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Volume 3, Issue 5, April 2020

From the Dean

Friends,

The Nelson Poynter Memorial Library building is closed, but the library faculty and staff are working as hard or harder than ever, making sure our resources and services are open for USFSP faculty, staff, and students. As you know, the Library has a rich array of electronic resources, which you’ve used remotely for a long time. However, not everything is available online. Thanks to fair use, our membership in HathiTrust provides, during this emergency, digital access to many print materials we own. Typically, HathiTrust provides full-text access only to those materials out of copyright and in the public domain. Because of the COVID-19 emergency, HathiTrust has enacted Temporary Emergency Access Services , a provision which opens digital versions of print materials to its members. The next time you need a print owned by USF, check out HathiTrust—you may be surprised by what you find.

And, remember that if you are not sure where to look and what to do, librarians can help you find the resources you need and save you time and frustration. For a resource on the various ways that NPML can help you, visit the USF St Petersburg Library Coronavirus Updates .

I wish you the best of luck for the end of the semester and hope that you find some respite in the near future. I’m looking forward to when I can see you again in person!

Stay healthy,

Catherine Cardwell Dean, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library Spotlight

Library Staff Are Still Working to Support You

While most of the library staff are working remotely, Sam Holloway and Carolyn Kirch are our essential workers at the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. They're busy lending laptops to USFSP students, mailing to our faculty and students, and scanning articles and chapters to ensure that our students continue to have access to their required textbook . Don't worry, with the library closed, they have plenty of space to socially distance; but no matter what they deserve a hearty thanks for all that they do!!

For more information on how to access the library's print , visit: https://lib.usfsp.edu/COOP/books

Library Student Worker Highlights Samantha, a first year college student, started working in the collection development & technical services department right as we all started to Claire and Matt who work at the work remotely. She is working on a Student Tech Center are now working project selecting online art exhibitions remotely and supporting students so that people can view them virtually. through an online chat help service . We can't wait to be able to meet her in They are helping with questions related person one day. to Canvas, Office 365, software, and many others.

Scholars Corner

Virtual Student Research Symposium Library Publications

Despite this year's challenges, research continues! Burress, T., Mann, E., & The 17th Annual USFSP Student Research Neville, T. (2019). Exploring Symposium debuts as a virtual event beginning data via a librarian- April 27 - May 8, thanks to a strong partnership faculty learning community: between the Office of Research and Nelson A case study. The Journal of Poynter Memorial Library. Academic Librarianship, The USFSP Digital Archive will showcase more (October), 102076. student digital posters and multimedia https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acal presentations than ever before, with the new ib.2019.102076 capability to add comments. Browse research posters and presentations and Crampsie, C., Neville, T., & offer your thoughtful feedback to our student Henry, D. (2020). Academic researchers. Librarian Productivity: An Analysis of Skills and Behaviors Leading to Success. College & Research , 81(2), 248. doi:https://doi.org/10.5860/c rl.81.2.248

Special Collections Trivia Did You Know?

Connecting Our Community of Learners

In order to support faculty working remotely, CITL began several virtual initiatives: a Facebook page to connect faculty with resources and foster community as well as a twice weekly Teams Faculty Talk where professors meet to discuss current challenges. CITL newsletters continue to distribute relevant webinars and articles on new and current approaches to teaching and learning and all of this is archived online as well.

This framed image of St. Petersburg's open air post office comes from the library's new photo exhibit.

We look forward to sharing the exhibit with you when the library reopens!

Question: What decade is the library's new St. Petersburg history photo exhibit about?

Answer: The answer is in the title of our related online StoryMaps project .