USF Polytechnic Library

The USFP Library is participating this afternoon in the campus’ Research Day. We’ll have some of our latest books on research methods on display and will present the Library’s services and resources for researchers.

Research Day is in room LTB 1100 from 1PM to 5PM. Faculty and students will be presenting posters on their research endeavors.

From USF’s Information Technology department:

The Internet service provider Sprint has depeered USF’s Internet service provider Cogent as of around 6PM October 30th. Because of this any single-homed Sprint customer will be unable to reach USF and vice versa. Many of you may remember this happened between Level3 and Cogent a few years ago and was caused by what Level3 considered unfair levels of traffic exchange between themselves and Cogent. Apparently a similar problem has surfaced between Sprint and Cogent.

For the library resources, this may mean that

1. A user off campus who has Sprint in his/her network path (with no other path around Sprint) will not be able to get to USF at all (either our website or EZProxy, or Blackboard).

2. Users either on or off campus attempting to access an electronic resource provided by a vendor who has Sprint in its network path (with no other route around Sprint) will not be able to get to that resource (remember that off campus users have to go through USF’s network via EZProxy/Blackboard to get to most eresources).

There is no practical alternative that we can offer those stricken by this situation at this time except to invite them to visit the Library for access. We’ll try to keep you posted as the situation progresses.

Associate Librarian Catherine Lavallée-Welch is back from attending the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Orlando. EDUCAUSE is a professional association focusing on technology in higher education.

Lavallée-Welch attended a pre-conference seminar on Learning Commons. She also presented with USF Poly colleagues Dr Naomi Boyer, Kevin Calkins and Karen Konrath a session entitled Sustainable Faculty Technology Development to Facilitate a New University Culture.

LexisNexis Academic will undergo maintenance related to the end of Daylight Savings Time that will interrupt service on Sunday, November 2,
2008 between 1:00 AM and 8:00 AM U.S. Eastern Time. Users trying to access LexisNexis Academic early Sunday morning will see a message saying that the service is temporarily unavailable.

Did you know you can scan documents on the LTB 1115 photocopier? Place your documents on the glass plate and select the “scanner” button on the left of the control panel. Enter your email address and press the green “start” button. You have the possibility of scanning several pages if necessary. When done, press the pound sign and your file, in PDF format, will be sent to you. Other formats are available as well. Oh, and it’s free and there’s no need for a copy card!

PCC is currently working on the walkway from the LTB to the LAC building, just beside the Library/OUL. We apologize for the noise and disturbance.

Sometimes, library users need more in-depth assistance, either to seek the best information sources or to learn how to best use the various library resources. So far, face-to-face appointments with the Librarian have been available.

It is now possible to schedule a virtual appointment for the same purposes. The meeting will take place via Elluminate, the online synchronous (meaning real-time) program that allows individuals at multiple locations to communicate in a live session.

To schedule an appointment, contact the USFP Associate Librarian at 863.667.7737 or clw@poly.usf.edu.

Here are the books newly arrived at the USF Polytechnic Library during the month of September. As always, new circulating books and Children’s Books are found in the “New books” stacks in the Group Study area; the new reference books are being immediately shelved in the Reference stacks. I’m adding as well the new databases and e-resource collections added during the month with a link to more information.

To note, our own Dr John Selsky’s new book, Business planning for turbulent times : new methods for applying scenarios, is now part of the USFP Faculty Publications Special Collection and can be found this semester at the front desk in the Reserves. We also received a few donations from the Holocaust Museum in Sarasota.

Faculty Publications

• Business planning for turbulent times : new methods for applying scenarios / edited by Rafael Ramírez, John W. Selsky and Kees van der Heijden. London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2008.
  Faculty Publications HD30.28 .B848 2008

Reference

• CSG state directory. Directory III, Administrative officials. Lexington, Ky. : Council of State Governments, c1998-
  Reference JK2403 .B6 Suppl.3 2008

