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Diane Fulkerson, Poly’s Social Sciences & Education Librarian, was appointed Vice-Chair of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Standards Committee at the recent American Library Association Annual Conference.
This Committee oversees the development of discipline-specific information literacy standards in higher education. Information literacy is defined as a set of abilities requiring individuals to “recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.” (http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/whitepapers/presidential.cfm). Among other activities, the Committee recently approved visual literacy competency standards.
UBorrow allows you to request materials directly from participating libraries within Florida’s state university system. This unmediated borrowing service increases your access to the collections of the other universities in Florida and delivers more quickly than standard interlibrary loan.
How does it work?
If you’re searching the USF catalog for a title and the USF Library system does not own the book, click on the blue UBorrow link towards the top right corner. This will take you to the State University Libraries’ catalog, showing all the available items within the university system. Click on the UBorrow icon again to request the item and you will find a login box where you will be asked to put in your Library ID (the 205 number on your USF ID card) and the month/date of your birthday. Then select where you want to pick up your book. You will receive an email in a few days letting you know that your book is ready for you.
You can also start your search directly into the State University Libraries’ catalog.
Requests for items that aren’t available in Florida will be transferred into an ILLiad (or regular interlibrary loan) request automatically.
What is the loan period?
You are given 30 days from the time the item arrives on campus (this will take a few days so plan ahead!) Again, you’ll receive an email as soon as your book is received and ready for pickup.
Can I renew my loan?
You may request one renewal for materials borrowed through Uborrow. Please note, this is a request, so you will want to place your request several days before your item is due. After you place your request, you will receive an email notifying you of the new due date or that your request was denied. Request renewals the same way as for USF items.
What happens if my books are overdue?
You will receive email notifications about your overdue UBorrow books just as you do for the books that you borrow from the USF Libraries. You will also be fined by the USF Libraries for all overdue, lost, and damaged UBorrow loans.
UBorrow is available today, give it a try!
LTB 1115 will be open following these hours starting Saturday, August 6:
• August 6 (Saturday): open
• August 8-12: 8AM-5PM
• August 13 (Saturday): open
• August 15-19: 8AM-5PM
• August 20 (Saturday): open
Regular opening hours will resume Monday, August 22 at 8:00 AM.
A part-time position (10 hr/week) is now open at the USF Polytechnic Library for the Fall and Spring semesters.
Duties: Assist the USF Polytechnic Library in providing services to its users (students, faculty, staff and community members). Duties include staffing the circulation desk, circulating books and other materials; answering and forwarding phone calls; answering directional questions and referring other requests for assistance to appropriate staff; and other clerical duties as needed. This position requires strict adherence to procedures overseeing confidentiality of library users’ records.
Schedule: weekday afternoons, to be determined
Salary: $8/hr
For more details and to apply, visit the USF Employment website, click on the “Search postings” link and search for posting #0005325 at the bottom of the page.
Here are the latest arrivals for the month of July. This month, there are no new items at the FIPR Library.
As always, Polytechnic new arrivals are shelved in the New Books shelves in the Group Study area.
Did you know that we currently have a display on Aging Studies in the Library? Most of the books on display can be checked out to USF card holders.
Books
SCIENCE
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Clean code : a handbook of agile software craftsmanship / Robert C. Martin … [et al.]. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, c2009.
USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic Circulating Collection QA76.76.D47C583 2009
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Test-driven development : by example / Kent Beck. Boston : Addison-Wesley, c2003.
QA76.76.T48B43 2003
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My iPad 2 / Gary Rosenzweig. Indianapolis, Ind. : Que, c2011.
QA76.8.I863R673 2011 Professional Development collection
TECHNOLOGY
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Sams teach yourself WordPress 3 in 10 minutes / Chuck Tomasi, Kreg Steppe. Indianapolis, IN : Sams, c2011.
TK5105.8885.W66T66 2011
Databases
Reflecting again the transition of print to online standing orders, the following resources are now online. This announcement recaps the acquisitions of: Literature Criticism Online, Book Review Index Plus, and Something about the Author, all on the Gale platform.
Book Review Index Online Plus
The database provides access to reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and other electronic media.
Book Review Index Online Plus indexes reviews from over 600 scholarly and popular English-language journals from 1965 to the present, primarily in the fields of general fiction and non-fiction, the humanities, and the social sciences. It includes more than 634,000 full-text reviews as well as full text via links to library holdings. Contains the entire backfile of Book Review Index from 1965 to the present. Search fields include author, date, illustrator, audio book reader, review length, reading level, review source and type, reviewer, work title, and review title.
Literature Criticism Online
Literature Criticism Online provides a single search for online literary criticism resources from Gale. In the transition to the online version, the USF Libraries made a significant investment in a one-time purchase of the backfiles for Literature Criticism Online to ensure depth to this resource. The USF Libraries subscribe to the following databases under the Literature Criticism Online umbrella:
- Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
This highly useful series presents substantial excerpts from the best criticism on the major literary figures and nonfiction writers of 1900 to 1999.
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Literature Criticism 1400-1800
This authoritative resource on the greatest writers of the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Restoration eras.
- Poetry Criticism
Support students and enhance the understanding of poetry lovers with this collection of biographical sketches, author portraits, primary bibliographies and much more.
- Short Story Criticism
The most-studied short story writers of yesterday and today are profiled in volumes that deliver a historical survey of the critical response to their work.
- Drama Criticism
For each play or playwright featured, a full range of critical opinion is presented, along with a biographical sketch, a chronological list of the writer’s major works and more.
- Children’s Literature Review
From Louisa May Alcott to Judy Blume, the most popular and influential authors of the genre are assessed through criticism of their major works.
