March 2007 Archives
The New York Times posted an article noting Google's ambitions to enter the advertising world - via radio and television.
The Los Angeles Times posted an article detailing the results of a study focused on the impact of television food advertisements and children.The study, done by Indiana University and the Kaiser Family Foundation, examined over 8,800 television commercials and found that nearly half of the commercials aimed at children 17 and younger were selling candy, snacks, soda, or fast food.
Ohio University has decided to revoke the master's degree of a former mechanical-engineering student who was accused of plagiarizing his thesis. This is the university's first degree revocation resulting from their Spring 2006 review.
Inside Higher Ed posted an article today on the relevance of academic libraries on campuses across the nation.
JSTOR, the electronic journal database, has increased its moving wall from two (2) years to three (3) years for the journal, Contemporary Literature (previously known as Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature), publiched by the University of Wisconsin Press. 
Author Leslie Banks will discuss the most recent publication in her Vampire Series, entitled The Damned, on Thursday, March 29th in the Lecture Hall of Paley Library, 2:30-4:30pm. A book signing and reception will immediately follow.
Join the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and WHYY for a special program that explores how Pennsylvania landscape and culture infuse the work of its poets, featuring poets Jeanne Murray Walker, Trapeta Mayson & Jim Daniels.
This live taping, hosted by WHYYY's Tracey Matisak, will give the audience the opportunity to engage the poets in discussion .
The show is taped in WHYY's Civic Space at 150 N. 6th St. Doors open at 5:30 pm, taping will run from 6:00-7:30. Please join for this exciting venture. Space is limited, register today at www.whyy.org/artsandculture/index.html to secure your free seat.
This live taping, hosted by WHYYY's Tracey Matisak, will give the audience the opportunity to engage the poets in discussion .
The show is taped in WHYY's Civic Space at 150 N. 6th St. Doors open at 5:30 pm, taping will run from 6:00-7:30. Please join for this exciting venture. Space is limited, register today at www.whyy.org/artsandculture/index.html to secure your free seat.
OCLC recently updated their OCLC Top 1000 list -- the top 1000 titles owned by member libraries -- the intellectual works that have been judged to be worth owning by the "purchase vote" of libraries around the globe. Information about the Top 1000 is also available.A number of other book lists are also posted on the OCLC website, including:
Earlier this week, The Project for Excellence in Journalism released their State of the News Media 2007, an annual report on the status of American Journalism.The report notes trends and survey findings, and also includes a topography of news wesbites.
Previous reports are also available online.
TU Libraries is currently trialing the electronic resource, Empire Online.Empire Online is an interdisciplinary database, containing original manuscripts and documents from the 15th century to the 20th century, focused on the history of exploration, cultural contact, and colonialism.
Types of texts found within the database include:
- Exploration journals and logs
- Letter books and correspondence
- Diaries
- Official Government papers
- Missionary papers
- Travel writings
- Slave papers
- Fiction
- Children's Adventure Stories
- Traditional folk tales
- Photographs
- Illustrations
- And much more!
Additional information about the resource is available.
The trial will last until April 6th, 2007.
TU Libraries is currently trialing a new electronic resource, Literary Manuscripts.Literary Manuscripts provides complete facsimile images of 190 manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse held in the celebrated Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds.
Poets represented in the collection include:
- Mary Campbell
- John Dryden
- George Herbert
- Mary Leapor
- Andrew Marvell
- Alexander Pope
- Hester Pulter
- Jonathan Swift
Additional information about the resource is available.
The trial will last until April 6th, 2007.
Author Junot Diaz will visit Temple as part of the Poets & Writers Series.Diaz is the author of the acclaimed collection of short stories, Drown, published by Riverhead Books. His fiction has also appeared in The New Yorker, African Voices, Best American Short Stories (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000), and in Pushcart Prize XXII. He is an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The event is open to the Temple community and will take place on Thursday, March 15th at 8:00pm in Room 222, Temple Center City (TUCC), 1515 Market Street.
