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🌏️Storytelling with Maps Workshop📍

Bring your ideas to life with creative, engaging maps! Join us on September 18th at noon to learn how to create interactive story maps using MapLibre—no coding experience needed!

🗓️Sign up today, https://library.temple.edu/events/1755

Calling all Temple researchers! Mark your calendars for Research Resources Day, Tuesday October 1st, 2024, from 11:30 AM to 2:00 PM, in the Howard Gittis Student Center, Room 200.

This event will showcase the vast array of resources and tools available to support your research journey, from conception to publication. 🦉❤️📚️

On September 10th we'll be hosting a Book Binding event at the LCDSS in the afternoon in our Innovation Space.

Come by anytime between 12pm-3pm to learn how to bind a book! 📚️🦉🍒

On Friday, August 30, Temple Contemporary will open its fall exhibition, Black Like That: Our Lives As Living Praxis, which includes work by Professor of Sculpture Karyn Olivier and two other award-wining Philadelphia artists.

The exhibition, funded by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and curated by former TC Director Jova Lynne, is anchored at Temple Contemporary but includes presentations in three Black neighborhoods of Philadelphia. The artists' works leverage the extensive archives of Temple's Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection.

All are invited to an opening reception from 5-7 pm today.

Owls, brat summer isn't going anywhere, remember to have a brat semester!🦉 💚🥬🌲🍏📗🦉

Check our https://linktr.ee/templelibraries for more details on resources, how to get in touch with librarians or subject specialists, and more!

Congratulations to the 2024 Textbook Affordability Project grant award recipients! These course instructors have all committed to introducing open educational practices in their classrooms during the upcoming academic year!

Visit our blog to learn more: https://sites.temple.edu/scholarlycommunication/2024/06/03/congratulations-to-the-2024-textbook-affordability-project-award-recipients/.

📚 Join the Student Library Advisory Board (SLAB) and make a real impact! Share your ideas, concerns, and perspectives to help our libraries meet the evolving needs of Temple students like you.

Apply now and be part of the team that's transforming our libraries! 🦉🚀 https://tinyurl.com/TUStudentLibraryAdvisoryBoard


📸 Photo by Joseph Labolito

Happy first day Owls! It is great to have you back on campus! 🦉❤️📚

Be sure to head on over to your campus library to get ahead for the semester! 📖

Check out materials, look into resources, and become familiar with your libraries with the link in our bio!🦉❤️

The first day of school is right around the corner! Are you excited or nervous? Tell us in the comments and ask any questions before the semester starts!

Photos from the Temple Special Collections Research Center,
George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection.

I'm a brat when I'm bumpin' that

Photos from the Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center, George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection.

Discover the extensive resources available to Temple students at the Library! From printing and scanning services to dedicated study spaces everything you need for your academic success is right here.

Walk walk fashion baby! What fashion trends are you excited for this semester?

Photos from Temple University Libraries Special Collections Research Center, George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection.

Join award-winning journalist Linn Washington Jr. on on August 8th at 6 pm for a conversation with author Mike Africa Jr. as he discusses his new book “On a Move: Philadelphia’s Notorious Bombing and a Native Son’s Lifelong Battle for Justice.”⁠
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Africa, one of the individuals born into the revolutionary Black civil liberties group MOVE, offers a deeply personal account of the organization's history and the devastating 1985 police bombing that claimed 11 civilian lives
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Register at the link in our bio. Photos from Temple University Libraries Special Collections Research Center, George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection.

Traffic has always been slow! 🚘️ How was your Monday morning commute?

Or are you on vacation? Tell us in the comments 🏖️

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Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center
Repository Collection: George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection
Circa: 1926
Intersection: Thirty-Fourth Street and Girard Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Working on any fun projects this summer? We just wrapped up a grant funding period for research related to Banned Books. Check it out using this link: https://tinyurl.com/bannedbookstu 📚️📗🦉

Leopard print is back, but did it ever leave?

Photos from the Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center, George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection.

Everyone loves a summer time treat! What is your favorite ice cream in Philly?

Photos from the Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center, George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection.

No AC? No problem, here's some vintage ways to beat the heat.

Photos from the Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center, George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection.

Need a guide to summer 🌞 or need a break from the heat? Temple Libraries has you covered! 📚️

Visit the to view artist books, zines, rare books, and more!

📸 Pictured above are sections from "Holly Holly Hobby Hobby's Guide to Summer" and "Holly Hobby Hamptons" zines from circa 2011!

📚️ As you prepare your Fall 2024 syllabi, don’t forget about course reserves! The libraries recently switched to a new course reserves software that makes it easy to replace expensive textbooks with zero-cost content and save your students money. If you’ve never used course reserves, now is the perfect time to start! 📖

Visit our website to learn more: https://library.temple.edu/services/reserve-materials-for-your-course

🏳️‍🌈 Celebrating Pride and the people who fought for us 🏳️‍🌈

In 1974, Philadelphia City Council held hearings on Bill 1275, which proposed adding sexual orientation as a protected category, prohibiting discrimination. This sparked protests from both supporters and opponents. The Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) of Philadelphia and the radical le***an group Dyketactics! demonstrated in favor, viewing it as a step towards equality and ending discrimination against the LGBTQ community. Religious fundamentalist groups and police/firefighter unions protested against it, arguing it infringed on their beliefs, promoted immorality, and would force them to employ or serve LGBTQ individuals against their convictions.

Dyketactics! garnered national attention for disrupting City Council meetings and became the first LGBTQ group to sue a city for police brutality against q***r people during the protests. Despite endorsements from groups like the Episcopal Diocese and NAACP, the bill stalled in City Council under opposition from conservative leaders like Council President George X. Schwartz. After heated debates and clashes with police, Bill 1275 failed to pass in 1975. It took until 1982 for Philadelphia to enact an ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation.

📸 Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries

Congratulations to the 2024 Textbook Affordability Project grant award recipients! These course instructors have all committed to introducing open educational practices in their classrooms during the upcoming academic year. Visit our blog to learn more: https://tinyurl.com/TAPWinners

Philadelphia celebrates Pride, then and now! 🏳️‍🌈

Photo credit to Temple Digital Archives,
George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection and Joseph V. Labolito.

Charles Library will be closed to the public on Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024 for an all-day event. Also, please note that we have switched to summer hours! 🦉🍒❤️

April showers, bring May flowers! Come and get your grad photos May 7th and 8th 1 pm-4 pm outside of Charles Library!🌸🦉🍒🎓️

Join us today at 2 for an afternoon of crafting in the Makerspace to destress and relax from final papers, projects, and exams! Bring something you are working on or choose from our project templates. We will have free materials laid out and ready!

Register here: https://library.temple.edu/events/1700

Please join us tonight at 6 in celebrating the Spring 2024 publication of the Grey Matters journal and student art gallery! This event will take place at the Charles E. Krausz Library at the School of Podiatric Medicine on the sixth floor. We will have nineteen featured artworks and will be serving light refreshments.

Register here: https://library.temple.edu/events/1705

The Libraries are here to support you during finals season, don’t forget to check out our resources, link in bio!

Photo by Ryan S. Brandenberg.