Category: USF Libraries News

Course Material Scanning and Reserves

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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

USF Tampa Library Closed as of March 17th.

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As part of the USF response to COVID-19, the USF Tampa Library is closed effective Tuesday, March 17 at 1:30 PM. Please check the library home page regularly for updates.

Virtual Library Services

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From the USF Libraries: We’ve been trying to avoid adding to the avalanche of email as USF adapts to the COVID-19 situation, but we have not been idle. The USF Libraries have prepared a “Continuity of Library Services” website at https://guides.lib.usf.edu/continuity to assist you …Continue Reading

Returning or Renewing USF Library Materials

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Returning Materials If you have books, DVDs, CDs, or similar materials that need to be returned to the USF Libraries, you may use the book returns to do so. The return date will be back-dated when the USF Libraries reopen for business. …Continue Reading

Virtual Research Assistance from USF Libraries

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Research assistance is available online weekdays from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. using University-approved tools (Blackboard Collaborate Ultra or Teams). You may also contact the library for questions or research assistance using the Ask-A-Librarian link below. You can obtain assistance online through …Continue Reading

Streaming Media: Do We Lease or Do we Own?

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Guest Post from Carol Ann Davis, Assistant Dean of USF Libraries There has been some confusion about the streaming media collections in the library, so we are here to set the record straight! First of all…Did we cancel funding for Kanopy?  No, …Continue Reading

Genealogy Expert Drew Smith Assists Zion Cemetery Project

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USF Associate Librarian and nationally well-known genealogist, Drew Smith, is assisting in identifying the lineage of those buried at the forgotten Zion cemetery, bringing their legacies back to life.  Read more about it here.

Dr. Joan F. Kaywell Books Save Lives Award Reception

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You are invited to come meet and greet with award recipient  Sandra Uwiringiyimana author of How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child on Thursday, February 6, 2020 from 4-6 pm at the USF Alumni Center–Traditions Hall.  Click here to …Continue Reading

The Joan Kaywell Award

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The Kaywell Award, originally given by the Florida Council of Teachers of English (FCTE) and now part of the Hipple Collection of Young Adult Literature in Special Collections at the University of South Florida, is given to the book that best represents an adolescent’s overcoming a situation–not of his or her own making—in such a way to provide significant insight and hope to a reader. It was named in honor of Dr. Joan F. Kaywell, a professor of English Education at USF and long-time leader in the Council. Dr. Kaywell gave the inaugural awards to representative authors who write books that save lives to Laurie Halse Anderson & Chris Crutcher in 2012 and then to Ellen Hopkins & Walter Dean Myers in 2013. The first book to receive the award is Lesléa Newman’s October Mourning. The 2019 winner of the award goes to Sandra Uwiringiyimana’s book, How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child