The American Library Association (ALA) recently posted the "Top 10 Challenged Books for 2006" list.- And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, for homosexuality, anti-family, and unsuited to age group;
- Gossip Girls series by Cecily Von Ziegesar for homosexuality, sexual content, drugs, unsuited to age group, and offensive language;
- Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor for sexual content and offensive language
- The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler for sexual content, anti-family, offensive language, and unsuited to age group
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison for sexual content, offensive language, and unsuited to age group
- Scary Stories series by Alvin Schwartz for occult/Satanism, unsuited to age group, violence, and insensitivity
- Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher for homosexuality and offensive language.
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky for homosexuality, sexually explicit, offensive language, and unsuited to age group
- Beloved by Toni Morrison for offensive language, sexual content, and unsuited to age group
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier for sexual content, offensive language, and violence.
Check out the new literary-related resources added to the library collection in the past month.
From Rex Libris #4
TU Libraries is pleased to announce the addition of Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) to its suite of electronic resources.
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research in areas related to communication and mass media. It is the result of the merging of two earlier communication and mass media studies databases -- CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index.
CMMC expands upon both in content and scope, providing citation and abstract information for well over 600 journal titles -- more than six times the coverage of ComAbstracts -- in addition to full-text for more than 280 journals.
Full-text articles (starting from their first issues) are provided for all nine publications of the National Communication Association: Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies, Communication Education, Communication Monographs, Communication Teacher, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Review of Communication, and Text and Performance Quarterly.
Additional document types include: book reviews, case studies, industry overviews, essays, book chapters, and much more. Subjects covered include:
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research in areas related to communication and mass media. It is the result of the merging of two earlier communication and mass media studies databases -- CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index.
CMMC expands upon both in content and scope, providing citation and abstract information for well over 600 journal titles -- more than six times the coverage of ComAbstracts -- in addition to full-text for more than 280 journals.
Full-text articles (starting from their first issues) are provided for all nine publications of the National Communication Association: Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies, Communication Education, Communication Monographs, Communication Teacher, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Review of Communication, and Text and Performance Quarterly.
Additional document types include: book reviews, case studies, industry overviews, essays, book chapters, and much more. Subjects covered include:
- Communications
- Mass Media
- Journalism
- Rhetoric
- Television
- Radio
- Newspaper Publishing
- Speech
- Broadcasting
- Communication Theory
- Advertising
TU Libraries is pleased to announce the addition of Cambridge Collections Online (CCO) to its suite of electronic resources.Based on the popular Cambridge Companions print series, CCO is a collection of introductory essays aimed at student readers to orient them to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics and periods. Coverage includes: The Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics Collection (144 titles), plus The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture (93 titles). Over 2,000 essays are searchable and available in PDF format.
Questions or comments about the new electronic resource can be directed to devoek@temple.edu.
Infoplease recently posted a number of previously created "Top 100" book lists. The following caught my eye...
TU Libraries is currently trialing a new electronic resource, Sabin Americana, 1500-1926.Based on the landmark bibliography by Joseph Sabin, this collection of over 29,000 texts contains primary and secondary works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's, providing original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. The types of publications listed include:
- Biographies and memoirs
- Books
- Broadsides
- Correspondence
- Fiction & poetry
- Magazines
- And much more!
Both The New York Times and U.S. News & World Report recently ran articles analyzing the construction and projection of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's public image. While first detailing her meticulous penmanship, the New York Times then organized the rest of the article under compact, role-friendly headings, including "Listener," "Sister," and "Tough Hostess." Hillary Clinton's own sites, including her presidential campaign website, MySpace page, and other social networking sites invoke and splash family-oriented images, using phrases such as "Mother and Advocate."
I'm curious as to who is working harder here - the media or Hillary's campaign...
TU Libraries is currently trialing a new electronic resource, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers.This comprehensive database provides access to approximately 1.7 million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. The collection encompasses the entire 19th century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era life among other subjects.
The trial lasts until march 31st.
At the 2007 Philadelphia Flower Show, Temple University Ambler will explore connections between the Irish Landscape and Ireland’s oral tradition in its exhibit entitled "Tírdhreach Fileata na hÉireann — The Poetic Landscape of Ireland."Read the Temple University Ambler news article to learn more.