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Hispanic Heritage Month 2011

We have published a list of the resources held at the USF Poly Library relevant to Hispanic Heritage Month.

We also displayed some of them in the Library (all items can be checked out) and included the stories of two USFP students with an Hispanic heritage. Come learn about David and Laura!

Banned Books Week - thank you!

Our events for Banned Books Week at the USF Poly Library were a success again this year. Pictures are on the Library’s Facebook and Flickr‘s pages.

We would like to thank all of those who have volunteered their time and efforts to make our events a success:

Thank you to our readers, who are students, staff, faculty at USFP, at the Read Out.

  • Stacy Lung – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – JK Rowling
  • Patty Martinez – I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
  • Diane Fulkerson – To Kill a mockingbird – Harper Lee
  • Cynthia Patterson – Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
  • Paul Terry – Totally Joe – James Howe
  • Suzanne Reardon-Mullhall – Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
  • Marlene Eplin – The Bible
  • Catherine Lavallée-Welch – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
  • Sara Martinez – The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
  • John Selsky – Nickel & Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America – Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Daryl Manullang – The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
  • Monica Roberts – I know why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
  • Amy VanMiddlesworth – Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut

Thank you to Dr. Anne Price, who led the discussion for “1984?, and to Dr. John Lennon, who led the discussion for “Shup Up & Sing”, during the during the First Amendment Film Festival.

Thank you to Dr. Ruth Sylvester, who led the Book Discussion on “And Tango Makes Three”.

Thank you to SG for providing us with refreshments.

Thank you to the students, staff and faculty members who stopped by, listened, watched and discussed with us.

Celebrate your freedom to read and think all year!

Update: We received garlands from The Ledger, in addition to a page 1, B section article.

Online open door seminars on research and RefWorks

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: October 11, 2011 12:00 PM
Ends: October 11, 2011 1:00 PM

Meeting Link: http://elluminate.it.usf.edu:80/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1294172658713
Add to Calendar: http://elluminate.it.usf.edu:80/build_calendar.event?meetingId=1294172658713

RefWorks
Learn how to use this citation management system that makes building bibliographies a flash.

Starts: October 13, 2011 12:00 PM
Ends: October 13, 2011 1:00 PM

Meeting Link: http://elluminate.it.usf.edu:80/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1294172658715
Add to Calendar: http://elluminate.it.usf.edu:80/build_calendar.event?meetingId=1294172658715

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.

Banned Books Week events - September 27-29

The USF Polytechnic Library invites you to events during Banned Books Week.

Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. This year, the Week will take place September 24th to October 1st. Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship. It 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 viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met.

EVENTS

Tuesday, September 27
Read out!
LTB terrace, outside LTB 1115
11:30AM-1PM
4:30PM-6PM

Wednesday, September 28
First Amendment Film Festival
SG Seminar Room LTB 1149
10:30AM-1PM – 1984
(with a group discussion led by Dr. Anne Price)
4PM-6PM – Shut Up & Sing
(with a group discussion led by Dr. John Lennon)
Both movies are rated R

Thursday, September 29
Book Discussion
LTB 1124
12PM-1PM – And Tango Makes Three!
Discussion lead by Dr. Ruth Sylvester

Refreshments will be served at the events thanks to the generosity of Student Government.

You can find more information about Banned Books Week and the freedom to read on the American Library Association website.

Statistics/Math tutoring now available

Tom Ricard, a math and statistics tutor, is now available to help students either as walk-in basis or by appointment.

The tutor will be available Tuesday and Thursday, from 2 to 7PM, in the Group Study area of the Library. You can just come in or make an appointment with Mr. Ricard at tricard@poly.usf.edu.

This new service is offered by Student Affairs and Student Government, thank you!

Gartner: IT products, resources and trends information

The USF System has partnered with Gartner, a leading IT research company, to provide access to their extensive resources and information on best practices, trends and emerging technologies in Information Technology. Content includes market analysis, statistics, and forecasts; industry information on the following industries: banking and investment services, education, energy and utilities, government, healthcare providers, insurance, manufacturing, media, and retail; and critical issue reports that include: outsourcing, open source, emerging trends and technologies, mobile and wireless, and laptops and hand-held devices.

