At Your Service: 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.

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.