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New books

Recently arrived at the PCC/USF Library:

  • Continuous improvement in the primary classroom : language arts, grades K-3 / Karen R. Fauss.
    LB1528 .F38 2000
  • Continuous improvement in the science classroom / Jeffrey J. Burgard.
    Q181 .B93 2000
  • Continuous improvement in the mathematics classroom : grades K-6 / by Carolyn Ayres.
    QA135.5 .A97 2000
  • Continuous improvement in the history and social science classroom / Shelly C. Carson.
    D16.25 .C37 2000
  • Raising reading achievement in middle and high schools : 5 simple-to-follow strategies for principals / Elaine K. McEwan.
    LB1632 .M35 2001
  • The principal’s guide to raising math achievement / Elaine K. McEwan.
    QA13 .M315 2000
  • Assessment of children and youth / Libby G. Cohen, Loraine J. Spenciner.
    BF722 .C638 1998
  • Charlie Bone and the castle of mirrors / Jenny Nimmo.
    PZ7.N5897 Cdc 2005
  • Gregor and the curse of the warmbloods / Suzanne Collins.
    PZ7.C6837 Gp 2005
  • Drums, girls, & dangerous pie / by Jordan Sonnenblick.
    PZ7.S69798 Dr 2005
  • Beyond the Valley of Thorns / Patrick Carman.
    PZ7.C21694 Be 2005
  • The Legend of the Wandering King
    PZ7.G155625 Le 2005
  • Poison / Chris Wooding.
    PZ7.W860368 Poi 2005
  • Peter Raven under fire / Michael Molloy.
    PZ7.M73445 Pe 2005
  • Queen bee / Chynna Clugston.
    PN6727.C566 Q44 2005

Thanksgiving Holiday

The PCC/USF Library will be closed from Thursday, November 24th to Sunday, November 27th. The Library will reopen Monday, November 28th at 8:00 AM.

Absence

I will out of the office on Friday November 18 and on Monday November 21. You can leave me a voice mail at 863-667-7737 or an email at clw@lakeland.usf.edu, if there is an emergency.

New Carnegie classification

This past Tuesday, the Carnegie Foundation unveiled its college classification overhaul. The new classification is hoped to bring greater precision to the categorizing of more than 4,000 institutions. On its website, the Foundation also programmed online tools for creating customized lists of peer institutions.

Group blogs

Group blogs from Academic Computing are now available for USF “groups”: departments, services, etc. Multi-authors are then possible. Cost is $200 per year. See http://usg.blog.usf.edu/2005/10/31/introducing-group-blogs/ for more details.

Slow WorldCat

OCLC FirstSearch is currently experiencing slow response time problems. There is currently no time estimate available on when this will be repaired but they are working on it!

Public Health a new focus for JSTOR

JSTOR is a full-text database specializing in older issues of long-standing, reputed scholarly journals.

During 2006, they will add new titles to their “Health & General Science” collection. Some of these new titles are Environmental Health Perspectives, Epidemiology, European Journal of Epidemiology and Epidemiology and Infection.

Further titles will be added to this collection over the next two years. Journals selected will be broadly relevant to research in public health to complement other sets of titles in biostatistics, health policy, and population studies present in JSTOR.

New videocassette available

Newly available at the PCC/USF Library:

How to speak up, set limits and say no without losing your job or your friends. Boulder, CO : CareerTrack Publications, c1991.
BF575.A85 A73 1991

Ask for it at the front desk.

Veterans Day

Tomorrow, Friday November the 11th, USF-Lakeland is closed for the holiday so, I, the USF Librarian will be off. But the PCC/USF Library will be open from 8 AM to 4 PM.

Easy integration of Refworks in BlackBoard

Integration of a Refworks database has been made easier in BlackBoard.

Instructors, say you have created a database in Refworks, the citation management software, for one of your classes. It contains citations (and possibly links) of suggested articles, reports and book chapters for your students to read. That database can now be linked from your class information in BlackBoard.

Here’s how: in BlackBoard, from the control panel, select the area where you would like the link to be. Then add an item using the right-hand drop down menu, choosing the “Link to Refworks database” option.

You will then be asked for the database login name and password. You can designate the main password for your Refworks database; your students will then be able to add citations to the database (but delete them too). Use the read-only password if you do not wish your students to be able to modify the entries. To set a read-only password, log in into your Refworks database, go under “Tools”, then “Update User Information”.