USF in Lakeland Library

You will find voter registration forms on the Library’s front desk (and pens!). At this point in time, it is too late to register to vote in Lakeland’s or Auburndale’s elections on November 6th but you can certainly prepare for the federal elections in ’08.

OvidSP, an upcoming release of a new precision search and discovery platform, will be live and accessible on Thursday, October 25, 2007. USF offers different databases through OVID like MEDLINE and PsychINFO.

Additions and enhancements include:

• Support of free text, natural language searching
• Simultaneous searching across all databases, journals, and books
• Results ranked by relevancy.
• Multiple search modes: Basic, Find Citation, Subject Search, Search Fields, or SilverPlatter “Classic,” which employs traditional SilverPlatter syntax
• Improved research workflow tools, search transparency and other features to narrow or broaden your search
• Improved Alerting tools such as RSS feeds and electronic Table of Contents

To try the new interface, go to MEDLINE or PsychINFO using MetaLib. Once you have accessed the search interface, look for the “Try OVIDSP” link at the top of the screen in the middle.

The APA just released new rules about the citation of electronic documents with Digital Object Identifier (DOI) numbers. You can find details on the APA website at http://www.apastyle.org/elecmedia.html as well as on the University of Maryland University College Library’s website at http://www.umuc.edu/library/guides/apa.shtml#DOI.

But, students, before you apply these new rules, check with your instructor first.

OCLC Online Computer Library Center has completed the integration of twelve databases (formerly part of the RLG Eureka service) into the OCLC FirstSearch service, available through MetaLib. The RLG Eureka databases now in FirstSearch include:

• Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute
• Anthropological Literature
• Anthropology Plus
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
• Bibliography of the History of Art
• Chicano Database
• FRANCIS (international humanities and social sciences)
• Hand Press Book Database
• History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
• Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals
• Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies (social sciences)
• SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs

The African Studies Companion is an annotated guide to print and electronic information sources in the field of African Studies. As in many other disciplines, there is now growing information overload on Africa and African studies. This makes the need for critical evaluation all the more important. Annotations in the African Studies Companion are evaluative rather than purely descriptive. This fully searchable electronic edition is regularly updated to provide maximum currency. The majority of listings identify primarily general, multidisciplinary sources of information, primarily those in English and relating to sub-Saharan Africa. One can search or browse all sections of the African Studies Companion individually. Sections include reference works, indexing and abstracting services, biographical sources, cartographic and GIS sources, the African press, journals and magazines, libraries and archives, a guide to using Google for African studies research and more.

For this database and other library resources visit http://www.lakeland.usf.edu/library/. Click on “Search the Databases” to begin.

***The change in PIN number has been moved a week in the future, at least. We will keep you updated***

When logging into the USF Libraries website using your Library ID, the required log in information is changing. Effective Wednesday, October 10, 2007, library patrons will no longer be required to enter the last four digits of their social security number in addition to their Library ID. Rather, the month and date of birth will be required (MMDD – 2 digit month and 2 digit date. For example, July 9th would need to be entered 0709.)

This change in log in will also effect the renewal of books through the library catalog.

Tomorrow, Friday the 5th, is your last chance to see The Hollywood Librarian: a Look at Librarians Through Film at the USF Lakeland Library. This one-of-a-kind documentary will not be shown in theaters!

When: 1:15PM
Where: USFL Technology Building Audiorium (LTB 1100)
How: Tickets are available at the USFL Cashier’s Office

See http://lakeland.usf.edu/library/hollywoodlibrarian.html for all details and watch the trailer.

This film is for all interested in cultural studies, women studies, literacy issues, public funding issues, censorship, intellectual freedom and libraries.

Here are our new resources for the month of September. As always, new books from the circulating collection are located in the “New Books” shelf in the Group Study room. Reference books and journals are put immediately in their respective shelving. Journals are shelved in alphabetical order.

This week is Banned Books Week which highlights intellectual freedom and censorship; enjoy your freedom to read!

Journals

• Journal of Relationship Marketing (in print and online)
• Teaching Children Mathematics (in print)

Reference

• Using the engineering literature / edited by Bonnie A. Osif. London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
  Reference T10.7 .U85 2006

