Library Website Redesign
Our new website is live! We’ve updated the look and feel, improved usability, and made changes so that library accounts now use preferred first names. Continue reading Library Website Redesign
Our new website is live! We’ve updated the look and feel, improved usability, and made changes so that library accounts now use preferred first names. Continue reading Library Website Redesign
Gleeson Library is in the process of a website redesign. Participate in a short study for a chance to win a prize! Continue reading Got 10 Minutes? Help Us Improve the Library Website!
Gleeson Library is in the process of a website redesign. Participate in a short study for a chance to win a prize! Continue reading Help Us Improve the Library Website
The USF Library’s Systems Department has had a busy summer working on projects to improve services for students, faculty, and staff! Here are a few of our recent updates. New Systems Library Assistant The Systems Department has a new Library Assistant to help work on systems-related projects, troubleshooting, and technical documentation. Find out more about … Continue reading Systems Department Updates
American poet John Ashbery passed away on Sunday September 3, 2017 at age 90. In his acclaimed career, Ashbery published more than 20 volumes of poetry, most noted for their intricacy and controversy. He has won almost every major American poetry award, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Yale Younger Poets Prize, … Continue reading Gleeson Library Remembers: John Ashbery
Don’t bother scouring the Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. Check out tweet2cite.com! Enter the tweet’s url (found by clicking on Details) and voilà! You get APA, MLA, and Wikipedia style. Continue reading How do you cite a tweet in APA format?
The Oxford African American Studies Center, with Henry Louis Gates Jr. as Editor in Chief, is teeming with gripping photo essays, videos, maps, and articles. The search options make it easy to explore various sections including; biographies, images and multimedia, primary sources, and bibliographies. If you want to browse, I recommend looking through the Previous … Continue reading Database of the Week: Oxford African American Studies Center
David Silver’s Digital Media Productions class (#dmp10 on Twitter) has been shooting the library as part of a class assignment. The photos have been amazing. But more importantly, their insights into how Gleeson Library fits into their lives on campus are inspiring. From banned books to studies in color and texture, they have captured the … Continue reading USF’s Digital Media Productions Class Captures Gleeson
The New York Times recently published an interesting article about how the traditional peer review process is being looked at in the context of the democracy of the web. It described an experiment by the journal Shakespeare Quarterly which posted four articles not yet accepted for publication and invited people to submit comments on the … Continue reading Peer Review and the web
For the last couple of months, if you search Google and put in words like oil spill or gulf oil spill, at the top of the results list, you will get an ad from BP with the title BP Response. In it, BP gives you their side of the story about the oil disaster in … Continue reading BP and search engines