Features of this resource include: the Hype Cycle which helps identify the appropriate timing for IT investments; the Magic Quadrant which helps visualize how major competitors stack up in a given marketplace; and an email alerting service that pushes the latest research to your email.

Not just for IT professionals or students, this online resource is useful for any person or unit looking to get more information about a new technology or software.

The Gartner resources are available to all USF faculty, staff and students through the USF Libraries catalog (direct link to the title) or through this link. You may be required to log in with your NetID.

Readers needed for the Read Out!

As part of our Banned Books Week events, we are looking for readers for our Read Out!

What: Read from a challenged or banned book for a 15 minutes period. There is no microphone, no sitting audience – you read from a passage of your choice from a book of your choice in a normal voice to passers-by.

Who: Anyone can read: students, staff or faculty members.

When: Tuesday, September 27, from 11:30 AM to 1 PM and from 4:30 PM to 6 PM

Where: On the LTB terrace, outside the USFP Library/Open Use Lab

How: Sign up with Catherine Lavallée-Welch (clw@poly.usf.edu), with your preferred time and title (if possible, readers should bring their own books since the Library has a limited selection. Please see the 2010-2011 list of challenged or banned books and the list of the Frequently Challenged Books of the 21st century for title ideas.) We’ll do our best to accommodate your preferred time, first come, first served.

New resources at the USF Poly and FIPR Institute libraries

Here are the latest arrivals for the month of August. As always, Polytechnic titles are located in the New Books shelves in the back of the room. Reference is shelved immediately in their proper stacks. FIPR materials are shelved immediately in their proper stacks.

Reference

    POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • CSG state directory. Directory III, Administrative officials. Lexington, Ky. : Council of State Governments, c1998-2011.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic – Ref JK2403.B6 Suppl.3 2011

Books

    PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, RELIGION

  • Developing self in work and career : concepts, cases, and contexts / edited by Paul J. Hartung and Linda M. Subich. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2011.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — BF697.5.S43D48 2011
  • SOCIAL SCIENCES

  • Handbook of research on innovation and entrepreneurship / edited by David B. Audretsch … [et al.].
    Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar ; c2011.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — HB615.H26598 2011
  • MacroWikinomics : rebooting business and the world / Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams.
    New York, N.Y. : Portfolio Penguin, 2010.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — HC79.I55T369 2010
  • Managing conflict in organizations / M. Afzalur Rahim.
    New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2011.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — HD42.R34 2011
  • Cases in leadership / [edited by] W. Glenn Rowe, Laura Guerrero. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2011.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — HD57.7.C372 2011
  • Transforming leaders into progress makers : leadership for the 21st century / Phillip G. Clampitt, Robert J. DeKoch. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, c2011.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — HD57.7.C53 2011
  • Capitalism at the crossroads : next generation business strategies for a post-crisis world / Stuart L. Hart.
    Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Wharton School Pub., c2010.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — HD60.H388 2010
  • Building social business : the new kind of capitalism that serves humanity’s most pressing needs / Muhammad Yunus with Karl Weber. New York : Public Affairs, c2010.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — HD60.Y85 2010
  • Local economic development in the 21st century : quality of life and sustainability / Daphne T. Greenwood and Richard P.F. Holt ; foreword by Thomas M. Power. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2010.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — HD75.G73 2010
  • The Facebook effect : the inside story of the company that is connecting the world / David Kirkpatrick. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2011, c2010.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — HD9696.8.U64F335 2011
  • Communication, relationships and practices in virtual work / [edited by] Shawn D. Long. Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, c2010.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — HD2336.3.C66 2010
  • Research on Main Street : using the Web to find local business and market information / Marcy Phelps. Medford, N.J. : CyberAge Books, c2011.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — HF54.56.P47 2011
  • E-marketing : theory and application / Stephen Dann and Susan Dann. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — HF5415.1265.D365 2011
  • Creating a successful marketing strategy for your small new business / Stanley F. Stasch. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger/ABC-CLIO, c2010.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — HF5415.13.S8573 2010
  • Review of marketing research. Armonk, N.Y. ; London : M.E. Sharpe, c2005-.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — HF5415.2.R467v.8
  • Ethical issues in e-business : models and frameworks / Daniel E. Palmer, editor. Hershey, PA : Business Science Reference, c2010.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — HF5548.32.E84 2010
  • The media handbook : a complete guide to advertising media selection, planning, research, and buying / Helen Katz. New York : Routledge, 2010.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — HF5826.5.K38 2010
  • A guide to innovative public-private partnerships : utilizing the resources of the private sector for the public good / Thomas A. Cellucci. Lanham, Md. : Government Institutes, 2011.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — HV6432.4.C446 2011
  • Cybercrime : criminal threats from cyberspace / Susan W. Brenner. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2010.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — HV6773.B75 2010
  • Cyber criminology : exploring Internet crimes and criminal behavior / edited by K. Jaishankar. Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2011.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — HV6773.C916 2011
  • Agile Principles Unleashed : Proven Approaches for Achieving Real Productivity in Any Organisation / Jamie Lynn Cooke. Ely : IT Governance Pub., 2010.
    USF Library-Polytechnic — e-book

