The PCC/USF library will have normal opening hours during USF Lakeland Spring Break from March 13th to the 18th. The Open Use Lab will have the usual opening hours as well.
During Polk Community College’s Spring Break, from March 25th through April 1st, the library will have the following opening hours:
- Saturday March 25th and April 1st - CLOSED
- Monday-Thursday March 27th - 30th - 12:30 PM to 9:00 PM
- Friday March 31st - 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
The Open Use Lab will follow these reduced hours in the library. During closing time though, the following instructional labs will be open to act as the Open Use Lab.
- Saturday March 25th and April 1st - Open Use Lab moved to room 1170B (if its available) from 9am to 1pm
- Monday-Thursday March 27th-31st - 12:30 PM to 9:00 PM - Open Use Lab moved to room 1170A from 8am -12:30
- Friday March 30th - 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM - Open Use Lab moved to room 1170A 8-5
From an email sent by Cambrigde Scientific Abstracts, one of our database vendors.
CSA has announced the inaugural CSA Sociological Abstracts Discovery Prize, intended to promote teaching and learning in sociology. The prize is open to both faculty and students with a top award of $3,000 and honorable mention awards of $500. The submission deadline is 15 April 2006.
Submissions should describe a sociological research project that involved use of CSA Sociological Abstracts and define how the project contributed to teaching and learning in sociology. Submissions will be evaluated by CSA in accordance with the following:
1. Innovation (creativity in use of CSA Sociological Abstracts )
2. Transferability (to other sociology courses or curricula)
3. Effectiveness (in advancing teaching, learning and information literacy)
4. Scholarship (meets accepted standards of research)
Additional information about the CSA Sociological Abstracts Discovery Prize and an application form are available at http://info.csa.com/sociologicaldiscovery .
Winning submissions will be posted to this Web site when awards are announced.
CSA Sociological Abstracts is the preeminent resource for accessing the research literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database contains more than 695,000 references with backfiles to 1952. More than 1,800 journals and other serials publications are abstracted for this database, as well +as conference papers, books, book chapters, and dissertations. The database is delivered through the award-winning CSA Illumina platform and was recently enhanced with cited references and scholar profiles.
Tomorrow, Wednesday March 8th, I will be on the Tampa campus to present with Dr Naomi Boyer at the Symposium on 21 st Century Teaching Technologies: A Continuing Series of Exploration. The poster session is intitled Live Library Instruction for Distance Learners.
I will be back on Thursday.
Chemical Abstracts Services have announced the discontinuance of the version of SciFinder Scholar 2004 version on March 31, 2006. The new version, SciFinder Scholar 2006, has to be downloaded from the CAS website in order for you to access the database. For more information, see http://www.lib.usf.edu/ref/databases/scifinder.html.
The Nature Publishing Group database has been experiencing technical problems with their server. It’s possible that some downtime will occur in the near future.
RLG, a not-for-profit membership organization of over 150 universities, national libraries, archives, historical societies, and other institutions with remarkable collections for research and learning, has launched ArchiveGrid. ArchiveGrid is a search engine of archives and special collections in thousands of libraries, museums and institutes. The service is available to both individuals and institutions free of charge through May 31st. Try it out and let me know if you think USF should get a subscription.
