FIND IT!

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Audrey Powers

Recently the USF Tampa Library launched a new search tool, Find It! This search tool brings together results containing articles, e-books, books, dvds, and other library materials.   In fact, our entire catalog contents are in the Find It! database.

Find It! was paid for with funds from Student Technology Fees and is provided by Ebsco, a vendor from which the library purchases many other databases (i.e., Academic Search Premier).   With Find It!, the library hopes to turn students’ attention toward using a library tool which will provide access to articles and away from general Google and Wikipedia searching.

Find It! does not replace the library’s catalog but is an additional search tool for students looking to access books and articles in one powerful search—something students have been requesting.

How does Find It! differ from the library’s online catalog?

Find It! includes articles in search results in addition to books and other library owned materials. Results from the USF Libraries catalog search does not include articles but only print books, e-books, government documents,  and other library owned materials.

What does it cover?
Results from Find It! pull from many (but not all) of the library’s article databases you may be already using.

These databases include (but are not limited to):  Academic Search Premier, Elsevier Science Direct, ERIC, JSTOR, PsycInfo, Medline, MLA Bibliography, Project Muse and Web of Science.

Find It! does not access ALL of the library’s databases and your results may be different from results obtained when you search individual databases, but the databases not included are still available through the  Databases by Subject or Databases by Title under ‘Resources’ on the library web page.   The number of currently excluded databases will change however as new agreements between vendors are created.

Listed below are several databases not included in Find It! that are primary research tools for your students in the College of The Arts:
ARTbibliographies Modern
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Dissertations and Theses, Full Text
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
International Bibliography of Art
International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text
International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text
New York Times historical newspaper

As new agreements with vendors are reached, databases currently not included in Find It! will be added.  Improvements are continually being made as we get feedback from students and faculty.  We encourage you to let us know what you think by trying Find It! and providing us with feedback.

We would be glad to help you and your students learn to use this powerful new tool.

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Dance in Video

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Audrey Powers

Dance in Video has 7 new titles (8 hours) bringing the content count to 631 works/387hours. See the new titles here — http://daiv.alexanderstreet.com/WhatsNew

New material includes instructional material from the Finis Jhung Technique series, including pirouette techniques and fundamental elements of the En Dehors turn.

Also included is an interview with Ted Brandsen, instructional material on Latin Fusion (salsa, merengue, cha-cha), material from the Archive of Lost Choreography from the George Balanchine Foundation, plus a performance of Swan Lake by the Royal Swedish Ballet.

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ARTstor

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Audrey Powers

Happy New Year!

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Hope you’re off to a fabulous start for 2012! ARTstor Digital Library now makes available nearly 1.4 million images in the United States and nearly 1.2 million images internationally. In 2011, we launched over 123,000 new images in the United States and more than 91,000 new images internationally from 29 new collections and expanded the content in 19 existing collections. Highlights include: the renowned Cone Collection of modern art from the Baltimore Museum of Art; extraordinary images of Romanesque architecture from Via Lucis; stunning shots of public art and architecture in Shanghai and the United Arab Emirates from ART on FILE; historic documentation of urban development from the Museum of the City of New York; and iconic works of art from the Réunion des Musées Nationaux (RMN).

We also reached agreements for 50 new collections last year, including the Guggenheim Museum’s permanent collection, exhibition installation photos, and museum architecture; Pre-Columbian Art from the Kerr Archive; new media art from Rhizome at the New Museum; African-American art from the Mott-Warsh Collection; master drawings from the Museo del Prado for the Gernsheim Corpus; and more. In addition, we are delighted to let you know that more institutions, such as the Indianapolis Museum of Art, have signed onto the Images for Academic Publishing (IAP) program in an effort to foster scholarly publishing by providing TIFF image files for free for academic publications. See complete ARTstor Collections Summary 2011.

Last but not least, special thanks to the extraordinary people who have worked with us to make their collections discoverable for teaching and research purposes through the ARTstor Digital Library. Collaboration can be challenging (even in the digital age) and we thank all of our colleagues for making these partnerships really happen! Your collections are making an impact at now more than 1,400 educational institutions in 45 countries.Thanks to all of our contributors, subscribers, and users for your continued support.

Wishing you a very productive and exciting New Year!

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Classical Music Library – New Content Added

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Audrey Powers

459 albums (8,384 tracks) have been added to Classical Music Library from a wide variety of labels, including new releases from Haenssler Classics, Mode Records, Bridge, Vox, and Wirripang.

New material includes compositions by Frank Bridge, Benjamin Britten, Arnold Bax, Gustav Mahler, Charles Koechlin, Wolfgang Rihm, Elliott Carter, Edvard Grieg, Morton Feldman, Aldo Clementi, Antonio Salieri, Lawrence Dillon, John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, Henry Fillmore, Morton Subotnick, Ursula Mamlok, Valentin Silvestrov, Giacinto Scelsi, Toru Takemitsu, and more.

