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Catherine Lavallée-Welch, Director of the University of South Florida Polytechnic Library, is a candidate for a position on the 2012 Special Libraries Association (SLA) Board of Directors.
The SLA Nominating Committee solicits names of potential candidates from the membership and compiles a group that has exceptional talent, is professionally diverse, and provides regionally balanced representation to the international association. The 10 candidates, who hail from three countries, will serve three-year terms on the board if elected. Lavallée-Welch is a candidate for the position of Division Cabinet Chair-Elect. The election will be held electronically in mid-September 2011.
SLA is a nonprofit global organization for innovative information professionals and their strategic partners. SLA serves about 11,000 members in 75 countries in the information profession, including corporate, academic, and government information specialists. SLA promotes and strengthens its members through learning, advocacy, and networking initiatives.
The Library and Open Use Lab will be open regular hours during Spring Break.
Monday-Thursday, 8 AM – 10 PM
Friday, 8 AM – 5 PM
Saturday, 9 AM – 3 PM
Sunday, Closed
Have a good week, everyone!
Florida Book Awards announced the winners for eight categories of books published in 2010.
The Florida Book Awards program was established in 2006 to recognize, honor, and celebrate the best Florida literature published the previous year. It is coordinated by The Florida State University Libraries, and co-sponsored by the Florida Center for the Book, State Library and Archives of Florida, Florida Historical Society, Florida Humanities Council, Florida Literary Arts Coalition, Florida Library Association, “Just Read, Florida!,” Florida Family Literacy Initiative, the Program in American and Florida Studies at Florida State University, Florida Reading Association, Florida Association for Media in Education, Florida Center for the Literary Arts, the Friends of FSU Libraries, and Florida Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America.
Children’s Literature
- Gold: Jan Godown Annino, She Sang Promise: The Story of Betty Mae Jumper, Seminole Tribal Leader (National Geographic Society)
- Silver: Mary GrandPre and Jack Prelutsky, Camille Saint-Saens’s The Carnival of the Animals (Alfred P. Knopf)
- Bronze: Henry Cole, A Nest for Celeste: A Story About Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Home (Katherine Tegen Books)
- Bronze: Brad Meltzer, Heroes for my Son (Harper Collins)
- Bronze: Harvey E. Oyer III, The Last Egret: The Adventures of Charlie Pierce (Middle River Press)
Florida Non-Fiction
- Gold: Margaret Ross Tolbert, AQUIFERious (Fidelity Press)
- Silver: Julian M. Pleasants and Harry A. Kersey, Seminole Voices: Reflections on their Changing Society (University of Nebraska Press)
- Bronze: Lu Vickers, Cypress Gardens, America’s Tropical Wonderland (University Press of Florida)
- Bronze: Anna Lillios, Crossing the Creek (University Press of Florida)
- Bronze: Randy Wayne White and Carlene Fredericka Brennen, Randy Wayne White’s Ultimate Tarpon Book (University Press of Florida)
General Fiction
- Gold: Mark Mustian, The Gendarme (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam)
- Silver: Patricia Engel, Vida (Black Cat/Grove Atlantic, Inc.)
- Bronze: T.M. Shine, Nothing Happens Until it Happens to You (Crown Publishing Group)
- Bronze: Mary Jane Ryals, Cookie and Me (Kitsune Books)
Poetry
- Gold: Carol Frost, Honeycomb (Northwestern University Press)
- Silver: Lola Haskins, Still, the Mountain (Paper Kite Press)
- Bronze: Kelle Groom, Five Kingdoms (Anhinga Press)
Popular Fiction
- Gold: William Culyer Hall, The Trouble With Panthers (Florida Historical Society Press)
- Silver: Randy Wayne White, Deep Shadow (GP Putnam’s Sons)
- Bronze: Joyce Elson Moore, The Tapestry Shop (Five Star/Gale/Cengage)
- Bronze: Charles Martin, The Mountain Between Us (Broadway Books)
- Bronze: James Grippando, Money to Burn (Harper)
Visual Arts
- Gold: Jason Steuber, Laura K. Nemmers and Tracy E. Pfaff, with a foreword by Rebecca Martin Nagy, editors, Samuel P. Harn of Art at Twenty Years: The Collection Catalogue (University Press of Florida)
- Silver: Margaret Ross Tolbert, AQUIFERious (Fidelity Press)
Young Adult
- Gold: Christina Diaz Gonzalez, The Red Umbrella (Alfred A. Knopf)
Spanish Language
- Gold: Jose Alvarez, Los Alamos del Parque (Editoral Voces de Hoy)
Here are the latest arrivals for the month of February. As always, Polytechnic circulating books are located in the New Books shelves in the back of the room. FIPR books are shelved immediately in their proper stacks.
