At Your Service: August 2006 Archives

As the Fall 2006 semester begins, the library welcomes all new students and faculty to Temple. We also welcome back all returning students and faculty.

The library has been going through a period of great change, and we didn't slow down during the summer. To hear the latest and greatest news, I recommend the following blog posts from the past few months:

New Photocopiers and Printers Run on Diamond Dollars

Consolidation of Science Libraries

Library Materials Moved to Depository

Zahn Library Closed

You may also want to browse through our New Electronic Resource Announcements or the list of New eResources.

And if you are looking for some recreational reading, don't forget about our Leisure Reading Collection.

If you have any questions feel free to Contact Us.

--Derik A Badman

Over the course of the last year, Temple University developed new graphic standards for stationery and publications, and new branding and navigation standards for Temple websites.

During the past summer we prepared a new University Libraries website in order to incorporate the new University standards and to improve navigability and content.

We encourage all users to preview the new website which is slated to go live and replace the current website on Friday, Augst 25, in order to be up at the start of the fall semester.

Our prototype site is located at http://brodei.lib.temple.edu:8080

Library staff will continue to re-assess and work on the site after it becomes live. We intend in particular to look at use patterns, conduct useability testing, and continue to gather and consider comments from users and library staff. So we encourage you to review the site, begin to work with it, and consider what works and what might be improved or added.

Comments about the redesign should go to: web@library.temple.edu

Jonathan LeBreton,
Senior Associate University Librarian