USF in Lakeland Library

The University of South Florida Tampa Library is performing an analysis of Interlibrary Loan practices, with the intention of becoming more efficient and providing better services to our patrons. One important part of this process is hearing from the people who use this service. We would greatly appreciate if you could take the time to fill out this brief survey and let us know how we are doing. There are only seven questions so it should not take much of your time.

Here is the link to the survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=V_2fxgx6iECN_2bSZY4NlTZ4Kw_3d_3d

If you would rather speak by phone or have additional comments or concerns, please contact Jared Hoppenfield at (813) 974-6266 or jhoppenf@lib.usf.edu.

Note: the ILL services at USF Poly still rely on the ILL office in Tampa. So your answers to the survey would be appropriate.

The Magnum Photos collection is now available in ARTstor.

This first launch of more than 73,000 high-quality photographs of major world events and personalities provides the academic community with access to a selection of Magnum’s iconic images. The ARTstor and Magnum Photos collaboration will showcase a total of 80,000 images by this world-renowned group of documentary photographers.

This collection relates to courses of study across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and beyond. The ARTstor community will now be able to access high-quality photographs from around the world, covering industry, society and people, places of interest, politics, news events, disasters and conflict, from the late 1930s to the present day. From the Spanish Civil War to the Gulf War, from Marilyn Monroe to Paul Newman, from John Updike to Toni Morrison, from Christian Dior to Oscar de la Renta, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the crisis in Chechnya, these images capture wars, celebrities, authors, fashion designers, and defining moments in our shared history.

Magnum Photos International, Inc., is a cooperative founded just after World War II and owned today by its 80 prominent photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Eve Arnold, Elliott Erwitt, Josef Koudelka, Rene Burri, Hiroji Kubota, Susan Meiselas, Martin Parr, Alex Webb and dozens of others. Magnum was created from the belief that photographers must have a point of view in their imagery that transcends any formulaic recording of contemporary events. “Magnum is a community of thought, a shared human quality, a curiosity about what is going on in the world, a respect for what is going on, and a desire to transcribe it visually,” said Henri Cartier-Bresson.

For these databases and other library resources visit http://www.poly.usf.edu/library. Click on “Search the databases” to begin.

The Wiley InterScience database will be down for maintenance again on Monday, February 16th, from 4:00 AM Eastern for a period of approximately 1 hour.

Springer Science+Business Media launched a new website called AuthorMapper.com. This free website is an “analytical online tool for discerning trends, patterns and subject experts within scientific research.”

Currently, AuthorMapper.com searches over three million journal articles to deliver a variety of useful information. The current searchable content is from all Springer journals, and metadata from other STM publishers will be included in the near future. The tool can provide a variety of analyses, such as keyword tag clouds and “Top 5″ bar charts for various important metrics, and includes an interactive world map of the results. AuthorMapper.com’s advanced search function also allows complex queries using keyword, discipline, institution, journal and author. The results can identify new and historic scientific trends through timeline graphs and bar charts of top statistics, allowing for identification of trends in the literature, discovery of wider scientific relationships, and locating other experts in a field of study.

The USF Polytechnic Library is very proud to be included in the 2008 USF Polytechnic Diversity Honor Roll. The USFP Diversity Office so recognized our efforts to publish library resources lists for commemorative events such as Black History Month (see the most current list at http://catherin.blog.usf.edu/2009-black-history-month-library-resources/), Hispanic Heritage Month and Pride Week.

Due to construction work in the parking lots, the library dropbox is temporarily unavailable. We will keep you posted on when (and possibly where) the box will be accessible.

Of course, returns at the Library’s front desk are always possible.

The USF Libraries have acquired three new databases in music from Alexander Street Press: African American Song, Contemporary World Music and American Song. While currently in the building phase of these collections, Alexander Street Press expects that American Song will be at 50% and Contemporary World Music at 90% completion by the end of 2009.

