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Announcing Credo Reference as a new a multidisciplinary collection of online reference resources. Funded by USF Sarasota/Manatee, the content in Credo is selected by USF librarians.

Credo Reference provides access to one hundred reference resources, such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, and biographical sources chosen to meet a broad range of research needs. Metasearching allows the user to search across all content in the current collection. Each title has an information title page with a description, and a search box for the individual title, so searching can be done at a more precise level. Concept maps are available, as are “gadgets” offering quick look ups for definitions, locations, conversions, quotations and people. Results can be exported into RefWorks, EndNote, ProCite or Reference Manager. Users can also email the abstract or the full-text, save to a file or clipboard, or choose to print. Citation styles offered are APA, MLA, Harvard and Chicago.

For this resource and other library databases, visit http://poly.usf.edu/library. Click on “Electronic Resources” or “Search the Databases” to begin.

As our Children’s Books collection expanded, the stack where they reside was getting too crowded. We reshelved the last part of the collection (mainly fairytales and nonfiction/science books) on the back of that stack, thus the need to around the corner to find them.

As always, don’t hesitate to ask if you can’t find what you are looking for.

In observance of Veterans’ Day, the USF Polytechnic Library and the Open Use Lab will be closed on Wednesday, November 11th.

LTB 1115 will reopen on Thursday, the 12th at 8:00 AM.

Informaworld will not be available Tuesday, November 10th, from midnight to 5:00 a.m.

We use the Informaworld database to access the full-text of articles from scientific publishers like Taylor & Francis and Routledge.

We are currently experiencing difficulties with our NetLibrary e-book collection. We are seeing a copyright message appear every 4-5 pages and we are getting reports that users are getting bumped out of NetLibrary with the message: “This eContent is not included in your library’s collection and is unavailable for viewing.”

To fix the copyright message issues, NetLibrary has scheduled a fix for which they have to bring down all of their servers on Friday, November 6th, to make the fix. They are also working on the other problem.

NetLibrary is the USF Libraries’ biggest e-book collection.

Our apologies! Here are the items newly arrived at the USF Polytechnic Library during the month of September and October. Yes, we inadvertently skipped a month in the flurry of activity in the Library. So this list will combine items receive during both.

As always, new circulating books and children’s books are found in the “New books” stacks in the Group Study area and can be checked out; the new reference, DVD titles and Special Collection items are immediately being shelved in their respective stacks.

Of particular interest are our first print issues of Psychology Today as well as the volume RoboCup 2008 : Robot Soccer World Cup XII co-edited by faculty member Dr. Alfredo Weitzenfeld. Finally, we receive the latest editions of the Florida teacher certification examinations test self-study guides. They’re in their own section in this list.

DVD

• Lean automation [videorecording] / produced by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. Dearborn, Mich.] : Society of Manufacturing Engineers, c2009.
  TS191.8 .L436 2009

Journals

• Psychology Today
  Shelved in current periodicals, in alphabetical order

Faculty Publications

• RoboCup 2008 (2008 : Suzhou, Jiangsu Sheng, China) RoboCup 2008 : Robot Soccer World Cup XII / Luca Iocchi … [et al.] (eds.). Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2009.
  Faculty Publications TJ210.3 .R6153 2008

Reference

• Florida. Florida school laws. Tallahassee, Fla. : State Dept. of Education,
  Reference KFF390.A29 F55 2008

Children’s Books

• The black book of colors [braille] / by Menena Cottin and Rosana Faría ; translated by Elisa Amado. Toronto : Groundwood Books, c2008.
  QC495.5 .C6813 2008

