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We have now access to Compendex through a new interface, Engineering Village 2. Compendex is the online version of the Engineering Index, the most important index covering scientific literature in all fields of engineering.
Engineering Village 2 offers three modes of searching, a thesaurus, limits by document and treatment types, results refining, email *and* RSS alerts, direct export of citations to Refworks and even a cool little application that permits easy blogging of search results. Coverage is from 1884 to current; updated weekly. This database doesn’t contain full-text but a link to the full-text is provide when available.
Look for Compendex in MetaLib!
The PCC/USF library will have normal opening hours during USF Lakeland Spring Break from March 13th to the 18th. The Open Use Lab will have the usual opening hours as well.
During Polk Community College’s Spring Break, from March 25th through April 1st, the library will have the following opening hours:
- Saturday March 25th and April 1st – CLOSED
- Monday-Thursday March 27th – 30th – 12:30 PM to 9:00 PM
- Friday March 31st – 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
The Open Use Lab will follow these reduced hours in the library. During closing time though, the following instructional labs will be open to act as the Open Use Lab.
- Saturday March 25th and April 1st – Open Use Lab moved to room 1170B (if its available) from 9am to 1pm
- Monday-Thursday March 27th-31st – 12:30 PM to 9:00 PM – Open Use Lab moved to room 1170A from 8am -12:30
- Friday March 30th – 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM – Open Use Lab moved to room 1170A 8-5
From an email sent by Cambrigde Scientific Abstracts, one of our database vendors.
CSA has announced the inaugural CSA Sociological Abstracts Discovery Prize, intended to promote teaching and learning in sociology. The prize is open to both faculty and students with a top award of $3,000 and honorable mention awards of $500. The submission deadline is 15 April 2006.
Submissions should describe a sociological research project that involved use of CSA Sociological Abstracts and define how the project contributed to teaching and learning in sociology. Submissions will be evaluated by CSA in accordance with the following:
1. Innovation (creativity in use of CSA Sociological Abstracts )
2. Transferability (to other sociology courses or curricula)
3. Effectiveness (in advancing teaching, learning and information literacy)
4. Scholarship (meets accepted standards of research)
Additional information about the CSA Sociological Abstracts Discovery Prize and an application form are available at http://info.csa.com/sociologicaldiscovery .
Winning submissions will be posted to this Web site when awards are announced.
CSA Sociological Abstracts is the preeminent resource for accessing the research literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database contains more than 695,000 references with backfiles to 1952. More than 1,800 journals and other serials publications are abstracted for this database, as well +as conference papers, books, book chapters, and dissertations. The database is delivered through the award-winning CSA Illumina platform and was recently enhanced with cited references and scholar profiles.
Tomorrow, Wednesday March 8th, I will be on the Tampa campus to present with Dr Naomi Boyer at the Symposium on 21 st Century Teaching Technologies: A Continuing Series of Exploration. The poster session is intitled Live Library Instruction for Distance Learners.
I will be back on Thursday.
Chemical Abstracts Services have announced the discontinuance of the version of SciFinder Scholar 2004 version on March 31, 2006. The new version, SciFinder Scholar 2006, has to be downloaded from the CAS website in order for you to access the database. For more information, see http://www.lib.usf.edu/ref/databases/scifinder.html.
The Nature Publishing Group database has been experiencing technical problems with their server. It’s possible that some downtime will occur in the near future.
RLG, a not-for-profit membership organization of over 150 universities, national libraries, archives, historical societies, and other institutions with remarkable collections for research and learning, has launched ArchiveGrid. ArchiveGrid is a search engine of archives and special collections in thousands of libraries, museums and institutes. The service is available to both individuals and institutions free of charge through May 31st. Try it out and let me know if you think USF should get a subscription.
You need an item that the PCC/USF Library does not own in its collection? No problem, it is possible to get it, that’s is known as an inter-library loan or ILL. But, be careful, the procedures are different for books and journal articles.
Books
Visit the PCC/USF Library and ask for an inter-library loan form at the front desk or print one from the PCC Library website (second link in the left column). This works for books and dissertations housed in another USF library or not owned at all by USF.
Journal articles
Use ILLiad, an automated ILL management system, to request and receive electronically the journal articles you need. You can request with ILLiad articles from journals housed in the St. Petersburg, Sarasota/New College, FMHI and Health Sciences Libraries (but not the main Tampa Library) or from journals not owned by any of the USF Libraries.
Important: when creating your Illiad account, Lakeland students, faculty and staff must select “Lakeland” in the “Your Status” field. Lakeland distance learners should choose “Distance Learner”.
Unfortunately, it’s not possible to obtain audio-visual items (videos, DVDs, etc) through ILL.
Here is a selection of new books and videos now available to check out:
- Personal space : exploring human proxemics
BF469 .P46 1999 – DVD ask for it at the front desk
- Gender & communication [videorecording] : male-female differences in language & nonverbal behavior
HM258 .G46 2001 – DVD ask for it at the front desk
- Tough guise: violence, media, and the crisis in masculinity
BF692.5 .T68 2002 – DVD ask for it at the front desk
- Killing us softly 3: advertising’s image of women
HF5822 .K54 2002 – DVD ask for it at the front desk
- Becoming a 21st-century agency counselor : personal and professional explorations
BF637.C6 M255 2001
- College of the overwhelmed : the campus mental health crisis and what to do about it
RC451.4.S7 K336 2004
- Children’s and young adult literature by Latino writers : a guide for librarians, teachers, parents
Z1229.H57 Y67 2002
- Neal-Schuman electronic classroom handbook
Z679.5 .H56 2001
- The advancement of learning : building the teaching commons
LB2331 .H85 2005
- Multicultural issues and literacy achievement
LC151 .A94 2006
- Neal-Schuman guide to celebrations and holidays around the world: the best books, media and multicultural learning activities
Z5710 .M38 2004
- Online assessment and measurement : foundations and challenges
LB1028.3 .O553 2006
- Hispanic marketing : a cultural perspective
HF5415.33.U6 K67 2005
- Windows XP hacks
QA76.76.O63 G7225 2005
- Google hacks
TK5105.885.G66 C35 2005
- Political violence and terrorism in modern America : a chronology
HN90.V5 H49 2005
- Military Life : The psychology of serving in peace and combat (4 v.)
U22.3 .M485 2005
- The Detroit Tigers Encyclopedia
GV867.D6 H37 2003
- Fundraising for libraries : 25 proven ways to get more money for your library
Z683.2.U6 S93 2002
- Libraries designed for users : a 21st century guide
Z679.5 .L87 2002
And, the work of our very own Candice Harris:
- Prince, the Future King
Childrens Books — PZ7.H366 PR 2004
The library is normally closed on Sunday but the message is worth repeating: the Lakeland campus will be closed to everyone on Sunday February 12th due to a power outage between 7:00 am to 7:00 pm. Access to the library catalog, databases and other services through the Web should not be disrupted.
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