USF in Lakeland Library

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 to:

• Promote international and intercultural understanding;
• Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet;
• Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences;
• Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries.

Content providers are mainly libraries, archives, or other institutions that have collections of cultural content. The project is supported by UNESC and the US Library of Congress.

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 account and follow us to get the content automatically and interact)
• pictures can be seen in Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/usfplib
• the Facebook Page is still going strong (become a Fan, but note that you will need to join Facebook if you aren’t already an account holder): http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Lakeland-FL/University-of-South-Florida-Polytechnic-Library/29881590873
• there is now a YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/usfplib

. Those vidcasts are also available on the website at http://poly.usf.edu/Offices/Library/Research_Help/Tutorials.xml

• finally, there is a FriendFeed Room: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/usfplib. FriendFeed is a social media tool where you can regroup information from various sources.

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 notifying you of upcoming due dates, as well as overdue notices when items are returned late. Please let us know if you see automated notices from the Library that do not make sense to you.

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 remain aware that those are available to you because people are working hard every day to make them so. Visit your campus or public library and share some love for your favorite library workers!

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.

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 will be checked in the library system the following day (or the next day the library is open in case of week-ends and holidays). Please take this into consideration if you are returning items near their due date.

You can use the dropbox to return books from any USF library (and only USF library books ). Please return ILLs, reserves, and A/V materials at the front desk.

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.

All Wilson databases are down at the moment. Wilson is aware of the problem and working on the problem. This is a US-wide problem.

Wilson publishes databases like Wilson omnifile full text mega edition, Social Sciences full text, Business full text, Education full text and Biography Index.

UPDATE: the Wilson databases are now back up.

New titles have been added to the Gale Virtual Reference Library. Titles have been purchased by Tampa; others acquired by USF Sarasota/Manatee on behalf of all of the USF Libraries.

The following represent the new acquisitions for Business:

International Encyclopedia of Hospitality Management, 2005

The International Encyclopedia of Hospitality Management is a comprehensive work covering all relevant issues in the field of hospitality with coverage of lodging, restaurants, clubs, time-share and conventions. Functional issues covered include accounting and finance, marketing, human resources information technology and facilities management.

The following purchased title can be found in the online catalog as an ebook with unlimited access. It is not included in MetaLib as it would be considered “a circulating title”, rather than an online reference book.

Cases on Information Technology Entrepreneurship, 2008

For the former resource and other library resources visit http://poly.usf.edu/library.xml. Click on “Search the Databases” (MetaLib) to begin. For the titles not included in MetaLib listed at the bottom of the list, search by author or titles in the online catalog at: http://usf.catalog.fcla.edu/sf.jsp.

New titles have been added to the Gale Virtual Reference Library. Titles have been purchased by Tampa; others acquired by USF Sarasota/Manatee on behalf of all of the USF Libraries. Here are the new titles in the area of Law.

National Survey of State Laws, 6th ed., 2008

This reference work helps to make state-by-state comparisons of current state laws – how they differ and how they’re similar – for a range of topics from abortion to drug possession to gun control to capital punishment. The book is organized into eight broad sections covering 42 topics of business, consumer, criminal, education, employment, family, real estate, tax, and general civil law. Within each section, charts compare each area of state law. The subject areas are preceded by a brief overview of the legal principles covered. When pertinent, a historical perspective or an explanation of a current controversy is added. Entries are then referenced to a specific code or statute enabling the reader to access the detailed text of the law elsewhere.

Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives , 3v, 2007

The three-volume one-million word Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives is one of the most comprehensive and international treatment of the law and society field ever undertaken. The Advisory Board of 62 members, from 20 countries and six continents, represents interdisciplinary perspectives on law from sociology, criminology, cultural anthropology, political science, social psychology, and economics. More than 700 entries are biographical, historical, comparative, topical, thematic, and methodological, varying from 500 to 5,000 words. The diversity of European, Latin American, Asian, African, and Australasian developments are for the first time presented in one place.

Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law, 2v, 2003

This text is a practical guide dealing with the law and its everyday effect upon its citizens. Containing approximately 200 articles, the encyclopedia includes brief descriptions of each issue’s historical background, covering important statutes and cases; profiles of various U.S. laws and regulations; details of how laws and regulations vary from state to state, and; comprehensive bibliographies, including print and Web resources and lists of relevant organizations.

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