We’ve gotten rid of our 4-year-old computers in the Reference and Periodicals Rooms, replacing 17 Dells and 12 Apples all with new iMacs like the ones pictured above. These computers have been specially configured to run Windows XP in addition to Mac OS X. At startup, you can choose which operating system you would like … Continue reading New Computers
Have you heard of the Horizon Report? It comes out every year and highlights 6 areas of emerging technology relating to higher education. Pretty interesting project. I just learned about it at CARL North IT’s workshop called Mashup the Library. Continue reading 2008 Horizon Report
Finding the fulltext of government funded research and news just got a lot easier! That’s because Gleeson Library|Geschke Center just added 438 U.S. government periodicals to Journal Finder. Just go to Journal Finder on the library’s homepage, type in the name of the government periodical (e.g., “Peace Watch”), and you’ll get a link to the … Continue reading Government Periodicals – Online!
Now available is the Oxford African American Studies Center from Oxford University Press. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the OAASC is a collection of reference works providing more than 8000 articles on the people and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Check it out! Continue reading Oxford African American Studies Center
We have a new database available from EBSCOhost called Environment Complete. This replaces the LexisNexis Environmental database (which contained the venerable Environment Abstracts). We believe the journal coverage of Environment Complete is broader and deeper (back to the 1940s in some cases), and unlike the LexisNexis product, offers more than 600 journal titles in full-text. … Continue reading Environment Complete: Yes, please!
ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. Now available from the Library to all USF students, faculty, and staff! Continue reading Picture This: ARTstor Now Available
Just a quick post to point out that we’ve created a page on the blog for recommendations, comments or questions about library resources or services. It’s here and it’s listed under Pages on the right side of the blog’s front page. Continue reading New Page on Blog for Recommendations
Four students in one of J.P. Allen’s courses (School of Business and Management – SOBAM) recently completed a class project that involved developing a proposal to solve a complex problem we’ve had at the library for some time – automating the reservation process for group study rooms. Willis, David, Phoebe & Eddie came by Gleeson … Continue reading USF School of Business and Management Gleeson Library Project
Check out our resource guide in celebration of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Feel free to share other resources and events on our blog! Continue reading Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
Starting immediately the library’s catalog, Ignacio, will include records that link to online U.S. government documents that are not distributed in print. This is a critical new service for USF because the U.S. government is increasingly distributing information solely online, and discovering these documents can be very difficult without the help of a catalog. The … Continue reading Do Mandrakes Really Scream? (and other online government documents!)