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New book by USF Poly librarian

Diane Fulkerson, Social Sciences & Education Librarian, has published a new book this month at IGI-Global. The book is entitled Remote Access Technologies for Library Collections: Tools for Library Users and Managers.

The book covers topics like the identification, implementation and updating of new technologies, copyright and fair use laws, creation of metadata for access to [...]

EBSCO databases down

The EBSCO databases are currently down for all users. EBSCO have told us they will remain that way for another two hours at least (until 4PM).

Some of our EBSCO databases include Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Criminal Justice Abstracts, EconLit, Education Full Text, OmniFile Full Text Mega, one version each of ERIC and [...]

Open door seminar - APA Citation Formatting: How To Format Correctly

The Library holds open door, hands-on seminars on popular topics. These seminars are open to all students, faculty and staff; no registration required. The seminars are cancelled if no one is present 10 minutes after the hour.

Learn the basics of APA style citation formatting

Face to face: Wednesday, March 21st, 4:00-5:00PM – LTB 2153

Personnel news

We have good news concerning USF Poly Library staff:

Laura Means, our part-time Library Assistant in the weekday mornings is now employed full-time. Among her duties is circulation, journals and new books processing and stacks maintenance. Congrats Laura!

Amber Ryder is now our part-time Office Manager. She shares administrative duties between the Library and other units on [...]

Supplement to the Faculty Research Review

We are publishing a supplement to the first issue of the Faculty Research Review. This publication, prepared by Business Librarian Lisa Zilinski, extensively lists USF Polytechnic faculty’s scholarly works – books, book chapters, journal articles and proceedings – produced in 2011.

When available, links to the library catalog or to the full-text content were included. [...]

Poly Paws event cancelled

Unfortunately, we had to cancel our Poly Paws event today.

We’ll re-invite Echo the Therapy Dog later in the semester.

Spring Break hours

The Library and OUL will have regular hours during the Spring Break.

Monday-Thursday, 8 AM – 8 PM
Friday, 8 AM – 5 PM
Saturday, 9 AM – 3 PM
Sunday, Closed

New resources at the USF Poly and FIPR Institute libraries

Here are the latest arrivals for the month of February. As always, Polytechnic titles are located in the New Books shelves in the back of the room. Reference and Faculty Publications are shelved immediately in their proper stacks. FIPR materials are shelved immediately in their proper stacks. The books from the circulating collections of [...]

Open door seminar (rescheduled) - Database Searching: Creating Effective Search Strategies

The Library holds open door, hands-on seminars on popular topics. These seminars are open to all students, faculty and staff; no registration required. The seminars are cancelled if no one is present 10 minutes after the hour.

Database Searching: Creating Effective Search Strategies

Learn how to create effective search strategies and determine the right database to use [...]

Poly Paws for midterms - March 7

Just in time for midterms, Echo the Therapy Dog is making a special Poly Paws visit to the USF Poly Library Wednesday, March 7th.

Echo is a licensed therapy dog that loves to be pet, can perform tricks and can help you take your mind off of things, if only for a little while.

She will greet [...]