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Announcing Credo Reference as a new a multidisciplinary collection of online reference resources. Funded by USF Sarasota/Manatee, the content in Credo is selected by USF librarians.
Credo Reference provides access to one hundred reference resources, such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, and biographical sources chosen to meet a broad range of research needs. Metasearching allows the user [...]
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As our Children’s Books collection expanded, the stack where they reside was getting too crowded. We reshelved the last part of the collection (mainly fairytales and nonfiction/science books) on the back of that stack, thus the need to around the corner to find them.
As always, don’t hesitate to ask if you can’t find what [...]
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In observance of Veterans’ Day, the USF Polytechnic Library and the Open Use Lab will be closed on Wednesday, November 11th.
LTB 1115 will reopen on Thursday, the 12th at 8:00 AM.
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Informaworld will not be available Tuesday, November 10th, from midnight to 5:00 a.m.
We use the Informaworld database to access the full-text of articles from scientific publishers like Taylor & Francis and Routledge.
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We are currently experiencing difficulties with our NetLibrary e-book collection. We are seeing a copyright message appear every 4-5 pages and we are getting reports that users are getting bumped out of NetLibrary with the message: “This eContent is not included in your library’s collection and is unavailable for viewing.”
To fix the copyright message [...]
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Our apologies! Here are the items newly arrived at the USF Polytechnic Library during the month of September and October. Yes, we inadvertently skipped a month in the flurry of activity in the Library. So this list will combine items receive during both.
As always, new circulating books and children’s books are found in the [...]
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Looking for an Halloween-themed book? The USF Poly Library has set up a display of all our books about Halloween, ghosts, witches, creepy-crawlies and such for you to choose from. Pick up a book and a piece of candy on your way out.
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The University of South Florida Polytechnic is currently advertising the following position:
Social Sciences and Education Librarian (Open Rank)
Faculty rank, non-tenure earning
Full time, 12-month contract
Duties:
Developing and maintaining strong relationships with some of the programs in the College of Human and Social Sciences (Counselor Education, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Early Childhood Development, Educational Leadership, Elementary Education, Gerontology/Aging [...]
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The University of South Florida Polytechnic is currently advertising the following position.
Business Librarian (Open Rank)
Faculty rank, non-tenure earning
Full time, 12-month contract
Duties:
Developing and maintaining strong relationships with the Division of Business; designing and presenting instructional sessions and tools; developing the library’s collection of discipline-related materials; providing research assistance to undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and [...]
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The SLA Florida and Caribbean Chapter Fall Workshop and Awards Luncheon will take place at USF Polytechnic on Friday, November 13 2009, from 9 AM to 4 PM.
The workshop theme is “Libraries of the Future”. The program speakers are Paulette Hasier (DARPA Library, Library Task Manager), Jonathan Reichental (US IT Innovations Director, Pricewaterhouse Coopers) and [...]
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The American Psychological Association released last week dozens of corrections to the brand new 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. The first printing of the Manual was published in July. A very popular citation style, the Manual is used in psychology, as well as in education, sociology, economics, business, nursing [...]
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Listed below are the books honored by the FPA President’s Book Awards. There are 16 different categories and one special category, President’s Pick, chosen by FPA’s President, Chris Angermann, of New Chapter Publisher, Sarasota, FL.
PICTURE BOOK
Gold Medal Winner — Adventures of Countess Pigula: “Up, Up and Away!” written and illustrated by Karen Freysinger, published [...]
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We invite you to our open door, hands-on seminars, in Elluminate:
Database Searching
Monday, October 12, 12:00-1:00PM
Learn to select and access the best databases for your subject, search their content and find full-text articles.
Meeting Link: http://131.247.100.61:80/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1253029103795
Add to Calendar: http://131.247.100.61:80/build_calendar.event?meetingId=1253029103795
Starts: 10/12/2009 12:00 EDT
Ends: 10/12/2009 13:00 EDT
RefWorks
Tuesday, October 13, 12:00-1:00PM
Learn how to use this citation management system that makes [...]
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Wanting a quick way to know what is going on in scientific fields, or simply having a few minutes to kill and looking for a quick, informative read? The USF Poly Library is now receiving two popular scientific magazines: Psychology Todayand Scientific American.
They can be found with the other print journals and periodicals at [...]
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Searching for Lexis Nexis in MetaLib (our helpful list of electronic databases), you will now find a Beta version of a new interface for this great resource for newspapers, industry and market news, legal news and research, company financial information,accounting, auditing and tax information, law reviews and case law. The full new interface will be [...]
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President Obama has proclaimed this month “Information Literacy Awareness Month”.
