Top News: June 2009 Archives

You asked - and suggested - and we listened. You wanted more reliable printers. You wanted more efficient printers. And you wanted printers with two-sided printing to save paper and institutional resources. Today we replaced our two aging and not-so-efficient Dell printers with two brand new HP printers. The new black & white printers are more efficient, have greater paper capacity (less empty trays) and we've instituted default two-sided printing to save paper and resources. We hope these two new printers will make your time in the library more effective and enjoyable. If you have any comments or concerns about our computer printing please contact Steven Bell, Associate University Librarians for Research & Instructional Services.

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.

Mark Moskowitz sat down for an interview with librarian Fred Rowland after discussing books and filmmaking in an appearance at the Paley Lecture Hall on March 24, 2009. Moskowitz is the producer and director of the non-fiction narrative film The Stone Reader, in which he tracks down the elusive author of The Stones of Summer, Dow Mossman, a young writer who slipped into obscurity after publishing his first novel.

The Stone Reader won awards at both the 2002 Slamdance Film Festival and the 2003 Philadelphia Film Festival. In this interview, Moskowitz talks about the book, his film, its reception, and his current projects.

Interview (mp3, 26:47)

This Friday, June 19th, the new Simmy and Harry Ginsburg Health Sciences Library will open its doors to the health sciences community at Temple. Located in the New Medical Education and Research Building, this stunning new facility offers a centralized location for the resources and services formerly found at the Kresge and South Branch Libraries.

The process of closing our old facilities and opening a new one has been complex, and we must truncate services for this week only. Please keep in mind the following while accessing library services and resources over the course of this week:

* Kresge Library is closing as of Wednesday, June 17th.

* The only library facility that will be open on Wednesday, June 17th and Thursday, June 18th, is the South Branch Library, which will offer the following services:
* Book Requests and Paging: requested materials will be acquired from any point in the
relocation path. Once the material is retrieved, patrons will be contacted by telephone or email.
If, for some reason, the material cannot be found quickly, library staff will request it on
interlibrary loan
* Reference services
* Thirteen computer workstations for patron use

• The Simmy and Harry Ginsburg Health Sciences Library and South Branch Library will be open concurrently from June 19th through June 26th.

• As of Friday, June 26th, South Library will be closed and all health sciences services and resources will be available at the Simmy and Harry Ginsburg Health Science Library, located at Broad and Tioga Streets.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and we look forward to seeing you in our new library.

If you have any concerns about the move of the Health Sciences Libraries or need special assistance during the move please contact either Mark Allen Taylor, Library Director, at ext. 2-2402 or any member of the Health Sciences Library staff at ext. 2-book.

I am delighted to welcome Krystal Lewis to Temple University Libraries. Krystal joined us as the Coordinator of Information Literacy and Reference on June 8. In this new position, Krystal will coordinate the Libraries’ various information literacy initiatives and the broad array of virtual and in-person reference services based at Paley Library.

Krystal comes to us from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she served as an Assistant Librarian and Assistant Professor in the Reference Department of the Richard J. Daley Library. Prior to that, she was an Acting Assistant Special Collections Librarian and Academic Resident Librarian and Instructor at the Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago.

Krystal earned a B.A. in History and her MLS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to her extensive reference experience, Krystal also has also worked with special collections and archives at the Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago. Please join me again in welcoming Krystal Lewis to Temple University Libraries.

With warm wishes,

Larry P. Alford

Leslie Banks appeared at the Temple Book Club on March 4, 2009 to talk about her new book, The Thirteenth, and her new projects including a forthcoming graphic novel. In an engaging presentation with many fans in the audience, she discussed the final book of her Vampire Huntress series, as well as her journey to becoming a writer, the publishing industry, and the challenge of writing as a career. Afterward, she kindly agreed to an interview with librarian Fred Rowland, who engaged her on many of these same issues.  Take some time to listen to this interesting interview.

Interview (mp3, 13:59)