Events: March 2005 Archives

The Temple Book Club was created in February of 2003 when the "One Book, One Philadelphia" program began. Since then, the Book Club has met once a month to discuss books recommended by the Club members. EVERYONE is invited to come to the discussion: students, staff, faculty, administration, and the community at large. The group meets on the fourth Thursday, during the lunch hour, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. The Book Club is coordinated and sponsored by the Urban Archives, Paley Library and notices are sent out announcing the books that the club has decided to read. A Temple Book Club listserv has been established and if you wish to be included on the list, please send your information to Margaret Jerrido at mj@temple.edu or call 215-204-6639.

During its January meeting, a list was collected of books to read for the coming months. The club is trying different ways to encourage a larger audience to participate and it is hoped that this will be one way. Please share this list with colleagues, friends, and family.

April 2005: "The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Paley Library Lecture Hall, April 28th, 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.

May 2005: "The Night Inspector" by Frederick Busch
Paley Library Lecture Hall, May 26th, 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.

June 2005: "Hell at the Breech" by Tom Franklin
Paley Library Lecture Hall, June 23rd, 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.

Cooperation between the libraries of Temple and the University of Pennsylvania are alive and well, judging by a joint presentation given by librarians David C. Murray and Nick Okrent during the 2005 Temple-sponsored James A. Barnes Club Graduate Student Conference. The Conference, held February 17 at Temple University Center City Campus, attracted history graduate students and faculty from throughout the U.S., Canada, and even Great Britain. David and Nick are the history librarians at their respective institutions. The handout for their presentation, titled "Teaching and Researching History: Local History Librarians Weigh In," is available for download (see attached). Two minds really are better than one!

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Temple's librarians and archival collections played a significant part in Ambler College's award-winning entry at the 2005 Philadelphia Flower Show.

Linda Cotilla, Head of Suburban Campus Libraries, and Sandi Thompson, Ambler Librarian, served on the Flower Show Committee and provided the research, photographic images, and other archival documentation featured in the exhibit that won Best of Show in the Academic Educational category.

To illustrate the story of this significant period of Philadelphia horticultural history, the exhibit included materials from the Temple Libraries' Ambler Archives, Urban Archives, and Special Collections, as well as resources from a number of other local archives.

See also Ambler College's news release.

Temple Libraries is pleased to announce the inaugural Library Prize for Undergraduate Research. Designed to promote the use of library collections, in any format, by undergraduate students, the Libraries will award up to three $1,000 prizes for research projects completed in the fall or spring semesters, 2004-2005. To be eligible for the prize, students must be enrolled in a degree program in any discipline at Temple University and have completed a research paper or project in a for-credit course during the fall 2004 or spring 2005 semesters. The deadline for turning in all application materials is April 8, 2005.

For more information, please visit the Library Prize Web Site.