USF Polytechnic Library

Here are the items newly arrived at the USF Polytechnic Library during the month of June. As always, new circulating books are found in the “New books” stacks in the Group Study area; the new A/V titles are being immediately shelved in their respective stacks.

Of note, we have continued receiving the 2008 award-winning Children’s Books as well as a A/V titles for class use and for the Gifted & Talented program. We also received a copy of the documentary film “The Hollywood Library” which the USF Poly Library premiered during Banned Books Week in 2007.

A/V

• Kids + money (Documentary : 2008) Kids + money [videorecording] : a portrait of teenagers in Los Angeles / a film by Lauren Greenfield ; produced and directed by Lauren Greenfield. [United States] : Greenfield/Evers LLC, c2008.
  GT524 .K53 2008
• The Ray Bradbury theater [videorecording] / Alliance Atlantis. [Needham, MA] : Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, c2004.
  PN1992.77 .R39 2004
• Treasures of The twilight zone [videorecording]. [New York, N.Y.?] : CBS Video ; Chatsworth, CA : Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment, c1999.
  PN1992.77 .T87 T74 1999
• Twilight zone (Television program : 2002-2003) The twilight zone [videorecording] / Trilogy ; New Line Television ; executive producers, John Watson, Mark Stern, Pen Densham ; Ira Steven Behr. [United States] : New Line Home Entertainment, [2004]
  PN1992.77 .T922 2004
• SpaceCamp (Motion picture) SpaceCamp [videorecording] / ABC Motion Pictures ; story by Patrick Bailey and Larry B. Williams ; screenplay by W.W. Wicket and Casey T. Mitchell ; produced by Patrick Bailey and Walter Coblenz ; directed by Harry Winer. [S.l.] : MGM Home Entertainment, 2004.
  PN1997.2 .S63 2004
• A sound of thunder [videorecording] / Franchise Pictures presents ; directed by Peter Hyams ; screenplay by Thomas Dean Donnelly & Joshua Oppenheimer and Greg Poirier ; screen story by Thomas Dean Donnelly & Joshua Oppenheimer ; produced by Moshe Diamant, Howard Baldwin, Karen Baldwin ; a Scenario Lane/Jericho production ; in association with Crusader Entertainment ; an ApolloMedia … [et al.] co-production. Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2005.
  PN1997.2 .S646 2005
• Rapid tooling design [videorecording] / produced by Society of Manufacturing Engineers ; producer/director, Jerome T. Cook ; written by Todd Grimm. Dearborn, Mich. : Society of Manufacturing Engineers, c2008.
  TS171.4 .R37 2008
• The Hollywood librarian [videorecording] : a look at librarians through film / Overdue Productions presents ; a documentary film by Ann Seidl ; written and directed by Ann Seidl Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, c2009.
  Z682 .H65 2009

Books

• Advertising 2.0 : social media marketing in a Web 2.0 world / Tracy L. Tuten. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
  HF6146 .I58 T88 2008
• Hate on the net : extremist sites, neo-fascism on-line, electronic jihad / Antonio Roversi, Lawrence Smith. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008.
  HT1521 .R69 2008

