USF in Lakeland Library

Note: the Poly Library shares its space with the ERDC HelpDesk. The HelpDesk is the unit managing the distribution point for the bookstore textbooks. Inquiries should be made to them directly; we do assist when possible but we do not have access to all the pertinent information.

Textbooks have started to come in. They typically arrive 3 days after you receive an email from the bookstore. The courier usually delivers them around 3PM to 4PM, Monday to Friday. You are welcome to call ahead at 863-667-7005 to know if your textbooks have arrived.

The Poly Library dropbox in the visitor parking lot will be closed from Friday December 19th at 4:00 PM to Monday December 29th in the morning when it will be reopened. With the exception of Saturday the 20th, the Library will be closed during that week as well.

Please take note that fines on overdue books do not accrue on the days the Library is closed – in this case, for the holiday break – but they do remain overdue

Doing Business (http://www.doingbusiness.org/) is a publication by the World Bank. It provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 181 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level. Reports can downloaded for free. The four key areas are Starting a Business, Dealing with Licenses, Registering Property, and Enforcing Contracts.

The Library (and the Open Use Computer Lab) will be open during the following hours in the coming weeks. Please take note that the Library is always closed on Sunday:

• From Monday, December 8 to Friday, December 12: 8:00AM to 8:00PM
• Saturday, December 13: 9:00AM to 3:00PM
• From Monday, December 15 to Friday, December 19: 8:00AM to 5:00PM
• Saturday, December 20: 9:00AM to 3:00PM
• From Monday, December 22 to Saturday, December 27: CLOSED
• From Monday, December 29 to Tuesday, December 30: 8:00AM to 5:00PM
• From Wednesday, December 31 to Thursday, January 1: CLOSED
• Friday, January 2: 8:00AM to 5:00PM
• Saturday, January 3: 9:00AM to 3:00PM

Regular opening hours will resume Monday January 5 at 8:00 AM.

The USF Bookstore will be at USF Poly for the Textbook Buyback on Saturday, December 13th, from 10:00 AM to 3:00PM. The buyback will take place in LTB 1105, facing the USF Cashier’s Office.

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

DVD/VHS

• Slacker uprising [videorecording] / written and directed by Michael Moore ; producer, Monica Hampton ; Dog Eat Dog Films. [Culver City, Calif.] : Brave New Films, c2007.
  JK1764 .S5445 2007

Reference

• RMA annual statement studies. Philadelphia : Robert Morris Associates, 1977-
  Reference HF5681 .B2 R6 2008/09