    EDUCATION

  • The future of thinking : learning institutions in a digital age / Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg ; with the assistance of Zoe Marie Jones. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — LB1028.3.D275 2010
  • SCIENCE

  • Programming the mobile Web : [reaching users on iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, and more] / Maximiliano Firtman. Sebastopol, CA ; Farnham [England] : O’Reilly, c2010.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — QA76.625 .F57 2010
  • The Android developer’s cookbook : building applications with the Android SDK / James Steele, Nelson To. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Addison-Wesley, c2011.
  • USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — QA76.76.A65 S743 2011

  • App savvy : turning ideas into iPad and iPhone apps customers really want / Ken Yarmosh. Beijing ; Farnham : O’Reilly, 2010, c2011.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — QA76.8.I863Y27 2011
  • TECHNOLOGY

  • Smashing WordPress themes : making WordPress beautiful / Thord Daniel Hedengren. Chichester : Wiley, 2011.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — TK5105.8885.W66H44 2011
  • Design is how it works : how the smartest companies turn products into icons / Jay Greene. New York : Portfolio, 2010.
    USF LIBRARY-Polytechnic — TS171.G726 2010

FIPR Institute Library

    LAW

  • Essentials of intellectual property / Alexander I. Poltorak and Paul J. Lerner. John Wiley & Sons. 2002.
    USF LIBRARY-FIPR — KF2980 .P65 2002
  • SCIENCE

  • Florida’s turtles, lizards, and crocodilians / R.D. Bartlett and Patricia P. Bartlett. University Press of Florida. 2011.
    USF LIBRARY-FIPR — QL653.F6 B375 2011
  • Florida’s frogs, toads, and other amphibians / R.D. Bartlett and Patricia P. Bartlett. University Press of Florida. 2011.
    USF LIBRARY-FIPR — QL653.F6 B374 2011

Poly Library closed on Labor Day

In observance of Labor Day, the USF Poly Library and the OUL will be closed on Monday, September 5th.

LTB 1115 will reopen on Tuesday, September 6th at 8:00 AM.

Electronic resources are still available, 24/7, from wherever you are :)

Enjoy the holiday!

RefWorks 2.0 is here!

Beginning this week, RefWorks, the web based citation manager, is changing its look.

While the interface will be new, all of your citations will still be available. RefWorks 2.0 will retain its power and functionality but with a new look and abilities that further enhance the user experience. Although you will be presented with the new interface, for the rest of 2011 you may switch back to Classic RefWorks whenever you like. Look for the RefWorks Classic link in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. You can toggle back and forth between the two interfaces.

RefWorks 2.0 is all the best of Classic, but streamlined with a clean, intuitive design that’s:

  • Simple – with key functions via new buttons, navigation toolbars, action icons, light boxes, and collapsible menus with one-click features and support resources at the user’s fingertips
  • Powerful – with the ability to quickly view full references and share information with colleagues or researchers anywhere, whether they are RefWorks users or not
  • Loved – by all levels of users – from undergrads using it to create simple bibliographies to advanced users such as faculty members and researchers for presentations, writing articles, or seeking to get their work published

Please note that Write-N-Cite and RefGrab-It are not available with the 2.0 interface but the classic versions work seamlessly with the rest of 2.0. RefWorks will be completing those features later this year.

You can log in RefWorks here. A preview of the 2.0 version and a RefWorks 2.0 Fundamentals tutorial are also available.