Something about the Author
USF has acquired the complete archive to Something about the Author, an archive that preserves the full integrity of the print reference series, including more than 200 volumes, totaling more than 12,000 entries and nearly 17,000 images. Includes personal data, addresses, career, awards and honors, writings, sidelights (essay on the author’s life and works), adaptations, additional sources and more. Also included are hundreds of specially commissioned autobiography essays from Something About the Author: Autobiography Series. These essays are illustrated with personal photos; and present an entertaining and informative first-person perspective on the lives and careers of prominent authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults.
For these and other resources, visit http://www.poly.usf.edu/library. Click on “Search the databases” to begin.
UPDATE: All user functions have been restablished
Starting Friday, July 22nd, at 6PM, some user-driven functions in the USF Libraries catalog will not be available due to a software upgrade.
These functions will be unavailable:
- Viewing of your user record
- Self-renewals of checked out books
- Holds and recalls of books checked out by another user
- Email receipts if you return a book
- UBorrow requests
You will be able to continue searching the catalog, the databases and electronic journals. You should not see a big difference in the catalog interface once the upgrade is done, except for some new functions.
The new software version should be up and functional Monday, July 25th, in the early work hours. We’ll put an update on the USFP Library’s Facebook Page (http://www.facebook.com/usfplib), Twitter profile (@usfplib) and this blog entry when these functions are available again.
The Library is offering its two open door seminars on Elluminate.
Database research
Learn to select and access the best databases for your subject, search their content and find full-text articles.
Starts: July 19, 2011 12:00 PM
Ends: July 19, 2011 1:00 PM
Meeting Link: http://elluminate.it.usf.edu:80/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1294171749845
Add to Calendar: http://elluminate.it.usf.edu:80/build_calendar.event?meetingId=1294171749845
RefWorks
Learn how to use this citation management system that makes building bibliographies a flash.
Starts: July 20, 2011 12:00 PM
Ends: July 20, 2011 1:00 PM
Meeting Link: http://elluminate.it.usf.edu:80/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1294171749852
Add to Calendar: http://elluminate.it.usf.edu:80/build_calendar.event?meetingId=1294171749852
To join the meeting, click on the appropriate link above. Enter your name at the login prompt.
This meeting does not require a password to join. Please leave the password field blank.
You may join the meeting 30 minutes prior to the start time.
If this is the first time you will be using Elluminate, you may be prompted to download some software which may take anywhere from 2 to 20 minutes depending upon your Internet connection speed. You can pre-configure your system with the required software by going to the support page located at: http://elluminate.it.usf.edu:80/support.help. Please make sure your computer has a microphone and speakers to be able to talk and hear while you are in the Elluminate meeting. A microphone is not mandatory though.
These seminars are open to all; no registration required. The seminars are cancelled if no attendee is present 10 minutes after the hour.
Here are long-standing reference works, now available online through the USF Libraries.
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Available on the Gale Virtual Reference Library platform, this six-volume set of the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (NDHI) addresses topics in the fields of history, anthropology, and women’s studies; philosophy and religion; politics, law and economics; area studies and ethnic studies; literature, performance, music, and the visual arts; communication studies and cultural studies; and science, engineering and medicine. The first Dictionary of the History of Ideas was published by Scribner’s in 1973–1974 and became a landmark of scholarship on European thought. The NDHI extends this strength with entirely new content on Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, and the Middle East. With many more articles than the original edition, hundreds of illustrations, as well as profusely illustrated visual entries, the NDHI provides an expansive cross-cultural and global outlook on the history of ideas.
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world’s peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music. Since its first publication in 1997, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music has been the pre-eminent reference work for research in ethnomusicology. It is now available as a single, integrated online database. The database includes the entire set of 10 print volumes as well as complete indexing for genre, subject, instrument, place, person, ensemble, and cultural group, as well as links to the associated audio examples for each volume.
For these and other resources, visit http://www.poly.usf.edu/library. Click on “Search the databases” to begin.
The following business related resources have been recently acquired. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition is funded by USF Sarasota-Manatee. The Advertising Red Books reflects work on the transition to online from print resources and the movement to online access on the part of publishers.
JSTOR Business III
The JSTOR Business collections bring together core titles in economics and finance, including publications from leading scholarly societies and a range of critical research journals in accounting, labor relations, marketing, management, operations research, and risk assessment. There are three JSTOR Business collections and the USF Libraries have acquired all three. The Business III Collection builds on the strong economics and business foundation of the Business I and II collections. Business III increases JSTOR’s coverage in core fields such as economics, business administration, and finance, and it includes a group of international journals. The collection also contains prominent titles in public administration, business history, accounting, management, marketing, and organizational behavior.
Advertising Red Books
The Advertising Red Books database supports research on advertisers and agencies worldwide. The database provides vital data on advertisers (large manufacturers of brand-name consumer products); the media (broadcast television, cable television, magazines, newspapers, and radio); advertising agencies, and services and supply vendors. The database is updated twice weekly.
Advertising Red Books database provides current, detailed data, including:
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Agency accounts, specializations, gross billings by media, and contact information for agency personnel
- Advertisers with significant spend on advertising annually
- Specific advertising data such as approximate annual advertising spend by media and agencies retained by the advertiser
- Information on nearly 125,000 brand names
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition
In 2008, Palgrave Macmillan published The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition. It retains some of the articles from the classic work of the same name that became a standard work for economists. Approximately 80% of the text was either entirely new or substantially rewritten to reflect the depth of change within the discipline between the editions. This new edition brings together the world’s most influential economists to provide a scholarly overview of economic thought today. The online format offers a dynamic, updated resource serving the information needs of a new generation of economists.
For these and other resources, visit http://www.poly.usf.edu/library. Click on “Search the databases” to begin.
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