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ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 12 hours on Saturday, January 23rd, from 8:00AM to 8:00PM EST. The USF Libraries subscribes to ScienceDirect, produced by commercial publisher Elsevier, giving access that way to hundreds of full-text scholarly journals to its users. On Monday, January 18th, the USF Polytechnic Library and the Open Use Lab will be closed in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr Day. LTB 1115 will reopen on Tuesday, the 19th at 8:00 AM. Here are the items newly arrived at the USF Polytechnic Library during the month of December. As always, new circulating books are found in the “New books” stacks in the Group Study area and can be checked out; the new reference are immediately being shelved in their respective stacks. Yes, the list is short this month, however please be assured that we have many good titles in the process. To note, we received the latest edition of the MLA style manual. Have a great semester! Reference
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Maintenance workers are investigating possible damage to the floor. Carpet tiles and raised floor tiles are being pulled near the Group Study area. Please step carefully. We apologize for the disruption and we hope the work will end soon. The Spring Semester starts today! The Library remains committed to helping you in your information-seeking needs, wether you need a fact, an article or book, need help using a database or creating a bibliography. You can come in, call, email, text or chat. You can receive help face-to-face or in a virtual office. See http://poly.usf.edu/Offices/Library/Research_Help/Ask_a_Librarian.html for all the details. No need to sit there wondering, we can help! If you are a regular reader of this blog, you will notice the new look. Over the break, the Office of Information Technology upgraded the blogging software. However in the process, the post categories and the pages have disappeared. We will work on reinstating them (although we may move some of the pages’ content to the website). ebrary is a publisher of electronic books. They now offer the ebrary Discover service where everyone can search and read a collection of 20,000 ebooks free of charge. The books are recent and in a wide array of disciplines from a variety of publishers. A free registration is necessary. Want to print a page or copy and paste? As you register, you do have to place a minimum of $5 on a credit card. You are only charged if you decide to print or copy a page ($0.25 per page). You can replenish your account as you wish. If you copy and paste content, please remember to cite your sources! To note, some of the 60,000 ebooks the USF Libraries offer are from ebrary, but in that case, with no charge to you Congratulations to Jo Averill-Snell, our OPS Library Assistant, who is graduating! She will have her commencement ceremony this week-end. The Library and Open Use Lab (LTB 1115) will follow this schedule during the Semester Break:
Regular schedule starts
The Tampa Library’s InterLibrary Loan department is announcing a winter break. Requests for books outside of USF, submitted between December 12 and January 10, will not be accepted or held. This affects the Poly Library ILL services as well, as the Tampa office helps us process our requests. You can still return ILL books at the front desk during that time period. Please hold your new requests for books outside the USF Libraries until January 10th. |
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