Temple University Libraries are excited to host a new faculty orientation on Thursday, January 21. This event is for all new and returning tenure-track, non-tenure-track, and adjunct faculty who want to get better acquainted with Paley Library and the Science & Engineering Library (SEL), and to learn how the Libraries on main campus can support their research, teaching, and students.

There will be opportunities to hear from librarians about our services and collections, including: information literacy, course reserves, special collections, digital scholarship, and data management.  Refreshments will also be served.
Please join us for a session! We are offering two with the same content on Thursday, January 21, at 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM in the Paley Library Lecture Hall, 1210 Polett Walk, Ground Floor.

Temple University Libraries are thrilled to participate in Archives Month Philly, a first-ever programming initiative organized by the Delaware Valley Archivists Group. This month-long festival, timed to coincide with American Archives Month, will kick off in Paley Library on Tuesday, October 1 at 3PM with Live from the Collections: In and Out of Poetry. The program features readings by poets Lyn Lifshin, Elaine Terranova, Daniel Scott Snelson and will be followed by a roundtable discussion moderated by Matthew Kalasky, director of the Nicola Midnight St. Claire, a critical voice in Philadelphia. The poets will read their own works, and works from the Libraries’ archives and discuss the process and performance of poetry.

Catch us again at the Lantern Slide Salon, taking place 6PM on October 1 at the Wagner Free Institute of Science. The salon highlights the historic lantern slide collections of some of the region’s most significant cultural and educational institutions, including Temple University Libraries. Other participants: The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Independence Seaport Museum, Morris Arboretum, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Temple University Special Collections and Research Center, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and the Wagner Free Institute of Science.

Find out more about the initiative and programs at archivesmonthphilly.com

What is it about Walt Whitman that keeps us wondering? His intrigue goes so far beyond those iconic poems, like Leaves of Grass, that great work of American literature and innovation. He is a, poet, iconoclast, voice of democracy, voice of dissent, queer writer, and American celebrity.

On Thursday we’ll mark National Library Week and National Poetry month by pondering Whitman’s long-reaching legacy with David Haven Blake and Michael Robertson, two professors of English at the College of New Jersey. Katherine Henry, professor of English here at Temple, will ask questions and guide the conversation.

Both Haven Blake and Robertson consider not just Whitman’s poetry, but his cultural legacy, as well. The scholars are co-editors of Walt Whitman, Where the Future Becomes Present (University of Iowa Press, 2008). The book invigorates Whitman studies by garnering insights from a diverse group of writers and intellectuals. Writing from the perspectives of art history, political theory, creative writing, and literary criticism, the contributors place Whitman in the center of both world literature and American public life.

Blake is also the author of Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity (Yale University Press, 2006). Robertson is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships and author of Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples (Princeton UP, 2008).

Join us for the conversation

Thursday, April 18, 3:30 pm, Paley Library Lecture Hall

On Thursday, March 7 the Center for the Humanities at Temple’s series on Digital Humanities, co-sponsored by Temple University Libraries, will continue at the CHAT lounge in Gladfelter Hall. Kathleen Fitzpatrick, professor of Media Studies at Pomona College and Director of Scholarly Communications at the MLA will discuss “The Humanities in and for the Digital Age.” Dr. Fitzpatrick will address how digital technologies have rapidly changed the landscape of scholarly publishing, and how they have equally changed the ways that scholars themselves engage with their work. This talk explores a few of those changes as they have begun to affect the humanities, including the new roles being played by scholarly societies in today’s communication environment.