African American Song

Covering jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression, African American Music will contain over 50,000 tracks of music to document the history of African American music in sound. The collection contains recordings by the top names in the history of black American music. At least 5,000 of the tracks are rare or never-before-published, and the other 45,000 are in-copyright and included through arrangement with distinguished labels. The entire available catalog of Document Records, the world’s largest collection of rare and vintage blues, jazz, gospel, spiritual, boogie-woogie, and country recordings, is included. There are more than 2,300 performers spanning more than a hundred years—Duke Ellington, Sophie Tucker, Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Sarah Vaughn, Dizzy Gillespie, Chicago River Kings, Muddy Waters, Skip James, Blind, and hundreds of others. Through an agreement with the Library of Congress the collection includes field recordings of spirituals, farming and labor songs, war songs, drinking songs, children’s songs, and more. You’ll also find field recordings from Haiti, the Caribbean, and the American South, as recorded by Alan Lomax, Zora Neale Hurston, and Mary Elizabeth Barnacle, whose travels documented traditional culture and musical expression, including traditional folk songs, spirituals, ceremonial songs, and political songs.

Contemporary World Music

Contemporary World Music will contain 50,000 tracks that delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database will contain important genres such as reggae, world beat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music – Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. This database is a complementary database to Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries. It includes a blend of contemporary and traditional world music recordings from many labels throughout the world. The focus is concentrated on contemporary genres, such as fusion and world beat. Users can trace the history of a people’s music by comparing the traditional styles with the modern interpretations offered in this database. Many of the titles are encyclopedic in their breadth of coverage. The Voice of the People from the Topic label, a 20-volume series of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh traditional music, is here in its entirety, as will be the Passage to India Series from Navras. Liner notes to all the albums are included (in PDF format) as well as static URLs to each track and album in the database.

American Song

American Song is a database that will contain 50,000 tracks of music from America’s past. The database will include songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more.

American Song will focus on American roots music and pre-1960 American popular music but it also encompasses the great American musical genres including country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, and shape note singing – combined with powerful recordings by artists such as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Lead Belly, Sleepy LaBeef, the New Lost City Ramblers, Otis Clay, Shawn Colvin, The Lilly Brothers, Merle Travis, and many others. Liner notes to all the albums are included (in PDF format) as well as static URLs to each track and album in the database. Future additions include music from King/Starday Records with content added on a regular basis.

For these databases and other library resources visit http://www.poly.usf.edu/library. Click on Databases by “Search the databases” to begin.

Due to critical site maintenance, access to the full text Wiley InterScience may be significantly interrupted tomorrow, Saturday February 7th. The work involves major software updates and will start at 9:00 eastern time. The service interruption may last for up to 12 hours.

For the last two days, the H. W. Wilson databases have been experiencing intermittent trouble. Wilson is working on the issue. Databases include Wilson omnifile full text mega edition, Education full-text, Business full-text, Humanities full-text, Biography index, among others.

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

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

To note, we received a copy of own Dr Alfredo Weitzenfeld’s book, The neural simulation language : a system for brain modeling , for our USFP Faculty Publications Special Collection.

VHS/DVD

• Tim Wise: on white privilege [videorecording]: racism, white denial & the costs of inequality / Tim Wise ; produced by Sut Jhally. Northhampton, Mass. : Media Education Foundation, c2008
  E185.615 .T55 2008
• The price of pleasure [videorecording] : pornography, sexuality, & relationships / [presented by] Open Lens Media ; produced and directed by Miguel Picker & Chyng Sun. Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, c2008.
  HQ472.U6 P75 2008
• War made easy [videorecording] : how presidents & pundits keep spinning us to death / a presentation of the Institute for Public Accuracy ; a Media Education Foundation production ; written and directed by Loretta Alper & Jeremy Earp ; produced by Loretta Alper. Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, c2007.
  PN4784.W37 W37 2007

Faculty Publications

• The neural simulation language : a system for brain modeling / Alfredo Weitzenfeld, Michael Arbib, Amanda Alexander. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2002.
  Faculty Publications QP363.3 .W45 2002