Children’s Books

• The Lincolns : a scrapbook look at Abraham and Mary / Candace Fleming. New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, c2008.
  E457.905 .F58 2008
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude : through the Gates and beyond / Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan. New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2008.
  N7193 .C5 G74 2008
• Chains : seeds of America / Laurie Halse Anderson. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2008.
  PS3551 .N3678 C52 2008
• Knucklehead : tall tales & mostly true stories about growing up Scieszka / Jon Scieszka. New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2008.
  PS3569 .C5748 Z46 2008
• The blacker the berry : poems / by Joyce Carol Thomas ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper. New York : HarperCollins, 2008.
  PS3570 .H565 B53 2008
• Masterpiece / Elise Broach ; illustrated by Kelly Murphy. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2008.
  PZ7 .B78083 Mas 2008
• The hunger games / Suzanne Collins. New York : Scholastic Press, 2008.
  PZ7 .C6837 Hun 2008
• The London Eye mystery / Siobhan Dowd. Oxford ; New York : David Fickling Books, 2008, c2007.
  PZ7 .D7538 Lo 2008
• Chicken said, “Cluck!” / by Judyann Ackerman Grant ; pictures by Sue Truesdell. New York : HarperCollins, c2008.
  PZ7 .G766775 Ch 2008
• Nation / Terry Pratchett. New York, NY : HarperCollins, c2008.
  PZ7 .P8865 Nat 2008
• Here lies Arthur / Philip Reeve. New York [N.Y.] : Scholastic Press, 2008.
  PZ7 .R25576 He 2008
• Are you ready to play outside? / by Mo Willems. New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2008.
  PZ7 .W65535 Ar 2008
• After Tupac & D Foster / Jacqueline Woodson. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2008.
  PZ7 .W84945 Af 2008
• Moribito : guardian of the Spirit / by Nahoko Uehashi ; [translated by Cathy Hirano ; illustrated by Yuko Shimizu]. New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2008.
  PZ7 .U277 Mo 2008
• Bird / by Zetta Elliott ; illustrated by Shadra Strickland. New York : Lee & Low Books Inc., c2008.
  PZ7.5 .E44 Bir 2008
• Keeping the night watch / Hope Anita Smith ; with illustrations by E.B. Lewis. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2008.
  PZ7.5 .S54 Ke 2008
• Frogs. New York, NY : Scholastic Nonfiction, 2008.
  QL668 .E2 B47 2008

Databases

• American Periodicals Series

Even the best laid plans need to change sometimes - please note that the seminars have been moved to a new, later date.

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We invite you to our open door seminars, offered online via Elluminate this week. These will be the last such seminars this semester:

Database Searching
Wednesday, July 8, 12:00-1:00PM
Learn to select and access the best databases for your subject, search their content and find full-text articles.

RefWorks
Wednesday, July 8, 1:00-2:00PM
Learn how to use this citation management system that makes building bibliographies a flash.

These seminars are open to all; no registration required.

The links to enter the seminar on the date and time specified are below. Please make sure to click on the correct one for the session you desire to attend.

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Database Searching:
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Add to Calendar: http://131.247.100.61:80/build_calendar.event?meetingId=1246383851780
Starts: July 08, 2009 12:00 PM EDT
Ends: July 08, 2009 1:00 PM EDT

RefWorks
Meeting Link: http://131.247.100.61:80/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1246384142791
Add to Calendar: http://131.247.100.61:80/build_calendar.event?meetingId=1246384142791
Starts: July 08, 2009 1:00 PM EDT
Ends: July 08, 2009 2:00 PM EDT

Enter your name at the login prompt.

These meetings do not require a password to join. Please leave the password field blank.

If this is the first time you will be using Elluminate, you may be prompted to download some software which may take anywhere from 2 to 20 minutes depending upon your Internet connection speed. You can pre-configure your system with the required software by going to the support page located at: http://131.247.100.61:80/support.help.

Please make sure your computer has a microphone and speakers to be able to talk and hear while you are in the Elluminate meeting.

The USF Polytechnic Library (and the Open Use Lab) will be closed on Friday and Saturday, July 3rd and 4th in observance of Independence Day.

LTB 1115 will reopen on Monday, July 6th at 8:00 AM.

Have a great holiday week-end!

The USF Libraries currently subscribe to three of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) statistical databases: Balance of Payments Statistics, Direction of Trade Statistics, and International Financial Statistics. A fourth, Government Finance Statistics (GFS), is currently available to us as a trial until July 2nd.

GFS is a specialized statistics system, with balancing components designed to facilitate analysis of the government and public sectors. Here are some quick facts about this database:

Time series: 135,000+
Countries covered: 133
Historical data: 1990
Data frequency: Annual
Publication Updates: Quarterly
Export formats: Excel, .csv, Access, tabbed text, html

Please try it and let me know what you think. In order to access this database at the below link, you must either be on campus or logged onto the library’s web page. It may be helpful to try the tutorials available on this web page first.

http://www.imfstatistics.org/gfs/

USF Libraries currently has trial access to two resources from Mergent: Private Company Database and WebReports.

First, we have access to Mergent’s Private Company Database. Dun & Bradstreet provides key information on U.S. and Canadian companies with annual sales greater than $3 million and global companies with annual sales greater than $10 million. You can go into Mergent through our databases, as usual and you will notice that on the basic search screen, toward the bottom, you can select a box that says “include private companies.” Also with this trial, in the Advanced Search, you can make it so only “Private Company DB” is selected or leave all selected. You can also access this database by going to the following URL: http://www.MergentOnline.com. Just remember to log into the library’s web site if you are off campus.

