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The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) initiated its Primary Source Awards program in the fall of 2009. Primary Source Awards recognize the contributions of research and teaching faculty, librarians and library staff, graduate students, and others within the CRL community for their creative use of primary source materials in three arenas: research, teaching, and access. The awards will enable staff at CRL libraries to share creative strategies for the usage of materials in CRL’s major collecting areas: newspapers, archives, government documents, and journals.

Awardees will receive a gift certificate for Powell’s Books. Awardees will be announced on March 1, 2010, and recognized at CRL’s Council of Voting Members Annual Meeting and other appropriate events, and publicized through CRL media.

Nominators of the eventual awardees will receive an iPod touch. Online nominations can be submitted by research and teaching faculty, library staff, graduate students, and administrators within the CRL community and must be received by January 31, 2010.

To submit your nomination or for more information, please visit http://www.crl.edu/primary-source-awards.

Friday, June 19, marks the opening day of the new Simmy and Harry Ginsburg Health Sciences Library. This stunning facility, located in the new Medical Education and Research Building at 3500 Broad Street, will serve the health sciences community at Temple. Practitioners, researchers and students can access study space, reference help and a rich collection of electronic and print resources at the new library space.

Some highlights of the new Ginsburg Health Sciences Library include:

• over 175 public workstations;
• seating for nearly 1,000 throughout the library;
• two classrooms to meet the library’s instructional needs, one of which can be
converted into a conference room;
• over 30 group study rooms;
• wireless access throughout the entire library space;
• flat-screen panels with directory information, hours, and other essential information for navigating the Ginsburg Library;
• ten collaborative learning rooms that include flatscreen panels for displaying and reviewing electronic information.

We welcome the entire community to visit this wonderful new facility.

All Temple Undergraduates are qualified to win $1000 through the Libraries' exciting annual initiative:

Applications are due this coming Monday for 5th Annual Library Prize for Undergraduate Research

Any paper or project from a summer 2008, fall 2008 or spring 2009 course is eligible, so long as a complete applications is submitted by 5 pm on April 6. Turn in your application to the Dean's suite on the Mezzanine of Paley Library, or complete an online application through blackboard.

Apply today!

New! Cell Phone Audio Tour of Paley Library

You can now use your cell phone to get information about Paley Library departments and services. Call 215-525- 1543, and enter a tour stop number (listed below), followed by the # key.

There is no charge for the call, just your cell minutes.

This service also features a Call Number Locator to help you locate Paley books! Enter 0, the keypad number corresponding to the first letter of the call number, and then the # key.

Tour Stops are posted throughout the library and a List of Stops and Floor Plan is available at the Circulation/Reserve Desk, the Reference Desk and from the Information rack at the Bell Tower entrance.

These are the current stops:
1 Dean’s Welcome
2 Paley First Floor
3 Reference Services
4 Circulation/Reserve Desk
5 Computer Workstations in Paley
6 Special Collections
7 Paley Second Floor
8 Paley Third Floor
9 Media Services
10 Urban Archives

You can leave us your feedback about the tour by pressing 0, followed by the # key.

For more information about the new cell phone audio tour of Paley Library, you can contact Gretchen Sneff.

Free Books! Temple University Libraries and Tyler School of Art’s Foundation Program
Celebrate Tyler’s 75th Anniversary with a Gift to the Temple Community

The Foundation Department at Tyler School of Art celebrates the arrival of Tyler’s BFA programs on Main Campus by giving away 75 free copies of Chip Kidd’s bestselling novel, The Cheese Monkeys: A novel in two semesters. Each book comes with a bookmark designed by Foundation Freshman and can be picked up at the circulation desk of the Paley Library from March 17 to March 24. Books will be made available to all interested members of the Temple community—just show your ID at the desk.

Chip Kidd, author and award-winning Graphic Designer will be the Foundation Lecture Spring Speaker in a lecture at Walk Auditorium on Tuesday, March 24 at 7pm. Kidd’s designs have re-defined book packaging, and his design work includes Watching the Watchmen: The definitive Companion to the Ultimate Graphic Novel and Bat Manga! The Secret History of Batman in Japan. As an author, Kidd earned accolades for his first novel, the Cheese Monkeys, a tale of a freshman graphic designer’s education in art and life.