Books

• Effective grief and bereavement support : the role of family, friends, colleagues, schools and support professionals / Kari Dyregrov and Atle Dyregrov ; foreword by Magne Raundalen. London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2008.
  BF575.G7 D9713 2008
• Children and play / Peter K. Smith ; with a chapter by Yumi Gosso. Chichester, West Sussex : Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
  BF717 .S56 2010
• Worship and sin : an exploration of religion-related crime in the United States / Karel Kurst-Swanger. New York : Peter Lang, c2008.
  BL65 .V55 K87 2008
• A field guide to the culture wars : the battle over values from the campaign trail to the classroom / Michael McGough. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2009.
  BR516 .M379 2009
• Learning to think strategically / Julia Sloan. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann, c2006.
  HD30.28 .S53 2006
• Principle concepts of technology and innovation management : critical research models / Robert S. Friedman, Desiree M. Roberts, Jonathan D. Linton. Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, c2008.
  HD45 .F75 2008
• Handbook of technology and innovation management / edited by Scott Shane. Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, c2008.
  HD45 .H295 2008
• The peak performing organization / edited by Ronald J. Burke and Cary L. Cooper. London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
  HD58.9 .P425 2009
• A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about international business / George Cairns and Martyna Śliwa. Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, 2008.
  HD62.4 .C35 2008
• Bootstrapping / Jeffrey Cornwall. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, c2010.
  HD62.5 .C6656 2010
• Value-based fees : how to charge–and get–what you’re worth : a guide for consultants / Alan Weiss. San Francisco, CA : Pfeiffer, c2008.
  HD69 .C6 W466 2008
• Race and entrepreneurial success : Black-, Asian-, and white-owned businesses in the United States / Robert W. Fairlie and Alicia M. Robb. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
  HD2358.5 .U6 F35 2008
• 101 boardroom problems and how to solve them / Eli Mina. New York : American Management Association, c2009.
  HD2745 .M56 2009
• Changing the game : how video games are transforming the future of business / David Edery and Ethan Mollick. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : FT Press, c2009.
  HD9993 .E452 E34 2009
• Seeing the elephant : understanding globalization from trunk to tail / Peter Marber. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2009.
  HF1359 .M363 2009
• Breaking into new markets : emerging lessons for export diversification / Richard Newfarmer, William Shaw, and Peter Walkenhorst, editors. Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2009.
  HF1413 .B725 2009
• Breakthrough marketing plans : how to stop wasting time and start driving growth / Tim Calkins. New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
  HF5415.13 .C253 2008
• Handbook on brand and experience management / edited by Bernd H. Schmitt and David L. Rogers. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, c2008.
  HF5415.13 .H347 2008
• Web 2.0 and beyond : understanding the new online business models, trends, and technologies / Tom Funk. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2009.
  HF5548.32 .F863 2009
• Keeping the millennials : why companies are losing billions in turnover to this generation–and what to do about it / Joanne G. Sujansky, Jan Ferri-Reed. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, c2009.
  HF5549.2 .U5 S94 2009
• International financial reporting standards : a practical guide / Hennie van Greuning. Washington, D.C. : World Bank c2009.
  HF5611 .G74 2009
• Financial intelligence for entrepreneurs : what you really need to know about the numbers / Karen Berman, Joe Knight ; with John Case. Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Press, c2008.
  HG4028 .B2 B422 2008
• Designing for the social Web / Joshua Porter. Berkeley, CA : New Riders, c2008.
  HM742 .P67 2008
• Social movements, 1768-2008 / Charles Tilly and Lesley J. Wood. Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, c2009.
  HM881 .T55 2009
• The social psychology of gender : how power and intimacy shape gender relations / Laurie A. Rudman, Peter Glick. New York : Guilford Press, c2008.
  HM1106 .R83 2008
• Leadership at the crossroads / Joanne B. Ciulla, set editor. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
  HM1261 .L422 2008 v.1, v.2, v.3
• Crime and the global political economy / edited by H. Richard Friman. Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009.
  HV6252 .C755 2009
• Preventing money laundering and terrorist financing : a practical guide for bank supervisors / Pierre-Laurent Chatain … [et al.]. Washington, DC : World Bank, c2009.
  HV6768 .P74 2009
• Effective interviewing and interrogation techniques / Nathan J. Gordon and William L. Fleisher. Burlington, MA : Elsevier Academic Press, 2006.
  HV8073 .G64 2006
• Patent, copyright & trademark / by Richard Stim. Berkeley, CA : Nolo, 2009.
  KF2980 .E44 2009
• What blood won’t tell : a history of race on trial in America / Ariela J. Gross. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
  KF4755 .G76 2008
• Leading constitutional cases on criminal justice. Mineola, N.Y., Foundation Press.
  KF9618 .L38 2009
• Thinking and acting like a behavioral school counselor / Richard D. Parsons. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin, c2009.
  LB1027.5 .P319 2009
• Thinking and acting like a cognitive school counselor / Richard D. Parsons. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin, c2009.
  LB1027.5 .P3195 2009