Information literacy can be defined, as in the proclamation, “the ability to seek, find, and decipher information [that] can be applied to countless life decisions, whether financial, medical, educational, or technical.”
Libraries and librarians are actively involved in information literacy and the USF Poly Library [...]
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We invite you to our open door, hands-on seminars, in LTB 2153:
Database Searching
Wednesday, September 30, 12:00-1:00PM
or
Thursday, October 1, 5:00-6:00PM
Learn to select and access the best databases for your subject, search their content and find full-text articles.
RefWorks
Wednesday, September 30, 5:00-6:00PM
or
Thursday, October 1, 12:00-1:00PM
Learn how to use this citation management system that makes building bibliographies a flash.
These [...]
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Join us on the LTB patio to listen to passages from banned and challenged books, as part of the USFP Library celebration of Banned Books Week.
Readings will be from 11:15AM to 1PM and 4:15PM to 6PM (yes, we sneaked in a couple more readers). Among the banned/challenged authors this year: Mark Twain, Toni Morrison, Judy [...]
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This week is the 28th edition of National Banned Books Week. The USF Polytechnic Library is celebrating in many ways:
a display of challenged or banned books from our collections
quotes on freedom of expression, censorship and the freedom to read
our Read Out event, Tuesday September 29th, from 11:15AM to 1PM and 4:15PM to 6PM. Members of [...]
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This morning, in The Ledger newspaper, an article was published on the Library’s Read Out event on September 29th. During the event, we will be reading passages from banned or challenged books out loud.
We invite everyone on campus to participate in listening or reading (still good spots available). Please contact the librarian, Catherine Lavallée-Welch, if [...]
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AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. The collection is made accessible online by the Duke University Special Collections Library.
These commercials were created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B). Founded in [...]
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We invite you to our open door, hands-on seminars, in LTB 2153:
Database Searching
Wednesday, September 30, 12:00-1:00PM
or
Thursday, October 1, 5:00-6:00PM
Learn to select and access the best databases for your subject, search their content and find full-text articles.
RefWorks
Wednesday, September 30, 5:00-6:00PM
or
Thursday, October 1, 12:00-1:00PM
Learn how to use this citation management system that makes building bibliographies a flash.
These [...]
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September 15 to October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month. National Hispanic Heritage Month is a celebration of the histories, cultures and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America.
In recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month, the USF Polytechnic Library is highlighting the books, journals, and electronic [...]
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There is a job opening at the USF Polytechnic Library for a FWS student to man the circulation desk during the weekdays. We’re looking for someone with a good service attitude!
For more details, search
the Career Connection system for position #25796
visit the USF Poly Career Center in LTB 1155
or search its Online Job Board
or [...]
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The USF Polytechnic Library invites you to celebrate the freedom to read by participating in a READ OUT! event during Banned Books Week (September 26 to October 3).
What: Read from a challenged or banned book for a 15 minutes period. There is no microphone, no sitting audience – you [...]
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Here are the items newly arrived at the USF Polytechnic Library during the month of August. As always, new circulating books and children’s books are found in the “New books” stacks in the Group Study area and can be checked out; the new reference and DVD titles are being immediately shelved in their respective stacks.
To [...]
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On Monday, September 7th, the Library (and the Open Use Lab) will be closed in observance of Labor Day. We will reopen Tuesday, September 8th, at 8:00 AM.
Have a great Labor Day week-end!
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Over the next month, the USF Libraries has been given trial access to the following databases: FAITS, and SMP.
The first of two database trials being offered by Faulkner Information Services is FAITS (Faulkner Advisory For Information Technology Studies). FAITS reports are designed to help students, instructors, and administrators learn about and keep up [...]
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Over the next month, the USF Libraries has been given trial access to the following database: Mergent InvestorEdge.
Mergent InvestorEdge provides access to the financial documents and information you need for each individual company for comprehensive investment research. Key features include:
Over 4,000 equity research reports, updated weekly, providing expert analysis and buy, sell, hold [...]
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Due to a server crash Saturday afternoon, the USF Libraries is now using a backup catalog. You can still search the catalog, but cannot put holds or renew items. Item status is also unavailable.
We will let you know when the main catalog is back on. We apologize for the inconvenience.
UPDATE: all functions are now back [...]
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There is a job opening at the USF Polytechnic Library for a FWS student to man the circulation desk during the weekdays. We’re looking for someone with a good service attitude!
For more details, search
the Career Connection system for position #25796
visit the USF Poly Career Center in LTB 1155
or search its Online Job Board
or [...]
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ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 7.5 hours from 2:30 PM to 10:00 PM, Saturday, August 29th.
