Dec 22
Happy Holidays from all the faculty and staff here at the University of West Florida Libraries! UWF Libraries will be closed from December 24 to January 4, 2009 but be sure and check out the collection of Louisville & Nashville magazines dated from 1911 to the 1940s in John C. Pace Library Special Collections when the libraries reopen on January 5, 2009.
Wishing everyone in the UWF community a safe and peaceful holidays and prosperous new year for 2009. See you in the new year!
Dec 15
The semester is over and the holidays have finally arrived. Now you have the time to read a book just for pleasure. There are many wonderful titles that you might have checked out from the UWF Library, but what if you forgot to do that before you left campus? Not to worry. The library has over 90,000 books available in full-text online for you to read on your laptop in the comfort of your very own rocking chair or hammock.
You may easily find these titles by looking for one of two databases: “NetLibrary” has almost 40,000 titles, including some 3,500 classics and “Ebrary” has around 38,000 titles.
You may search either of these databases for a title in a subject area of your choice or you may just browse the titles by typing in the name of either database in the “Basic Search” line of the library’s online catalog. You may sort the electronic books (e-books) by author, title, or by subject, select one and start reading the book online right that minute.
Both NetLibrary and Ebrary have handy help screens to get you started.
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Dec 10
Quite a few websites provide interesting information on holiday traditions across the country and around the world. We’ll list a few of those below, but before we do there are some great print resources available in both the John C. Pace Library and the Emerald Coast Library that are worthy of your attention.
One of the most wonderful things about print resources is the opportunity for fortuitous discovery that simply flipping through pages can provide. Here are three excellent reference books on holidays with interesting excerpts discovered through browsing:
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Dec 03
As mentioned in a previous Books & Bytes post, one of the UWF Libraries’ Strategic Plan goals is to develop the “Library as Place: Create a physical environment that supports all forms of learning, discovery, exchange, design, experimentation, and instruction.”
The concepts of “library as place” and “library as destination” are active topics of discussion in the library profession. Although more prominent in the public library community, these concepts are taking root and flowering in the academic environment as well.
Trinity College Library, Dublin -- Photo by Candida Höfer
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