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
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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
Why Use Specialized Subject Article Databases?
In a recent, short video tutorial, we compare large, comprehensive search tools like FindIt with subject specific, specialized databases, outlining the advantages that specialized tools have over large, multidisciplinary ones. Even though you get more hits using larger databases, bigger isn’t always …Continue Reading
Technology Support with LinkedIn Learning
USF students and instructors who create a LinkedIn account have free access to all of the LinkedIn Learning catalog (previously Lynda.com). This catalog consists of instructional content for software programs like Excel and Photoshop, concepts like copyright, and skills like career management …Continue Reading
Course Material Scanning and Reserves
Electronic reserves are made available to students in their Canvas course. If you need to make a request, please see How to make an E-Reserves Request. At the moment the library is only processing electronic reserves. Because of the present crisis, it is unknown whether …Continue Reading