• Thinking and acting like a solution-focused school counselor / Richard D. Parsons. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin, c2009.
  LB1027.5 .P3197 2009
• Toys to tools : connecting student cell phones to education / Liz Kolb. Eugene, Or. : International Society for Technology in Education, c2008.
  LB1028.3 .K65 2008
• Expectations and demands in online teaching : practical experiences / Sorin Gudea. Hershey : Information Science Pub., c2008.
  LB1044.87 .G83 2008
• Here’s the story : using narrative to promote young children’s language and literacy learning / edited by Daniel R. Meier ; foreword by María de la Luz Reyes. New York : Teachers College Press, c2009.
  LB1139.5 .L35 H47 2009
• How to plan differentiated reading instruction : resources for grades K-3 / Sharon Walpole, Michael C. McKenna. New York : Guilford Press, c2009.
  LB1525 .W175 2009
• Helping college students : developing essential support skills for student affairs practice / Amy L. Reynolds ; with contributions from John A. Mueller and Marcia Roe Clark ; foreword by Susan R. Komives. San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2009.
  LB2342.92 .R49 2009
• Promoting integrated and transformative assessment : a deeper focus on student learning / Catherine M. Wehlburg. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2008.
  Professional Development Collection LB2822.75 .W445 2008
• New media / Nicholas Gane and David Beer. Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2008.
  P96 .T42 G35 2008
• Essential skills for science & technology / Peter Zeegers … [et al.]. Victoria, Australia ; New York : Oxford Univ. Press, 2008.
  Q181 .E73 2008
• Stuck in the shallow end : education, race, and computing / Jane Margolis ; Rachel Estrella … [et al.]. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
  QA76.27 .M347 2008
• Multimedia information storage and retrieval : techniques and technologies / Philip K. C. Tse. Hershey : IGI Pub., c2008.
  QA76.575 .T78 2008
• Using aspect-oriented programming for trustworthy software development / Vladimir O. Safonov. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2008.
  QA76.64 .S253 2008
• F# for scientists / Jon Harrop ; foreword by Don Syme. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2008.
  QA76.73 .F163 H37 2008
• Agile software development with Scrum / Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, c2002.
  QA76.76 .D47 S32 2002
• Story circle : digital storytelling around the world / edited by John Hartley and Kelly McWilliam. Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
  QA76.76 .I59 S785 2009
• Standards battles in open source software : the case of Firefox / Huibert de Vries, Henk de Vries and Ilan Oshri. Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
  QA76.76 .S46 V75 2008
• Hardware-based computer security techniques to defeat hackers : from biometrics to quantum cryptography / Roger Dube. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2008.
  QA76.9 .A25 D8152 2008
• Context-aware computing and self-managing systems / edited by Waltenegus Dargie. Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2009.
  QA76.9.A97 C65 2009
• Mathematical misconceptions : a guide for primary teachers / edited by Anne D. Cockburn and Graham Littler. Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, 2008.
  QA135.5 .M36765 2008
• Thinking in systems : a primer / Donella H. Meadows ; edited by Diana Wright. White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., c2008.
  QA402 .M425 2008
• The art of scientific writing : from student reports to professional publications in chemistry and related fields / Hans F. Ebel, Claus Bliefert, William E. Russey. Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, 2005.
  QD9.15 .E23 2005
• Counseling individuals with life-threatening illness / Kenneth J. Doka. New York : Springer, c2009.
  R726.8 .D644 2009
• Assessing impairment : from theory to practice / Sam Goldstein, Jack A. Naglieri, editors. New York ; London : Springer, c2009.
  RC470 .A87 2009
• The autistic spectrum : characteristics, causes, and practical issues / Jill Boucher. Los Angeles : SAGE, 2009.
  RC553 .A88 B68 2009
• Autism / Lisa D. Benaron. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2009.
  RC553.A88 B457 2008
• Handbook of technical writing / Gerald J. Alred, Charles T. Brusaw, Walter E. Oliu. New York : Bedford/St. Martin’s, c2009.
  T11 .B78 2009
• Writing and designing manuals and warnings / Patricia A. Robinson. Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2009.
  T11 .R635 2009
• Operations research applications / edited by A. Ravi Ravindran. Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2009.
  T57.6 .O645 2009
• Enterprise architecture A to Z : frameworks, business process modeling, SOA, and infrastructure technology / Daniel Minoli. Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2008.
  T58.64 .M56 2008
• Handbook of systems engineering and management / edited by Andrew P. Sage and William B. Rouse. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2009.
  TA168 .H33 2009
• Learning from design failures / Y. Hatamura, ed. Tokyo ; New York : Springer, c2009.
  TA169.5 .L43 2009
• Green tech : how to plan and implement sustainable IT solutions / Lawrence Webber and Michael Wallace. New York : American Management Association, c2009.
  TJ163.5 .O35 W43 2009
• Machining dynamics : fundamentals, applications and practices / Kai Cheng, editor. London : Springer, c2009.
  TJ1185 .M33 2009
• Semantic Web engineering in the knowledge society / Jorge Cardoso, Miltiadis Lytras [editors]. Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, c2009.
  TK5105.88815 .S4338 2009
• JIT implementation manual : the complete guide to just-in-time manufacturing / Hiroyuki Hirano. Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, c2009.
  TS157 .H5714 2009 v.1,v.2,v.3,v.4,v.5,v.6

