October 2007 Archives
Temple University Libraries is pleased to announce the fourth annual Library Prize for Undergraduate Research. The Library Prize encourages the use of library resources and the development of library research techniques. The Prize honors the best research projects by Temple undergraduates. Papers or projects, in any format, completed for a Temple University for-credit course in Summer 2007, Fall 2007, or Spring 2008 semesters may be submitted. The deadline for submissions is Thursday, April 10, 2008.
Winners will be selected by a committee of faculty and librarians. Up to three grand prizes will be awarded. Winning research projects will receive a $1,000 cash prize and will be displayed online and in the library.
English writer Doris Lessing has been awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature.Announcing the award in Stockholm, the Swedish Academy described her as “that epicist of the female experience, who with skepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny.”
CBS 3 (KYW-TV) recently donated its vast video archive to Temple University's Urban Archives.The video archive comprises over 20,000 videotapes, including daily local newscasts and video clips from the last 30 years of Eyewitness News as well as 15 years of the local lifestyle show, Evening Magazine. Once cataloged, the collection will be available to students and the local community.
For additional information, see the Temple Times article, or watch the KYW-TV news coverage of CBS 3 President and General Manager, Michael Colleran presenting the video archive to Temple President, Ann Weaver Hart and Dean of Libraries, Larry Alford during the recent ceremony and reception.
The NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 550,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.A few collections that may be of interest for literary and media studies include:
- Authors: Photographs from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
- Cigarette Cards: ABCs
- Dust Jackets from European and American Books, 1926-1947
- Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts from Western Europe
- Miss Frank E. Buttolph American Menu Collection, 1851-1930
- Turn of the Century Posters
- Walt Whitman Manuscripts
TU Libraries is currently trialing the following digital news archives:Let us know if you believe any or all of these sources should be added to our collection of eResources permanently.
Find other available trials at eResource Trials.
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