Tyler Foundation Students Hannah Greenhalgh and Mindy Karper designed bookmarks promoting the lecture and book give-away. The winning designs were printed by Foundation Instructor Katie Murken in Tyler’s new Printmaking facilities. Twenty-five freshman Tyler students submitted designs, which are on display in the Foundation area of the Tyler building, Suite 230.

Temple University Libraries are thrilled to partner with Tyler to celebrate its anniversary and move to Main Campus. The Libraries serve the Temple community on Main, Health Sciences, Center City, Harrisburg and Ambler Campuses with rich resources and leading-edge information services. Collections include more than 3 million volumes; 10 million images; more than 50,000 print and online subscriptions; 35,000 linear feet of manuscripts; and a rich collection of sound and video recordings, along with growing media holdings. Rare and special collections focus on specific research interests within the University community and support Temple’s commitment and responsibilities as an urban educational institution.

The Foundation Department provides first year students in Tyler’s BFA programs with a highly structured curriculum, preparing them for majors in Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics, Glass, Sculpture, Metals, Photography, and Graphic Design.

Library Express! arrives just in time! The new Obama administration is hailing Library Express! as one of the most essential tools in helping to kickstart our economy. The president is lobbying all Temple faculty members to contact their librarian immediately to take advantage of this offer.

As Obama recently commented, "Here's how it works. Faculty contact librarians. Librarians create customized online course guides for classes. Faculty insert guides into Blackboard. With quick access to excellent sources, students do superior research. Everybody wins...And let me add one more thing: though the current generation of students didn't get us into this mess, we'll need everyone to get us out of it. Information is power. Talk to your librarian."

We are entering terra nova. Students need every possible advantage. Providing quick access to articles, databases, tools and services in Blackboard will lead students to high quality information and improve research quality. Temple's subject specialists are eager to create customized course guides that fit curricular needs. Integrating them into Blackboard is quick and easy.

Subject Specialists // Blackboard Library Sampler // Integrating the Library into Blackboard

If you're a faculty member, contact your librarian. If you're a student, contact your faculty member. If you are neither faculty, student, nor librarian, just sit back and watch the economy grow.

---Fred Rowland

Temple University Libraries Announce Spring Season of Events and Programs

Temple University Libraries Spring 2009 programs and events will begin on January 29 with the Temple Book Club’s annual discussion of the One Book, One Philadelphia selection; this year’s is The Soloist by Steve Lopez. Author and journalist Lopez will also be making a stop at the Libraries later this spring. Don’t miss this acclaimed Los Angeles Times writer, formerly of The Philadelphia Inquirer, on March 19 as he discusses his best-selling book: a story of second chances, human connections and the power of art and music.

The season continues on February 5 with the spring’s first installment of Chat in the Stacks. This ongoing series highlighting and promoting excellence in faculty research, creativity and scholarship will highlight Race in the Stage with a performance from The Seven, based on Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes. Director Lee Richardson, along with English professor Roland Williams and Theater professor Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon, will complete the panel.

On February 18 we welcome local scholar David Eng. A multi-disciplinary scholar, Eng is a professor in the University of Pennsylvania’s English Department, but his specialties lie within and beyond the written word. Eng is a cutting-edge scholar exploring the inter-connectedness of literature, cinema, ethnic studies, sexuality and theory. He will present his new research on “Queer Space in China” through a discussion of the film Lan Yu. Please join us in welcoming one of our city’s most engaging academics. This event is co-sponsored by Center for the Humanities at Temple.

Other season highlights include:

A visit by local popular author Leslie Banks on March 4.

The Blockson Collection’s second annual celebration of Women’s History Month on March 5.

A Conversation with Dom Nozzi, a city planner and sustainability expert on March 31.

Secret Cinema, featuring unearthed films from the Urban Archives April 16.

The 5th Annual Library Prize for Undergraduate Research awards April 30.

Check out all our events and programs, and we hope to see you at the Libraries soon.

-Nicole Restaino
Library Communications Manager