Please join the Libraries on Monday, May 2, at 4:00 p.m. in the lobby of Paley Library for the awarding of the Library Prizes. The winners and their families, as well as others at Temple are encouraged to attend the ceremony.

Winners of the $1,000 Library Prize for Undergraduate Research, Temple University (in alphabetical order)

Warren Anderson. Emotion and Gender in Reasoning and Decision Making.
(Psychology W394)
Professor Willis Overton

Steven J. Horowitz. Rethinking Lockean Copyright and Fair Use.
(Philosophy 296)
Professor Robert Guay

Tessa Izenour. Celia Thaxter’s Island Garden: A 19th Century Flower Garden and Its Historical Restoration.
(Horticulture W395)
Professor Sinclair Adam

Honorable Mentions, each of which will receive a $100 gift certificate (in alphabetical order)

Wes Enzinna. Discipline, Contradiction, and the Mis-Education of Philadelphia.
(History 195)
Professor Regina Gramer

Mena Hanna. Two Movements for String Quartet.
(Music Studies 248)
Professor Richard C. Brodhead

Marci Shoemaker. Perception and Architecture: A Museum for the Senses.
(Architecture 442)
Professors Kate Wingert-Playdon, Kate Cleveland, and Brigitte L. Knowles

Elissa Simonetti. Tradition, Transition, & Innovation: Engaging the Present with the Past.
(Architecture 442)
Professors Kate Wingert-Playdon, Kate Cleveland, and Elizabeth Masters

The Library Prize was established by the Temple University Libraries to encourage more and better use of its resources and collections, to advance information literacy, and to promote academic excellence at Temple University. The quality of submissions in this, the Prize’s inaugural year, was truly outstanding. Hearty congratulations to all 58 students who submitted their applications into competition.

–David Murray

May 3, 2005 – June 30, 2005 Paley Library, main floor and ground floor lecture hall

Paley Library’s latest pictorial exhibition will feature the works of award-winning photographer Salvatore C. DiMarco, Jr. and illustrator Gilbert J. Tucker, both of whom worked for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. The exhibition’s photographs, illustrations, and editorial cartoons are all part of the George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection, which the Temple Libraries acquired after the newspaper ceased publication in 1982. Founded in 1847, the Bulletin published a daily afternoon edition for over 125 years. For decades, the newspaper’s signature slogan was “Nearly everybody reads the Bulletin.” The event is sponsored by the Temple University Libraries’ Urban Archives Department and Friends of the Libraries. An online version of the exhibition, featuring highlights, also opens May 3rd.

About the artists:

Salvatore C. DiMarco, Jr. was born in 1947 in Drexel Hill, PA. He learned photography from his father, a portrait painter in Philadelphia. In 1970, he graduated with a B.S. degree from the School of Communications and Theater at Temple University. Mr. DiMarco first joined the staff of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin in 1967 as a summer intern. He eventually became Chief Photographer, overseeing a department of more than 30 photographers, editors, and technicians. After the Bulletin closed in 1982, he became a free lance photographer and divided his time between editorial, corporate and industrial magazine assignments. His photographs have appeared in many of the world’s leading magazines, including Time, and he won more than 150 international, national and regional awards for his work. He passed away on June 11, 2004.

Gilbert J. Tucker was born in Philadelphia in 1930. From an early age, he showed an interest in illustration. Upon graduating from Simon Gratz High School, he was awarded a scholarship to the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art, now called The University of the Arts. In 1951, he graduated from the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art with a diploma in illustration. Later, he continued his education at the Philadelphia Museum College of Art, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1962. After working for a number of years as a technical and commercial illustrator, Mr. Tucker joined the staff of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin‘s Editorial Art Department from 1968 to 1980. There, he was able to exercise the full range of his abilities by providing illustrations to accompany articles and editorials. Since retiring in 1993, he devotes much of his time to watercolor painting, including landscapes and cityscapes around Philadelphia and the New Jersey shore.

The Temple Book Club was created in February of 2003 when the “One Book, One Philadelphia” program began. Since then, the Book Club has met once a month to discuss books recommended by the Club members. EVERYONE is invited to come to the discussion: students, staff, faculty, administration, and the community at large. The group meets on the fourth Thursday, during the lunch hour, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. The Book Club is coordinated and sponsored by the Urban Archives, Paley Library and notices are sent out announcing the books that the club has decided to read. A Temple Book Club listserv has been established and if you wish to be included on the list, please send your information to Margaret Jerrido at mj@temple.edu or call 215-204-6639.

During its January meeting, a list was collected of books to read for the coming months. The club is trying different ways to encourage a larger audience to participate and it is hoped that this will be one way. Please share this list with colleagues, friends, and family.

April 2005: “The Shadow of the Wind” by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Paley Library Lecture Hall, April 28th, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.

May 2005: “The Night Inspector” by Frederick Busch
Paley Library Lecture Hall, May 26th, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.

June 2005: “Hell at the Breech” by Tom Franklin
Paley Library Lecture Hall, June 23rd, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.

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.