February 2007 Archives
Author Jean Hanff Korelitz will read from her book The White Rose on Thursday, March 8th, 2007 in the Lecture Hall of Paley Library, 2:30pm 4:30pm. A book signing and reception will immediately follow the reading.
Philip Roth has been awarded the PEN/Faulkner award for Everyman, his short, bleak novel about illness and mortality.
The Middle English Dictionary (MED) is now available freely.Below are snippets from the press release... "This book was 75 years in the making at the University of Michigan, has more than 15,000 pages and takes up nearly four feet of shelf space.
And now what has been called the greatest achievement in medieval scholarship in America and the most important single project in current English historical lexicography is off the bookshelf and freely available in an online version. […]
By converting the contents of the Middle English Dictionary into an enormous database, the dictionary has been made searchable in ways impossible in a printed document of its size. Medievalists, English language scholars and the curious can now access the dictionary free of charge."
Following Inside Higher Ed's January 26 article on Wikipedia, The New York Times recently chimed in with an article regarding the History Department's decision at Middlebury College to ban citing Wikipedia as a legitimate research resource.
Monday's Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane on WHYY Radio will talk with Middlebury College's Neil Waters, Professor of History and discuss issues of plagiarism with Internet sources like Wikipedia. The talk is also available via podcast.
Monday's Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane on WHYY Radio will talk with Middlebury College's Neil Waters, Professor of History and discuss issues of plagiarism with Internet sources like Wikipedia. The talk is also available via podcast.
Revised Search FormsThe JSTOR Advanced Search form has been modified. The Advanced Search form now includes four new fields for entering and combining full text, author, article title, abstract, and caption field search queries. In addition to these changes, navigation options and help files for the Basic Search and Article Locator forms have been updated, and the Expert Search form has been removed.
Linking Enhancements
New linking functionality in the JSTOR website is now visible on article view and article information pages. In addition to already-existing links to articles in JSTOR that are referenced within a given article (“reference linking”), information about other articles in JSTOR that in-turn cite a given article (“forward linking”) is now displayed. Also displayed are links to articles by authors with the same name as the authors of the article. Forward linking via Google Scholar is also provided, enabling users to see if an article has been cited by others in articles not necessarily present in JSTOR.
Just under 18,000 eBooks are now available via NetLibrary, an online collection of reference, scholarly, and professional books in electronic format (eBooks).NetLibrary eBooks are available in full-text. Users can search and preview an eBook online, peruse a page, read each page in depth, jump to specific chapters or pages, or use links in the Table of Content or Index to go directly to specific chapters of interest. Every word in every book is searchable.
Titles in NetLibrary may also be searched in Diamond. An author search using "NetLibrary" will retrieve all of the current titles.
In their Thursday news article, the New York Times highlighted Firedoglake.com, one of the main blogs covering the perjury trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr. The Libby trial is the first federal case for which independent bloggers have been given official credentials along with reporters from the traditional news media.
Online Education Database (OEdb) recently published its list of top 25 search engines, focussing on search engines that have mash-up appeal.
Dictionary.com posted a brief, feature article today on Valentine's Day Word Origins.
The International Journal of Communication is an online, multi-media, interdisciplinary academic journal that, while centered in communication, is open and welcoming to contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that meet at the crossroads that is communication study.
Novelist Sandra Newman will visit campus as part of the Poets & Writers Series.Newman is the author of the critically acclaimed and award-nominated novel, The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done, published by HarperCollins, and the forthcoming Cake, from Random House. Her fiction, essays, talks, and reviews have appeared in Harper’s, Granta, on BBC’s Radio 4, and in various literary journals. She is Writer-in-Residence at Temple University for the 2006-2007 academic year.
The event is open to the Temple community and will take place on Thursday, February 15th from 3:30-4:30pm in the Women’s Studies Lounge, room 823 of Anderson Hall.
The Bryn Mawr Classical Review recently reviewed Bryan Garsten's new text, Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment.
In addition to trialing Blackwell Reference Online, TU Libraries is now also trialing Blackwell Compass, a suite of online journals and articles from diverse disciplines, includingand more. Browse the available journal articles, in addition to the teaching guides. Information about Blackwell Compass is available, including a User Guide and FAQ.
The trial will last until April 1st.
