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Welcome to the September issue of the EdLib Report, a monthly education focused newsletter/blog that offers updates about  library services, resources, and technology. This month focuses on upcoming workshops, new resources, and services.  You can subscribe to this blog as one of your RSS feeds should you find the news it brings you timely and useful. Please don't hesitate to contact me with your questions and suggestions.

Sincerely,

Susan Ariew
Research Services and Collections Librarian for Education

Library Workshops--Supporting Teaching, Research, and New Technology Applications

USF Libraries : News : Library Research Workshop Series

In collaboration with the Center for Twenty First Century Teaching Excellence, The USF Tampa Library is sponsoring a series of workshops related to research, teaching and new technologies this fall. Topics include using technology to create e-alerts for your research, avoiding plagiarism, using multimedia and new technologies to teach your students library instruction, and beyond the basics research in the social sciences. Check out our offerings and click the links to sign up through the CTE Web site.

Library and Information Resources Related to Promotion and Tenure

USF Libraries : How-To Guides & More : Library and Information Resources Related to Promotion and Tenure

This Web page offers links to resources that can give you information about who is citing your articles and books. It also offers databases that will profile journals, rank them, and give you bibliometrics such as impact factors. Caveats about such metrics can be found in some of the articles listed under "further reading."

The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database

The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database is one that pulls together reviews of children's books and young adult literature. Along with detailed reviews from such quality sources as The Alan Review, The Horn Book, and Booklist, this database offers profiles about authors and illustrators. 145,000 Web links add more information to the profiles. Over 260,000 entries identify select books that have received state, national, and international awards. Search options allow users to locate reviews of books based on age, grade level, genre or subject matter. The database also offers "themed reviews" of items around special holidays, target audiences, or subjects. Also incorporated into bibliographic citations are measurement parameters of various reading programs such as Accelerated Reader, Degrees of Reading Power, Lexile or Reading Counts. Preservice and classroom teachers who wish to enhance K-12 curricula will find this a very valuable resource. This database is also an excellent resource for librarians and media specialists as a collection development and reader's advisory tool. To get to this resource, go to the library home page, click on "Research Help" and then on "Subject Guides." You will find this linked off of the Children's and Young Adult Literature subject guide under the "Key Resources" tab.
 

RefWorks Workshops

USF Libraries : RefWorks : RefWorks Training Form

The library will again offer several RefWorks workshops this fall for anyone who wishes to sign up for training. All RefWorks sessions are held in the USF Tampa Library unless noted otherwise.

  Tue, 9/9, 3pm, LIB 201 (Basic)
  Mon, 9/15, 11am, LIB 201 (Basic)
  Thu, 9/18, 11am, LIB 201 (Basic)
  Mon, 9/22, 2pm, LIB 201 (Basic)
  Wed, 9/24, 11am, LIB 201 (Basic)
  Tue, 10/7, 6pm, LIB 201 (Basic)

Basic Sessions will cover the fundamentals: creating a RefWorks account, importing data, organizing your database and generating a bibliography. Great for new users or even existing users who would like a refresher. (60 minutes)

Print Journals Review for Tampa Library

USF Libraries : Print Journals Review 

After working with the Library Council members and conducting a preliminary faculty survey distributed by college deans, The Research Services and Collections Unit of the Tampa Library spent the summer reviewing the data and creating a print journals review web site for final review of titles nominated for cancellation. One list of journals represents print titles the library also receives electronically through services such as Academic Search Premier, ABI Inform and other aggregators. Another list represents print-only titles that will no longer be available once they are cancelled.  The purpose of the final stage of this review is to offer faculty and students an opportunity to contribute to the conclusion of the review process which is designed to ensure that our print journal collections match the needs communicated in the  survey results from last spring. If cancellations are appropriate, we intend to reinvest the savings in new titles.

Student Scholarships Available Through the Tampa Library

USF Libraries : Your Library : Student Scholarships

If you know talented graduate or undergraduate students who deserve to be recognized for their academic achievements, perhaps you can steer them to the library Web page for scholarships. The Coleman Award asks for original fiction while others such as the George and Bobbe Karpay Scholarship offer $500 to pay for books. Deadline for student scholarship applications is Friday, October 31, 2008. Deadline for Coleman Fiction Contest is Friday, December 5, 2008. Research stipends are also available to graduate student scholars working in the area of Florida Studies.

New "Ask Here" Help Desk in Tampa Library

This new,"concierge-type" of desk, located at the entrance of the Learning Commons, hopefully adds a friendly and welcoming face on a very busy library this fall. Staff members at this service point offer short answers to basic questions, give directions, and refer patrons to other service points.   

 

 

The Civil Rights Digital Library

The Civil Rights Digital Library :: Home Page

This site allows users to discover for themselves what the Civil Rights movement of the 60's was all about through primary sources and other educational materials brought together at this portal. Here one can see materials from libraries, archives, museums, including unedited news films from television archives. The site can be browsed by events, places, topics, people and type of media. There are some excellent educator resources included as well.

Banned Books Week--September 27-October 4th

Banned Books Week, an event observed the last week of September since 1982,  is not just about celebrating the freedom to read, but it is a week that asks all citizens to support freedom of expression and intellectual freedom.  Visit ALA's Banned Books Week Web site if you are interested in seeing events are going on during Banned Books Week, learning the basics, identifying how to support Banned Books Week, obtaining a press kit to observe the week, or reviewing the list of frequently challenged books.