October 2005 Archives

The Urban Archives of Temple University Libraries has released a 2006 Calendar titled "Philadelphia Neighborhoods," featuring photographs from the George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection. The Evening Bulletin was a long running newspaper in Philadelphia which closed its doors in 1982. The Urban Archives holds a large collection of clippings and photographs from the newspaper.

The calendar features thirteen large and several small black and white photographs of Philadelphia along with text discussing the history of twelve neighborhoods.

You can purchase a calendar for $7.00 in the Urban Archives (on the ground floor of Paley Library) or for $7.00 + $2.00 shipping and handling via mail order (PA residents add sales tax). Send checks made out to "Temple University Libraries, Urban Archives" along with your name and address to:

Urban Archives
Temple University Libraries
1210 West Berks Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Today Temple Libraries filled the 400,000th request placed in the E-ZBorrow program administered through the PALCI consortium. The book was requested by a patron at Penn State and the book is:

A war of nerves : soldiers and psychiatrists in the
twentieth century by Ben Shephard, Harvard University Press, 2001.

Temple started participating in E-ZBorrow in the fall of 2000, and since then we have borrowed 17,833 books and lent 30,979 books through this program.

If you are currently studying or working at Temple you may request any book through
E-ZBorrow that is not available at Temple . You can request books that are available for loan at one of the 49 other participating libraries including Penn, Pitt, Penn State, Rutgers, Lehigh, Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore.

-- Penelope Myers