ScienceDirect is the full text database for the Elsevier journals the USF Libraries subscribe to, in multiple disciplines.
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It’s official! People are now sending more text messages than they are making cell phone calls. Librarians are aware of the popularity of texting and are ready to take their professional services to cell phones.
Starting now, patrons of approximately 50 librariesfrom all over the US - including USF - will be able to [...]
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Hand sanitizer and cleaning wipes are available at the LTB 1115 front desk for your usage, in order to help preventing the spread of the H1N1 virus this Fall semester. You are welcome to use them to clean the computer mouse, keyboards and office tools like the stapler and paper punch before you use them. [...]
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To further scholarship in many disciplines, the USF Libraries recently purchased the online version of the American Periodicals Series.
American Periodicals Series Online features over 1,100 periodicals spanning nearly 200 years from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II. Containing more than seven million digitized page images, titles range from America’s [...]
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June is GLBT Pride month. We have published our USFP Library 2009 list of resources listing books, children’s books, electronic journals and databases.
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Here are the items newly arrived at the USF Polytechnic Library during the month of May. As always, new circulating books are found in the “New books” stacks in the Group Study area; the new reference titles are being immediately shelved in their respective stacks.
Of note, we have continued receiving the 2008 award-winning Children’s Books [...]
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From an email from RefWorks:
RefGrab-It, a feature within RefWorks, allows users to capture data from web sites through a simple single click!
An enhanced version of RefGrab-It is now available for users with two different versions:
a bookmarklet (for use in Internet Explorer and Firefox)
a plug-in (one specifically for Internet Explorer and one specifically for [...]
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From the Tampa Library, following the water dammage of May 14:
This morning we re-opened half of the Media Resources area on the first floor of the USF Tampa Library. Half of the computers are accessible, we are making video/DVD players accessible, the scores are accessible, the Media Annex videos are accessible, and the desk [...]
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Informaworld will not be available Wednesday, May 27 from 1:00 to 5:00 a.m.
We use the Informaworld database to access the full-text of articles from scientific publishers like Taylor & Francis.
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On Monday, May 25, the Library and Open Use Lab will be closed to observe Memorial Day.
Have a great week-end!
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Brand, spanking new:
The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.
As the service is just starting, the number of datasets is still limited but will grow in time. Data can be searched and downloaded. Suggestions for additional resources [...]
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From the Tampa Library:
Torrential downpour floods media resources and bound periodicals
Heavy rains Wednesday night led to significant water intrusion on the USF Tampa Library’s first and second floors. Your patience is appreciated as we dry out our collections and building. Bound periodicals and other materials on the second floor are available for use but may [...]
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Please take note that the textbook pickup service will start on Monday, May 11 at the *new* location and times specified in our previous post. The USF Polytechnic campus is currently on semester break for the week. The Help Desk (who distributes the textbooks) closes at 5PM for the students. The Help Desk staff [...]
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The USF Poly Bookstore has moved and is no longer located in the Library/OUL (LTB1115).
The new location is in LAC1275 (863-667-7842).
The hours of operation starting May 11, 2009 will be:
Monday-Thursday
9am-1pm & 4pm-7pm
Friday
9am-1pm & 2pm-5pm
Saturday
10am-2pm
If you have any questions about your order, please email the bookstore at sm022@bncollege.com or call 813-974-5028 (8am-3pm) or 813-974-5412 (3pm-7pm)
UPDATE: Updated [...]
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Here are the items newly arrived at the USF Polytechnic Library during the month of April. As always, new circulating books are found in the “New books” stacks in the Group Study area; the new reference titles are being immediately shelved in their respective stacks.
Of note, we have started receiving the 2008 award-winning Children’s Books. [...]
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Like to use RefWorks? They have announced the lauch of a mobile interface, called RefMobile.
RefMobile gives you access to the most commonly used functions:
The RefMobile interface gives users immediate access to the most commonly used RefWorks functions, including searching their entire RefWorks databases, viewing references by folders, adding and removing references from folders, [...]
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Here is an useful compilation of tips and tools to research the Deep Web from the Online College Blog.
What is the Deep Web (or Invisible Web)? It’s the Internet content that typically will not appear after a Google or Yahoo search. This content is harder to access for various reasons: it’s dynamically generated, it [...]
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Graduating this May and afraid you might miss being in class and following lectures? Give a look at Academic Earth, a new website giving access to hundreds of video lectures and courses by faculty from some of the top universities in the US.
Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving [...]
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The USF Bookstore will come to campus on the following dates for the textbook buyback
Wednesday, May 6th - 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Thursday, May 7th - 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Location: LTB 1120
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Check out the brand new World Digital Library - 10,000 yrs worth of significant primary documents online, from around the world.