Facts and Figures

Total number of records over 1 million
Contains companies with total sales ranging from 5.7 million to 68.5 billion Total employees for these companies range from 1 to 807,600 Companies operating in the U.S. and Canada over 525,000 records Companies outside the U.S. and Canada over 500,000 records

We also have trial access to Digital Corporate Manuals. Mergent WebReports is an online database that allows you to access a vast archive of corporate and industry related documents. WebReports contains more than 180,000 documents covering over 100 countries and industries using an easy to navigate and reliable system. To access Mergent WebReports, please go to the following web site: http://webreports.mergent.com . Make sure you are logged in to the library’s web site if off campus. I would also like to mention that we do have these documents in our Reference Annex and in microfilm.

Both of these trials will last until July 10th. Please let me know your thoughts on these resources.

Due to essential site maintenance, access will be unavailable for up to one hour for full-text database Wiley InterScience on Saturday, June 13, starting at 9:00 AM.

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 first scientific journal to popular magazines.

The publications in this collection cover three broad periods:

• The years between 1740 and 1800 that offer insight in America’s transition from a British colony to an independent nation with eighty-nine published journals;
• The first sixty years of the nineteenth century that showcase the golden age of American periodicals where most great literary works of the nineteenth century appeared in a magazine with more than nine hundred titles; and
• The Civil War (1861-1865) and Reconstruction (1865-1877) period that reflect the nation in turmoil and growth, the settling of the West, and the emergence of modern America with more than nine hundred titles.

Because the database contains digitized images of periodical pages, researchers can see all of the original typography, drawings, graphic elements, and article layouts exactly as they were originally published. American Periodical Series may prove useful in the following disciplines: history, arts, social sciences, humanities, statistics, medicine, sciences, and government and international affairs.

For these resources and other library databases, visit http://poly.usf.edu/library.xml. Click on “Search the Databases” (MetaLib) to begin.

June is GLBT Pride month. We have published our USFP Library 2009 list of resources listing books, children’s books, electronic journals and databases.

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 as well as a few books from donations, notably from Dr. Preston Mercer. Thank you!

Reference

• 21st century psychology : a reference handbook / edited by Stephen F. Davis, William Buskist. Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, c2008.
  Reference BF131 .A15 2008 v.1 & v. 2
• The Oxford dictionary of literary terms / Chris Baldick. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
  Reference PN41 .C67 2008
• Encyclopedia of scientific principles, laws, and theories / Robert E. Krebs ; illustrations by Rae Déjur. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008.
  Reference Q121 .K74 2008
• Scientific style and format : the CSE manual for authors, editors, and publishers / Style Manual Committee, Council of Science Editors. Reston, VA : Council of Science Editors in cooperation with the Rockefeller University Press, 2006.
  Reference T11 .S386 2006
• Eshbach’s handbook of engineering fundamentals / edited by Myer Kutz. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2009.
  Reference TA151 .E8 2009
• Springer handbook of robotics / B. Siciliano, Oussama Khatib (eds.) Berlin : Springer, c2008.
  Reference TJ211 .S67 2008