Books

• Je mojí vlastí hradba ghett? English. We are children just the same : “Vedem,” the secret magazine by the boys of Terezín / prepared and selected from the magazine “In the Lead” (Vedem) by Marie Ruth Křížková, Kurt Jiří Koutouč, and Zdeněk Ornest ; translated from the Czech by R. Elizabeth Novak ; edited by Paul R. Wilson ; with a foreword by Václav Havel. Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society ; Prague : Aventinum Publishing House, 1995.
  D805.C9 J413 1995
• I promised I would tell / by Sonia Schreiber Weitz ; edited by Susan Belt Cogley. Brookline, Mass. : Facing History and Ourselves, 1993.
  DS135.P63 W394 1993
• Choosing to participate facing history and ourselves / Facing History and Ourselves Foundation. Brookline, Mass. : The Foundation, 1998.
  E185.61 .C56 1998x
• GIS : a short introduction / Nadine Schuurman. Malden, MA. : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
  G70.212 .S38 2004
• GIS and spatial analysis for the social sciences : coding, mapping and modeling / Robert Nash Parker, Emily K. Asencio. New York : Routledge, 2009.
  HA30.6 .P37 2009
• The expert school leader : accelerating accountability / Naftaly S. Glasman and Lynette D. Glasman. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Education, c2007.
  LB2805 .G533 2007
• Simulation of industrial processes for control engineers / Philip Thomas. Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999.
  TS156.8 .T545 1999

Children’s Books

• The cat, or, how I lost eternity / Jutta Richter ; translated by Anna Brailovsky. Minneapolis, Minn. : Milkweed Editions, 2007.
  PZ7.R41544 Cat 2007
• The secret Olivia told me / by N. Joy ; illustrations by Nancy Devard. East Orange, NJ : Just Us Books, c2007.
  PZ8.3.J785 Se 2007
• Mis colores, mi mundo = My colors, my world / Maya Christina Gonzalez. San Francisco, Calif. : Children’s Book Press, 2007.
  PZ73 .G589 2007

Databases and electronic resources

• Business Source Premier
• PsychBOOKS
• The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
• University of Southern California Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive
• Testaments of the Holocaust
• JSTOR Collection IV and V

On September 13, the Florida Publishers Association (FPA) presented its 2008 President’s Book Awards to members whose books were chosen as the best in 16 different categories and one special category. Judges for content categories were Florida librarians (three in each category), and an award-winning, national book design firm provided judges for cover and interior design categories.

The following winners were selected by the competition’s 35 judges (32 librarians from across Florida and 3 members of a nationally recognized book design firm):

• Best Adult Nonfiction:
  The Mollusks: A Guide to Their Study, Collection, and Preservation edited by C. F. Sturm, T. A. Pearce, and A. Valdés (ISBN-10: 158112930-0, Universal Publishers)
• Best Adult Fiction:
  Two Lives, One Love by Jay Dickinson (ISBN-10: 0-9745098-4-1, Pioneer River Press)
• Best Interior Design:
  Markawasi: Peru’s Inexplicable Stone Forest by Kathy Doore (ISBN-13:978-0-9791713-5-2, Kathleen Doore, Inc.)
• Best Cover Design:
  How to Open a Financially Successful Pizza & Sub Restaurant by Shri L. Henkel & Douglas R. Brown(ISBN-13: 978-0-910627-80-1, Atlantic Publishing Group)
• Best Business Book:
  The Complete Guide to Currency Trading & Investing: Howto Earn High Rates of Return Safely and Take Control of Your Investments by Jamaine Burrell (ISBN-13: 978-1-60138-119-4, Atlantic Publishing Group)
• Best Florida Book for Adults:
  The Florida Handbook 2007–2008 compiled by Allen Morris and Joan Perry Morris (ISBN-13: 978-9765846-2-9, The Peninsular Publishing Company)
• Best Florida Book for Children:
  The Adventures of Ali Alligator by Rita T. Geringswald, illustrations by Bill Kitchen (ISBN-13: 978-0-9797566-1-0, R&D Publishing)
• Best Children’s Picture Book:
  Little Skink’s Tailby Janet Halfmann, illustrated by Laurie Allen Klein (ISBN-13: 978-0-9768823-8-1, Sylvan Dell Publishing)
• Best Children’s Fiction:
  Cry of the Cheetah by Bob Wallace (ISBN-13: 978-6024722-5-9, Tate Out Loud)
• Best Children’s Nonfiction:
  Chicken Soup for the Soul: Kids in the Kitchen: Tasty Recipes and Fun Activities for Budding Chefs by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Chef Antonio Frontera (ISBN-13: 978-0-7573-0579-5, Health Communications, Inc.)
• Best Young Adult Nonfiction:
  Excursions in Geography by James W. Lett, Ph.D. (ISBN-13: 978-0-9745098-6-0, Pioneer River Press)
• Best Young Adult Fiction:
  Emmy’s Question by Jeannine Auth (ISBN-13: 978-0-9790395-2-2, Morningtide Press)
• Best Writing/Writers:
  The Writer Within You: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing and Publishing In Your Retirement Years by Charles Jacobs (ISBN-13: 978-0-9793636-0-3, Caros Books)
• Best Coffee Table Book:
  Markawasi: Peru’s Inexplicable Stone Forest by Kathy Doore (ISBN-13:978-0-9791713-5-2, Kathleen Doore, Inc.)
• Biography/Autobiography:
  Mama:Root, Hog, or Die by Barbara Oehlbeck (ISBN-10: 0-912451-59-9, Crabtree Press/Florida Classics Library)
• The Best Overall Book, determined by the judges’scores, was the children’s picture book, Little Skink’s Tail written by Janet Halfmann and illustrated by Laurie Allen Klein (ISBN-13: 978-0-9768823-8-1, Sylvan Dell Publishing).
• Selected as President’s Pick by FPA President Frank Gromling was A Chance to Live by Pieter Kohnstam (ISBN-10: 0-9778199-1-4, Bardolf & Co.).