Books

• Relationship marketing / Robert W. Palmatier. Cambridge, Mass. : Marketing Science Institute, c2008.
  HF5415.55 .P34 2008
• Florida teacher certification examinations : test information guide for drama 6-12 / Florida Department of Education. Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida Dept. of Education, c2008.
  LB1772 .F6 D72 2008
• Florida teacher certification examinations : test information guide for English 6-12 / Florida Department of Education. Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida Dept. of Education, c2008.
  LB1772 .F6 E54 2008
• English to speakers of other languages (ESOL) K-12 / Florida Department of Education. Tallahassee : Florida Dept. of Education, 2008.
  LB1772 .F6 E545 2008
• Florida teacher certification examinations : test information guide for humanities K-12 / Florida Department of Education. Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida Department of Education, c2008.
  LB1772 .F6 F59 2008
• Florida teacher certification examinations : test information guide for reading K-12 / Florida Department of Education. Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida Dept. of Education, c2008.
  LB1772 .F5 F78 2008
• Florida teacher certification examinations : test information guide for journalism 6-12 / Florida Department of Education. Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida Department of Education, c2008.
  LB1772 .F6 F595 2008
• Florida teacher certification examinations : test information guide for marketing 6-12 / Florida Department of Education. Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida Department of Education., 2008.
  LB1772 .F6 F618 2008
• Florida teacher certification examinations : test information guide general knowledge test / Florida Department of Education. Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida Department of Education., c2008.
  LB1772 .F6 G46 2008
• Florida teacher certification examinations test information guide for Mathematics 6-12 / Florida Department of Education. Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida Dept. of Education, c2008.
  LB1772 .F6 M37 2008
• Florida Teacher Certification Examinations : test information guide for music K-12 / Florida Department of Education. Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida Dept. of Education, c2008.
  LB1772 .F6 M83 2008
• Florida teacher certification examinations : test information guide for middle grades English 5-9 / Florida Department of Education. Tallahassee : Florida Dept. of Education, c2008.
  LB1772 .F6 M533 2008
• Florida teacher certification examinations : test information guide for middle grades mathematics 5-9 / Florida Department of Education. Tallahassee : Florida Dept. of Education, c2008.
  LB1772 .F6 M5354 2008
• Florida teacher certification examinations : test information guide for speech 6-12 / Florida Dept. of Education. Tallahassee : Florida Dept. of Education, c2008.
  LB1772 .F6 S6331 2008
• Assessment reconsidered : institutional effectiveness for student success / Richard P. Keeling … [et al.] [United States] : ICSSIA, c2008.
  Professional Development collection
  LB2331 .62 .A87 2008
• Learning communities and student affairs : partnering for powerful learning / Barbara Leigh Smith … [et al.]. Olympia, WA : Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education, Evergreen State College, 2007.
  Professional Development collection
  LB2343.4 .L43 2007
• The little SAS book : a primer / Lora D. Delwiche and Susan J. Slaughter. Cary, N.C. : SAS Institute, c2008.
  QA276.4 .D45 2008

Databases

• Global Road Warrior - business
• Projekt Dyabola - history
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers—Black Newspapers - on trial until 12/23/2008 - history, sociology, political science, african-american studies, fine arts

The USF Polytechnic Library (as well as the HelpDesk and Open Use Lab) will be closed on the following dates:

Thursday, November 27th
Friday, November 28th

We will reopen Saturday, November 29th at 9:00 AM.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers provides full images and texts of the primary source material essential to the study of American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. Researchers can examine major movements from the Harlem Renaissance to Civil Rights, and explore everyday life as written in the Chicago Defender, The Baltimore Afro-American, New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, Los Angeles Sentinel, Atlanta Daily World, The Norfolk Journal and Guide, The Philadelphia Tribune, and Cleveland Call and Post. The Black Newspapers collection is cross-searchable with all other ProQuest Historical Newspapers-including The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times- allowing researchers to evaluate history from multiple points of view. Trial expires 12/23/08.

For these databases and other library resources visit http://www.poly.usf.edu/library. Click on Search the Databases to begin. You will also find these databases listed under “By Subject” under Trial Databases.

You can now search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of Life and Google. ALA Direct reviews this site with this summary, “The collection contains some of the most iconic images of the 20th century, including works from photojournalists Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, Gordon Parks, and W. Eugene Smith.” The images are available through normal Google channels such as a Google Search or a Google Image Search, but are also available through the Life archive directly.

This archive is available on Google free for personal and research purposes, but copyright and ownership of all images remains with Time Inc. The photo archive includes the Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination, images from the popular TV and Hollywood culture, famous personalities, and the entire works left to the collection from life photographers. Check out these amazing images for yourself.

Thank you to Susan Ariew of the Tampa Library for the news item.

The American Chemical Society just implemented a new version of outbound OpenURL linking to the full-text of their journals. Unfortunately, our full-text resolver, SFX, does not seem to be playing nice with it. A solution is being worked on.

In the meantime, if you are running across the problem…the good news is that on the error page that you will receive, there will be a link to “ACS Journals A-Z.” If you click on that link and select the title from the list, the content is there. We’ll try to keep you posted on the resolution of the problem.

UPDATE: a temporary solution has been found and access has been restored.