The USF Tampa Library will be involved in a renovation project beginning May 4th that may impact your ability to locate print-only journals. To make room for a mathematics laboratory and Learning Commons on the second floor of the library, the print journals will be boxed and placed in storage until they can be moved to the basement of the library for permanent shelving. During that time, all print-only journal articles, will need to be requested through InterLibrary Loan instead of PRONTO. If you need to verify whether something is available to you or not, feel free to contact the library reference staff or Education Librarian, Susan Ariew. Because of renovations, access to the second floor throughout the summer may be limited.
Illustrated in the photo above are student technology fees at work. The long, Starbuck’s length line of students you see in the Learning Commons are students waiting to obtain their free printouts from printers (which have been subsidized by technology fees). Given the economic challenges students have faced in 2011-12, the USF Tampa Library is proud to support them in their basic need for technology cost reductions (printing, textbook affordability e-resources, laptop checkouts, scanners) as much as for new and innovative technology projects. Now, if there were something we could do about those long lines…
Melanie Griffin, Special Collections, reports in an eCodex posting (the awesome Special Collections blog) that YA author Tammar Stein visited the Hipple Collection of Young Adult Literature in order to donate an editorial typescript of her last novel, Kindred (Knopf, 2011). Tammar also provided the library with updates about her latest book. All of this was facilitated by Professor of English Education, Joan Kaywell, who is the founder of the Ted Hipple Collection and a great supporter of the USF Tampa Library.
Pictured here are Joan (left) and Tammar (right). See also Melanie’s recent post from eCodex Behind the Scenes with the Hipple Collection of Young Adult Literature. See also, Children’s Writer Shannon Hitchcock’s blog entry about her field trip to the Ted Hipple Young Adult Literature Collection.
Many American college campuses are home to a vibrant drinking scene where students frequently get wasted, train-wrecked, obliterated, hammered, destroyed, and decimated. The terms that university students most commonly use to describe severe alcohol intoxication share a common theme: destruction, and even after repeated embarrassing, physically unpleasant, and even violent drinking episodes, students continue to go out drinking together. In Getting Wasted: Why College Students Drink Too Much and Party So Hard , Thomas Vander Ven provides a unique answer to the perennial question of why college students drink.
Author Kathleen Fitzpatrick focuses in this e-book on the technological changes, especially greater utilization of internet publication technologies, including digital archives, social networking tools, and multimedia necessary to allow academic publishing to thrive into the future Springing from original research as well as Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s own hands-on experiments in new modes of scholarly communication through Media Commons, the digital scholarly network she co-founded, Planned Obsolescence explores all of these aspects of scholarly work, as well as issues surrounding the preservation of digital scholarship and the place of publishing within the structure of the contemporary university. Written in an approachable style designed to bring administrators and scholars into a conversation, Planned Obsolescence explores both symptom and cure to ensure that scholarly communication will remain vibrant and relevant in the digital future. Posted in Books & E-books, Scholarly Communications | Leav
The USF Libraries has trial access to the Alexander Street Press collection, Oral History Online until June 5, 2012. Oral History Online provides in-depth indexing to more than 2,700 collections of Oral History in English from around the world. The collection also provides keyword searching of more than 329,400 pages of full-text by close to 10,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to over 4,200 audio and video files and almost 19,000 bibliographic records. Please try it out and send any comments/feedback to Barbara Lewis (bilewis@usf.edu), Special Collections or Rue McKenzie (rmckenzie@usf.edu), Academic Resources.
This interactive map helps you track population growth and decline, changes in racial and ethnic concentrations and patterns of housing development.
This site showcases student artwork created by American University in Cairo in response to the January 25, 2011, a revolution that led to the ousting of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The collection is part of the university’s rare books and special collections digital library, which also include architectural drawings, photographs from the revolution, and video recordings. The image above is called “We Fight For.”
This Independent Task Force report asserts that fixing the nation’s underperforming K-12 public schools is critical for strengthening the country’s security and increasing its economic competitiveness.The United States’ failure to educate its students leaves them unprepared to compete and threatens the country’s ability to thrive in a global economy and maintain its leadership role, finds a new Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)–sponsored Independent Task Force report on U.S. Education Reform and National Security. Thanks go to Professor Michael Berson for the pointer!