Reference

• Encyclopedia of associations. Detroit : Gale Research Co., 1961-
  Reference HS17 .G334 47th v.1 pts.1-3, v.2
• The International year book and statesmen’s who’s who. London : Burke’s Peerage Ltd., [1953-
  Reference JA51 .I57 2009
• Florida. LexisNexis Florida annotated statutes. Charlottesville, Va. : LexisNexis, c2002-
  Reference KFF29 .F55 v.27 2008
• Florida education directory ... by FASA. Tallahassee, Fla. : CMD Publishing, [1999]-
  Reference L903.F5 A3 2008/09

Books

• Ethical conflicts in psychology / Donald N. Bersoff. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2008.
  BF76.4 .E814 2008
• Building a GIS : system architecture design strategies for managers / Dave Peters. Redlands, Calif. : ESRI Press, 2008.
  G70.212 .P48 2008
• Charlie Gehringer : a biography of the hall of fame Tigers second baseman / John C. Skipper. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2008.
  GV865.G44 S45 2008
• Busting ‘em, and other big league stories / by Ty Cobb ; with an introduction by John N. Wheeler. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2003.
  GV873 .C6 2003
• The new Blackwell companion to social theory / edited by Bryan S. Turner. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom ; Malden, MA, USA : Wiley-Blackwell, c2009
  H61 .B4773 2009
• Prescriptive entrepreneurship / James O. Fiet with Pankaj C. Patel. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2008.
  HB615 .F534 2008
• The venturesome economy : how innovation sustains prosperity in a more connected world / Amar Bhidé. Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, c2008.
  HC110.T4 B45 2008
• Management / Peter F. Drucker, with Joseph A. Maciariello. New York, NY : Collins, c2008.
  HD31 .D773 2008
• How to negotiate anything with anyone anywhere around the world / Frank L. Acuff. New York : AMACOM/ American Management Association, c2008.
  HD58.6 .A27 2008
• Building conflict competent teams / Craig E. Runde, Tim A. Flanagan. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass ; [Greensboro, NC] : Center for Creative Leadership, c2008.
  Professional Development HD66 .R86 2008
• Moral gray zones : side productions, identity, and regulation in an aeronautic plant / Michel Anteby. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
  HD6971 .A657 2008
• The skeptical business searcher : the information advisor’s guide to evaluating Web data, sites, and sources / by Robert Berkman ; foreword by Reva Basch. Medford, N.J. : Information Today, Inc., c2004.
  HF54.56 .B4685 2004
• Temptations in the office : ethical choices and legal obligations / Stephen M. Goldman. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
  HF5387 .G645 2008
• Marketing ethics / George G. Brenkert. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
  HF5415 .B637 2008
• Fusion for profit : how marketing and finance can work together to create value / by Sharan Jagpal ; with the assistance of Shireen Jagpal. New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
  HF5415 .J333 2008
• Excel sales forecasting for dummies / by Conrad Carlberg. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Pub., c2005.
  HF5415.2 .C297 2005
• Review of marketing research. Armonk, N.Y. ; London : M.E. Sharpe, c2005-
  HF5415.2 .R467 v.5
• Excel 2007 bible / John Walkenbach. Indianapolis, IN : Wiley, c2007.
  HF5548.4.M523 W34579 2007
• Queer inclusions, continental divisions : public recognition of sexual diversity in Canada and the United States / David Rayside. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2008.
  HQ76.8.C3 R39 2008
• McMafia : a journey through the global criminal underworld / Misha Glenny. New York : Knopf Books, 2008.
  HV6441 .G54 2008
• Cyber bullying : bullying in the digital age / Robin M. Kowalski, Susan P. Limber, and Patricia W. Agatston. Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2008.
  HV6773 .K69 2008
• A companion to contemporary political philosophy / edited by Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit and Thomas Pogge. Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
  JA71 .C565 2007 v.1 & v.2
