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Kudos to professors Andy Mendelson (Journalism) and Zizi Papacharissi (BTMM), whose article, "Reality vs. Fiction: How Defined Realness Affects Cognitive & Emotional Responses to Photographs," has been published in the December 2007 issues (vol. 14, no. 4) of Visual Communication Quarterly.

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.

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.

BibMe, a new online citation generator developed this Spring by Information Systems students at Carnegie Mellon University, automatically generates citations in MLA, APA, and Chicago formats and lets users download their bibliographies to their word documents.

While BibMe can generate citations for most common types of sources (books, newspapers, journals, magazines, films, websites, and even interviews), it does not include proper citation information for sources found via (library) subscription databases -- a source medium that students are increasingly using.