USF in Lakeland Library

The Health & Wellness Resource Center database is now sporting a collection of more than 700 videos following a partnership between Thomson Gale and Healthology, Inc. The videos cover more than 60 therapeutic areas and run approximately four minutes in length. Search “Health & Wellness Resource Center” in MetaLib to access the database.

I will absent from the campus Friday, February 3th and Monday, February 6th. I will be back on Tuesday, February 7th. Please send me an email at clw@lakeland.usf.edu or leave a voice mail at 863-667-7737. I’ll get back to you when I return.

NewsBank, a database permitting to search newspapers across the country, is offering two products of use to students and instructors. Look for them in the left-hand side menu in the NewsBank interface.

• Hot Topics: updated each month, Hot Topics suggests search terms for extremely current news topics. Examples for January includes Iran and nuclear facilies, Jimmy Carter’s most recent book, education vouchers and Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
• Special Reports: those reports focus on topics of current interest. They include content from sources throughout the world to provide a global perspective, current and background information, statistics, maps, images, websites, and suggested search terms.

Note: if you search for NewsBank in MetaLib, the system will bring up all the newspapers USF subscribe through NewsBank. Click on one of the titles to access the interface and the NewsBank menu.

Criminal Justice Abstracts (CJA) is back and is now accessed, with the same content, through Cambridge Scientific. OVID/SilverPlatter was the previous provider but lost the rights to CJA.

On Tuesday, January 31st, between 10AM and 1PM EST, IEEE Xplore will be down for maintenance to implement a maintenance release to the IEEE Xplore digital library. This new release will add: more convenient links to request permission to reuse content, links to publication home pages from tables of contents and search results to improve navigation, and other updates.

I will be off campus for a conference starting tomorrow Wednesday, January 18th. I will be back on campus Monday, January 23rd. You can leave me a voice mail (863-667-7737) or an email (clw@lakeland.usf.edu) and I will get back to you when I return, thank you!

The PCC/USF Library will be closed Monday January 16th in honor of Martin Luther King Jr Day.

Special events and activities – a week worth – will take place in Lakeland to mark the Holiday, don’t miss out!

Do not miss Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s lecture next week at the USF Sun Dome. “No Future without Forgiveness: An Evening with Archbishop Desmond Tutu,” will take place Thursday January 19 at 7 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public. Born in South Africa, Tutu became a world-renowned activist for human rights and received the Nobel Price for Peace in 1984.

From the good librarians at the Thomas Ford Memorial Library in Western Springs, IL:

Click-A-Story!

Do you remember Dial-A-Story programs that libraries of yesteryear offered? If you were a fan of audio stories on demand, then try Click-A-Story with your child.

A Click-A-Story is simply an audio recording of a story. Each story will be read by a staff member of our Youth Services department. Please feel free to listen to each multiple times and share the story with a friend

[ http://www.fordlibrary.org/clickastory/ ]

The Emperor’s New Clothes

How Indian Corn Came to the World

The Real Princess

Easy to download and easy to listen to.

The Databases/Newspapers interface is temporarily unavailable. As an alternative, you can use Library Catalog during this downtime – search for the name of the desired database in the full catalog.

UPDATE: the interface is now back up

UPDATE: the interface is down again. Apologies for the inconvenience.

UPDATE: the final one I hope! Everything is back to normal.