Cooperation between the libraries of Temple and the University of Pennsylvania are alive and well, judging by a joint presentation given by librarians David C. Murray and Nick Okrent during the 2005 Temple-sponsored James A. Barnes Club Graduate Student Conference. The Conference, held February 17 at Temple University Center City Campus, attracted history graduate students and faculty from throughout the U.S., Canada, and even Great Britain. David and Nick are the history librarians at their respective institutions. The handout for their presentation, titled “Teaching and Researching History: Local History Librarians Weigh In,” is available for download (see attached). Two minds really are better than one! Download file

Temple’s librarians and archival collections played a significant part in Ambler College’s award-winning entry at the 2005 Philadelphia Flower Show.

Linda Cotilla, Head of Suburban Campus Libraries, and Sandi Thompson, Ambler Librarian, served on the Flower Show Committee and provided the research, photographic images, and other archival documentation featured in the exhibit that won Best of Show in the Academic Educational category.

To illustrate the story of this significant period of Philadelphia horticultural history, the exhibit included materials from the Temple Libraries’ Ambler Archives, Urban Archives, and Special Collections, as well as resources from a number of other local archives.

See also Ambler College’s news release.

Temple Libraries is pleased to announce the inaugural Library Prize for Undergraduate Research. Designed to promote the use of library collections, in any format, by undergraduate students, the Libraries will award up to three $1,000 prizes for research projects completed in the fall or spring semesters, 2004-2005. To be eligible for the prize, students must be enrolled in a degree program in any discipline at Temple University and have completed a research paper or project in a for-credit course during the fall 2004 or spring 2005 semesters. The deadline for turning in all application materials is April 8, 2005. For more information, please visit the Library Prize Web Site.

An exhibit from the Special Collections department, Main Floor and Mezzanine exhibit cases, February 11, 2005 – April 1, 2005, during regular library hours. Includes work of local artists such as N.C. Wyeth and Howard Pyle, examples of steel plate and wood block engravings, and illustrations for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Salvador Dali. For more information about the exhibit, contact the Special Collections department at 215-204-8230.

In celebration of Black History Month and Women’s History month during February and March, a photograph exhibit in Paley Library highlights the lives and accomplishments of black women in Philadelphia from 1930s to the 1970s. The photographs are from a number of collections housed in Temple Libraries’ Urban Archives Department, including the McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection. Thousands of photos from this collection are searchable and accessible via Digital Diamond.

The exhibit will continue until March 31, 2005, and is located on the main and ground floors of Paley Library. For more information about the exhibit or the McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection, contact Brenda Galloway-Wright at 215-204-8257 or via email.