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Temple University Libraries have annouced the winners of the fourth annual Library Prize for Undergraduate Research.

As this prestigious award entered its fourth year, 63 outstanding applications were received. Applications represented disciplines, schools and colleges across Temple’s campus.

Congratulations to our winners:

Peter Leibensperger - Musical Ambiguity as Poetic Reflection: Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder, No. 1, “Nunn will die Sonn’ so hell aufgeh’n!” - (Music Studies 4782) Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Edward Latham, Dr. Cynthia Folio

Natalia Smirnov - Before and After Photography: The Makeover Method of Discipline and Punish - (Film and Media Arts 4671) Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Paul Swann

Maureen Whitsett - Fenianism In Irish Catholic Philadelphia: The American Catholic Church’s Battle for Acceptance - (History 4997) Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Petra Goedde, Dr. Elizabeth Varon

And our honorable mentions:

Robyn Baylor - “We the Kinda Cats Like to Turn Hegel Upside Down Just to See the Pennies Fall Out”: Yugen, The Floating Bear, and the Avant-Garde Poetry Community of the Lower East Side, 1958-1963 - (American Studies 4097) Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Lisa Rhodes

Brian Chambers - Consolidating Dictatorship: The Pinochet Regime in Retrospect - (History H4997) Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Petra Goedde, Dr. Elizabeth Varon

Cynthia Gingrich - The Schola Cantorum and Le Chat Noir Juxtaposed in Paris, 1880-1914 - (Music Studies 4782) Faculty Sponsor: Dr. David Cannata

Sarah Van Anden - The Collection of Charles I: A Symbol of Royal Power from Formation to Rejection - (History 4997) Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Petra Goedde, Dr. Travis Glasson

For interviews with the 2008 Library Prize for Undergraduate Research winners, and full text of their papers please visit the Library Prize site.

Winner Peter Leibensperger at the podium

 

Back, left to right: Professor Edward Latham, 2008 Winner Peter Leibensperger, Professor Travis Glasson, Professor Elizabeth Varon, Professor Petra Goedde, Professor Art Schmidt, 2008 Honorable Mention recipient Brian Chambers, 2008 Honorable Mention recipient Cynthia Gingrich

Front, left to right: Library Prize sponsor and SBM ‘49 alumnus Jack Livingstone, Professor Lisa Rhodes, Honorable Mention recipient Robyn Baylor, 2008 Winner Natalia Smirnov, Professor Paul Swann, 2008 Honorable Mention recipient Sarah Van Anden, 2008 Winner Maureen Whitsett, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs Peter Jones, Dean of University Libraries Larry P. Alford, and Professor David Cannata

 

 

Deputy Provost and Dean of University College Richard M. Englert, Professor Elizabeth Varon, Professor Petra Goedde, 2008 Library Prize winner Maureen Whitsett, and Dean of University Libraries Larry P. Alford

On April 17, after visiting the Temple Book Club to discuss his new book Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive Era Philadelphia (University of Illinois Press, 2007), author Peter Cole was interviewed by librarian Fred Rowland. In the interview, he provides a fascinating look at Progressive Era Philadelphia, an industrial dynamo of American capitalism whose busy port along the Delaware River gave rise to a successful interracial multiethnic union (IWW Local 8) that was able to overcome employer resistance to control work on the docks from about 1913 to the early 1920's. While discussing Local 8 and its unique success in bringing together white Protestant, black, and immigrant Catholic and Jewish longshoremen, he talks about the radical Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and their relationship to the rest of American labor, the nature of work on the docks, local labor and race relations, the effects of World War I and Bolshevik Revolution on the port of Philadelphia and the IWW, as well as lessons to be learned from Local 8's rise and fall.  If you're interested in Philadelphia history, you'll like this interview.

Listen to the Interview (MP3, 20 minutes)

For a brief overview of the Industrial Workers of the World, go here (Temple-only).

On April 7, 2008 a new reporting requirement goes into effect that affects researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Principal investigators must ensure that electronic versions of any peer-reviewed manuscripts arising from NIH funding and accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008 are deposited in PubMed Central (PMC), NIH’s digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

Specifics:

• The manuscript must be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication.


• Beginning May 25, 2008 researchers submitting an application, proposal, or progress report to NIH must include the PMC or NIH Manuscript Submission reference number when citing applicable articles that arise from their NIH funded research.

The policy applies to you if your peer-reviewed article meets the following criteria:

• Directly funded by an NIH grant or cooperative agreement active in FY2008 (October 1, 2007-September 30, 2008)


• Directly funded by a contract signed on or after April 7, 2008


• Directly funded by the NIH Intramural Program


• If NIH pays your salary

Important information on researcher rights:

• Some publishers will deposit your manuscript for you: they are listed here.