Teacher certification examinations test study guides

• Florida teacher certification examinations test information guide for exceptional student education K-12 / Florida Department of Education. Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida Dept. of Education, c2009.
  LB1772 .F5 F53 2009
• Florida teacher certification examinations test information guide for agriculture 6-12 / Florida Department of Education. Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida Dept. of Education, c2009.
  LB1772 .F52 A35 2009
• Florida teacher certification examinations test information guide for biology 6-12 / Florida Department of Education. Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida Dept. of Education, c2009.
  LB1772 .F52 B56 2009
• Florida teacher certification examinations test information guide for chemistry 6-12 / Florida Department of Education. Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida Dept. of Education, c2009.
  LB1772 .F52 C48 2009
• Florida Teacher Certification Examination test preparation guide for earth-space science 6-12 / Florida Department of Education. Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida Dept. of Education, c2005.
  LB1772 .F52 E27 2005
• Florida teacher certification examinations test information guide for educational media specialist PK-12 / Florida Department of Education. Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida Dept. of Education, c2009.
  LB1772 .F52 E38 2009
• Florida teacher certification examinations test information guide for elementary education K-6 / Florida Department of Education. Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida Dept. of Education, c2009.
  LB1772 .F52 E44 2009
• Florida teacher certification examinations test information guide for middle grades general science 5-9 / Florida Department of Education. Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida Dept. of Education, c2009.
  LB1772.F52 M534 2009
• Florida teacher certification examinations test information guide for middle grades social science 5-9 / Florida Department of Education. Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida Dept. of Education, c2009.
  LB1772.F52 M537 2009
• Florida teacher certification examinations test information guide for physics 6-12 / Florida Department of Education. Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida Dept. of Education, c2009.
  LB1772.F52 P597 2009
• Florida teacher certification examinations test information guide for prekindergarten/primary PK-3 / Florida Department of Education. Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida Dept. of Education, c2009.
  LB1772.F52 P75 2009
• Florida teacher certification examinations test information guide for middle grades integrated curriculum 5-9 / Florida Department of Education. Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida Dept. of Education, c2009.
  LB1772.F52 M5345 2009
• Florida teacher certification examinations test information guide for social science 6-12 / Florida Department of Education. Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida Dept. of Education, c2009.
  LB1772.F52 S63 2009
• Competencies and skills required for teacher certification in Florida. Tallahassee, Fla. : State of Florida, Dept. of Education, 1989-
  LB1772 .F6 C65 2009

Looking for an Halloween-themed book? The USF Poly Library has set up a display of all our books about Halloween, ghosts, witches, creepy-crawlies and such for you to choose from. Pick up a book and a piece of candy on your way out.

The University of South Florida Polytechnic is currently advertising the following position:

Social Sciences and Education Librarian (Open Rank)

Faculty rank, non-tenure earning
Full time, 12-month contract

Duties:
Developing and maintaining strong relationships with some of the programs in the College of Human and Social Sciences (Counselor Education, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Early Childhood Development, Educational Leadership, Elementary Education, Gerontology/Aging Studies, Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Psychology, Reading Education, Sociology); designing and presenting instructional sessions; developing the library’s collection of discipline-related materials; providing research assistance to students, faculty, and staff. Contributing to state, regional, and national committees; participating in research, publication, and other professional and scholarly activities; participating in library, campus and/or University committees/councils as appropriate. Some evening and weekend duties are required.

Minimum Qualifications (Education & Experience):
Master’s degree from an accredited institution in library science and appropriate experience as a professional librarian consistent with university guidelines.A distinguished record of service in the profession including publications, professional association activity, research, or other major contributions to the field.Must meet university criteria for appointment to the rank of Librarian. Qualified for appointment at instructor, assistant librarian or associate librarian level according to USF Polytechnic standards; established record of published research and scholarly activities at the advanced Associate Librarian level, or emerging published research or participation in research and scholarly activities with potential for publication at the Assistant Librarian level. Excellent oral and written communication skills and excellent interpersonal skills; flexibility and a strong service orientation.

Preferred Qualifications (Education & Experience):
Academic degree from, or experience working at, a polytechnic university; significant experience using resources in social sciences, education and curriculum; 1-3 years of work experience in academic libraries, particularly in instruction, reference, and collection development; experience or a strong potential for a continuous commitment to current emerging web technologies and diverse instructional technologies in a variety of settings (e.g., face-to-face, online asynchronous, online synchronous). Clear understanding of the library’s ongoing role in supporting and shaping the Polytechnic’s teaching, learning, and research mission.

USF Polytechnic is the first and only polytechnic university in Florida. It is located in Lakeland, at the center of the I-4 High Tech Corridor.

Please see http://poly.usf.edu/careers for an overview of USF Polytechnic. Applications are accepted online at Careers@USF, accessible at the same URL. Search for position number 0000333.

The University of South Florida Polytechnic is currently advertising the following position.

