Do you have some catching up to do before classes resume on Tuesday? Paley Library will be open from 12:00 noon to 8:00 p.m. on Monday, September 5th, as well as from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 3rd. All other libraries will be closed for the 3-day Labor Day weekend. For a complete list of hours and exceptions for all library locations, click here.
You can now start your web-based research directly from all of the Libraries’ web services even if you’re off-campus. All you need is your browser and your AccessNet ID. Access to the Libraries’ restricted resources has never been easier! When you click on a link to a restricted resource in the Diamond catalog or anywhere on the Libraries’ web site, you’ll see the LibProxy login page. Simply enter your AccessNet username and password, — the same username and password you use for email or TUportal — click the “login” button, and search. Beginning August 29, JournalFinder will also be accessible this way. Your login will be valid until you end your session and close your browser. That means you only have to login once to search our entire selection of databases and ebooks. Off-campus users can still gain access to the restricted resources via TUportal or previous methods. If you use those, or are anywhere on campus, you won’t notice anything different. We hope you’ll find LibProxy makes your off-campus research much easier. If you have any questions, just contact Brian Schoolar, our Electronic Resources Librarian, at 215-204-3258 or jbrian@temple.edu. –Byron C. Mayes
The Temple Book Club calendar and selections for 2005-2006 are listed below. Discussions are open to anyone who is interested and generally run from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. in Paley Lecture Hall, which is located on the ground floor of Paley Library.
It’s always a lunchtime event, so you’re welcome to bring your lunch if you wish. Beverages and very light snacks are provided. If you would like to be added to the book club’s listserv or would like more information, contact Margaret Jerrido, mj@temple.edu or 215-204-6639.
September 22, 2005
West of Kabul, East of New York, by Tamim Ansary
A resource guide is available here.
October 27, 2005
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
November 17, 2005
The Honey Thief, by Elizabeth Graver
December 15, 2005
Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
January 26, 2006
Snow, by Orhan Pamuk
February 23, 2006
Freedomtown: A Novelette, by Jacqueline T. Small
(Ms. Small will be our guest author)
March 23, 2006
Family Resemblances, by Tanya Maria Barrientos
April 27, 2006
The Forbidden, by L. A. Banks
(Ms. Leslie Banks will be our guest author)
May 25, 2006
To be determined.
— Margaret Jerrido
On August 18th, Temple librarian Anne Harlow gave a presentation entitled “Musicians: Ambassadors for Peace” at a pre-concert talk for the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. She is a member of the Reference and Instructional Services Department in Paley Library and also serves as the library’s subject specialist in music, dance, and theater. Anne’s presentation was coordinated with a rare concert appearance of Van Cliburn with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Cliburn became a national hero when he won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958, in the midst of the Cold War, only a few months after the successful launching of Sputnik.
Anne’s research into cross-cultural communications, particularly music, between the United States and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War, was inspired by her early love of Russian music. “Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Borodin, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov … I loved all of them since I was a little girl,” she says. “As a child, I spent endless hours listening to this music and wore out my records! But, in the midst of Duck and Cover drills, I could not understand how a nation that produced such beautiful music could not be our friends.” Traveling to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Warsaw, and Kiev to pursue her research interests, she discovered how deeply the Russians love music, and how important these musical exchange concerts were during this stressful and dangerous time of World History. She hopes that her research inspires further musical exchange beyond political, social, and cultural boundaries, and believes that such endeavors are important to promote peace.
— Carol Lang
We now have access to Latin American Women Writers from Alexander Street Press. When completed it will contain approximately 100,000 pages of prose, poetry and drama by women writers from Mexico, Central, and South America. In this prototype version there are about 4200 pages of prose and poetry. Drama will be added in the next release.
In the First Person (or FIRP) indexes “first-person” or primary source material in selected Alexander Street Press databases including Early Encounters in North America, Oral History Online, and Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000.
Because FIRP indexes letters, diaries, and autobiographies as well as oral historieis, it will contain many more records than are available in the Oral History Online database. FIRP can be used to find primary source material on the free web as well, and is itself a free resource. Royal Society of Chemistry Archives contains all articles published by the RSC (and its forerunner societies) from 1841 to 2004. This comes to approximately 238,000 articles in 1,400,000 pages.
Alexander Street Press has begun adding the full-run of the Black Panther Party newspaper to the Black Thought & Culture collection. http://www.alexanderstreet4.com/cgi-bin/asp/bltc/documentidx.pl?sourceid=S1 2,500 pages of Black Panther oral histories will also be added to the collection. -Al Vara, Reference
I’ve just updated five of my subject guides, which provide a quick overview of available resources in the disciplines I’m responsible for. Take a look. Classics: The Basics Islamic Studies: The Basics Jewish Studies: The Basics Philosophy: The Basics Religion: The Basics. Here is the complete list of our subject guides. I added information on how to use WorldCat for interlibrary loans, both regular books as well as theses and dissertations. I also added the online encyclopedias we recently purchased (see Exciting New Online Encyclopedias!). –Fred Rowland
We have added substantial back file access to Nature and several Nature Research Journals. Our online coverage for Nature is now from 1987 through the present, adding more than 37,000 articles that can be obtained online. Nature is the top ranked* multidisciplinary science journal. Nature Publishing Group journals are some of the world’s premier information resources for the basic biological and physical sciences.
The Nature research journals are:
Nature Biotechnology. v.1, 1983- present. Ranked #1 in Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology.
Nature Genetics. v.1, 1992 – present. Ranked #1 in Genetics and Heredity.
Nature Medicine. v.1, 1995 – present. Ranked #1 in the Medicine, Research and Experimental category, #2 in Cell Biology, and #2 in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. v.1, 1994 – present. Ranked #3 in Biophysics, #10 in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and #10 in Cell Biology.
All journals may be accessed via Journal Finder and Diamond.
*Rankings based on impact factors in the 2004 Journal Citation Reports.
–Laura Lane, Science Librarian
Many of the Libraries’ electronic databases index newspapers, magazines, and journal articles. One unique database, Reference Universe, indexes thousands of print reference works such as dictionaries, handbooks, and encyclopedias. The database now also indexes web-based reference works. Why is this important?
Suppose you are assigned a research paper on the impact of religion during the Han Dynasty. Maybe you’ve heard that the Han period represents a “Golden Age” in Chinese history. Beyond that, though, the Han are a mystery. Obtaining background information now becomes critical to both your understanding of the topic as well as your ability to properly research it. That’s where Reference Universe comes in! A quick search of the Reference Universe database for the phrase “Han Dynasty” reveals citations for Temple-owned reference works including the Encyclopedia of Religion and War. Even better, Reference Universe indicates that there are no less than 15 entries in the back-of-the-book index to the Han Dynasty. Examples include “Confucianism, Han Dynasty” on pp. 82-87, and “Legalism and Confucianism–Han Dynasty” on pp. 83, 84, and 106. The next step is simply to walk into Paley Library’s reference stacks and retrieve the encyclopdia in question.
As mentioned above, Reference Universe now goes one step further by both indexing and providing direct links to Temple-owned online reference works from ABC-CLIO, Oxford, and netLibrary, among others. It’s never been so easy to search and retrieve the important background information critical to good research.
–David C. Murray