USF Polytechnic Library
Reference
- Digest of Education Statistics. / Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Education Division, National Center for Education Statistics : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1976-.
L112 .A35 2009
Books
GENERAL WORKS
- Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure and the Internet / Christine L. Borgman. Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, 2010.
AZ195 .B67 2010
SOCIAL SCIENCES (includes business, commerce, economics, finance, sociology and criminology)
- Globalization of Africa: Recolonization or Renaissance? / Pádraig Carmody. Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, c2010.
HC800.Z65 C37 2010
- Virtual Team Success: A Practical Guide For Working and Leading From A Distance / Darleen M. DeRosa, Richard Lepsinger. San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2010.
HD66 .D466 2010
- Sixty To Zero: An Inside Look At The Collapse of General Motors–and the Detroit Auto Industry / Alex Taylor III ; foreword by Mike Jackson. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.
HD9710.U54 G47574 2010
- E-Business in the 21st Century: Realities, Challenges and Outlook / Jun Xu, Mohammed Quaddus. Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2010.
HF5548.32 .X8 2010
- Accounting For Value / Stephen Penman. New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.
HG4529 .P45 2011
- Crime and Justice : a Review of Research. / Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1979-.
HV6001 .C672 v.39
EDUCATION
- Wiring the Brain to Read: Beginning Reading PreK-Grade 3 / by Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers. Orlando, Fla. : BrainSMART, c2009.
LB1525 .W547 2009
- Artifactual Literacies : Every Object Tells a Story/ Kate Pahl and Jennifer Rowsell ; foreword by Lesley Bartlett and Lalitha Vasudevan. New York : Teachers College Press, c2010.
LB1573 .P16 2010
- Using RTI To Teach Literacy To Diverse Learners, K-8 Strategies for the Inclusive classroom / Sheila Alber-Morgan. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin, c2010.
LB1576 .A612 2010
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
- Left of Hollywood; Cinema, Modernism, and the Emergence of U.S. Radical Film Culture / Chris Robé. Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2010.
PN1995.9.P6 R63 2010
SCIENCE
- Knowledge Discovery From Data Streams / João Gama. Boca Raton, FL : Chapman & Hall/CRC, c2010.
QA76.9.A43 G354 2010
- Enabling Context-Aware Web services: Methods, Architetures, and Technologies / edited by Quan Z. Sheng, Jian Yu, Schahram Dustdar. Boca Raton : CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, c2010.
QA76.5915 .E53 2010
TECHNOLOGY
- Creativity for Engineers / B.S. Dhillon. Singapore : World Scientific, 2006.
T49.5 .D55 2006
- Project Management Tools and Techniques for Success / Christine B. Tayntor. Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2010.
T58.5 .T372 2010
- Innovate the Future: a Radical New Approach to IT Innovation / David Croslin. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, c2010.
T173.8 .C765 2010
- Manufacturing Intelligence for Industrial Engineering: Methods for System Self-Organization, Learning, and Adaptation / Zude Zhou, Huaiqing Wang, Ping Lou. Hershey, PA : Engineering Science Reference, c2010.
T173.8 .Z486 2010
FIPR Library
Reports
- Hydrogeologic Framework of the Southwest Florida Water Management District / Jonathan D. Arthur et al. Tallahassee, Fla.: Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection, 2008.
FIPR Institute (Bartow) FL-GS Bul-68 2008
- The Phosphate Life-Cycle: Rethinking the Options for a Finite Resource / J. Hilton, A.E. Johnston and C.J. Dawson. York, England: International Fertiliser Society, c2010.
FIPR Institute (Bartow) FS London (IFS) 668-10 2010
Reference
- World Phosphate Rock Reserves and Resources / International Fertilizer Development Center. Muscle Shoals, AL: IFDC, 2010.
FIPR Institute (Bartow) IFDC T-75 2010 Ref
Books
SOCIAL SCIENCES
- Uranium 2009: Resources, Production and Demand: A Joint Report / OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Paris: OECD, c2010.