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
The principal objectives of the WDL are [...]
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As we are well implanted in the Web 2.0 era, there are now different ways of enjoying news and content from the USF Poly Library:
a version of this blog for mobile devices (smart phones and the like) is now available: http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/http://catherin.blog.usf.edu/wp-rss2.php
as well as a Twitter page: http://twitter.com/usfplib.
Twitter name: @usfplib (you will need to create an [...]
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There is something new in your inbox! The Library has been working for a long time trying to get both loan and return receipts to be sent by email to our users. We had the loan receipts working first, and now the return receipts are functioning.
The system will also send out courtesy notices [...]
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This week, from April 12 to the 18, is National Library Week. It has a great theme this year: “Worlds Connect@your library”. Please come make a connection at the USF Poly Library!
Note: Tuesday April 14, is National Library Workers Day. While you are enjoying catalogs, databases, books or a full-text article from a library, please [...]
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Due to essential site maintenance, access will be temporarily unavailable for Wiley InterScience on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 for approximately one hour, starting at 4:00 AM.
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The USFP Library parking lot dropbox is now reopened!
It has moved to its new location, next to the motorcycles parking lot, just off the main entry way unto campus via Winter Lake Rd.
The dropbox is checked daily, Monday through Friday, at around 9:30 AM. Books put in the drop box after that time [...]
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Informaworld will be down Friday, April 10th, 7AM to Saturday, April 11th, 3AM.
Another round of downtime will take place Friday, April 17th, 11PM to Saturday, April 18th, 7AM.
Informaworld is a platform that gives us full text access to the Francis & Taylor and Routledge journals.
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Due to critical site maintenance, access to the full text Wiley InterScience may be significantly interrupted tomorrow, Saturday February 7th. The work involves major software updates and will start at 9:00 eastern time. The service interruption may last for up to 12 hours.
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For the last two days, the H. W. Wilson databases have been experiencing intermittent trouble. Wilson is working on the issue. Databases include Wilson omnifile full text mega edition, Education full-text, Business full-text, Humanities full-text, Biography index, among others.
We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
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Here are the items newly arrived at the USF Polytechnic Library during the month of January
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We have just published our 2009 Black History Month Library resources page . Take a look to our list of books, full-text journals and databases.
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Enhancements to Web of Knowledge, plus reminder about ScienceWatch.com
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We invite you to our open door seminars, in LTB 2152:
Database Searching
Wednesday, February 25, 12:00-1:00PM
or
Thursday, February 26, 5:00-6:00PM
Learn to select and access the best databases for your subject, search their content and find full-text articles.
RefWorks
Wednesday, February 25, 5:00-6:00PM
or
Thursday, February 26, 12:00-1:00PM
Learn how to use this citation management system that makes building bibliographies a flash.
These seminars [...]
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The new BioOne platform will officially launch on Tuesday, January 27, 2009. You will access the new platform automatically. Help will be available for the new interface, including webinars and tip sheets.
Benefits and features include:
Open URL compliance
Links to the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project & JSTOR
New reference and article tools (including saved searches, customized e-alerting, easy [...]
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Announcing the recent acquisition of a suite of International Monetary Fund databases.
International Financial Statistics Online is a standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. It reports, for most countries of the world, current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation and deflation, i.e., [...]
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PRONTO is a service for faculty members to obtain a quick scan of an article in print or in microfilm format held at the USF Tampa Library. In order to facilitate easier and faster communication between PRONTO and ILL, PRONTO services is now using a module of the ILLiad program to process incoming requests. [...]
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From a Project MUSE email:
Project MUSE just released the back issues of nine of its long-held journals. The addition of the back issues now offers subscribers the complete run of eight of the titles. This latest addition of back issues is part of MUSE’s ongoing pilot program to determine the feasibility of expanding coverage [...]
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I will be away at the SLA Leadership Summit from Tuesday, January 13th to Saturday, January 14th. I will be back on campus on Monday, January 19th. At the meeting, I will start my term as Chair of the Association’s Information Technology Division.
Email access will be limited. For immediate assistance, you can reach the Library’s [...]
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Elsevier communicated the following enhancements to Engineering Village 2.
The “Ask An Expert” section of www.engineeringvillage.com has always given users the opportunity to ask questions of an expert engineer, EV’s product specialist Colleen Hunter, and/or an organization’s librarian. Expert engineers have experience in a variety of disciplines, including mechanical, chemical, and industrial engineering. By re-designing [...]
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Here are the items newly arrived at the USF Polytechnic Library during the month of December. As always, new circulating books are found in the “New books” stacks in the Group Study area.
