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Visit: http://www.elluminate.com/support/docs/9.0/moderator.jsp for online moderator tutorials on Elluminate 9 and http://www.elluminate.com/support/docs/9.0/participant.jsp for online participant tutorials on Elluminate 9.

Elluminate recently released a new version of Elluminate (version 9.1). Currently we are using Elluminate 8.5. Elluminate 9.1 has several new features and we are now going to upgrade our servers to Elluminate 9.1 on May 18, 2009. This upgrade will not affect your existing sessions, session links, Elluminate moderators login url, Blackboard integration, user records, and past recordings. The user interface will also remain the same with a few additional buttons and menu items that refer to the new features.

The only change you will notice is that when you and your students log in to a session after we have completed the upgrade, you will experience an increase in the time taken to download the software for Elluminate. This should not take long. However, if your students will be connecting by dial-up (slower Internet connection), they should be advised to log in early for the first session after the upgrade. Also, after the Elluminate session window opens you will notice a few interface changes which are mostly aesthetic. Some major changes include:

Multipoint Video

• Up to six people can now share their web cam simultaneously (if they have webcams connected while in the Elluminate session).
• Moderators can configure this in the session from Tools > Video > Maximum Simultaneous Cameras…
• Moderators can control the view of the main window and allow users to set their own view.


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In-Session Invitations

• Moderators can invite others into an in-progress session from within the Elluminate Live! interface.
• A new button is available on the toolbar allowing instant email composition or link copy to clipboard for use in IM or other applications.

Chat

• A new icon in the Chat window provides an indicator to all attendees that moderators can view private chat messages.

Synchronized Notes

• With the intention of increasing accessibility, the synchronized notes window allows users to configure the text font size.

To learn more about the features in Elluminate 9 and for great moderator training in Elluminate 9, consider attending our workshops on Elluminate in the Fall and Spring semesters.
Go to http://www.cte.usf.edu/workshops/#synchronouselluminate to register for the workshop when the new schedule is posted (usually at the beginning of the fall and spring semesters). More details on the workshop are listed on the site.

Also visit: http://www.elluminate.com/support/docs/9.0/moderator.jsp for online moderator tutorials on Elluminate 9 and http://www.elluminate.com/support/docs/9.0/participant.jsp for online participant tutorials on Elluminate 9.

There have been reports of Safari 4 Beta causing problems with Elluminate Live!. It has been determined that merely having it installed will cause Elluminate Live! to not operate as expected. Elluminate recommends using our software with supported applications that have passed our testing procedures. As Safari 4 was just released, we recommend the following steps:

1. Uninstall Safari 4 Beta. Uninstalling the full release of Safari 4 is difficult and not recommended.
2. Continue to use Safari 4, Beta or full release, but re-order your Java versions. By doing so you can place the most recent copy at the top and therefore make it default. Please Note – This option should only be used if you are using Elluminate Live! V9.1 or higher as older versions have demonstrated other problems as indicated here. Please click here to review our knowledge base article on this issue and additional information on re-ordering your Java versions.

We will be upgrading Elluminate to version 9.1 over this weekend (from version 8.5). This version has significant improvements and concrete solutions to the Safari 4 issue.

To further scholarship in many disciplines, the USF Libraries recently purchased the online version of the American Periodicals Series.

American Periodicals Series Online features over 1,100 periodicals spanning nearly 200 years from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II. Containing more than seven million digitized page images, titles range from America’s first scientific journal to popular magazines.

The publications in this collection cover three broad periods:

• The years between 1740 and 1800 that offer insight in America’s transition from a British colony to an independent nation with eighty-nine published journals;
• The first sixty years of the nineteenth century that showcase the golden age of American periodicals where most great literary works of the nineteenth century appeared in a magazine with more than nine hundred titles; and
• The Civil War (1861-1865) and Reconstruction (1865-1877) period that reflect the nation in turmoil and growth, the settling of the West, and the emergence of modern America with more than nine hundred titles.

Because the database contains digitized images of periodical pages, researchers can see all of the original typography, drawings, graphic elements, and article layouts exactly as they were originally published. American Periodical Series may prove useful in the following disciplines: history, arts, social sciences, humanities, statistics, medicine, sciences, and government and international affairs.

For these resources and other library databases, visit http://poly.usf.edu/library.xml. Click on “Search the Databases” (MetaLib) to begin.

June is GLBT Pride month. We have published our USFP Library 2009 list of resources listing books, children’s books, electronic journals and databases.

On June 3, between 5-7pm MyUSF experienced a hardware failure which effected the performance and availability for some users until around 11pm. The hardware problem has also caused course content from Spring 2009 and Content Collection items to become unavailable. Current Summer 2009 content should not have been affected.

The nature of the failure forced us to switch to our disaster backup system. Content uploaded to the Content Collection between 5-7pm on June 3 of the failure may have been lost and will need to be uploaded again. Contents, Asisgnments, Exams, anything uploaded directly to Summer 2009 courses should not have been affected.

When the hardware issue is resolve we will make plans to switch back to the main server cluster.

Please follow this article for updates to this evolving situation.

