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.

Project Muse Content Update: 4/30/09

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The following 14 new journals went online in Project Muse between February – April 2009:

Canadian Public Policy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Publisher: La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Franciscan Studies
Publisher: The Franciscan Institute

Histoire social/Social history
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
Publisher: Indiana University Press

JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Journal of Slavic Linguistics
Publisher: Slavica Publishers

MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.
Publisher: MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United State

The Middle East Journal
Publisher: Middle East Institute

Le mouvement social
Publisher: Association Le Mouvement Social

The Pluralist
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Serbian Studies: Journal of the North American Society for Serbian Studies
Publisher: Slavica Publishers

Tenso
Publisher: Société Guilhem IX

New & Updated Titles in Credo Reference

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Credo Reference recently added the following 11 new/updated titles:

New

  • Critical Terms for Religious Studies, University of Chicago Press
  • Penguin Dictionary of Biology
  • Who Was Who at Waterloo: A Biography of the Battle, Pearson Education

Updated

  • Debrett’s People of Today 2009
  • Jablonski’s Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations, Elsevier Health Sciences
  • The Macquarie Dictionary
  • Marquis Who’s Who in America
  • Marquis Who’s Who in the World
  • Marquis Who Was Who in America 1607-1984
  • Marquis Who Was Who in America 1985-present
  • The Penguin English Dictionary