News, Events, & Updates

Interested in learning how to compose footnotes, in-text citations, and bibliographies for your papers in correct bibliographic style? Better still, interested in learning an easy application that does the work of forming footnotes, in-text citations, and bibliographies for you? No longer do you need to consult complicated citation style manuals (Turabian, APA, MLA, etc.) every time you write a paper. With Refworks you can export search results from the library’s subscription databases, store and organize them on the internet in your personal folders, and add them to your papers in correct bibliographic form—all with the push of a button. Come to one of the library’s introductory Refworks workshops to find out how.

Library West

Sessions will be held in Room 211. For more information, contact Blake Landor (273-2644 email: landor@ufl.edu)

Sept 15:10-11:30 a.m.
Sept 25: 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Oct 14: 2:30-4:00 p.m.
Oct 29: 10-11:30 a.m.
Nov 14: 11-12:30 p.m.
Dec 16: 2:30-4:00 p.m

Education Library

Sessions held at the Education Library in Norman Hall will emphasize education-related resources. For more information, contact Marilyn Ochoa (273-2627 or mnochoa@ufl.edu).

Introduction to RefWorks

Wednesday, October 15: 12-1 PM
Thursday, November 13: 12-1 PM

Using RefWorks Write-N-Cite and RefGrab-It

Wednesday, October 22: 12-1PM
Thursday, November 20: 12-1PM

The Collectors Weekly, a website for collectors and antique enthusiasts, has selected the University of Florida’s Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature website for its Hall of Fame (http://www.collectorsweekly.com/hall-of-fame/view/baldwin-library-of-childrens-literature). The Collectors Weekly highlights websites with deep reference content reflecting unique collections and which demonstrate “a passion for collecting.”  The University of Florida Baldwin Library is considered one of the “best on the web,” according to The Collectors Weekly.

The Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature — http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/UFDC.aspx?c=juv — in the Department of Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries contains more than 100,000 volumes published in Great Britain and the United States from the early 1700s through the current year. Its holdings of more than 800 early American imprints is the second largest such collection in the United States.

The product of Ruth Baldwin’s 40-year collection development efforts, this vast assemblage of literature printed primarily for children offers an equally vast territory of topics for the researcher to explore: education and upbringing, family and gender roles, civic values, racial, religious, and moral attitudes, literary style and format, and the arts of illustration and book design.  

A great strength of the collection is the many English and American editions of the same work. Other strengths of the collection include 300 editions of Robinson Crusoe, 100 editions of Pilgrim’s Progress, fables, juvenile biography, 19th century science and natural history, 19th century alphabet books, moral tales, fairy tales, 19th century juvenile periodicals, 19th century boys’ adventure stories, 20th century boys’ and girls’ series, Little Golden Books, and juvenile publications of the American Sunday School Union and other tract societies. Scholars, students, and researchers from the University of Florida and worldwide continue to request assistance from this collection.

Funding for digitization of this collection was provided in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature is a contributor to the International Children’s Digital Library and a founding partner of The Center for Children’s Literature and Culture at the University of Florida.

To ensure that items displayed in the online catalog are available to patrons, the Smathers Libraries will attempt to quickly replace each item lost by patrons with an exact copy, an updated edition of the title, or a similar title. Effective July 1, 2008, the libraries will no longer refund replacement costs for items that are returned after replacements copies are ordered. Overdue fines related to lost items are not increasing and are not refundable if the book is subsequently returned.

• If a lost item is returned before a replacement copy is ordered, the assessed replacement cost will be refunded to the patron. The associated overdue fines will not be refunded.

• If a lost item is returned after a replacement copy has been ordered, the assessed replacement cost will not be refunded, but the patron will have the option of retaining the returned item. The associated overdue fines will not be refunded.

How is the replacement cost determined?
Replacement prices are based on readily available information from selected book dealers. To determine a replacement cost, staff will first check Books in Print for the retail price. If there is no information for that item, staff will then check other trusted vendors and find the lowest priced comparable item. The processing costs for ordering, shipping and handling, and making the book shelf-ready are added to the purchase price.

Can I provide the library with my own replacement copy?
To ensure condition and accuracy of the item and catalog, the library only orders replacement copies through trusted vendors. The library will not accept patron supplied replacement copies.

The exhibit “The Passing Parade: A Baby Boomer Collects: The Jim Liversidge Collection” is open on the second floor gallery of Smathers Library (East) Monday through Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm. The exhibit will run until August 28, 2008.

The exhibit touches upon highlights from politics, television, theatre, film, music, sports and day-to-day current events of the past 50 years. The collection - compiled, processed and donated to the Department of Special and Area Studies Collections by Jim Liversidge, curator of Popular Culture Collections at the University of Florida, is made up of close to seven thousand individual pieces (autographs, scrapbooks, photos, programs, posters, campaign buttons, sheet music, newspaper clippings, audio recordings, VHS and DVD films, artifacts and over 400 book titles). The material is housed in 95 archival boxes (101 linear feet) representing 45 years of collecting from JFK and Vietnam to 9-11 and the current election year.

The Spring 2007 issue of Chapter One is now available online.

Library News for University of Florida Faculty, Volume 11, No 2, November/Fall 2000.