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
Category: Books & E-books
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
Featured E-Book: Companion to Women’s and Gender Studies
The Companion to Women’s and Gender Studies edited by Nancy A. Naples, includes thematically-organized chapters that explore the development of Women’s and Gender Studies as an academic discipline, changes in the field, research directions, and significant scholarship in specific, interrelated disciplines such …Continue Reading
Featured E-book: Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice
Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice by Denisha Jones, is an excellent resource for those who seek to build an anti-racist school system. This is an anthology of lessons learned as well as discussions about the ongoing struggle …Continue Reading
Celebrating the Public Domain in 2022
This post by Copyright Librarian LeEtta Schmidt reports on newly-created public domain digitized material in the USF Libraries’ collections. Check out the story if you’d like to see which 22 titles were selected by votes from the USF user community that were …Continue Reading
Featured E-book: Education for All in Times of Crisis: Lessons from Covid-19
Education for All in Times of Crisis: Lessons from Covid-19 by Marilyn Leask and Sarah Younie outlines loss of learning children and young people have experienced during the pandemic. It looks at ways educational institutions have worked to provide continuity of education …Continue Reading
Up to the Challenge: Books to Navigate Threats to Intellectual Freedom
This article, written for schools and libraries, offers some excellent reading for those who wish to learn more about how to fight book banning in libraries and schools. Featured books that the USF Libraries owns are: Controversial Books in K-12 Classrooms by …Continue Reading