• Defiant dads : fathers’ rights activists in America / Jocelyn Elise Crowley. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
  KF547 .C76 2008
• Corporate tax digest / John Catherall, Daniel E. Feld. Boston : Warren, Gorham & Lamont, c1997.
  KF6460.3 .C38 1997 suppl.2009 no.1
• Finding the right texts : what works for beginning and struggling readers / edited by Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Misty Sailors. New York : Guilford Press, c2009.
  LB1050.5 .F544 2009
• Inquire within : implementing inquiry-based science standards in grades 3-8 / Douglas Llewellyn. Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin Press, c2007.
  LB1585.3 .L58 2007
• Developing learner-centered teaching : a practical guide for faculty / Phyllis Blumberg ; foreword by Maryellen Weimer. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2009.
  LB2331 .B55 2009
• Academic advising : a comprehensive handbook / Virginia N. Gordon, Wesley R. Habley, Thomas J. Grites, and associates. San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2008.
  Professional Development LB2343 .A29 2008
• Bringing out the best in teachers : what effective principals do / Joseph Blase, Peggy C. Kirby. Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin Press, c2009.
  LB2840 .B57 2009
• Differentiated literacy coaching : scaffolding for student and teacher success / Mary Catherine Moran. Alexandria, Va. : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, c2007.
  LB2844.1.R4 M67 2007
• Constructivist strategies for teaching English language learners / Sharon Adelman Reyes, Trina Lynn Vallone. Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin Press, c2008.
  PE1128.A2 R4725 2008
• Getting it published : a guide for scholars and anyone else serious about serious books / William Germano. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
  Professional Development PN161 .G46 2008
• Television entertainment / Jonathan Gray. New York : Routledge, 2008.
  PN1992.6 .G69 2008
• Access 2007 bible / Michael R. Groh … [et al.] Indianapolis, Ind. : Wiley Publishing, 2007.
  QA76.9.D3 G76 2007
• The handbook of information and computer ethics / edited by Kenneth Einar Himma and Herman T. Tavani. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2008.
  QA76.9.M65 H36 2008
• Learning SAS by example : a programmer’s guide / Ron Cody. Cary, N.C. : SAS Institute, 2007.
  QA276.4 .C54 2007
• Advanced Excel for scientific data analysis / Robert de Levie. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
  QD75.4.E4 D43 2008
• The engineering handbook of smart technology for aging, disability, and independence / edited by Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal, Mounir Mokhtari, Bessam Abdulrazak. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2008.
  RM950 .E56 2008
• Information systems engineering : from data analysis to process networks / Paul Johannesson, Eva Soderstrom [editors]. Hershey : IGI Pub., c2008.
  T58.5 .I5285 2008
• Information technology entrepreneurship and innovation / Fang Zhao [editor]. Hershey : Information Science Reference, c2008.
  T58.5 .I5377 2008
• Designing the digital experience : how to use experience design tools and techniques to build Websites customers love / David Lee King. Medford, N.J. : CyberAge Books/Information Today, c2008.
  TK5105.888 .K5546 2008
• Building findable websites : web standards, SEO, and beyond / [Aarron Walter]. Berkeley, CA : New Riders, c2008.
  TK5105.888 .W358 2008

Children’s Books

• An anthology of American folktales and legends / Frank de Caro, editor. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2009.
  GR105 .A67 2009
• Keisha’s doors / written by Marvie Ellis ; illustrated by Jenny Loehr = Las puertas de Keisha / escrita por Marvie Ellis ; illustrada por Jenny Loehr. Round Rock, Tex. : Speech Kids Texas Press, 2005.
  PZ73 .E4248 2005
• Tacos anyone? : an autism story / written by Marvie Ellis ; illustrated by Jenny Loehr = Alguien quiere tacos? : una historia de autismo / escrita por Marvie Ellis ; illustrada por Jenny Loehr. Round Rock, Tex. : Speech Kids Texas Press, 2005.
  PZ73 .E425 2005

Databases

• International Monetary Fund databases