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
Category: Books & E-books
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
Featured E-book: Teaching and Learning for Social Justice and Equity in Higher Education
The focus of this volume, edited by Laura Parson and C. Casey Ozaki, is on online learning practices that promote social justice and equity in higher education. The book discusses how e-learning may promote and reinforce sexist, racist and gendered behaviors. Chapters …Continue Reading
Thank you to USF Sarasota-Manatee campus and the CAS Library Committee
The USF Libraries want to extend our warmest appreciation to the USF Sarasota-Manatee campus and the CAS Library Committee for one-time funding to purchase the following new resources: Bloomsbury History: Theory + Method Bloomsbury Drama Online Playtexts Social Work Online Food Studies …Continue Reading
Hidden Treasures: Sage Research Methods Database
The SAGE Research Methods Database is the ultimate methods library with more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, including a large collection of qualitative and quantitative methods books available online …Continue Reading