November 2006 Archives
A letter Lewis Carroll wrote to his friend, Winifred MacDonald in 1890 surfaced on eBay and was purchased by a collector; however the letter was already owned by Yale University and had been missing from the Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Author reading and conversation with Celeste Morello, a criminologist and historian in Philadelphia, and author of Before Bruno: The History of the Philadelphia Mafia, the first study of the history of the Sicilian American Mafia and La Cosa Nostra in Philadelphia.When: Thursday, November 30th, 1-2pm
Where: Paley Library Lecture Hall, Ground Floor
The Living Room Candidate is online archive of presidential campaign commercials from 1952-2004 replete with valuable content-setting commentary.Created by the American Museum of the Moving Image, the website contains hundreds of memorable and and also not-so-memorable television commercials as well as early, radio-influenced jingles from the 1950s. The site includes a searchable database and features commentary, historical background, election results, and navigation organized by both year and theme.
TU Libraries is currently trialing a new electronic resource, Communication & Mass Media Complete.
Communication & Mass Media Complete is the database for Communications Studies, including Mass Media, Journalism, Television, Radio, Newspaper Publishing, Advertising, Broadcasting, Communication Theory, and much more.
CMCC provides citation and abstract information for well over 600 respected journal titles -- more than six times the coverage of ComAbstracts -- in addition to full-text for more than 280 journals. CMCC also contains a sophisticated thesaurus with over 7,300 terms as well as over 3,000 author profiles, providing biographical and bibliographical information on leading Communication Studies figures.
The trial ends on December 4th.
Questions or comments about the resource can be directed to devoek@temple.edu.
TU Libraries is currently trialing a new electronic resource, Periodicals Archive Online.Periodicals Archive Online provides the backfiles of historically respected periodicals in the humanities and social scinces, containing over 400 journals and well over 1.2 million digitized articles. The scope is international as well, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and other Western languages. Literature, Linguistics/Philology, History, Political Science, Folklore, and Area Studies are all well represented.
The trial ends on December 30th.
Questions or comments about the resourve can be directed to devoek@temple.edu.
TU Libraries is currently trialing a new electronic resource, C19: The Nineteenth Century Index.C19 is the bibliographic resource for 19th century research, providing records for over 16 million documents ranging from British and American books and newspapers to government documents and periodicals at the article level. C19 indexes and permits complex searches across the following collections:
- Periodicals Index Online (1790-1919)
- American Periodicals Series (1791-1919)
- British Periodicals (coming soon)
- House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (1801-1900)
- Palmer's Index to the
- Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
The trial ends on December 30th.
Questions or comments about the resource can be directed to devoek@temple.edu.
JSTOR, the electronic journal database, has added TESOL Quarterly to its collection. Published by Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), the first 34 volumes of the journal (1967-2000) are available in full-text.Two other relevant titles - Classical Philology and Signs - have been updated so as to include any previously missing issues.
Popular '60 Minutes' correspondent and Philadelphia native, Ed Bradley, died Thursday from leukemia.Bradley was the winner of 19 Emmy Awards, one Peabody Award, and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, among many others. He was also honored with the Lifetime Achievement award from the National Association of Black Journalists.
TU Libraries now has access to iPOLL from the The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.iPOLL is a full-text database of 500,000 questions from national public opinion surveys since 1935, covering a wide array of topics. Most of the information in this database is taken from press releases or other reports issued by polling firms.
Sources include major U.S. survey research organizations: the Gallup Organization, the Roper Organization, Louis Harris and Associates, the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, USA Today, the Washington Post, the Associated Press, and more.
Subject, word, organization, and date indexes are provided, allowing users to sift through questions easily. Each item includes the complete question text and the percentage of the public giving the response, in addition to study level information, such as the name of the organization(s) who conducted the poll, the dates when the poll was conducted, the polling method used, and a description of the polling sample.
Access to iPOLL requires free registration.
The Urban Archives of the Temple University Libraries has been awarded a $250,000 endowment from the former owner of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
To learn more about the endowment plus how it will be used, please view the Temple Times article.
To learn more about the endowment plus how it will be used, please view the Temple Times article.
Speech-Writers.com actually sells election-oriented speeches - and they're supposedly "relevant, proven, and 100% risk free."
Wired News reports that Gannet, the publisher of USA Today plus roughly 90 other daily newspapers, will begin crowdsourcing its newsgathering functions as part of a general re-organization initiative taking place.In addition to crowdsourcing, the initiative will focus on prioritizing local news over national news, publishing more user-generated content, and becoming 24-7 news operations, in which the newspapers do less and the websites do much more.
In response to The New York Times' pick of the best American novels of the past 25 years, The Guardian recently posted their best British, Irish or Commonwealth novels of the past 25 years.
Kiran Desai was named the 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction award winner for The Inheritance of Loss. At the age of 35, she is the youngest woman ever awarded this prize. To learn more, read the press release.
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