In the face of growing attacks on the teaching of history, The New Press is partnering with the Zinn Education project to send books to teachers and teacher educators in Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. Click here to …Continue Reading
Category: Books & E-books
Books Save Lives Award Event on Thursday, February 23, 1:45 PM
You are invited to the annual Books Save Lives award reception on February 23 at 1:45 PM celebrating Mindy McGinnis, 2023 award winner and author of Heroine. This award, originally given by the Florida Council of Teachers of English (FCTE) but now …Continue Reading
Featured E-book: The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives
In The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives, by David Mura, the author reveals harmful narratives white people create to justify white supremacy and to maintain oppression. Mura connects history, literature, ethics and his own personal experiences to …Continue Reading
Featured Resource–Psychiatry Online
Psychiatry Online is an amazing digital collection of materials that includes books, journals news, and more from the American Psychiatric Association. Particularly helpful to those interested in educational psychology is the DSM Library, featuring the 5th edition of the DSM-5-TR, the DSM-5 …Continue Reading
Celebrate National Picture Book Month!
November is National Picture Book Month, a tribute to the enduring importance of the picture book form. This post features a digital archive of 7,000 historic children books that includes mid to late 19th century titles at University of Florida’s Baldwin Library …Continue Reading
Books Unbanned
New York Libraries have been fighting book bans across the country by lending 25,000 books to nonresidents since last spring. Brooklyn (N.Y.) Public Library has been particularly proactive with its Books Unbanned program, offering its e-books collection to young people ages 13-21 …Continue Reading
Unite Against Book Bans
The week of September 18-24 is Banned Books Week sponsored by the American Library Association. Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read and spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. Unite Against Book Bans is a …Continue Reading
Encyclopedia of Queer Studies in Education
The Encyclopedia of Queer Studies in Education, edited by Kamden Strunk and Stephanie Anne Shelton, focuses on education and education research as it relates to queer studies. chapters include such topics as AIDs activism, Androgyny, Antidiscrimination Laws and Policies, Bisexuality, Campus Climate …Continue Reading
Helping Students with College Costs through the Textbook Affordability Project (TAP)
The USF Libraries’ Textbook Affordability Project (TAP) may be able to purchase electronic versions of key texts for your courses! TAP’s Ebooks for the Classroom+ program works to provide free access to required course readings which helps to mitigate high textbook costs …Continue Reading
Understanding Our E-book Collections
E-books for academic libraries come in a variety of platforms and formats, and that variety can be very confusing. For some publishers, there are restrictions on downloading and printing. For many of those publishers, users can download the entire book, but after …Continue Reading