the old “corrupted file” excuse.

Important Announcement – Health Science Kresge Library Closes Wed. June 17 – New Facility Opens Fri. June 19

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This Friday, June 19th, the new Simmy and Harry Ginsburg Health Sciences Library will open its doors to the health sciences community at Temple. Located in the New Medical Education and Research Building, this stunning new facility offers a centralized location for the resources and services formerly found at the Kresge and South Branch Libraries. The process of closing our old facilities and opening a new one has been complex, and we must truncate services for this week only.

Please keep in mind the following while accessing library services and resources over the course of this week:

  • Kresge Library is closing as of Wednesday, June 17th.
  • The only library facility that will be open on Wednesday, June 17th and Thursday, June 18th, is the South Branch Library, which will offer the following services:
    • Book Requests and Paging: requested materials will be acquired from any point in the relocation path. Once the material is retrieved, patrons will be contacted by telephone or email. If, for some reason, the material cannot be found quickly, library staff will request it on interlibrary loan
    • Reference services
    • Thirteen computer workstations for patron use
  • The Simmy and Harry Ginsburg Health Sciences Library and South Branch Library will be open concurrently from June 19th through June 26th.
  • As of Friday, June 26th, South Library will be closed and all health sciences services and resources will be available at the Simmy and Harry Ginsburg Health Science Library, located at Broad and Tioga Streets.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and we look forward to seeing you in our new library. If you have any concerns about the move of the Health Sciences Libraries or need special assistance during the move please contact either Mark Allen Taylor, Library Director, at ext. 2-2402 or any member of the Health Sciences Library staff at ext. 2-book.

Krystal Lewis is new Coordinator of Information Literacy and Reference

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I am delighted to welcome Krystal Lewis to Temple University Libraries. Krystal joined us as the Coordinator of Information Literacy and Reference on June 8. In this new position, Krystal will coordinate the Libraries’ various information literacy initiatives and the broad array of virtual and in-person reference services based at Paley Library.

Krystal comes to us from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she served as an Assistant Librarian and Assistant Professor in the Reference Department of the Richard J. Daley Library. Prior to that, she was an Acting Assistant Special Collections Librarian and Academic Resident Librarian and Instructor at the Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago.

Krystal earned a B.A. in History and her MLS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to her extensive reference experience, Krystal also has also worked with special collections and archives at the Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago. Please join me again in welcoming Krystal Lewis to Temple University Libraries.

With warm wishes,

Larry P. Alford

Vampire Huntress Interview

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Leslie Banks appeared at the Temple Book Club on March 4, 2009 to talk about her new book, The Thirteenth, and her new projects including a forthcoming graphic novel. In an engaging presentation with many fans in the audience, she discussed the final book of her Vampire Huntress series, as well as her journey to becoming a writer, the publishing industry, and the challenge of writing as a career. Afterward, she kindly agreed to an interview with librarian Fred Rowland, who engaged her on many of these same issues.  Take some time to listen to this interesting interview.

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Interviews: Library Prize Winners 2009

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The interviews with the winners of the 2009 Library Prize for Undergraduate Research are now available for download. Take some time and listen to these engaging young scholars.

Interview (mp3, 13:06): Danielle Country and Faculty Sponsor Laura Samponaro

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Interview (mp3, 21:36): George Keddie and Faculty Sponsor Vasiliki Limberis

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Interview (mp3, 15:05): Cara Shay and Faculty Sponsor Diana Woodruff-Pak

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For more information on this year’s winners and honorable mentions, go to the Winners page.

13 New ABC-CLIO Ebooks

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The following 13 titles have been added to our ABC-CLIO ebook collection:

  • Burger Court, The: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy
  • Chase Court, The: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy
  • Fuller Court, The: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy
  • Hughes Court, The: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy
  • Jay and Ellsworth, The First Courts: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy
  • Rehnquist Court, The: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy
  • Stone Court, The: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy
  • Taft Court, The: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy
  • Taney Court, The: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy
  • Vinson Court, The: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy
  • Waite Court, The: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy
  • Warren Court, The: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy
  • White Court, The: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy

JSTOR Update 5/13/09

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The following journals have been added to JSTOR.

The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jgildageprogera
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 2002) – Vol. 2, No. 4 (October, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Society for Historians of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era
ISSN: 1537-7814

Lindbergia
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=lindbergia
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1/2 (1971) – Vol. 29, No. 3 (2004)
Moving Wall: 4 years
Publisher: Oikos Editorial Office
ISSN: 0105-0761

Polish American Studies
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=poliamerstud
Release Content:
Vol. 1 (1944) – Vol. 64, No. 2 (Autumn, 2007)
Moving Wall: 1 year
Publisher: Polish American Historical Association
ISSN: 0032-2806

Moving Wall Reductions

By publisher request, JSTOR is decreasing the moving wall of Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes from 5 to 3 years.

Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jwarbcourinst
Release Content:
Vols. 67 – 68 (2004 – 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: The Warburg Institute
ISSN: 0075-4390

By publisher request, JSTOR coverage for Technology and Culture is changing from fixed at 1999 to a moving wall of 5 years.

Technology and Culture
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=techcult
Release Content:
Vol. 40, No. 1 (January, 1999) – Vol. 44, No. 4 (October, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of the Society for the History of Technology
ISSN: 0040-165X

ARTstor Update 5/11/09

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Additional contemporary art from Larry Qualls now in ARTstor
More than 4,300 additional images from Larry Qualls’ archive of contemporary art are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library. The images most recently made available in the Digital Library includes works of art shown during gallery seasons of Summer 2002, Fall 2002, Winter 2003, and Spring 2003.

First images from the Asian Art Photographic Distribution collection
ARTstor has recently added more than 4,700 images from the University of Michigan Asian Art Photographic Distribution (AAPD) to the Digital Library. This release consists of Chinese painting, sculpture, and decorative arts as well as Japanese painting and prints.

Final images added to Carnegie Institution of Washington Photographs of Mayan Excavations
ARTstor, in collaboration with the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, has added approximately 6,600 more images to the Carnegie Institution of Washington Photographs of Mayan Excavations collection.