• Before you sign a publication agreement or similar copyright transfer agreement, make sure that the agreement allows the article to be submitted to NIH in accordance with the Public Access Policy.

The NIH estimates approximately 80,000 published articles arise yearly from NIH funds. Temple University researchers are one group of investigators who contribute to this scholarship, and as per the NIH, were awarded 119 research grants totalling $42,157,757 in 2006.

Additional Information:

• NIH Public Access Policy Overview


• NIH Frequently Asked Questions


• SHERPA/Romeo: Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving information. Use this site to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement.


• Revised Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research


• NIH Public Access Policy: Guide for Research Universities (Association of Research Libraries [ARL] )


• Complying with the NIH Public Access Policy: Copyright Considerations and Options (Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition /Science Commons/ARL joint white paper)

-Katherine Szigeti, Science Librarian

Students, faculty and staff visited the SEAL eResources Fair on Wednesday, March 19th, to learn about library resources and tools, enjoy cookies and coffee, and enter a Prize Raffle.

Raffle Winners:

$100 Best Buy gift card from CSA/Proquest
Erik Lion, Electrical Engineering undergrad

iPod Shuffle from the Library
Tanya Riddick, CST undergrad

$25 Circuit City gift card and tote bag from Thomson
Walter Johnson, Mechanical Engineering undergrad

1GB Flash Drive from IEEE
Michael Chen, CST undergrad

1GB flash drive from IEEE
Ajo Maret, Electrical Engineering undergrad

4-port USB Hub from IEEE
Kyle Goldstein, Civil Engineering undergrad

4-port USB Hub from IEEE
Kaveh Laksari, Mechanical Engineering graduate

$25 iTunes card from Engineering Village
Timothy Jennings, Mechanical Engineering undergrad

$25 iTunes card from Engineering Village
Tejal Patel, Electrical Engineering undergrad

Thank you to all who attended our first eResources Fair at SEAL. It was quite a success. As a graduate Mechanical Engineering student said, “This was a great event and very helpful. I’ll definitely be here next time!"

An undergraduate student in the Biology Department noted, “I learned that Temple had many databases that can ease my workload and make searching for sources very easy.”

At Temple University Libraries we’re always happy to support your research needs. Thank you again for making the eResources Fair a success!

While some of the Libraries' online databases (e.g., LexisNexis) have long contained searchable content from the Chronicle of Higher Education, we are now pleased to offer free, campuswide access to the complete contents of the Chronicle. That includes every new weekly issue, the complete searchable archive back to 1989, and the full-text of the Almanac of Higher Education back to 1995.. Simply navigate to the Chronicle website and click on links to any article to gain access to the full text. When off campus, simply authenticate yourself using your Temple network account.

To get further value from the Libraries' subscription to the full-text of the online Chronicle, sign up for free subscriptions to any of the Chronicle's e-mail newsletters and RSS feeds. Daily reading of both Academe Today and Afternoon Update present an excellent strategy for keeping up with the latest developments in higher education. Just create your account and then sign up for your newsletters. For those who prefer to use a news aggregator, the Chronicle has plenty of RSS feeds from which to choose.

We hope that providing campuswide access to the complete text of the Chronicle of Higher Education will help every member of the Temple University Community to be better informed about the world of higher education.

We are pleased to announce that Paley Library has two new state-of-the art self-check machines on the first floor of Paley underneath the portrait of Samuel Paley. The new machines now feature a two step procedure that allows all sizes of books to be checked out successfully. With the old check-out machines we found that many of our users were unable to use them for large books such as music scores and art history books. Size and barcode placement is no longer a problem.

The graphics on the screen make them very user-friendly and we hope that many more of our users will be able to take advantage of their convenience.

---Penelope Myers

While it's great that the Temple University Libraries have added so many new electronic databases, journals and book collections, our list of databases was getting extremely long. Finding the right database for a research project was becoming a challenge, and scrolling our A-Z list a bit cumbersome. To improve student and faculty access to our rich collection of e-resources we introduce Database Finder. It's a completely new way to find the right database. Instead of scrolling through the databases from A to Z, or examining subject groupings, Database Finder is a search engine that locates electronic databases, journal and book collections based on the words in the name of the database or by broad subject category. In time, Database Finder will feature a more robust keyword search capability. Here is a glimpse of the search interface:

Note that if you do prefer the old A-Z list or subject browse of the databases, those approaches are still available. But we hope you'll prefer the ability to quickly access your database of choice by searching its name or finding several to choose from based on your subject. If you have more questions about Database Finder, please contact your departmental library liaison. We look forward to your feedback and comments.