To note, a new title for our Professional Development collection, Defusing the angry patron : a how-to-do-it manual for librarians and paraprofessionals . [...]
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Note: the Poly Library shares its space with the ERDC HelpDesk. The HelpDesk is the unit managing the distribution point for the bookstore textbooks. Inquiries should be made to them directly; we do assist when possible but we do not have access to all the pertinent information.
Textbooks have started to come in. They typically arrive [...]
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The Poly Library dropbox in the visitor parking lot will be closed from Friday December 19th at 4:00 PM to Monday December 29th in the morning when it will be reopened. With the exception of Saturday the 20th, the Library will be closed during that week as well.
Please take note that fines on [...]
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Doing Business (http://www.doingbusiness.org/) is a publication by the World Bank. It provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 181 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level. Reports can downloaded for free. The four key areas are Starting a Business, Dealing with Licenses, Registering Property, and Enforcing Contracts.
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The Library (and the Open Use Computer Lab) will be open during the following hours in the coming weeks. Please take note that the Library is always closed on Sunday:
From Monday, December 8 to Friday, December 12: 8:00AM to 8:00PM
Saturday, December 13: 9:00AM to 3:00PM
From Monday, December 15 to Friday, December 19: 8:00AM to 5:00PM
Saturday, [...]
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The USF Bookstore will be at USF Poly for the Textbook Buyback on Saturday, December 13th, from 10:00 AM to 3:00PM. The buyback will take place in LTB 1105, facing the USF Cashier’s Office.
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Here are the items newly arrived at the USF Polytechnic Library during the month of November. As always, new circulating books are found in the “New books” stacks in the Group Study area; the new reference and A/V materials are being immediately shelved in their respective stacks.
DVD/VHS
Slacker uprising [videorecording] / written and directed by [...]
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The USF Polytechnic Library (as well as the HelpDesk and Open Use Lab) will be closed on the following dates:
Thursday, November 27th
Friday, November 28th
We will reopen Saturday, November 29th at 9:00 AM.
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The USF Polytechnic will be closed tomorrow Tuesday, August 19th due to tropical storm Fay. Therefore, the Library and Open Use Lab will be closed as well. We will know Tuesday if the campus will open Wednesday.
The bookshelves have been wrapped this afternoon as a preventative measure but the books will remain available if [...]
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Sunday morning , August 17th, starting at 6:00am and ending by 6:30am, Information Technology will be upgrading the software on the two backbone routers in the SVC Data Center. For the Libraries, it means that web and EZProxy access will be affected.
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NetLibrary is the USF Libraries’ largest collection of online books from various publishers. While USF has not purchased the entire NetLibrary collection, the USF collection numbers over 60,000 titles with a focus on scholarly publications with some general interest titles included. Over 54% of the titles are from university presses such as Oxford, [...]
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The USF Libraries is testing a new catalog — WorldCat Local. This tool delivers search results from both USF Libraries collections and libraries around the world. More information is available by visiting the USF Libraries/WorldCat Local FAQ.
Your feedback is important in the development of this new search tool. Please give us your comments and suggestions [...]
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The USF Poly Library will be open during the following hours starting Saturday, August 9:
Saturdays: 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Sundays: closed
Mondays to Fridays: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Regular opening hours will resume Monday, August 25 at 9:00 AM. To note the Open Use Computer Lab will follow the same hours.
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Here are the books newly arrived at the USF Polytechnic Library during the months of May, June and July. As always, new circulating books are found in the “New books” stacks in the Group Study area; the new reference books are being immediately shelved in the Reference stacks; the new DVDs are available on request [...]
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The OpenOffice suite has been installed on the Public Access machine. What is OpenOffice? It is a free, open source software suite containing a word processor, a spreadsheet editor, database software, presentation software, a picture editor and a graph editor. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read [...]
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You now have a new option in the catalog when looking at a particular item. Among the little icons underneath the location (the ones saying “Add”, “Print”, “Email”, etc), you will find a new one showing a cell phone and the wording “Text”. This can be used to text yourself the call number of a [...]
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The USF Libraries catalog now sports the new name of the USFP Library as a location for items.
That means that if you do an advanced search and use the pull down menu for the Location field, you will see “USF LIBRARY - Polytechnic” as an option. As well, when search results are pulled up [...]
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The long-awaited EBSCOhost 2.0 interface is now fully implemented. This is the first redesign of the EBSCOhost interface since 2002, and its functionality incorporates the latest technological advances.
You can find a wide range of tools and information to streamline your transition to the new design:
An overview of EBSCOhost 2.0 is provided in a Flash [...]