February 2005 Archives

On Thursday January 27, 2005, an E-ZBorrow user from St. Joseph's University placed the program's 300,000th request. Lehigh University lent the book to St. Joseph's and it arrived there on February 2, 2005. Temple Libraries is one of over 45 Pennsylvania-area libraries that participate in PALCI E-ZBorrow, a program that allows you to place your own requests for books not available at Temple. Questions? Call 215 204-0749.

An exhibit from the Special Collections department, Main Floor and Mezzanine exhibit cases, February 11, 2005 - April 1, 2005, during regular library hours. Includes work of local artists such as N.C. Wyeth and Howard Pyle, examples of steel plate and wood block engravings, and illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Salvador Dali. For more information about the exhibit, contact the Special Collections department at 215-204-8230.

In celebration of Black History Month and Women's History month during February and March, a photograph exhibit in Paley Library highlights the lives and accomplishments of black women in Philadelphia from 1930s to the 1970s. The photographs are from a number of collections housed in Temple Libraries' Urban Archives Department, including the McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection. Thousands of photos from this collection are searchable and accessible via Digital Diamond. The exhibit will continue until March 31, 2005, and is located on the main and ground floors of Paley Library. For more information about the exhibit or the McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection, contact Brenda Galloway-Wright at 215-204-8257 or via email.

Occasionally we get comments from patrons expressing their opinion that we don't have enough e-resources and how they are forced to use other university libraries (such as Penn) to find what they need. It is important to keep in mind a few things: Penn is a substantially larger university than Temple in regards to its library budget, having spent approximately twice as much as us on library materials in the 2003/04 fiscal year. The Temple Libraries do have access to over 27,000 electronic journals in all subject areas across numerous databases and publishers.

Because of the variety of providers we encourage you to use our Journal Finder to help locate journals in our electronic and print collections. If you need an article from a journal that we do not have in our collections, we have an excellent (and speedy) Document Delivery unit that can get you almost anything, providing you include a complete citation. Here is an online form for requesting journal articles.

We also always encourage you to contact your Subject Specialist with any questions or concerns.

Larry P. Alford has been appointed to the newly created position of Vice Provost for Libraries and University Librarian. He joins Temple from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was Deputy University Librarian. As Vice Provost for Libraries, Alford will oversee all of Temple's 17 libraries in a federated system that includes the Paley Library, the Law Library and the Health Sciences Libraries. Alford assumes his new position at Temple on Feb. 15, 2005. Read more about Larry Alford in the recent Temple News article.