Message sent on behalf of Carol Ann Davis, Associate Dean, to USF Libraries staff.
I am writing with happy news! USF is a member of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL), and the ASERL group acquired the attached list of Adam Matthew Digital collections. As an ASERL member, USF now has perpetual access to all Adam Matthew Digital titles published through 2016, a total of 77 resources. There are no fees or ongoing costs for this set of resources.
Each of these collections would have been a substantial investment for the USF Libraries to acquire, so this is a significant addition to our collections. Adam Matthew will be offering training through ASERL towards the end of the month and has offered to provide a training session to interested USF Libraries staff. In the meantime, the USF Libraries Collections & Discovery group has added these materials to the Databases A-Z list.
Stay tuned for more information, but in the meantime, please share this information with your faculty.
Message sent on behalf of Carol Ann Davis, Associate Dean, to USF Libraries staff, USF department heads, and faculty identified as using streaming media.
This is a reminder to faculty using streaming media in their courses for the spring 2022 semester and beyond. The USF Libraries will discontinue leasing titles on the Kanopy and Swank streaming platforms at the end of December 2021. Titles that are active at that time will continue until they expire; most titles are leased for 12 months at a time.
A full list of titles with expiration dates is available and will be updated regularly. Content that is perpetually available will continue, and the USF Libraries is purchasing selected Kanopy content to keep some of the content available to the USF community in perpetuity. Unfortunately, not all titles are available for purchase.
The USF Libraries continue to subscribe to database platforms that include streaming media; these titles are not included in the separate list of titles, so please take these resources into account when preparing your courses. We continue to explore alternate options for providing streaming media in a sustainable way with predictable costs. In the meantime, as a supplemental resource, we have curated a selection of freely accessible video and other media content on the Digital Learning Objects & Media Tools to Supplement Instruction guide.
Through the fall 2021 semester, please continue to submit all streaming video requests through the Course Reserves function in Canvas. Instructions are available at https://lib.usf.edu/course-reserves/make-request/. If you encounter any issues in submitting through Canvas, please email LIBReserves@usf.edu. The maximum number of videos per course will continue to be limited to five (5) units.
Message sent on behalf of Carol Ann Davis, Associate Dean, to all USF Libraries staff.
The USF Libraries’ Evidence-Based Acquisition (EBA) program for ebooks on the Elsevier platform, which has provided faculty and students the discovery and access to significant scholarly books, is coming to an end on July 15th. The Tampa campus library is in the process of purchasing unowned titles with the most substantial usage or need with the amount remaining in the deposit account by June 30. If you have any requests for Elsevier titles please let us know as soon as possible. C&D will determine if we own them already.
Elsevier records for titles that we are not purchasing and have not been used will be removed from the catalog by July 15. Titles with recent usage that are not selected for purchase on the Elsevier platform will be made available via the Demand Driven Acquisition program on the Ebook Central platform, with associated records loaded into the catalog. Elsevier titles may also be purchased directly through GOBI by emailing lib-orders@usf.edu. If you, or any patron, are seeking an ebook title that you can no longer find in the catalog, please let us know, and we will endeavor to make it accessible for you.
Please let Carol Ann Davis know if you have any questions (borchert@usf.edu).
Dean Todd Chavez updated the members of the Faculty Senate’s Library Council on the progress of the budget realignment process and provided an overview of the formal review cycle and a COVID-19 relief fund proposal that would mitigate the impacts on the collection and provide a significant ROI.
Message was sent from Todd Chavez, Dean of USF Libraries, to all USF faculty members.
Dear USF Faculty Colleagues,
In December 2020, the USF Libraries Collection Advisory Group held two information sessions presenting the “Revisioning Collection Management” process. To ensure that as many faculty as possible are informed about the process, we will be hosting two additional sessions in March to review our on-going process and answer questions. Please note if you attended the December sessions, the information shared in March will be repeated.
Information sessions will be offered March 4th in the morning and March 11th in the afternoon to accommodate schedules. Please register for the session you would like to attend at https://usf.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cZsgONhVXUKaLTE. Microsoft Teams login information for both sessions are below:
Message was sent from Maggie Trela, ourCommunications and Marketing Officer, to all USF Libraries faculty and staff.
Hello LIB faculty!
The Collections Advisory Group (CAG) will be hosting two spring faculty Q&A sessions to review our Revisioning Collection Management process. These sessions will be the same as those offered in early December 2020. If you are interested in attending these sessions, please let me know and I’ll send you the calendar invite/s. The email invite to USF faculty will be going out from the Provost’s Office this week and can be found under my signature.
Todd Chavez, Dean of USF Libraries, updated the Library Council on the USF Libraries’ revisioning collections management progress, SACS visit, faculty input, concierge service, rapid document delivery, and CARES funding proposals.
