Welcome to the December issue of the EdLib Report, a monthly newsletter/blog that offers education and library science updates about USF Library news, e-resources, technology tips, digital archives, Web sites, videos, and blogs.
Let me take this opportunity to wish you a safe and happy holiday break!
Sincerely,
Susan Ariew
Academic Services Librarian for Education, Philosophy & Library Science
LIB112F
813-974-0304
Announcing Credo Reference as the latest addition to the online collection of the USF Libraries. Funded by USF Sarasota/Manatee, Credo is a multidisciplinary collection of online reference resources selected by USF librarians.
Credo Reference provides access to one hundred reference resources,
such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, and biographical sources chosen to meet a
broad range of research needs. Metasearching allows the user to search across
all content in the current collection. Each title has an information title page
with a description, and a search box for the individual title, so searching can
be done at a more precise level. Concept maps are available, as are
“gadgets” offering quick look ups for definitions, locations, conversions,
quotations and people. Results can be exported into RefWorks, EndNote,
ProCite or Reference Manager. Users can also email the abstract or the
full-text, save to a file or clipboard, or choose to print. Citation styles
offered are APA, MLA, Harvard and Chicago.
Interlibrary Loan at USF Tampa Library (ILLIAD) will be temporarily suspended during break from December 12th until January 10th. Loan requests will be limited to USF campus transfers only. Interlibrary loan cannot hold a backlog of requests during the entire intersession so they are asking that you hold back on requests altogether. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Interlibrary Loan Office at: 813-974-1607.
More and more I hear complaints about students not doing class readings, not wanting to purchase or use textbooks, and discussions about why, more than ever, this seems to be a problem. Is it that digital natives are poor readers? Is it the cost of the textbooks? Listed here are a few resources for educators interested in this topic:
Hobson, E.H. (2004). IDEA Paper #40,"Getting Students to Read: Fourteen Tips." Retrieved November 5, 2009, from http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/Idea_Paper_40.pdf
The Future of Reading Literacy Debate: R U Really Reading? New York Times, July 27, 2008.
Reading Difficult Texts: General Principles, a guide for students from the Academic Skills and Learning Centre of the Australian National University.
A children's books web site created by author James Patterson that offers the best "great books, cool books, books kids would absolutely love." This site is not only a good curriculum development tool, but also a great place to browse if you're looking to buy some good reading for kids over the holidays this year.
This posted from the EBSCOhost Support News Blog:
"This new interface includes many features for an enhanced mobile experience, is optimized for internet-enabled handheld devices, and qualified for all the major smartphones (such as iPhone, Blackberry and Treo). EBSCO designed it with a lower resolution, simplified by removing folders and other advanced features, and changed the more performance intensive technologies, e.g., Ajax and Javascript, into lightweight HTML.
Also,
for the past five years EBSCO, recognizing the needs of specific user
audiences, has had mobile products for its medical databases, such as DynaMed.
Now that EBSCOhost Mobile is available, users can simply select the EBSCOhost Mobile profile set up by their library administrator, to view the most-used features and functionality within EBSCOhost, tailored to fit the smaller screens of mobile devices."