Here are the items newly arrived at the USF Polytechnic Library during the month of May. As always, new circulating books are found in the “New books” stacks in the Group Study area; the new reference titles are being immediately shelved in their respective stacks.

Of note, we have continued receiving the 2008 award-winning Children’s Books as well as a few books from donations, notably from Dr. Preston Mercer. Thank you!

Reference

• 21st century psychology : a reference handbook / edited by Stephen F. Davis, William Buskist. Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, c2008.
  Reference BF131 .A15 2008 v.1 & v. 2
• The Oxford dictionary of literary terms / Chris Baldick. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
  Reference PN41 .C67 2008
• Encyclopedia of scientific principles, laws, and theories / Robert E. Krebs ; illustrations by Rae Déjur. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008.
  Reference Q121 .K74 2008
• Scientific style and format : the CSE manual for authors, editors, and publishers / Style Manual Committee, Council of Science Editors. Reston, VA : Council of Science Editors in cooperation with the Rockefeller University Press, 2006.
  Reference T11 .S386 2006
• Eshbach’s handbook of engineering fundamentals / edited by Myer Kutz. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2009.
  Reference TA151 .E8 2009
• Springer handbook of robotics / B. Siciliano, Oussama Khatib (eds.) Berlin : Springer, c2008.
  Reference TJ211 .S67 2008

Books

• A whack on the side of the head : how you can be more creative / by Roger von Oech. New York : Grand Central ; London : Little, Brown [distributor], 2008.
  Professional Development BF408 .V58 2008
• Jerome Bruner: Acts of meaning / Jerome Bruner. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c1990.
  BF455 .B74 1990
• Interviewing clients across cultures : a practitioner’s guide / Lisa Aronson Fontes. New York : Guilford Press, c2008.
  BF637.I5 F67 2008
• The seven habits of highly effective people : restoring the character ethic / Stephen R. Covey. New York : Simon and Schuster, c1989.
  BF637.S8 C68 1989
• Southern cross : the beginnings of the Bible Belt / Christine Leigh Heyrman. New York : Knopf, 1997.
  BR535 .H47 1997
• Preparing the next generation of oral historians : an anthology of oral history education / written and edited by Barry A. Lanman and Laura M. Wendling. Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006.
  D16.14 .P74 2006
• Dissent in America / [edited by] Ralph F. Young. New York : Pearson Longman, c2005.
  E183 .D57 2005 v.1 & v.2
• Race and American political development / edited by Joseph Lowndes, Julie Novkov, and Dorian Warren. New York, NY : Routledge, 2008.
  E185.61 .R18 2008
• Under God : religion and American politics / Garry Wills. New York : Simon and Schuster, c1990.
  E880 .W54 1990
• Little people in America : the social dimension of dwarfism / Joan Ablon. New York, NY : Praeger, 1984.
  GN69.3 .A23 1984
• Autoethnography as method / Heewon Chang. Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2008.
  GN346.6 .C53 2008
• Computer games as a sociocultural phenomenon : games without frontiers, war without tears / edited by Andreas Jahn-Sudmann and Ralf Stockmann. Basingstoke [England] : New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
  GV1469.17.S63 C65 2008
• Handbook of interview research : context & method / editors, Jaber F. Gubrium, James A. Holstein. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2001.
  H61.28 .H36 2001
• The rise of the creative class : and how it’s transforming work, leisure, community and everyday life / Richard Florida. New York, NY : Basic Books, 2004.
  HD53 .F653 2004
• Stakeholder politics : social capital, sustainable development, and the corporation / Robert Boutilier. Stanford,Calif. : Stanford Business Books, c2009.
  HD60 .B68 2009
• Measuring and improving productivity in services : issues, strategies and challenges / Faridah Djellal and Faiz Gallouj. Cheltenham ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2008.
  HD9980.5 .D54 2008
• The World Trade Organization : changing dynamics in the global political economy / Anna Lanoszka. Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009.
  HF1385 .L36 2009
• Inequality, consumer credit and the saving puzzle / Christopher Brown. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2008.
  HG3755 .B76 2008
• Life outside : the Signorile report on gay men, sex, drugs, muscles, and the passages of life / Michelangelo Signorile. New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1997.
  HQ76.2.U5 S54 1997
• Living with difference : families with dwarf children / Joan Ablon ; photographs by Daniel Margulies. New York : Praeger, 1988.
  HQ773.65 .A34 1988
• Disaster & recovery planning : a guide for facility managers / Joseph F. Gustin. Lilburn, GA : Fairmont Press ; Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2007.
  HV551.3 .G87 2007
• Teaching with classroom response systems : creating active learning environments / Derek Bruff. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2009.
  LB1027.23 .B78 2009
• Fostering learner independence : an essential guide for K-6 educators / Roxann Rose-Duckworth, Karin Ramer ; foreword by Ron Ritchhart. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c2009.
  LB1027.23 .R67 2009
• Psychology of learning for instruction / Marcy P. Driscoll. Boston : Pearson Allyn and Bacon, c2005.
  LB1060 .D75 2005
• Oral language and early literacy in preschool : talking, reading, and writing / Kathleen A. Roskos, Patton O. Tabors, Lisa A. Lenhart. Newark, DE : International Reading Association, c2004.
  LB1139 .L3 R675 2004
• Philosophy of early childhood education : transforming narratives / edited by Sandy Farquhar and Peter Fitzsimons. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
  LB1139.23 .P49 2008
• Research, advocacy, and political engagement : multidisciplinary perspectives through service learning / edited by Sally Cahill Tannenbaum. Sterling, Va. : Stylus Pub., 2008.
  LC221.2. C2 R47 2008
• What the best college teachers do / Ken Bain. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
  LB2331 .B34 2004
• Managing the academic department : cases and notes / John B. Bennett. New York : American Council on Education : Macmillan, c1983.
  LB2341 .B47 1983
• The academic dean : dove, dragon, and diplomat / Allan Tucker, Robert A. Bryan. New York : American Council on Education : Macmillan ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan Canada, 1991.
  LB2341 .T778 1991
• Chairing the academic department : leadership among peers / Allan Tucker. Phoenix, AZ : Oryx Press, 1993.
  LB2341 .T78 1993
• Curriculum alignment : research-based strategies for increasing student achievement / David A. Squires. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, 2009.
  LB2806.15 .S732 2009
• Creating inclusive learning environments for young children : what to do on Monday morning / Clarissa Willis. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c2009.
  LC4015 .W55 2009
• Writings from the New Yorker : 1927-1976 / E.B. White ; edited by Rebecca M. Dale. New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins, c1990.
  PS3545.H5187 A6 1990
• Online science learning : best practices and technologies / Kevin F. Downing, Jennifer K. Holtz. Hershey, PA : Information Science Pub., c2008.
  Q181 .D654 2008
• Handbook of parallel computing : models, algorithms and applications / edited by Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, John Reif. Boca Raton : Chapman & Hall/CRC, c2008.
  QA76.58 .H36 2008
• Software testing and analysis : process, principles, and techniques / Mauro Pezze, Michal Young. [Hoboken, N.J.] : Wiley, c2008.
  QA76.76 .T48 P495 2008
• The longevity revolution : the benefits and challenges of living a long life / Robert N. Butler. New York : PublicAffairs, c2008.
  QP85 .B88 2008
• Computerization movements and technology diffusion : from mainframes to ubiquitous computing / edited by Margaret S. Elliott and Kenneth L. Kraemer. Medford, N.J. : Information Today, c2008.
  T173.8 .C67 2008
• What every engineer should know about business communication / John X. Wang. Boca Raton : CRC, c2008.
  TA158.5 .W35 2008
• Sustainable development for engineers : a handbook and resource guide / edited by Karel Mulder. Sheffield : Greenleaf Publishing, 2006.
  TA170 .S87 2006
• What every engineer should know about starting a high-tech business venture / Eric Koester. Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2009.
  TA190 .K637 2009
• The mechatronics handbook. Mechatronic systems, sensors, and actuators : fundamentals and modeling / edited by Robert H. Bishop. Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2008.
  TJ163.12 .M433 2008
• The mechatronics handbook. Mechatronic system control, logic, and data acquisition / edited by Robert H. Bishop. Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2008.
  TJ223 .P76 M43 2008
• Practical MATLAB basics for engineers / Misza Kalechman. Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2009.
  TK153 .K18 2009
• Automated network management systems : current and future capabilities / Douglas E. Comer. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2007.
  TK5105.5 .C58967 2007
• Industrial project management : concepts, tools, and techniques / Adedeji Badiru, Abidemi Badiru, Adetokunboh Badiru. Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2008.
  TS155 .B2175 2008
• Integration technologies for industrial automated systems / edited by Richard Zurawski. Boca Raton, FL : CRC Taylor & Francis, c2007.
  TS155.63 .Z87 2006