With the news of Anna Nicole Smith's mysterious death, her status as an American pop icon is seemingly cemented -- after all, she died beautiful, young, and controversially. But what exactly made her a pop icon, and how do we define that illusive status? Some of the hundreds of related news articles now swiftly appearing online about Anna Nicole Smith's life and death try to define her in what ultimately becomes a complex, rich identity: high-school dropout, teenage mother, small-town wife, film actress, topless dancer, pinup girl, Playboy model, Marilyn Monroe wannabee, single mother, reality-show star, ditzy blonde, blonde bombshell, wife of an oil tycoon, widow, money-grabber, grieving mother, clothing designer, product endorser....the list can go on and on.
Inside Higher Ed's January 26 article on Wikipedia, "A Stand Against Wikipedia" highlighted one college department's desire to bar students from citing the Web site as a source in papers or other academic work. Numerous students, faculty, and librarians chimed in, offerring their viewpoints on the department's plan and the reliance of online sources.
Since the article was published, the same department has created a disclaimer to be placed on course syllabi, banning students from using the open-source encyclopedia in essays and exams as a primary source.
Since the article was published, the same department has created a disclaimer to be placed on course syllabi, banning students from using the open-source encyclopedia in essays and exams as a primary source.
TU Libraries is currently trialing Blackwell Reference Online, a suite of hundreds of essential reference works from the humanities and social sciences, ranging in subjects from Literature, Linguistics, History, plus Communication & Media Studies.
The trial will last until April 1st.
In their Telegraph article titled, "Jane Austen to be Latest Teenage Sensation," Hastings, Jones and Plentl argue that a Jane Austen revival is about to splurge upon the media scene as six forthcoming films and television series, along with plans for new editions of her works, will be released beginning next month.The most interesting thing about this 19th century literary frenzy? It's being targeted to the teenage market. Starring young actors, including the young actress from The Devil Wears Prada and The Princess Diaries, Anne Hathaway, who will portray the fiesty Jane Austen herself in the upcoming film, Becoming Jane.
The Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media plus the Encyclopedia of New Media are now available online in their entirety via Sage eReference.The Encylopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media presents state-of-the-art research and ready-to-use facts on the media's interaction with children and adolescents. With more than 400 entries, the two volumes of this resource cover the traditional and electronic media and their controversial impact—for good and ill—on children and adolescents.
The Encyclopedia of New Media widens the boundaries of today’s information society through interdisciplinary, historical, and international coverage, focusing on topics such as broadband, content filtering, cyberculture, cyberethics, digital divide, freenet, MP3, privacy, telemedicine, viruses, and wireless networks.
The Encyclopedia of Rhetoric is now available online in its entirety via Oxford Reference Online. The most comprehensive, up-to-date resource of its kind, the encyclopedia is essentially a map of Rhetoric as a discipline, melding classical notions of rhetoric with philosophy, literature, literary theory, cultural studies, speech and communications.
In his CNN article, David E. Williams recently highlighted the popular podcast, "Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing."The podcast, which has had over 1.3 million downloads, is the brainchild of Mignon Fogarty, who describes herself as "defender of the sacred comma, orator of the mysterious grammar way, and deliverer of practical tips."
Digital media artist and researcher at NYU's Media Research Lab, Daniel C. Howe, will visit campus as part of the Poets & Writers Series.Howe's recent work has focused on interactive poetry generation systems and the use of "virtual" spaces for recombinant poetics.
The event is open to the Temple community and will take place on Thursday, February 8th from 2:00 - 4:00pm in Gladfelter Hall, Weigley Room, room 914.
Famed author of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling announced this week that the seventh and final book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be released on July 21st.To date, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is already topping the charts at Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com as fans rush online to pre-order the seventh book - despite its $65 price tag.
The previous six books have sold more than 325 million copies in 64 languages and broken countless sales records.
In their New York Times article, Motoko and Bosman discuss the impact on the publishing world the Rowling series has had.
Solomon Jones, author of C.R.E.A.M. will visit campus as part of Temple's celebration of Black History Month. Jones will read from his book on Thursday, February 8th from 2:30 - 4:30pm in the Lecture Hall of Paley Library. A book signing and reception will immediately follow the reading.The event is free and open to the Temple community.