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Cave Mineral Database: A Joint Collaboration Between Geologists, Librarians, And Programmers, Beverly Caggiano, Bogdan P. Onac, Todd A. Chavez

Academic Resources Faculty and Staff Publications

The Cave Mineral Database (CAMIDA) is a collaborative project of the University of South Florida Libraries, UIS’s Cave Minerals Commission, the Karst Information Portal, “Emil Racoviţă Institute of Speleology (Romania), and the Karst Research Group at University of South Florida (USA). CAMIDA is an open-access collection of geological, mineralogical, crystallographical, and protection/conservation information on all minerals discovered in caves (including lava tubes) around the world. It holds and organizes large amounts of information (including polarizing, scanning, and transmission microscope photos), and makes any item immediately accessible. It also provides links to many other integrated database of Raman spectra, X-ray diffraction …

Sapl Newsletter : 2009 : 07 (Summer), Nelson Poynter Memorial Library., Society For Advancement Of Poynter Library.

Society for Advancement of Poynter Library

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First Choice - July 2009, Wusf, University Of South Florida

First Choice Monthly Newsletter

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First Choice - June 2009, Wusf, University Of South Florida

First Choice Monthly Newsletter

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Finding A Voice: Results Of A Youth Participatory Action Research Survey, Richard A. Chapman, Claudia J. Dold

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

Participatory action research [PAR] combines systematic research with the development of a practical intervention. PAR methodology draws on the knowledge of the user population to identify problems, to tailor treatments, and to disseminate the results, in combination with professional guidance and project oversight. This exploratory study was designed to gain an understanding of the expectations of the various stakeholders in the system of care for children with mental health challenges: providers of services, researchers, evaluators, youth who had used services, administrators, policy-makers, family, and advocates. We conclude that stakeholders do have reasonable expectations of participatory action research as a process, …

Since You're Here : Vol. 03, Issue 06 (June 2009), Nelson Poynter Memorial Library

Since You're Here

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Outreach Blogs: Innovative Strategies For Connecting Libraries To Their Communities, Susan A. Ariew, Gina Clifford

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

An outreach blog can be an effective communication tool that extends and enhances email, listservs, and other traditional forms of correspondence in colleges and universities. At this presentation find out how USF Librarians have used blogging technologies to connect with specific faculty constituencies and to the community at large. Unlike traditional communication tools, blogs offer powerful organizational features that help users to keep abreast of library-related information and updates. Presenters will offer blogging tips and tools tied to questions of content, design, Google gadgets and library 2.0 features. In addition, presenters featured academic library outreach blogs that illustrated best practices.

First Choice - May 2009, Wusf, University Of South Florida

First Choice Monthly Newsletter

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Since You're Here : Vol. 03, Issue 05 (May 2009), Nelson Poynter Memorial Library

Since You're Here

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The Role Of Academic Libraries In Mentored Undergraduate Research: A Model Of Engagement In The Academic Community, Anthony Stamatoplos

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

Mentored undergraduate research is an emergent pedagogy in higher education. It differs fundamentally from course-related student research and is largely independent of the curriculum. Academic libraries should engage formally with the undergraduate research community. To do so, librarians will need to think and work beyond traditional models of library service, most notably in information literacy programs. The intent of this article is to raise awareness about opportunities for library involvement with undergraduate researchers and programs. Lessons from one university, including a formal partnership between a library and an undergraduate research center, suggest some general strategies that academic libraries might explore.

Since You're Here : Vol. 03, Issue 04 (April 2009), Nelson Poynter Memorial Library

Since You're Here

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First Choice - April 2009, Wusf, University Of South Florida

First Choice Monthly Newsletter

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Sapl Board Meeting : 2009 : 03 : 20, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library., Society For Advancement Of Poynter Library.