Books

• Logic / Laurence Goldstein … [et al.]. London ; New York : Continuum, c2005.
  BC101 .L64 2005
• Living with grief : before and after the death / edited by Kenneth J. Doka ; foreword by J. William Worden. Washington, D.C. : Hospice Foundation of America, 2007.
  BF 575.G7 L785 2007
• The counseling dictionary : concise definitions of frequently used terms / Samuel T. Gladding. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Merrill Prentice Hall, c2006.
  BF637.C6 G5332 2006
• Too clever for our own good : hidden facets of human evolution / Kaoru Yamamoto. Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2007.
  BF698.95 .Y36 2007
• Religion / Brendan Sweetman. London ; New York : Continuum, c2007.
  BL51 .S94 2007
• What if your ABCs were your 123s? : building connections between literacy and numeracy / Leslie Minton. Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin Press, c2007.
  QA135.6 .M56 2007
• A game of inches : the stories behind the innovations that shaped baseball : the game on the field / Peter Morris. Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, c2006.
  GV863.A1 M65 2006
• Cobb : a biography / by Al Stump ; with a foreword by Jimmie Reese. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994.
  GV865.C6 S78 1994
• Hank Greenberg, the story of my life / by Hank Greenberg edited and with an introduction by Ira Berkow. Chicago : Triumph Books, c2001.
  GV865.G68 A3 2001
• Spring training / William Zinsser. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003.
  GV875.6 .Z56 2003
• Mixed method data collection strategies / William G. Axinn, Lisa D. Pearce. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2006.
  HB850 .A95 2006
• Firms of endearment : how world-class companies profit from passion and purpose / Rajendra S. Sisodia, David B. Wolfe, Jagdish N. Sheth. Upper Saddle River : Wharton School Publishing, c2007.
  HD30.28 .S478 2007
• Strategic planning and management in public organizations : behavior in organizations / Meshack M. Sagini. Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2007.
  HD58.7 .S235 2007
• Leaders in transition : the tensions at work as new leaders take charge / Gilles Amado and Richard Elsner. London : Karnac, 2007.
  HD58.8 .A43 2007
• Total responsibility management : the manual / Sandra Waddock and Charles Bodwell ; cases by Jennifer Leigh. Sheffield : Greenleaf, 2007.
  HD60 .W34 2007
• Financial risk manager handbook / GARP. New York : Wiley,
  HD61 .F56 2007
• The brand glossary / edited by Jeff Swystun. Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Interbrand/Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
  HD69.B7 B723 2007
• Conspiracy of fools : a true story / Kurt Eichenwald. New York : Broadway Books, 2005.
  HD9502.U54 E5736 2005
• Corporate truth : the limits to transparency / Adrian Henriques. London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2007.
  HF5387 .H465 2007
• Professional impressions : etiquette for everyone, every day / Marjorie Brody. [Jenkintown, PA] : Career Skills Press, c2005.
  HF5389 .B765 2005
• Cashing in with content : how innovative marketers use digital information to turn browsers into buyers / David Meerman Scott. Medford, N.J. : Information Today, c2005.
  HF5548.32 .S295 2005
• Branded entertainment : product placement & brand strategy in the entertainment business / Jean-Marc Lehu. London ; Philadelphia : Kogan Page, 2007.
  HF6146.P78 L43 2007
• Measuring and managing credit risk / Arnaud de Servigny, Olivier Renault. New York : McGraw-Hill, c2004.
  HG3751 .S47 2004
• Colonial mentality in Africa / Nkuzi Nnam. Lanham, Md. : Hamilton Books, c2007.
  HN777 .N53 2007
• New approaches to interpreter education / Cynthia B. Roy, editor. Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2006.
  HV2402 .N49 2006
• When killing is a crime / Tony Waters. Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007.
  HV6515 .W33 2007
• Communism / Mark Sandle. Harlow, England ; New York : Pearson Longman, 2006.
  HX39 .S234 2006
• Governing the Americas : assessing multilateral institutions / edited by Gordon Mace, Jean-Philippe Thérien, Paul Haslam. Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007.
  JZ5331 .G68 2007
• Essentials of Sarbanes-Oxley / Sanjay Anand. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2007.
  KF1446.A315 A83 2007
• Sourcebook : practical strategies, materials, and resources for teaching all levels of literacy skills / Nancy E. Walentas. Phoenix, Ariz. : Reading Manipulatives, c2005.
  LB1050.53.W3 L3 2005
• Assessment in emergent literacy / edited by Khara L. Pence. San Diego : Plural Pub., Inc., c2007.
  LB1139.5.R43 A87 2007
• Play and literacy in early childhood : research from multiple perspectives / edited by Kathleen A. Roskos and James F. Christie. New York : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, c2007.
  LB1140.35.P55 P557 2007
• The Praeger handbook of special education / edited by Alberto M. Bursztyn. Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2007.
  LC3957 .P73 2007
• Rails recipes / Chad Fowler. Raleigh, N.C. : Pragmatic Bookshelf, c2006.
  QA76.64 .F69 2006
• Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology / edited by Elliott Sober. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.
  QH366.2 .C64 2006
• A guide to MATLAB : for beginners and experienced users / Brian R. Hunt, Ronald L. Lipsman, Jonathan M. Rosenberg ; with Kevin R. Coombes, John E. Osborn, and Garrett J. Stuck. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  TA345 .H86 2006
• Environmental technologies handbook / edited by Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff. Lanham, Md. : Government Institutes, 2005.
  TD897.5 .E584 2005

Some minor changes have been made to MetaLib: font issues with the “I” button and the Quick Search databases have been fixed. The “Locate” tab has been renamed as well; it now reads “Vendor”.

For the first time, from September 29th to October 6th, the USF Lakeland Library will be celebrating Banned Books Week with other libraries across the country. From the American Libraries Association’s website:

Observed since 1982, this annual ALA event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. (…) BBW 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 unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met.

The USFL Library will have handouts, posters and documentation on banned books set out during the week. And, of course, the Library will host two showings of The Hollywood Librarian, on October 2nd and October 5th. This is a great documentary film and everyone can attend. Meanwhile, enjoy your freedom to read!