Inside Temple History: A Conversation with Professor James Hilty on the Research and Surprises of 125 Years of Service to Philadelphia, the Nation, and the World April 8, 3:00 p.m., Paley Library Lecture Temple University: 125 Years of Service to Philadelphia, the Nation, and the World, by noted historian and Temple professor James Hilty, offers the first full history of Temple University. The book presents a rich chronicle from founder Russell Conwell’s vision to democratize, diversify, and broaden the reach of higher education to Temple’s present day status as the twenty-eighth largest university and the fifth largest provider of professional education in the United States. Join Dr. Hilty as he reveals the secrets of his research, discusses the connection between the book and archives,

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS SHOWCASE The John T. McIntyre Collection April 7, 4:00 p.m. John T. McIntyre (1871-1951) was a Philadelphia-based writer who penned novels, plays and juvenile books for sixty-years. This showcase brings the life and works of this lesser known, but intriguing, local author to the fore by examining his manuscripts and books, found only in the Special Collections Department. Join us for a Special Collections Showcase and learn more about an author every Philadelphian should know.

The Top Secret Rosies of WWII An Illustrated Lecture by LeAnn Erickson March 30, 1:30 pm Filmmaker and Temple professor LeAnn Erickson reveals a hidden history of top-secret women war workers during World War II. Through her lecture, she will demonstrate how she constructed her historical documentary, and how libraries, archives, documents and painstaking research come together to create her documentary project The Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of WW II. This event includes a screening of the trailer of Erickson’s still-in-process documentary.

TEMPLE BOOK CLUB PRESENTS: A Conversation with Sharon White, Vanished Gardens: Finding Nature in Philadelphia March 25, 1:00 p.m. Temple professor Sharon White discusses her melodic work of creative nonfiction at this book club author event. In Vanished Gardens: Finding Nature in Philadelphia, White gives a portrait of the resilience and richness of the natural world in Philadelphia and of the ways that gardening can connect nature to urban space.

March 24, 11 am-2 pm Concurrent Events at: SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & ARCHITECTURE LIBRARY 1947 N. 12th Street, Room 201 PALEY LIBRARY 1210 Polett Walk Temple Libraries offer more than 400 electronic databases and thousands of journals, books and online resources. These materials are essential to research and exploration in the 21st century library. Our e-resources fair is an opportunity to explore this plethora of knowledge licensed by your university library. Join us for giveaways, snacks and an unparalleled learning opportunity. This is the third annual SEAL e-resources fair, and first annual gathering for arts, social sciences and humanities e-resources, hosted concurrently at Paley Library. Vendors include: PALEY: Alexander Street Press-AP Images-Credo Reference-EbscoHost-Films Media Group-Gale-LexisNexis_Oxford University Press-ProQuest-SourceOECD SEAL: IEEE-Elsevier-ProQuest-Books 24 x 7-Web of Science-Reaxys-Biological Abstracts-ScienceDirect-Compendex-INSPEC-Avery Index-Safari Tech Books Online

EARLY AFRICAN AMERICAN PRINT CULTURE IN THEORY AND PRACTICE Keynote Lecture by Frances Smith Foster of Emory University March 18, 5:30 p.m., Reception to Follow Frances Smith Foster, author of over a dozen books, is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Emory University. Her Lecture at Temple inaugurates Early African American Print Culture in Theory and Practice. This conference brings together scholars who demonstrate that the study of print culture has much to teach us about early African American literature and that early African American literature has the capacity to transform our understanding of print culture. This two-day event is co-sponsored by The Library Company of Philadelphia, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Temple University Libraries, and the University of Pennsylvania Center for Africana Studies. The event will be preceded by a tour of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at 4:00 p.m. The collection is located at 1330 W. Berks Street, just west of Paley Library on Temple’s Main Campus.

Samuel Delany Reads from his Recent Fiction March 16, 2:30 p.m. Samuel Delany is a prolific writer of fiction, non-fiction and criticism. Best known for his well-received and widely read works of science fiction, which he has been publishing since the 1960s, Delany’s scholarly interests range from the Oxford Aesthetic Movement, literary theory, literary modernism, literature of the Harlem Renaissance, and Willa Cather, to teaching creative writing. The recipient of two Hugo Awards and four Nebula Awards, the Kessler Award for Lesbian and Gay Scholarship, and the William Whitehead Memorial Award, Delany is also a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. Currently, Delany teaches creative writing and is the director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program here at Temple. On March 16th this accomplished scholar and artist speaks at Paley Library.