Children’s Books

• Jazz on a Saturday night / Leo & Diane Dillon. New York : Blue Sky Press, c2007.
  ML3929 .D55 2007
• The seer of shadows / Avi. New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, c2008.
  PZ7.A953 Sf 2008
• What I saw and how I lied / by Judy Blundell. New York : Scholastic Press, 2008.
  PZ7.B627146 Wh 2008
• Traction Man meets Turbodog / Mini Grey. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
  PZ7.G873 Trm 2008
• Maybe a bear ate it! / by Robie Harris ; illustrated by Michael Emberley. New York : Orchard Books, 2008.
  PZ7.H2436 May 2008
• Garmann’s summer / Stian Hole ; [translation by Don Bartlett]. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2008.
  PZ7.H7072 Gar 2008
• My one hundred adventures / Polly Horvath. New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, c2008.
  PZ7.H79224 My 2008
• Skunkdog / Emily Jenkins ; pictures by Pierre Pratt. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2008.
  PZ7.J4134 Sku 2008
• Coraline / adapted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell; colorist, Lovern Kindzierski; letterer, Todd Klein; based on the novel by Neil Gaiman. New York : HarperCollins Children’s Books, c2008.
  PZ7.7.R8774 Co 2008
• The way we work : getting to know the amazing human body / David Macaulay, with Richard Walker. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
  QP37 .M28 2008