Books

• A whack on the side of the head : how you can be more creative / by Roger von Oech. New York : Grand Central ; London : Little, Brown [distributor], 2008.
  Professional Development BF408 .V58 2008
• Jerome Bruner: Acts of meaning / Jerome Bruner. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c1990.
  BF455 .B74 1990
• Interviewing clients across cultures : a practitioner’s guide / Lisa Aronson Fontes. New York : Guilford Press, c2008.
  BF637.I5 F67 2008
• The seven habits of highly effective people : restoring the character ethic / Stephen R. Covey. New York : Simon and Schuster, c1989.
  BF637.S8 C68 1989
• Southern cross : the beginnings of the Bible Belt / Christine Leigh Heyrman. New York : Knopf, 1997.
  BR535 .H47 1997
• Preparing the next generation of oral historians : an anthology of oral history education / written and edited by Barry A. Lanman and Laura M. Wendling. Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006.
  D16.14 .P74 2006
• Dissent in America / [edited by] Ralph F. Young. New York : Pearson Longman, c2005.
  E183 .D57 2005 v.1 & v.2
• Race and American political development / edited by Joseph Lowndes, Julie Novkov, and Dorian Warren. New York, NY : Routledge, 2008.
  E185.61 .R18 2008
• Under God : religion and American politics / Garry Wills. New York : Simon and Schuster, c1990.
  E880 .W54 1990
• Little people in America : the social dimension of dwarfism / Joan Ablon. New York, NY : Praeger, 1984.
  GN69.3 .A23 1984
• Autoethnography as method / Heewon Chang. Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2008.
  GN346.6 .C53 2008
• Computer games as a sociocultural phenomenon : games without frontiers, war without tears / edited by Andreas Jahn-Sudmann and Ralf Stockmann. Basingstoke [England] : New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
  GV1469.17.S63 C65 2008
• Handbook of interview research : context & method / editors, Jaber F. Gubrium, James A. Holstein. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2001.
  H61.28 .H36 2001
• The rise of the creative class : and how it’s transforming work, leisure, community and everyday life / Richard Florida. New York, NY : Basic Books, 2004.
  HD53 .F653 2004
• Stakeholder politics : social capital, sustainable development, and the corporation / Robert Boutilier. Stanford,Calif. : Stanford Business Books, c2009.
  HD60 .B68 2009
• Measuring and improving productivity in services : issues, strategies and challenges / Faridah Djellal and Faiz Gallouj. Cheltenham ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2008.
  HD9980.5 .D54 2008
• The World Trade Organization : changing dynamics in the global political economy / Anna Lanoszka. Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009.
  HF1385 .L36 2009
• Inequality, consumer credit and the saving puzzle / Christopher Brown. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2008.
  HG3755 .B76 2008
• Life outside : the Signorile report on gay men, sex, drugs, muscles, and the passages of life / Michelangelo Signorile. New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1997.
  HQ76.2.U5 S54 1997
• Living with difference : families with dwarf children / Joan Ablon ; photographs by Daniel Margulies. New York : Praeger, 1988.
  HQ773.65 .A34 1988
• Disaster & recovery planning : a guide for facility managers / Joseph F. Gustin. Lilburn, GA : Fairmont Press ; Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2007.
  HV551.3 .G87 2007
• Teaching with classroom response systems : creating active learning environments / Derek Bruff. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2009.
  LB1027.23 .B78 2009
• Fostering learner independence : an essential guide for K-6 educators / Roxann Rose-Duckworth, Karin Ramer ; foreword by Ron Ritchhart. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c2009.
  LB1027.23 .R67 2009
• Psychology of learning for instruction / Marcy P. Driscoll. Boston : Pearson Allyn and Bacon, c2005.
  LB1060 .D75 2005
• Oral language and early literacy in preschool : talking, reading, and writing / Kathleen A. Roskos, Patton O. Tabors, Lisa A. Lenhart. Newark, DE : International Reading Association, c2004.
  LB1139 .L3 R675 2004
• Philosophy of early childhood education : transforming narratives / edited by Sandy Farquhar and Peter Fitzsimons. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
  LB1139.23 .P49 2008
• Research, advocacy, and political engagement : multidisciplinary perspectives through service learning / edited by Sally Cahill Tannenbaum. Sterling, Va. : Stylus Pub., 2008.
  LC221.2. C2 R47 2008
• What the best college teachers do / Ken Bain. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
  LB2331 .B34 2004
• Managing the academic department : cases and notes / John B. Bennett. New York : American Council on Education : Macmillan, c1983.
  LB2341 .B47 1983
• The academic dean : dove, dragon, and diplomat / Allan Tucker, Robert A. Bryan. New York : American Council on Education : Macmillan ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan Canada, 1991.
  LB2341 .T778 1991
• Chairing the academic department : leadership among peers / Allan Tucker. Phoenix, AZ : Oryx Press, 1993.
  LB2341 .T78 1993
• Curriculum alignment : research-based strategies for increasing student achievement / David A. Squires. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, 2009.
  LB2806.15 .S732 2009
• Creating inclusive learning environments for young children : what to do on Monday morning / Clarissa Willis. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c2009.
  LC4015 .W55 2009
• Writings from the New Yorker : 1927-1976 / E.B. White ; edited by Rebecca M. Dale. New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins, c1990.
  PS3545.H5187 A6 1990
• Online science learning : best practices and technologies / Kevin F. Downing, Jennifer K. Holtz. Hershey, PA : Information Science Pub., c2008.
  Q181 .D654 2008
• Handbook of parallel computing : models, algorithms and applications / edited by Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, John Reif. Boca Raton : Chapman & Hall/CRC, c2008.
  QA76.58 .H36 2008
• Software testing and analysis : process, principles, and techniques / Mauro Pezze, Michal Young. [Hoboken, N.J.] : Wiley, c2008.
  QA76.76 .T48 P495 2008
• The longevity revolution : the benefits and challenges of living a long life / Robert N. Butler. New York : PublicAffairs, c2008.
  QP85 .B88 2008
• Computerization movements and technology diffusion : from mainframes to ubiquitous computing / edited by Margaret S. Elliott and Kenneth L. Kraemer. Medford, N.J. : Information Today, c2008.
  T173.8 .C67 2008
• What every engineer should know about business communication / John X. Wang. Boca Raton : CRC, c2008.
  TA158.5 .W35 2008
• Sustainable development for engineers : a handbook and resource guide / edited by Karel Mulder. Sheffield : Greenleaf Publishing, 2006.
  TA170 .S87 2006
• What every engineer should know about starting a high-tech business venture / Eric Koester. Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2009.
  TA190 .K637 2009
• The mechatronics handbook. Mechatronic systems, sensors, and actuators : fundamentals and modeling / edited by Robert H. Bishop. Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2008.
  TJ163.12 .M433 2008
• The mechatronics handbook. Mechatronic system control, logic, and data acquisition / edited by Robert H. Bishop. Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2008.
  TJ223 .P76 M43 2008
• Practical MATLAB basics for engineers / Misza Kalechman. Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2009.
  TK153 .K18 2009
• Automated network management systems : current and future capabilities / Douglas E. Comer. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2007.
  TK5105.5 .C58967 2007
• Industrial project management : concepts, tools, and techniques / Adedeji Badiru, Abidemi Badiru, Adetokunboh Badiru. Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2008.
  TS155 .B2175 2008
• Integration technologies for industrial automated systems / edited by Richard Zurawski. Boca Raton, FL : CRC Taylor & Francis, c2007.
  TS155.63 .Z87 2006

