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Please note the change in rooms: all the seminars will now take place in LTB 1153. No registration required. Sep 30 2008 | 12 PM – 1:00 PM Sep 30 2008 | 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Oct 1 2008 | 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Oct 1 2008 | 12 PM – 1:00 PM Please note that if there are no attendees 10 minutes after the start of the seminar, the seminar is cancelled. There are still a few spots available for readers in our Banned Books Week Read Aloud event on Thursday, October 2. Contact Catherine Lavallée-Welch (clw@poly.usf.edu) to reserve yours. The USF Libraries are now one of sixteen institutions in the world to provide access to the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive. In 1994, Steven Spielberg established Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation to videotape and preserve testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses. Today, the Shoah Foundation Institute, now part of the University of Southern California, is engaged in the urgent mission to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry through the educational use of the Institute’s visual history testimonies embodied in the Visual History Archive. The Institute’s Archive contains nearly 52,000 video testimonies collected in 32 languages and 56 countries. One-hundred-twenty thousand hours of video occupy 200 terabytes of storage on servers at USC. The Institute interviewed Jewish survivors, homosexual survivors, Jehovah’s Witness survivors, liberators and liberation witnesses, political prisoners, rescuers and aid providers, Roma and Sinti survivors (Gypsy), survivors of Eugenics policies, and war crimes trials participants. Segments are organized according to topics: pre-war, camps, hiding, ghettos, liberation, and post-war. Biographical information about each interviewee is included with each testimony clip. Users may identify both whole testimonies of relevance, as well as specific segments within testimonies that relate to their area of interest. Each user is required to create a username and a password in order to log on. ff-campus access to the testimonies is possible through VPN. Testaments of the Holocaust is a companion resource to the Visual History Archive. The Wiener Library is the oldest institution in the world established for the task of documenting the Nazi regime and its crimes against the Jewish people. Testaments of the Holocaust makes accessible online for the first time primary source material within this library. Content includes eyewitness accounts gathered after the pogrom of 1938 and accounts assembled after 1955; photographic material; propaganda materials; school text books; limited circulation publications and rare serials. It provides the basis for studying Nazi Germany and its crimes from many perspectives, offering the raw materials that allow researchers to study the history of this period. It builds this history through people’s testimonies, family narratives and the documents of the activities of the Nazi regime. Appropriate secondary literature complements this collection. Includes thematic essays by scholars in the field. Testaments of the Holocaust, from Cengage Learning (Gale), supports both an English and German interface with 75% of the materials in German and 20% in English. To access these resources and more, visit http://www.poly.usf.edu/Library and click on “Search the databases”. Requested by the USF Department of English, the USF Libraries announce the recent acquisition of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of literary theory and discourse. Compiled by specialists from around the world, the Guide presents a comprehensive historical survey of the field’s most important figures, critics and theorists; critical schools and movements; and the innovations of specific countries and historical periods. Its chronological range extends from Plato and Aristotle to the present, with wide geographical and cultural coverage. The online version represents the second edition of this work with revised entries. The Guide supports browsing and searching by topics and names with each entry followed by a bibliography listing primary and secondary sources. As criticism no longer confines itself to the study of literature, this resource may prove useful to students in anthropology, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, and political science. To access, visit http://www.poly.usf.edu/Library and click on “Search the databases”. The USF Polytechnic Library invites you to celebrate the freedom to read by participating in a READ ALOUD event during Banned Books Week, from September 27 to October 4, 2008. What: Read from a challenged or banned book for a 15 minutes period. There is no microphone, no sitting audience – you read from a passage of your choice from a book of your choice in a normal voice to passers-by. Anyone can read: students, staff or faculty members. When: Thursday October 2nd from 11:30 AM to 1 PM and from 4:30 PM to 6 PM Where: On the LTB terrace, outside the USFP Library/Open Use Lab Why: Banned Books Week 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 viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met. How: Sign up with the librarian, Catherine Lavallée-Welch (clw@poly.usf.edu), with your preferred time and title (if possible, readers should bring their own books since the Library has a limited selection. Please see the list of the 100 most challenged or banned books from 2000 to 2007 and the 2007-2008 list of challenged or banned books for title ideas.) We’ll do our best to accommodate your preferred time. Don’t want to read out loud? Come to the Library to check out the displays and pick up a handout. Find more information about Banned Books Week and the freedom to read on the American Library Association website. UPDATE: I corrected the URL for the Banned Books Week webpages. The Library and Open Use Computer Lab have new, extended, weekdays hours:
Other days remain the same
To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, the USFP Library prepare a list of resources relevant to the theme. It can be found at the Library or at this address: http://catherin.blog.usf.edu/2008-hispanic-heritage-month-library-resources/ Here are the books newly arrived at the USF Polytechnic Library during the month of August. As always, new circulating books and Children’s Books are found in the “New books” stacks in the Group Study area; the new reference books are being immediately shelved in the Reference stacks. To note, the volume “Turning two : baseball’s classic keystone combinations” was written by The Ledger sport editor John Valerino. We also received donations, including some by a graduating student. Reference
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This Fall, we will hold four open, drop-in seminars on library resources: Database Searching Tuesday, September 30, 12:00-1:00PM RefWorks Tuesday, September 30, 5:00-6:00PM All sessions will take place in LTB 2152. These seminars all open to all; no registration required. Announcing the recent acquisition of a significant collection of online ebooks in the field of psychology—PsycBOOKS. PsycBOOKS from the American Psychological Association (APA) is a full text database of more than 1,566 scholarly books and 24,161 chapters published by APA and other distinguished publishers. Within this resource there are over 800 classic resources of historical impact in psychology dating from 1806, more than 740 books published by the APA and 100 out-of-print books from 1950–2002. PsycBOOKS holds the exclusive online release of the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology with more than 1,500 authored entries. Digitization of the content from the Archives of the History of American Psychology (AHAP) collection will add upwards of 2,500 works of historical significance. PsycBOOKS is indexed with controlled vocabulary from the APA Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms resulting in precise searching and results. PsycBOOKS does exclude the content found in the APA Publication Manual, the APA directories, and books for popular audiences. Although updates are monthly, there is an eighteen month embargo on newly published titles. USF’s subscription to PsycBOOKS is through the EBSCOHost platform. To access, visit http://www.poly.usf.edu/Library and click on “Search the databases”. |
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