Business Librarian (Open Rank)

Faculty rank, non-tenure earning
Full time, 12-month contract

Duties:
Developing and maintaining strong relationships with the Division of Business; designing and presenting instructional sessions and tools; developing the library’s collection of discipline-related materials; providing research assistance to undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff; engaging in outreach to business and community organizations; contribute to state, regional, and national committees; participate in library, campus and university committees/councils as appropriate; participate in research, publication, and other professional and scholarly activities. Some evening and weekend duties are required.

Minimum Qualifications (Education & Experience):
Master’s degree from an accredited institution in library science and appropriate experience as a professional librarian consistent with university guidelines. A distinguished record of service in the profession including publications, professional association activity, research, or other major contributions to the field. Must meet university criteria for appointment to the rank of Librarian. Qualified for appointment at instructor, assistant librarian or associate librarian level according to USF Polytechnic standards; established record of published research and scholarly activities at the advanced Associate Librarian level, or emerging published research or participation in research and scholarly activities with potential for publication at the Assistant Librarian level. Excellent oral and written communication skills and excellent interpersonal skills; flexibility and a strong service orientation.

Preferred Qualifications (Education & Experience):
Academic degree from, or experience working at, a polytechnic university; significant experience using resources in business; 1-3 years of work experience in academic libraries, particularly in instruction, reference, and collection development; experience or a strong potential for a continuous commitment to current emerging web technologies and diverse instructional technologies in a variety of settings (e.g., face-to-face, online asynchronous, online synchronous). Clear understanding of the library’s ongoing role in supporting and shaping the Polytechnic’s teaching, learning, and research mission.

USF Polytechnic is the first and only polytechnic university in Florida. It is located in Lakeland, at the center of the I-4 High Tech Corridor.

Please see http://poly.usf.edu/careers for an overview of USF Polytechnic. Applications are accepted online at Careers@USF, accessible at the same URL. Search for position number 0000332.

The SLA Florida and Caribbean Chapter Fall Workshop and Awards Luncheon will take place at USF Polytechnic on Friday, November 13 2009, from 9 AM to 4 PM.

The workshop theme is “Libraries of the Future”. The program speakers are Paulette Hasier (DARPA Library, Library Task Manager), Jonathan Reichental (US IT Innovations Director, Pricewaterhouse Coopers) and Catherine Lavallée-Welch (Associate Librarian, USF Polytechnic). Lavallée-Welch will talking about Twitter as used by libraries.

Registration is now open. More information can be found on the Chapter’s website.

The American Psychological Association released last week dozens of corrections to the brand new 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. The first printing of the Manual was published in July. A very popular citation style, the Manual is used in psychology, as well as in education, sociology, economics, business, nursing and justice administration, among other fields.

The USF Poly Library has the first printing of the 6th edition. Waiting to see how and when we will obtain a copy of the second printing, a printout of the corrections are with the copy we own presently (Reference BF76.7 .P83 2010) (as you can imagine, some are calling to the APA to send free replacements). The link to the corrections is also listed below. We are also listing four new sample papers (not printed out):

• Corrections to the Manual (style rules, examples, clarifications and typos)
• Sample paper: One-Experiment Paper
• Sample Paper: Two-Experiment Paper
• Sample Meta Analysis Paper
• Traditions and Alcohol Use: A Mixed-Methods Analysis

Listed below are the books honored by the FPA President’s Book Awards. There are 16 different categories and one special category, President’s Pick, chosen by FPA’s President, Chris Angermann, of New Chapter Publisher, Sarasota, FL.

PICTURE BOOK

• Gold Medal Winner — Adventures of Countess Pigula: “Up, Up and Away!” written and illustrated by Karen Freysinger, published by “A-Ha!” Elora Danan Productions, Inc. (Estero, FL)
• Silver Medal Winners — Airport Mouse Explores on Opening Day by Ruth E. Clark, illustrated by Phil Jones, published by Hibiscus Publishing (Naples, FL); Airport Mouse Becomes a VIP/VIM World Traveler by Ruth E. Clark, illustrated by Phil Jones, published by Hibiscus Publishing (Naples, FL); and, Kersplatypus by Susan Mitchell, illustrated by Sherry Rogers, published by Sylvan Dell Publishing (Mount Pleasant, SC)

FLORIDA FICTION FOR CHILDREN

• Gold Medal Winner — Florida Santa: Is He Real? How Do We Know It? by Ruth E. Clark, illustrated by Sarah Caterisano, published by Hibiscus Publishing (Naples, FL)

YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION

• Gold Medal Winner — Unlock Your Educational Potential by Dr. Brian R. Haig and Jeffrey D. Haig, published by Maximize Your Education (Irvine, CA)

