Along with subject guides to help students get started with research in their academic disciplines, librarians also can assist faculty by creating course-specific guides that curate the most relevant library resources for that particular course. These guides can offer starting points for …Continue Reading
Category: Tips and Tricks
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
Linked-In Learning
Linked-in Learning offers tutorials on software applications that can help you or your students whether it is accessing a tutorial about Teams orientation, Adobe Photoshop applications, Articulate Storyline, and more. You can browse the list of topics and applications here. You can …Continue Reading
USF Libraries Workshops for Researchers
The USF Libraries has launched a series of virtual research workshops for faculty and graduate students featuring such topics as introduction to citation management tools (Zotero, Mendeley, Endnote), journal metrics and rankings for the sciences, conducting legal research, developing and maintaining your …Continue Reading
New Faculty Library Orientation Guide
If you know of new faculty who need the basics about library support for teaching and research, this is the guide that can help. It offers an introduction to general services on all campuses, promotion and tenure resources that relate to journal …Continue Reading
Alerting Services for Databases and Journals
Alerting services, also known as current awareness services, are web delivery notifications you can use to keep up-to-date on the latest articles, journals, books, or even links to articles that are citing you. The USF Libraries has set up a guide to …Continue Reading
Library Numbers and USF ID Cards
The USF ID card is important for all new students to acquire whether they come to campus or not, because it has an important number on it which is a patron’s “library empowerment” number. It is a 14 digit number starting with …Continue Reading
ATLE Helps Students with Study Skills
The Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence (ATLE) has provided some terrific resources for faculty who want to help students learn better reading, test prepping, and studying skills. First, there is this one-page handout that tells students what study skills successful students …Continue Reading