Children’s Books

• Jazz on a Saturday night / Leo & Diane Dillon. New York : Blue Sky Press, c2007.
  ML3929 .D55 2007
• The seer of shadows / Avi. New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, c2008.
  PZ7.A953 Sf 2008
• What I saw and how I lied / by Judy Blundell. New York : Scholastic Press, 2008.
  PZ7.B627146 Wh 2008
• Traction Man meets Turbodog / Mini Grey. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
  PZ7.G873 Trm 2008
• Maybe a bear ate it! / by Robie Harris ; illustrated by Michael Emberley. New York : Orchard Books, 2008.
  PZ7.H2436 May 2008
• Garmann’s summer / Stian Hole ; [translation by Don Bartlett]. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2008.
  PZ7.H7072 Gar 2008
• My one hundred adventures / Polly Horvath. New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, c2008.
  PZ7.H79224 My 2008
• Skunkdog / Emily Jenkins ; pictures by Pierre Pratt. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2008.
  PZ7.J4134 Sku 2008
• Coraline / adapted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell; colorist, Lovern Kindzierski; letterer, Todd Klein; based on the novel by Neil Gaiman. New York : HarperCollins Children’s Books, c2008.
  PZ7.7.R8774 Co 2008
• The way we work : getting to know the amazing human body / David Macaulay, with Richard Walker. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
  QP37 .M28 2008

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 Firefox)

This new version now provides all RefGrab-It users with additional options and features including:

• Show details link for each reference
• Author Resolver linking
• OpenURL Resolver
• Export to RefWorks

The plug-in version has some features that are not available in the bookmarklet version:

• RefWorks Association - creates a direct export to your account and identifies which references RefGrab-It has already downloaded
• Embedded Mode - lets you view RefGrab-It on top of the webpage as opposed to displaying in a new window
• Export RIS Format Files (plug-in only) - allows users who have the ISI help file on their computer to override direct exports from certain data vendors to EndNote, Reference Manager and ProCite and save the references as an ris.text file for importing into RefWorks

Information for installing and using RefGrab-It is available in RefWorks’ online help section. New RefGrab-It training webinars are scheduled for June 2 and June 24.