YOUNG ADULT FICTION

• Gold Medal Winner — A Cord of Three Strands by Holly Moulder, published by White Pelican Press (Sharpsburg, GA)

CHILDREN’S FICTION

• Gold Medal Winner — The Mysterious Jamestown Suitcase: A Bailey Fish Adventure by Linda Salisbury, published by Tabby House (Mineral, VA)
• Silver Medal Winners — Jonathan’s Journey to Mount Miapu by Ellen Wolfson Valladares, illustrated by Maureen Burdock, published by Argami Productions, LLC (Weston, FL); and Ghost of the Chicken Coop Theater: A Bailey Fish Adventure by Linda Salisbury, published by Tabby House (Mineral, VA)

CHILDREN’S NONFICTION

• Gold Medal Winner — Kiddish Yiddish: Jewish Traditions & Culture in Rhyme by Barbara Feltquate, illustrated by Tom Post, published Bardolf & Co. (Sarasota, FL)
• Silver Medal Winner — Isabelle’s Dream: A Story and Activity Book for a Child’s Grief Journey by Betsy Bottino Arenella, published by Quality of Life Publishing Company (Naples, FL)

ADULT NONFICTION

• Gold Medal Winner — Everyday Symbols for Joyful Living by Dianne Durante, Ed.S., published by of Life Publishing Company (Naples, FL)
• Silver Medal Winners — The Half-Life of a Nuclear Battery by Philip H. Talbert, published by Astral Publishing (Fort Lauderdale, FL); and Real Men Do Cry: A Quarterback’s Inspiring Story of Tackling Depression and Surviving Suicide Loss by Eric Hipple, published by Quality of Life Publishing Company (Naples, FL)

MEMOIRS

• Gold Medal Winner — Captured Horizons: An Artist’s Journey by Michael Judge, published by New Chapter Publisher (Sarasota, FL)
• Silver Medal Winners — The Journey Less Traveled: Choose to Turn Your Tragedy Into Triumph by Loretta “Faith” Harris, published by Children’s Heart Publishing Company (Orlando, FL); and, The Half-Life of a Nuclear Battery by Philip H. Talbert, published by Astral Publishing (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

FLORIDA FICTION FOR ADULTS

• Gold Medal Winner — Promise to Poppy: A Bath Pond Book by Lowell Teal (Windermere, FL)

FLORIDA NONFICTION FOR ADULTS

• Gold Medal Winner — Treasured Waters: The Indian River Lagoon by Richard A. Kelly and Camille S. Yates, published by Pioneer River Press (Fort Pierce, FL)

ADULT FICTION

• Gold Medal Winner — MillTown by P.D. LaFleur, published by RGI Press (Punta Gorda, FL)
• Silver Medal Winner — Alex and the Color of the Wind by Piero Rivolta, published by Chapter Publisher (Sarasota, FL)

INTERIOR DESIGN

• Gold Medal Winner — Tastefully Small Finger Sandwiches: Easy Party Sandwiches for All Occasions by Kim Hendrickson, published Atlantic Publishing Company (Ocala, FL)
• Silver Medal Winner — ColorAlchemy: Self-Mastery with the Endless Supply of Color written and designed by Jami Lin, published by Earth Design, Inc. (Venice, FL)

COVER DESIGN

• Gold Medal Winner — Tastefully Small Dessert Canapés: Bite-Sized Sweets for Easy Entertaining by Kim Hendrickson, published by Atlantic Publishing Company (Ocala, FL)
• Silver Medal Winners — Jazz from Row Six: Photographs 1981–2007 by Jean Germain, published by New Chapter Publisher (Sarasota, FL); and, Promise to Poppy: A Bath Pond Book by Lowell Teal (Windermere, FL)

COFFEE TABLE BOOK

• Gold Medal Winner — Jazz from Row Six: Photographs 1981–2007 by Jean Germai, published by Chapter Publisher (Sarasota, FL)
• Silver Medal Winner — Treasured Waters: The Indian River Lagoon by Richard A. Kelly and Camille S. Yates, published by Pioneer River Press LLC (Fort Pierce, FL)

BUSINESS BOOK

• Gold Medal Winner — The Complete Guide to Robert’s Rules of Order Made Easy: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply by Rita Cook, published by Atlantic Publishing Company (Ocala, FL)
• Silver Medal Winners — The Complete Guide to Understanding, Controlling and Stopping Bullies & Bullying at Work: A Complete Guide for Managers, Supervisors, and Co-Workers by Margaret R. Kohut, MSW, published by Atlantic Publishing Company (Ocala, FL); and, The Secret Power of Blogging by Bruce C. Brown, published by Atlantic Publishing Company (Ocala, FL)

POETRY BOOK

• Gold Medal Winner — East of Pouring by William Drew Weinbrenner, published by Ahewlu Productions LLC (Orlando, FL)

PRESIDENT’S PICK

• Gold Medal Winner — Real Men Do Cry: A Quarterback’s Inspiring Story of Tackling Depression and Surviving Suicide Loss by Eric Hipple, published by Quality of Life Publishing Company (Naples, FL)

We invite you to our open door, hands-on seminars, in Elluminate:

Database Searching
Monday, October 12, 12:00-1:00PM
Learn to select and access the best databases for your subject, search their content and find full-text articles.

