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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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.
First, log in to Blackboard at USF (http://my.usf.edu) using your USF netID and password.
Click the Courses tab.
Click your course’s link.
Click the Communication link in the main navigation bar in your [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Recently we have seen several Elluminate users at USF complain about an error they receive in Internet Explorer 8 (and sometimes in version 7) when they try to access an Elluminate session or recording. This is actually an Internet Explorer security issue and can be easily resolved.
The Problem:
When you click on an Elluminate session/recording link [...]
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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 [...]
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September 15 to October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month. National Hispanic Heritage Month is a celebration of the histories, cultures and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America.
In recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month, the USF Polytechnic Library is highlighting the books, journals, and electronic [...]
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There is a job opening at the USF Polytechnic Library for a FWS student to man the circulation desk during the weekdays. We’re looking for someone with a good service attitude!
For more details, search
the Career Connection system for position #25796
visit the USF Poly Career Center in LTB 1155
or search its Online Job Board
or [...]
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The USF Polytechnic Library invites you to celebrate the freedom to read by participating in a READ OUT! event during Banned Books Week (September 26 to October 3).
What: Read from a challenged or banned book for a 15 minutes period. There is no microphone, no sitting audience – you [...]
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Here are the items newly arrived at the USF Polytechnic Library during the month of August. 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 and DVD titles are being immediately shelved in their respective stacks.
To [...]
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Last year we released the ability for departments and advisers to communicate with your constituents. We’ve greatly expanded the options for how those sites can be automatically populated with students. In particular, we can now identify students based on:
- Their College, department, major, concentration, or degree code
- Their education level (Freshmen, Sophomore, Undergrad, [...]
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On Monday, September 7th, the Library (and the Open Use Lab) will be closed in observance of Labor Day. We will reopen Tuesday, September 8th, at 8:00 AM.
Have a great Labor Day week-end!
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