Currently there are six active trials to databases. Please note the end dates and the use of passwords for two of them. We will be glad to receive your feedback.

Accounting and Tax with Standards (ProQuest) through 10/21/08

Search key accounting standards from FASB, GASB, and IASB along with top accounting literature. Standards content includes Original Pronouncements, Statements, Interpretations, Board Opinions, AICPA Interpretations, Current Text, EITF Abstracts and much more. International in scope, this product has in-depth coverage of accounting policies, state and national tax legislation, corporate taxation, as well as related accounting topics such as auditing, compensation, pension plans, and financial management.

Password is usfbiz2008

Proquest Entrepreneurship through 10/21/08

Search worldwide publications and multi-media related to the topic of Entrepreneurship. Intended to bridge theory with practice, the Entrepreneurship database covers a wide spectrum of resources useful to educators, researchers, students and practitioners. Content ranges from the scholarly - including journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings - to a full toolkit of practical guides, templates, forms, sample business plans, and tips from successful entrepreneurs.

Password is usfbiz2008

Science Signaling through 12/31/08

Science Signaling is a resource for groundbreaking research and commentary in the dynamic field of cellular signaling. Topics range from basic science to design of therapeutics and from molecules to networks and systems design. Weekly original, peer-reviewed research articles have been added as of September 2008. Science Signaling gives instant access to the concepts and methods leading to breakthroughs in signal transduction
with weekly editions that combine the distinctive features of Science’s STKE with the new journal’s features:
• Original, peer-reviewed full-text articles (fall 2008)
• Perspectives, scientist-written opinion articles about recently published research and methods
• Reviews of peer-reviewed articles summarizing the latest developments in cell signaling research
• Protocols presenting important lab techniques and guidance on experimental methods
• Database of Cell Signaling, an interactive database of components of cellular signaling pathways and their relationships, updated regularly
• Virtual Journal of full-text access to signal transduction articles provided by participating publishers (visit www.sciencesignaling.org/literature/vj for further information on this feature)

LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collection Historical Archive through 10/31/08

(CRS) was established within the Library of Congress to provide Members, committees, and congressional staff with nonpartisan and objective research and analysis on all public policy issues. Currently, the CRS research divisions are American Law; Domestic Social Policy; Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade; Government and Finance; Knowledge Services; and Resources, Science and Industry. When the collection is complete in 2009, users will be able to access volumes of the Record and its predecessors from the current day back to 1789 either in a unified LexisNexis Congressional search or as a search unique to the Record for roll call voting, information on Senators and Members of Congress, even specific pages, bills or laws, with HTML links to daily digest text, related publications, and other speakers and subjects. Online coverage of daily versions of the Record will remain available in LexisNexis Congressional from 1985 to date.

LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Digital Collection 1824-1979 through 10/31/08

LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Digital Collection 1980-2003 through 10/31/08

Congressional hearings are a treasure trove of information and have long been among the library’s most used collections. With the addition of this prospective hearings module of the Congressional Hearings Digital Collection, this database now includes abstracting, indexing, bibliographic information, and searchable PDFs for Congressional hearings from 1824-present.

For access these databases and other library resources visit http://www.poly.usf.edu/library. Click on “Search the databases” to begin.