January 2008 Archives
The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia recently honored Temple University station WRTI for its accomplishments as a home for broadcasters wishing to learn the craft for the past 60 years. Until the 1980s, WRTI was a student station. Now a non-profit, member-supported public radio station, WRTI is a broadcast service of Temple University and operates as a professional classical and jazz radio station.
To learn more, read the entire story.
The TU Libraries' Special Collections Department is sponsoring a showcase of its Science Fiction Collection on Wednesday, January 30th at 4:00pm in the Special Collections Reading Room of Paley Library. Join a discussion about science fiction and its rise as a significant genre movement in pulps, books, and fanzines from the 19th century through today.
TU Libraries has recently added Literature Criticism Online to its suite of electronic resources!
Literature Criticism Online is an outstanding reference literature database, offering biographical and bibliographical information on over 3,000 20th century and contemporary literary figures (novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and literary theorists), in addition to scholarly and popular commentary from books, journals, magazines, broadsheets, pamphlets, diaries, and newspapers.
This collection contains the scanned pages of every single volume from two of Gale's popular, print literary series: Contemporary Literary Criticism (245 volumes currently) and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (196 volumes currently). Just think how much shelf space that would be! Users can search by known author, text, critic, or source title, as well as by keyword.
Literature Criticism Online is a valuable literary resource and complements well with the Libraries' subscription to Literature Resource Center which contains select collections of critical material from Gale's other literary resources: Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Short Story Criticism.
Be sure to check it out!
Poet Tracie Morris will read from her work as part of the Poets & Writers Series. Morris is an interdisciplinary poet who has worked extensively as a sound artist, writer and multimedia performer. Her installations have been presented at the Whitney Biennial and the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning. She holds an MFA in poetry from Hunter College and a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University.
The recipient of numerous awards for poetry and performance, Dr. Morris is currently Visiting Professor of English at Temple University and the CPCW Fellow in Poetics and Poetic Practice at the University of Pennsylvania.
The events is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, January 30th at 3:00pm in Gladfelter 914 (Weigley Seminar Room).
The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature is now available online via Credo Reference.The encyclopedia is a comprehensive guide to literature written between 500 and 1500. While primarily devoted to the early literature of England, the volume also includes Islamic, Hispanic, Celtic, Mongolian, Germanic, Italian, and Russian literature and culture of the Middle Ages.
Entries provide thorough coverage of major English authors, such as Chaucer, and of entire genres, such as drama, ballad, and saga. Literary works, key individuals, and important themes of the period are also covered.
The Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists includes copies of records of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), many hours of oral history of the renowned civil liberties lawyer Clifford Durr, as well as hundreds of black-and-white photographs created by the Subversive Unit of the Investigative and Identification Division of the Alabama Department of Public Safety in the course of sit-ins, demonstrations, and marches in several Alabama cities during the early to mid-1960s.
The Library of Congress is now sharing photos from its collection on Flickr and invites the public to help identify and tag the subjects. See more than 3,000 photos from two of their most popular collections, "1930s-40s in Color" and "News in the 1910s."
TU Libraries is currently trialing 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection.The Burney Collection is the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media available from the British Library and includes more than 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period – including English provincial, Irish, Scottish and a handful of papers from British colonies, in the Americas and Asia – relating political, educational and economic situations.
The trial lasts through February 2nd. Let us know if you believe this resource should be added to our eResource collection permanently.
The State Library of Pennsylvania is now an active participant in E-Z Borrow! The State Library collects materials published for, by, and about Pennsylvania, including publications of all agencies of the Commonwealth, newspapers, legal materials, and genealogy/local history materials.
E-Z Borrow is PALCI's (Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc.) web gateway that allows simultaneous searching of over 70 library catalogs in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and West Virginia. Temple users can search for books and then place requests for items they want and receive them generally within 3-5 days.
The Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century is now available online via Credo Reference.Perfect for complementing literary research, this encyclopedia covers all aspects of 19th century history: population, politics and government, economy and work, society and culture, religion, social problems and reform, everyday life, and foreign policy are explored in more than 600 A-to-Z articles.
Hundreds of illustrations and maps are also included, as well as an exhaustive year-by-year chronology, original documents, and tables.
The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century is now available online via Credo Reference.The encyclopedia examines individual poets and poems, and contains many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century.
Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.
Check out the new literary-related resources added to the library collection in the past month.
Roper Polls content is no longer available via Lexis-Nexis Academic due to publisher decisions. Temple users will continue to have access to the polling data directly from the Roper Center
via iPOLL. Access to iPOLL requires free registration. The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is one of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. The data held by the Roper Center range from the 1930s, when survey research was in its infancy, to the present. Most of the data are from the United States, but over 50 nations are represented.
Literally hundreds of new journals were recently added to Periodicals Index Online. Select indexed titles include: - American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 (1967-1995)
- Communication Yearbook (1977-1995)
- Doris Lessing Newsletter (1976-1995)
- Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1988-1995)
- European Journal of Communication (1986-1995)
- Political Communication (1980-1995)
- Studies in Scottish Literature (1963-1993)
- Victorian Literature and Culture (1973-1995)
- Yeats Annual (1982-1995)
Twenty-three new journals were recently added to Periodicals Archive Online. Select titles include:- Tennyson Research Bulletin (1967-2001)
- Discourse (1979-1995)
- Language and Speech (1958-2000)
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