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Starts: 10/12/2009 12:00 EDT
Ends: 10/12/2009 13:00 EDT

RefWorks
Tuesday, October 13, 12:00-1:00PM
Learn how to use this citation management system that makes building bibliographies a flash.

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Starts: 10/13/2009 12:00 EDT
Ends: 10/13/2009 13:00 EDT

These seminars are open to all; no registration required. The seminars are cancelled if no one is present 10 minutes after the hour.

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If this is the first time you will be using Elluminate, you may be prompted to download some software which may take anywhere from 2 to 20 minutes depending upon your Internet connection speed. You can pre-configure your system with the required software by going to the support page located at: http://131.247.100.61:80/support.help

Please make sure your computer has a microphone and speakers to be able to talk and hear while you are in the Elluminate meeting.

Wanting a quick way to know what is going on in scientific fields, or simply having a few minutes to kill and looking for a quick, informative read? The USF Poly Library is now receiving two popular scientific magazines: Psychology Todayand Scientific American.

They can be found with the other print journals and periodicals at the back of the library, shelved in alphabetical order.

Searching for Lexis Nexis in MetaLib (our helpful list of electronic databases), you will now find a Beta version of a new interface for this great resource for newspapers, industry and market news, legal news and research, company financial information,accounting, auditing and tax information, law reviews and case law. The full new interface will be officially released in December 2009.

The most dramatic changes are in the color scheme, the navigation menu, and the Easy Search form, which will more readily show the variety of sources and searches possible.

As of now, the Beta interface is not available off-campus. The old interface is still available, wether on- or off-campus. That’s why, in MetaLib, you will see two different listings for Lexis Nexis:

• LexisNexis Academic (On and Off Campus Access)
• LexisNexis Academic (BETA-On Campus Access only)

President Obama has proclaimed this month “Information Literacy Awareness Month”.

Information literacy can be defined, as in the proclamation, “the ability to seek, find, and decipher information [that] can be applied to countless life decisions, whether financial, medical, educational, or technical.”

Libraries and librarians are actively involved in information literacy and the USF Poly Library is no exception. We are available to help students either individually or in a class setting.

We invite you to our open door, hands-on seminars, in LTB 2153:

Database Searching
Wednesday, September 30, 12:00-1:00PM
or
Thursday, October 1, 5:00-6:00PM
Learn to select and access the best databases for your subject, search their content and find full-text articles.

RefWorks
Wednesday, September 30, 5:00-6:00PM
or
Thursday, October 1, 12:00-1:00PM
Learn how to use this citation management system that makes building bibliographies a flash.

These seminars are open to all; no registration required. The seminars are cancelled if no one is present 10 minutes after the hour.

Mid-October, the same seminars will be offered via Elluminate.

Join us on the LTB patio to listen to passages from banned and challenged books, as part of the USFP Library celebration of Banned Books Week.

Readings will be from 11:15AM to 1PM and 4:15PM to 6PM (yes, we sneaked in a couple more readers). Among the banned/challenged authors this year: Mark Twain, Toni Morrison, Judy Blume, Stephenie Meyer, D.H. Lawrence, Harper Lee and Polk County’s own Craig McKee.

This week is the 28th edition of National Banned Books Week. The USF Polytechnic Library is celebrating in many ways:

• a display of challenged or banned books from our collections
• quotes on freedom of expression, censorship and the freedom to read
• our Read Out event, Tuesday September 29th, from 11:15AM to 1PM and 4:15PM to 6PM. Members of the campus community will be reading from banned or challenged books in 15-minutes increments on the patio outside the Library (LTB 1115)
• drawing of two prizes during the Read Out event

Here are some interesting sites about Banned Books Week or the issues behind it:

• the official site of Banned Books Week with a telling map and a Manifesto, by banned bestseller author Ellen Hopkins
• the Office of Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association
• the ACRL Intellectual Freedom Committee’s blog
• the Libraries and the First Amendment online exhibit from the McCormick Freedom Museum
• the Center for Campus Free Speech

Come and celebrate your freedom to read with us!

If your Elluminate session was created via Blackboard, you can access the recording using the same path via Blackboard that you used to join the session.