FIPR Institute (Bartow) HD9539.U7 U73 2010
SCIENCE
- Theoretical and Computational Methods in Mineral Physics: Geophysical Applications / edited by Renata Wentzcovitch and Lars Stixrude. Chantilly, Va.: Mineralogical Society of America, c2010.
FIPR Institute (Bartow) QE364 .T4846 2010
TECHNOLOGY
- Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America’s Fresh Waters / Robert Glennon. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, c2002.
FIPR Institute (Bartow) TD223 .G58 2002
USF Electronic resources
Poly Business Librarian Lisa Zilinski is the proud owner of Echo, a recently certified therapy dog. Lisa worked with the Psychology Club to help certify Echo. The German-Australian shepherd mix visited some cognitive science classes as well to help students discuss the benefits of animal-assisted therapy, as well as cognition and learning in dogs.
It was a great opportunity for the students to get a great hands-on, applied learning opportunity, which is integral part of a polytechnic education.
P.S. you can read The Ledger’s story here.
USF Poly Business Librarian Lisa Zilinski has accepted the Chair position of the Web Site Committee for the American Society for Information Science and Technology’s (ASIS&T) Information Needs, Seeking and Use (USE) Special Interest Group. Her mandate consists in creating a completely new website for the Group.
The ASIS&T has been in existence for over 70 years and has members in over 50 countries worldwide. It has for purpose to be “the society for information professionals leading the search for new and better theories, techniques, and technologies to improve access to information.”
It’s the end of National Engineers Week so we thought this interesting website was à-propos. By the way, did you attend the Engineering Expo yesterday, organized by the Poly Engineering Club? The Library highlighted its services and showcased items from the collection, especially recent book purchases in engineering.
ScienceCinema is a website regrouping videos produced by the US Department of Energy. It was launched February 10th, 2011.
ScienceCinema uses innovative, state-of-the-art audio indexing and speech recognition technology from Microsoft Research to allow users to quickly find video files produced by the DOE National Laboratories and other DOE research facilities. When users search for specific scientific words and phrases of interest to them, precise snippets of the video where the specific search term was spoken will appear along with a timeline. Users can then select a snippet or a segment along the timeline to begin playing the video at the exact point in the video where the words were spoken. The timeline is synced with transcripts of the targeted portion of video.
It is anticipated that scientific videos, animations, interactive visualizations, and other multimedia will become an increasingly prominent form of scientific communications. ScienceCinema was produced, in part, as a proof of concept to demonstrate the value of speech recognition in the complex vocabulary of science. While the launch of the video database will include an initial 1,000 hours of content, it will continue to grow as new DOE R&D-related videos are produced.
ScienceCinema was developed by the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) in partnership with Microsoft Research.
The Library will hold open door, hands-on seminars on popular topics. These seminars are open to all students, faculty and staff; no registration required.
Database Searching
Monday, February 21st, 12:00-1:00PM – LTB 2152
or
Tuesday, September 22nd, 5:00-6:00PM -LTB 2153
Learn to select and access the best databases for your subject, search their content and find full-text articles.
RefWorks
Monday, February 21st, 5:00-6:00PM -LTB 2152
or
Tuesday, February 22nd, 12:00-1:00PM -LTB 2153
Learn how to use this citation management system that makes building bibliographies a flash.
The seminars are cancelled if no one is present 10 minutes after the hour.
The USF Libraries are currently running a trial for the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, until May 13, 2011.
Gale’s Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a database that integrates scholarly, academic, and statistical content from a variety of print and online sources to offer users access to information on differing points of view on current social issues with some content retrospective to 1981. Drawing upon content from diverse publications such as Opposing Viewpoints from Greenhaven Press, and several reference works from MacMillan, Gale, and Scriber, users may search: viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, biographies of social activists, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, and newspaper and magazine articles. Other content includes images, curriculum standards, and podcasts.
Users can perform basic, advanced, publication and subject queries. Users may choose from a variety of query options such as: date, ISBN, name, document name and content type. Search results are in HTML full text and other formats such as MP3 where available. Search results can be saved, emailed, printed and even exported to a bibliographic management software such as RefWorks.
Please give this database a try and let us know what you think. Visit http://poly.usf.edu/library and click on Search the databases to begin.
Trial ends May 13, 2011.
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