Examples of new albums include:
*Olivier Messiaen: The Works for Orchestra (SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg)
*Pioneers and Exiles: Violin Music from Israel (Kolja Le ssing)
*Lute Music of the Renaissance: The Schele Manuscript Hamburg, 1619 (Joachim Held) *Insects and Paper Airplanes: Chamber Music of Lawrence Dillon (Daedalus Quartet) *Japanese Piano Works (Gerhard Oppitz) *Arlene Sierra, Vol. 1 (Arlene Sierra) *Australian Song Cycles, Vol. 1 (Wendy Dixon) *Elliott Carter: Choral Works (SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart) *Bridge, Britten & Bax: Cello Sonatas (Johannes Moser, Paul Rivinius)

*Mozart: Complete Sonatas for Piano & Violin (Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Antonio Pappano, Konstantin Lifschitz)

Also, new content comes from EMI Classics, Angel Records, Capitol Catalog, and more.

Highlights include recordings by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jussi Bjorling, Victoria De Los Angeles, Itzhak Perlman, Renata Scotto, Mstislav Rostropovich, London Symphony Orchestra, Taverner Choir, Maria Callas, Jon Vickers, Melos Ensemble, Pinchas Zuckerman, Borodin Quartet, Christoph Eschenbach, Elly Ameling, Trio Sonnerie,  Alban Berg Quartett, Chung Trio, John Ogdon, and more.

Included in this release are hundreds of full length operas, including:
*Puccini – Turandot (Maria Callas, Teatro alla Scala)
*Puccini – La Bohème (Mirella Freni, Teatro dell’Opera Di Roma)
*Mozart – Don Giovanni (Joan Sutherland, Philharmonia Orchestra) *Puccini – Tosca (Placido Domingo, Philharmonia Orchestra) *Mozart – Così fan tutte (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Philharmonia Orchestra) *R. Strauss – Elektra (Eva Marton, des Bayerischen Rundfunks)
*Donizetti – Don Pasquale (Beverly Sills, Ambrosian Opera)
*Gounod – Faust (Thomas Allen, National Opera of Paris)
*Bellini – Norma (Maria Callas, Teatro alla Scala)
*Massenet – Manon (Roberto Alagna, La Monnaie) …and many more.

Other new albums include:
*Walton conducts Walton: Symphony No. 1, Belshazzar’s Feast
*Bela Bartók: Mikrokosmos Books 1-6
*Ireland: Piano Concerto and solo piano works
*Mendelssohn: Elias
*Penderecki: Orchestral Works
*Joyne Hands – English Renaissance Music
*Barry Tuckwell: Horn Concertos
*Simon Rattle Edition: Britten *Karlheinz Stockhausen: Spiral 1 & Japan
*20th Century Classics: Arvo Pärt

You can browse the new content here — http://clmu.alexanderstreet.com/WhatsNew

Classical Music Library now includes 134,381 tracks and Music Online includes 764,751 tracks, 100,030 pages text reference, 24,977 scores (417,083 pages) and 889 hours of video.

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Help Your Students NOW…

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Audrey Powers

…Before it is too late.

Direct them to these important workshops that will enable them to become better students:

Research Rescue Workshops

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Tutorials

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Audrey Powers

Listed below are tutorials to help your students learn about access to library materials, locating sources at the USF Library, Citations, Database Guides, Evaluating Sources and Plagiarism.  Feel free to embed these tutorials in Blackboard.

TUTORIALS
Access to Library Materials
How to Connect from Off-Campus
E-Book Access from the USF Library Website

Locating Sources at the USF Library
Find a Book by Subject Using the Library Catalog
Find a Book by Title in the USF Libraries Catalog
Locating Children’s and Juvenile Books
Tips and Tricks: UBorrow
Finding Articles

Citations
How to Read Citations
Creating citations from EBSCO databases

Database Guides
AP Multimedia
CSA Illumina
CQ Researcher
EBSCO
Proquest
SciFinder Scholar
Wilson Omnifile

Evaluating Sources
Evaluating Your Sources (PDF)
Identifying Peer-Reviewed Articles
Finding Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (PDF)
Information Literacy : Evaluating Information Sources
Information Skills Modules – Evaluating Information
Popular vs. Scholarly Periodicals
Research 101

Plagiarism
What is Plagiarism?
Avoiding Plagiarism
Plagiarism & Citation Styles
Plagiarism and Academic Honesty
Plagiarism: What Is It and How to Recognize and Avoid It
The Fraud of Plagiarism (USF)
How to Cite Sources: What Needs to be Cited?

