Shawna Durtschi (sadurtschi@usf.edu) is the Digital Scholarship Librarian and Education liaison on the USF St. Petersburg campus. In addition to her liaison role, her work includes advancing open access understanding, supporting intellectual freedom and culturally relevant pedagogy, data literacy and democratization, and creating community-academic …Continue Reading
Category: Library Instruction
Summer 2024 Faculty Information Literacy Institute
The USF Libraries invites faculty to apply to participate in a week-long Summer Faculty Information Literacy Institute from June 2-7, 2024. The institute will introduce concepts related to teaching information literacy and research skills to assist faculty with incorporating these concepts into …Continue Reading
Library Instruction and Research Consultations
The USF Libraries are committed to supporting student and faculty success, research, and information literacy through instruction and one-on-one consultations. We provide synchronous and asynchronous instruction in-person or virtually, through our Canvas workshops, our Workshops for Researchers series, online research guides, and …Continue Reading
Upcoming Events–Workshops for Researchers
Dissertations: Expanding the Literature Review for Social Sciences Tuesday, October 3, 3-4pm You know the basics—the library catalog, the databases in your discipline and many of the tools you have used habitually for your coursework and basic projects, but now you want …Continue Reading
Expanding the Literature Review for Social Sciences
You know the basics—the library catalog, the databases in your discipline and many of the tools you have used habitually for your coursework and basic projects, but now you want to go deeper, either because you are getting ready to write your …Continue Reading
Featured Workshop for Black History Month on Friday, February 10, 2023 from 11 AM-2 PM
Introduction to Wikipedia: Black History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is an online workshop being held Friday, February 10th from 11 AM-2PM about Wikipedia editing to improve content about African American History and culture. Partners for this workshop include USF Libraries, Tennessee State University …Continue Reading
Featured USF Resource–Academic Writer
Academic Writer is a web-based application providing interactive tools to help students and faculty learn and apply APA Style®. It features point-of-need quick guides and video tutorials. All of the content from the APA Publication Manual is included in Academic Writer . The …Continue Reading
Workshops for Researchers this Fall
USF Libraries is pleased to launch our 2022-23 Workshops for Researchers program, offering a wide array of research training for faculty, graduate students and USF researchers. Taught by expert faculty and librarian, our virtual workshops cover a range of essential data analysis …Continue Reading
Planning for the Fall–Including Library Instruction into Your Course
As you plan for the Fall semester, you might want to consider what type of library instruction would best scaffold any research projects for your students. Available to instructors are asynchronous digital badging workshops about such topics as avoiding plagiarism, APA citation …Continue Reading