USF Lakeland Library Services

For the first time, from September 29th to October 6th, the USF Lakeland Library will be celebrating Banned Books Week with other libraries across the country. From the American Libraries Association’s website:

Observed since 1982, this annual ALA event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. (…) BBW celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met.

The USFL Library will have handouts, posters and documentation on banned books set out during the week. And, of course, the Library will host two showings of The Hollywood Librarian, on October 2nd and October 5th. This is a great documentary film and everyone can attend. Meanwhile, enjoy your freedom to read!

The USF Libraries has reported a known problem to ProQuest regarding their menus. Two issues exist. When using the drop down box for a database selection, the selected database is dropped off. The second problem is that intermittently after selecting a database, one is then prompted for user name and password. The user name of IPAUTO is already filled in and it looks like a password must be supplied. ProQuest will report back to us when a fix is in place.

The USF Lakeland Library is proud to present The Hollywood Librarian: A look at librarians on film during Banned Books Week in October. This is the first movie on the subject of the real lives and actual work of U.S. librarians. Using the entertaining and appealing context of American movies, the film will hold some surprises for people who may think they know what librarians do. Instead of a commercial release, the film is distributed to libraries to bring attention to Banned Books Week and the issues of censorship, freedom to read and the work of libraries and librarians.

Two showings: Tuesday, October 2nd at 6:15Pm and Friday, October 5th at 1:15 PM. Location: LTB Auditorium (LTB 1100).

Tickets:
Tickets are on sale at the USF Cashier’s Office (LTB 1135).
The Office is open Monday through Thursday from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM and Friday from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
Ticket sales on October 2nd for paying audience will stop promptly at 6:00 PM.
Accepted methods of payment are cash or personal check.

Costs:
Free for library employees (Proof of employment at a library/as a librarian or proof of current status as a student at a library science school allows free admission.)
$8 for Adults (age 12 through 60);
$5 for students with valid student ID, children and seniors (61+).
Children 6 and under are free.

We suggest that you procure your tickets in advance as seating is limited.
Part of the proceeds benefits the USF Lakeland Library.

The USF Lakeland Library is one of the only two libraries showing this film in Florida so don’t miss your chance to view it!

For more details, and see the trailer, go to http://www.lakeland.usf.edu/Library/hollywoodlibrarian.html.

The USF Lakeland Library was mentioned in the September 9th edition of The Ledger, in the “School Notes” column. Scroll down http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070909/NEWS/709090373/1005/NEWS02 to read.

The full press release can be found at http://www.lakeland.usf.edu/News_Releases/Fall_2007_Articles/08-30-2007-library.html.

Here is our monthly list of new items. As always, new books from the circulating collection are located in the “New Books” shelf in the Group Study room, although some titles this month are kept in reserves for the semester. Reference books and A/V materials are put immediately in their respective shelving.

Books

• Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything / Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.
  HB74.P8L479 2005
• Leading constitutional cases on criminal justice. 
  KF9618 .L38
• 10 days to more confident public speaking / The Princeton Language Institute and Lenny Laskowski ; produced by The Philip Lief Group, Inc.
  PN4121.A13 2001 (Professional Development collection)
• Hands-on exercise manual for LabView programming, data acquisition and analysis / Jeffrey Y Beyon. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall PTR, 2001.
  Q185 .B428 2001
• LabVIEW for data acquisition / Bruce Mihura. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, c2001.
  Q185 .M473 2001
• Ruby cookbook / Lucas Carlson and Leonard Richardson. Beijing ; Sebastopol, CA : O’Reilly, c2006
  QA76.64 .C368 2006
• Enterprise integration with Ruby : a Pragmatic guide / Maik Schmidt. Raleigh, N.C. : Pragmatic Bookshelf, c2006.
  QA76.64 .S355 2006
• Programming Ruby : the pragmatic programmers’ guide. Raleigh, N.C. : Pragmatic Bookshelf, c2005.
  QA76.64 .T494 2005
• Advanced topics in LabWindows/CVI / Shahid F. Khalid. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, c2002.
  QA76.73.C15 K482 2002
• Virtual bio-instrumentation : biomedical, clinical, and healthcare applications in LabVIEW / Jon B. Olansen, Eric Rosow. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, 2002.
  R856 .O434 2002
• Sustainable innovation : the organisational, human and knowledge dimension / contributing editor, René Jorna. 
  T212 .S87 2006
• Image processing with LabVIEW and IMAQ vision / Thomas Klinger. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall PTR, c2003.
  TA1632 .K58 2003
• Ruby for Rails : Ruby techniques for Rails developers / David A. Black ; [foreword by David Heinemeier Hansson]. Greenwich, CT : Manning, c2006.
  TK5105.888 .B537 2006
• Agile web development with rails / Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson ; with Leon Breedt … [et al.]. Raleigh, N.C. : Pragmatic Bookshelf, c2007.
  TK5105.888 .T477 2007

Reference

• World history atlas / general editor, Jeremy Black.
  Reference    G1030.W67 2005
• CSG state directory.  Directory III,  Administrative officials.
  2007 
  Reference   JK2403 .B6 Suppl.3

VHS/DVD

• Basic telephone techniques  [videorecording]. 
  HF5541.T4 B37 2005
• Cooking the books [videorecording] : what every accountant should know about fraud / Association of Certified Fraud Examiners ; production, KVUE-TV. Austin, TX : Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, c2004-2005.
  HF5681.B2 C66 2005
• The corporate con [videorecording] : internal fraud and the auditor. Austin, TX : Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, c2004.
  HV6691 .C67 2004
• LB1139.25.O3 1995 Observing young children [videorecording] : learning to look, looking to learn / Teaching Strategies, Inc. and FTI Corporation.
• Nanomanufacturing  [videorecording] /  produced by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers ; producer/director/editor, David Rembiesa ; written by Noel Nevshehir. 
  T174.7 .N35 2006
• Ergonomic safety  [videorecording] /  produced by Society of Manufacturing Engineers ; producer/director, Tim Makino ; writer, Kate Goodin. 
  TA166 .E665 1996
• Industrial robotics  [videorecording]. 
  TJ211 .I52 2004
• Rapid prototyping  [videorecording] /  producer/director/cameraman, Jerome T. Cook ; written by John A. Vaccari. 
  TS155.6 .R36 2003
• Rapid manufacturing  [videorecording] /  produced by Society of Manufacturing Engineers. 
  TS176 .R355 2007

This fall, we will hold four open, drop-in seminars on library resources:

• RefWorks - Learn how to use this citation management system that makes building bibliographies a flash.
  • Monday, September 24, 12:00-1:00 PM, LAC 1170A
  • Monday, October 22, 5:00-6:00 PM, LAC 1170A
• Database Searching - Learn to select and access the best databases for your subject, search their content and find full-text articles
  • Monday, September 17, 5:00-6:00 PM, LAC 11170A
  • Monday, October 22, 12:00-1:00 PM, LAC 1170A

These seminars all open to all; no registration required.

We kindly ask our users to not reshelve books or journals you have browsed or used inside the library. You can leave them on the return book cart (near the public access machine), on the tables or flat on a shelf.

We keep track on what is being used in-house, for statistics and assessment purposes. If the item is reshelved, we don’t know it has been used. Also, we want to avoid reshelving errors. A lot of time can be spent looking for a book that is not where it’s supposed to be when needed.

Thank you for your cooperation.