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ARTstor

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Audrey Powers

Season’s Greetings from the ARTstor staff
Get into the holiday spirit with images of celebrations and feasts, from leftovers at a Greek party in 2nd century AD to a rollicking Hasidic dance in 1940. The ARTstor staff wishes you memorable celebrations of your own and a happy New Year!
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Now available: Images of architecture in Japan and Chicago from Columbia University
ARTstor Digital Library and Columbia University have released more than 2,500 photographs of architecture in Chicago and Japan.
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Now available: Images of architecture in Japan and Chicago from Columbia University
ARTstor Digital Library and Columbia University have released more than 2,500 photographs of architecture in Chicago and Japan.
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Now available: Images of art and architecture from Europe and of the Metropolitan Museum of Art by William Keighley (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
ARTstor Digital Library and The Metropolitan Museum of Art are sharing approximately 2,700 images of art and architecture from cities in Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland, and of the Museum itself and the Cloisters museum and gardens, photographed by William Keighley.
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Now available: Images of parchment and papyrus documents from Dura-Europos (Syria) from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University
ARTstor Digital Library has collaborated with Yale University to share more than 300 images from the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s extraordinary Yale Papyrus Collection.
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Now available: Metalwork and jewelry by Tom Muir
ARTstor has released 60 images of metalsmith and jeweler Tom Muir’s award-winning work in the Digital Library.
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Now available: Wriston Art Center Galleries (Lawrence University)
ARTstor Digital Library and the Wriston Art Center at Lawrence University have collaborated to share nearly 1,300 images of works from the permanent collection.
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Now available: Japanese art, architecture, and rituals photographed by David Boggett
ARTstor Digital Library and Smith College have released approximately 500 images of Japanese art, architecture, and festivals photographed by David Boggett.
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Now available: Additional images from Gazette du Bon Ton (Minneapolis College of Art and Design)
The Minneapolis College of Art and Design has contributed more than 75 images of early 20th-century French fashion plates from La Gazette du Bon Ton to the ARTstor Digital Library.
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Now available: Via Lucis
ARTstor and Via Lucis have released more than 1,300 images of European Romanesque and Gothic churches in France and Spain in the Digital Library.
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Now available: Additional images from the Image of the Black in Western Art (Harvard University)
ARTstor and the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University have released nearly 7,000 additional images from the Image of the Black in Western Art in the Digital Library.
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New Project MUSE Platform Launches on January 1, 2012

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Audrey Powers

Project MUSE’s new books + journals combined platform is scheduled to go live on January 1, 2012 with over 14,000 books from 66 university presses and related scholarly publishers and 500 electronic journals.

MUSE will provide a one-month preview period to allow you to discover the depth of the book content.  At the end of the preview period, search results will default to only content to which the searcher has full-text access. At this point, users will have the option to toggle the search to show all available books and journals relevant to a search, if desired.

A search box on every page of the site offers users the option of searching both books and journals, or filtering by content type prior to running the search. At the search results level, users may again filter to just books or just journals, as well as to only content for which they have full text access.

Highlights of the new Project MUSE platform include:

- Hierarchical subject structure allowing users to drill down to the most relevant content
- Options to filter search results by subject area, author, and language
- Browsing by subject area, title, or publisher, across books and journals or by content type
- Search box on each page of the site, with predictive search terms
-New access icons to help users clearly identify content to which they have paid access through their institution, free sample content, and open access content- Discovery and research tools at both the book and journal article level, including More by This Author and Related Content links, citation downloading/exporting, and social sharing- “Search Inside…” feature for both books and journals
- DOIs at title and chapter level for books, article level for journal

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Dead Sea Scrolls

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Audrey Powers

When the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, home to the Dead Sea Scrolls, reopened last year after an extensive renovation, it attracted a million visitors in the first 12 months. When the museum opened an enhanced Web site with newly digitized versions of the scrolls in September, it drew a million virtual visitors in three and a half days.

The scrolls, scanned with ultrahigh-resolution imaging technology, have been viewed on the Web from 210 countries — including some, like Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Syria, that provide few real-world visitors to the Israel Museum.

“This is taking the material to an amazing range of audiences,” said James S. Snyder, the museum’s director. “There’s no way we would have had the technical capability to do this on our own.”

The digitization of the scrolls was done by  Google under a new initiative aimed at demonstrating that the Internet giant’s understanding of culture extends beyond the corporate kind. The Google Cultural Institute plans to make artifacts like the scrolls — from museums, archives, universities and other collections around the world — accessible to any Internet user.

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Sistine Chapel Up Close

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Audrey Powers

Here is an amazing bit of technology that you would never see in person, and you would never be alone in the room.  It is always very crowded; and, of course, you can’t see Michelangelo’s artwork close up as you can here.  This is especially spectacular if you have a large high-definition screen!

TO VIEW EVERY PART OF THE MICHELANGELO’S MASTERPIECE, JUST CLICK AND DRAG YOUR ARROW IN THE DIRECTION YOU WISH TO SEE.  In the lower left, click on the plus (+) to move closer, on the minus (-) to move away. Deactivate music by clicking on the music note.

Click here: Sistine Chapel

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