While I was waiting for the bus to come to work at the USF Library this morning, I noticed the front page of today’s Examiner proclaimed, “Sky-high rents: SF tops the nation for median prices.” Naturally I plucked a copy from the newsstand and perused the article; anecdotally we all know it is nearly impossible … Continue reading Stats to back that up
The Library is expanding our Document Delivery service to include USF Graduate students. Beginning August 1, 2013, USF Graduate students and faculty can request electronic delivery of journal articles, book chapters, microfilm, and government documents from Gleeson Library’s print or digital collections. We will make every effort to fill all requests electronically, whether we have … Continue reading Document Delivery for Graduate Students
“Recently, the Education Department issued a controversial ‘blueprint’ for dealing with sexual harassment that could expose colleges that follow it to First Amendment lawsuits and redefine every flirtation and request to go out on a date as potential sexual harassment. It rejects decades of court rulings by declaring that any unwelcome speech or conduct of … Continue reading Dark Cloud Over Academic Freedom
James Gleick reports on “Wikipedia’s Women Problem” in the New York Review of Books: There is consternation at Wikipedia over the discovery that hundreds of novelists who happen to be female were being systematically removed from the category “American novelists” and assigned to the category “American women novelists.” … The word that came to mind … was … Continue reading Wikipedia’s Women Problem
Justin Bieber currently has more than 37 million followers on twitter. Unfortunately, according to Socialbakers, almost 16.7 million of those followers are fake or empty accounts and another 2.6 million accounts are inactive. Bieber’s 17.8 million “good” followers still make him the second-most popular Twitter user behind Lady Gaga who has 19 million real followers. … Continue reading Justin Bieber’s Fake Fans Revealed
Access to Gale Databases has been restored. All is well. Continue reading Gale Databases – Global Outage: RESOLVED!
The ERIC database has temporarily disabled PDF downloads on ERIC documents for security reasons. They are hoping to enable the downloads again soon, but no specific timeline has been given. Access to journal articles is unaffected. In the meantime, the Library does have copies of all ERIC “ED” documents on microfiche. To locate an “ED” … Continue reading Accessing ERIC Documents
ebrary, the library’s biggest ebook resource, now gives you the option to read their ebooks on a number of e-readers and mobile devices. Sign up for a personal ebrary account on the ebrary web site. Either download the app for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch; or follow the instructions for downloading chapters in pdf format … Continue reading eBooks for eReaders
When I logged into WordPress to edit a blog post this morning, I encountered the following screen: What’s up with that? Turns out WordPress, along with sites such as Twitter and most notably Wikipedia, are raising awareness of pending legislation in the House and the Senate that could cause censorship of the Internet. The original … Continue reading What’s up with the Wikipedia black out?
ScienceDirect is expected to be offline and unavailable for approximately 11 hours on Saturday, September 10. Down time is expected to be 4:30 AM – 3:30 PM In relation to the planned work, SciVerse ScienceDirect alerts will be suspended for two weeks, September 9-23. Subscribers will receive their outstanding alerts when we resume processing. Continue reading ScienceDirect Maintenance Sept 10