The papers of American scientist, statesman and diplomat Benjamin Franklin have been digitized and are now available online for the first time from the Library of Congress. The collection consists of about 8,000 items dating from the 1770’s and 1780’s, including items …Continue Reading
The EdLib Report
Online Students Don’t Have to Work Solo
This recent blog post by Mark Lieberman, from Inside Higher Education outlines the challenges with assigning group work in courses and the even greater challenges for online courses. The article gives some good tips and talks about best practices to make online …Continue Reading
Learning the Library
If you have new or transfer students attending your classes this summer, you can orient them to the library remotely in a number of ways. First, you can add your liaison librarian to your Canvas course where he or she can add …Continue Reading
Featured E-book: The Real School Safety Problem: Long-Term Consequences of Harsh School Punishment
Author Aaron Kupchik “provides a clear discussion in this e-book of what we know and what we don’t yet know about the school security and punishment practices and their effects on students and schools.” According to Kupchik school safety efforts, in many …Continue Reading
How Not to Spread Fake News
This op-ed from the New York Times by Michael J. Socolow, “How to Prevent Smart People from Spreading Dumb Ideas,” points out that “Too many Americans have no idea how to properly read a social media feed…regardless of educational attainment, economic class, …Continue Reading
Guide to Travel and Country Information
If you are taking students to study abroad, there are library resources you might wish to use. If students will be doing research before, during, and after their travel, the library’s Country and Travel Information Resources Guide might help them learn more …Continue Reading
Donate Now to the Textbook Affordability HerdFunder
From the USF Textbook Affordability Project College textbook prices are at an all-time high. More so than tuition and living expenses, textbooks have become less affordable—sometimes even influencing which subject areas students choose to study. In some cases, students have even dropped …Continue Reading
Using DMPTool for Data Management Proposals
The DMPTool (https://dmptool.org/) is used across the country to help researchers with data management planning. The tool is designed to provide researchers with easy to use fields to help complete data management planning requirements for grant applications. Researchers at USF are now …Continue Reading