1. First, log in to Blackboard at USF (http://my.usf.edu) using your USF netID and password.
2. Click the Courses tab.
3. Click your course’s link.
4. Click the Communication link in the main navigation bar in your course.
5. Scroll down on the Communication page and click the Elluminate Live link.
6. On the Elluminate Live! Sessions page click the drop down menu and select Recorded Sessions.
7. Click the Go button.
8. Use the Calendar on the right to select the day of the recording (click the day the recording was made).
9. Click the recording link for the appropriate session after it appears.

The session will open using Java Web Start (the software used by Elluminate - visit http://www.elluminate.com/support if you do not have this free software).

Please note that session recordings will not appear soon after a live session ends. It takes between 2 (minimum) and 24 hours (maximum) for an Elluminate Session recording to show up in Blackboard.

On September 23 we sent out a round of email stating that courses created in 2004 and earlier would be removed from the system in 30 days. The message read as follows:

Professor @@lname,

We apologize for the blast of emails today. We are cleaning out 4 semesters of old courses,
and our tool only lets us do it one semester at a time.

In order to allocate myUSF storage resources more effectively, course
sites created in @@semester will be permanently removed from
the system. This procedure is necessary to allow for the increased
use of Blackboard within our institution.

If you wish to retain a copy of the content of the course sites
identified below, please create your own export package(s) before
@@archivedate:
@@courselist

There are a number of options available for preservation of your course content:
- Export just the Gradebook in a Comma Separated format.
- Export the entire course.

Documentation on Importing & Exporting Courses:
http://wiki.it.usf.edu/index.php/Importing_%26_Exporting_Courses

Documentation on Exporting the Gradebook:
http://wiki.it.usf.edu/index.php/Export_Gradebook

We appreciate your cooperation with this effort.

Information Technology
help@usf.edu

Since the deployment of Blackboard, IT has maintained that we would try to maintain 5 years of course sites on Blackboard as long as it was technically feasible.

2009 was a busy year for IT, and we were lax in keeping up with the course cleanups. Thus we had courses as far back as Fall 2003 on the system, 4 full semesters of courses that needed removal. We had two options for cleaning courses, (1) Stager the emails and stretch the course removal over several months, or (2) Send a bunch of emails and do all the cleanup at once. We decided option 2 was the least disruptive to faculty, hence the blast of email yesterday.

As stated in the email, there are two options for maintaining a personal archive of your old course content.
1) Export just the grades [How do I do this?]
2) Export the entire course and all it’s contents. [How do I do this?]

As a side note, we are working on two projects.

The first is a utility that will allow faculty to request development course sites. These courses would have a very long expiration date, so that faculty can build up their courses in these development sites, and copy from the development site into their actual course at the start of each semester.

In the past we had not allowed for such courses precisely because they didn’t expire, and were outside out direct control. However 10 years of running Blackboard has shown that this restriction has side effects we didn’t predict, such as the impact of that volume of course data on Blackboard.

The second project: IT is working with the Courseware Steering Committee, CTIR, and faculty groups around campus to redefine the course retention policy to shorten it from 5 years online to something much more reasonable like 1-2 years online. 98% of courses are not accessed by instructors after the first year, and 99.44% are not accessed after the second year. Additionally, the single biggest reason to access the old course sites is to make changes and copy them into the new course sites at the start of each semester.

Removing courses more frequently would make the Blackboard system more responsive for users, easier to backup, and faster to upgrade. Faster, safer, more reliable. What’s not to love?

The availability of development course sites removes the single biggest reason to keep courses for more than a year. With a handful of development sites, we can reduce the number of long term, development oriented sites from 80000 down to about 6000. That’s an order of magnitude reduction.

With luck we’ll have all of this implemented in time for our upgrade to Blackboard 9 in December. We’ll be ready to start the new decade leaner, meaner, and ready to learn.

The Blackboard system experienced an operating system kernel error on one server which cascaded and was not handled properly by the cluster, resulting in Blackboard being unavailable for about 45 minutes, Tuesday, September 22, from approximately 9:30-10:15pm. No data was lost as a result of this outage.

We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.

This morning, in The Ledger newspaper, an article was published on the Library’s Read Out event on September 29th. During the event, we will be reading passages from banned or challenged books out loud.

We invite everyone on campus to participate in listening or reading (still good spots available). Please contact the librarian, Catherine Lavallée-Welch, if you’re interested in reading (863-667-7737; clw@poly.usf.edu).

AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. The collection is made accessible online by the Duke University Special Collections Library.

These commercials were created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B). Founded in 1929, Benton & Bowles was a New York advertising agency that merged with D’Arcy Masius McManus in 1985 to form DMB&B. Major clients included are Procter & Gamble, Kraft, Schick, Vicks, and Post, among others. They are available on iTunes U or via the Library’s AdViews website.