On Friday, March 23, 2007 the Temple University Libraries, in collaboration with Temple University Press, will host an author appearance by Tommie Smith, one of the most celebrated track and field athletes of all time. He will discuss his book “Silent Gesture: The autobiography of Tommie Smith” written by Tommie Smith and David Steele.

The author appearance is accompanied by an exhibit which reflects on Tommie Smith and his Black Power display at the 1968 Olympics, held in Mexico City. The exhibit includes originals or replicas of historical documents from the Charles Blockson Collection, Special Collections, and Urban Archives about Philadelphia’s response to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the history of Temple University. A reception follows the discussion and book signing.

The event will be held in the Paley Library, Lecture Hall, Ground Floor beginning at 2:30 p.m.

For more information, please contact the Urban Archives at 215-204-5750.

Temple University Libraries and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) present A Field Guide to GenBank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources, a lecture and hands-on computer workshop on GenBank and related databases covering effective use of the Entrez databases and search service, the BLAST similarity search engine, genome data and related resources. Detailed information available here. Lecture When: Thursday March 15, 2007, 9 a.m. to Noon Where: Kiva Auditorium, Ritter Hall Annex, Main Campus (map) Hands-on Computer Workshop When: Thursday March 15, 2007 @ 1:30-3:30 p.m. (Full*) or 3:45-5:45 p.m. (Full*) Where: Paley Library Classroom, Main Campus (map) *If you would like to be put on a waiting list for either workshop on Mar. 15, please contact Katherine Szigeti. Register for the lecture (and also for the tentative March 16 workshop). The training is free and open to the Temple community. Please contact Katherine Szigeti or at 215.204.4725 with any questions.

March 13th, 14th, and 15th at 1pm Tech Center – Green Room 205A Forgot about a paper that’s due? Forget to pay your phone bill or to call back that cute classmate? In this session a Temple University Librarian will demonstrate online applications that help you organize “to do” lists, events, and documents. Get text message or IM reminders! Access your calendar from any computer, anywhere! Questions? Contact Derik Badman.

“10 Ways to Do Scholarly Research in Your Pajamas” Feb. 20th (Tuesday), 21st (Wednesday), 22nd (Thursday) at 1pm in Tech Center Green Lab Room 205A (Part of a continuing series of presentations by libraries, to be held in the Tech Center.) Pizza delivery? Take out Chinese? Now you can get your research to go. Temple University Libraries offer thousands of online resources and services. Join the librarian to learn how to make the library come to you! Take out menu provided. -Derik Badman

Feb. 6th, 7th, 8th at 1pm in Tech Center Green Lab Room 205A Part of a continuing series of presentations by libraries, to be held in the Tech Center. You work too hard! Sharpen your research skills to cut down on time and get better results. Temple Libraries have the resources you need right at your fingertips. Join a Temple University Librarian for this session covering basic time saving tips about using library resources. -Derik Badman

October 10, 2006 from 1-2:30pm in Paley Library Room 130. Writing a paper or article? Working on a group project? Need a better way to organize all those websites, journal articles, and citations you’re saving for a thesis? Want to keep up with the latest articles in your area of study? Maybe you just want easier ways to search the internet? Or information about freely available software? Come to the library and learn about free online resources that can help you find, organize, share, and output information, as well as keep up with the latest news and articles. Topics include the extensible internet browser Firefox, advanced internet searching, social bookmarking sites for sharing information, free software (of all types), information on using RSS to keep up to date with journals, websites and news, and an introduction to RefWorks. All interested parties are invited. Questions? Email: dbadman@temple.edu or AIM: derikbad

Reach out, Relive, and Reveal through filmmaking
A Panel Discussion

Monday, October 9, 2006
2:30 PM– 4:30 PM

Temple University Libraries, Paley Library, Lecture Hall
1210 W. Berks Street, Philadelphia PA 19122

The Temple University Libraries’ Urban Archives department, in collaboration with Scribe Video Center, presents a screening and public panel discussion of community oral history projects. The panel will focus on the Precious Places Community History project, a documentary video model developed by SCRIBE that places humanities scholars and videomakers with community groups to produce community histories that focus on significant public spaces that define a particular city neighborhood. Since 2004, over 30 community groups throughout the Philadelphia region have participated in this project and created short documentaries.

Our distinguished panel includes: Louis Massiah, Executive Director of Scribe; Jamese Wells, Precious Places project coordinator; Dr. Rickie Sanders, a consulting project humanities scholar and Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University; John Pettit, a consulting project videomaker, facilitator and the assistant archivist of the Urban Archives at Temple Libraries; and two members of community groups that participated in the project. The discussion will include the process of creating a community oral history, and the role of the community and public archives in creating community histories. Panel members will also look at how to make use of resources for historiography within neighborhoods, and the role of humanities scholars and independent videomakers in community settings. The panel will also invite questions and discussion with the audience.

Three eight-minute Precious Places documentaries, completed in 2006, will be screened in the course of the panel presentation — Youth and the Houston Center: Growing Up Together, by United Communities of Southeast Philadelphia; Unhushed!, by the Still Standing Project of Camden; Villa African Cólobo by Grupo Motivos of Norris Square, North Philadelphia.

An exhibit of Philadelphia neighborhood images from the Urban Archives’ vast photograph collections, as well as products developed by Scribe, will be on display. A reception will follow the panel discussion.

This program has been supported in part by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, the Federal-State Partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

For additional information, please contact the Urban Archives at 215-204-5750 orurbana@library.temple.edu

Margaret Jerrido,
Head, Urban Archives Department