Society for Advancement of Poynter Library

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Beyond The Basics - “Casting A Net” To Provide Customized Research Services For Faculty And Students, Susan A. Ariew, Cheryl Mccoy, Gloria Colvin, Marcia Gorin, Matt Torrence

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

This interactive panel discussion will look at how librarians at two similar institutions can “cast a net” to create “Beyond the Basics” services to support student and faculty research. Florida State University and University of South Florida recently reorganized their reference departments in order to provide more customized services for graduate level and faculty research. Panelists from both schools will engage participants in identifying ways to customize research services at their institutions.

Since You're Here : Vol. 03, Issue 03 (March/April 2009), Nelson Poynter Memorial Library

Since You're Here

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First Choice - March 2009, Wusf, University Of South Florida

First Choice Monthly Newsletter

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First Choice - February 2009, Wusf, University Of South Florida

First Choice Monthly Newsletter

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Since You're Here : Vol. 03, Issue 02 (February 2009), Nelson Poynter Memorial Library

Since You're Here

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Since You're Here : Vol. 03, Issue 02 (2) (February 2009), Nelson Poynter Memorial Library

Since You're Here

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Insights From Past Experience With Human Dynamics In Military Operations, Randy Borum

Mental Health Law & Policy Faculty Publications

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Sapl Board Meeting : 2009 : 01 : 22, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library., Society For Advancement Of Poynter Library.

Society for Advancement of Poynter Library

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First Choice - January 2009, Wusf, University Of South Florida

First Choice Monthly Newsletter

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Success Strategies For Thesis Students: Creating A Video Toolbox, Claudia J. Dold, Ardis Hanson

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

With an increase in our pool of users and a cap on hiring, the librarians in our shop needed a way to clone themselves in order to deliver the same good service on which we pride ourselves and on which our constituency has come to rely.

Our proposed solution was to create video segments on how to use the library effectively. Funded by a grant, a project was undertaken to produce a series of fifteen videos designed to guide students through the research and writing skills that their program chairs deem essential for top-quality work. This paper presents the thought …

Public Services Department : Annual Report : 2008 - 2009, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

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Quantitative Literacy On The Web Of Science, 2 – Mining The Health Numeracy Literature For Assessment Items, H. Len Vacher, Todd A. Chavez

Academic Resources Faculty and Staff Publications

A topic search of the Web of Science (WoS) database using the term “numeracy” produced a bibliography of 293 articles, reviews and editorial commentaries (Oct 2008). The citation graph of the bibliography clearly identifies five benchmark papers (1995-2001), four of which developed numeracy assessment instruments. Starting with the 80 papers that cite these benchmarks, we identified a set of 25 papers (1995-2008) in which the medical research community reports the development and/or application of health-numeracy assessments. In all we found 10 assessment instruments from which we have compiled a total of 48 assessment items. There are both general and context-specific …

Collection Development & Technical Services Department : Annual Report : 2008 - 2009, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library.

Library Department and Committee Reports

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Using Electronic Portfolios To Measure Student Gains From Mentored Research, Kathryn Wilson, Mary Crowe, Jacqueline Singh, Anthony Stamatoplos, Elizabeth Rubens, John Gosney, Dwight Dimaculangan, Foster Levy, Mark Zrull, Rebecca Pyles

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

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Reduce > Reuse > Recycle: Teaching Acrl’S 5th Information Literacy Competency Standard., Catherine A. Cardwell, Amy F. Fyn, Carol A. Singer

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

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Why We Do It – The University Of South Florida Tampa Library’S Commitment To Open-Access Publishing, Todd A. Chavez

Academic Resources Faculty and Staff Publications

The University of South Florida Tampa Library's support for open-access content is part of the organization's mission to advance scholarly communication generally and an important element of the Karst Information Portal initiative. As the costs associated with journal subscriptions increase and pressures to ensure unfettered access to high-quality, peer-reviewed research mount, research libraries must partner with scholars to establish sustainable open-access publishing models.

Collection Assessment : College Of Education, Usfsp, 2009 : Library Reference, Research, And Instruction Support For The College Of Education : Ncate Accreditation Library Education Collection Report, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library.

All-Library Assessments Reports, Summaries & Misc Reports

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