Say NO to Internet Censorship.

Congress is debating whether to grant itself the power to turn off parts of the Internet. Fun sites like YouTube. Informative sites like Wikipedia. Political sites like MoveOn.org.

This week, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) will start a historic filibuster of the Internet Censorship Act where he'll read the names of every person who signs a petition against Internet censorship. It's the perfect opportunity for 5 million Internet-connected progressives to visibly add their voice to a Senate debate. The more of us who sign, the stronger this effort to block this terrible law will be.

Sign the petition at http://pol.moveon.org/nointernetcensorship/?id=33343-17958429-Lxki4Sx&t=1

Knit (or crochet) a squillion

Join Us and Invite Your Friends*

What:  Knit Wits.
Where:Moffitt Cancer Center Lobby.
Time:  Every Wednesday from 1-2 p.m. December 2011.
Goal:   60 squares make a blanket.  5 blankets before the New Year?
        
Fellas... let's see some of you get out of those cubes, and hidey holes, and join us gals in this project.

• Any man who "mans up" and joins us will receive knitting lessons.! 
• It's a great break from staring at the screens, and all around good "Mitzvah."
• Between 1-2 a harpist and cellist play in the MCC lobby. (very cool)
• Instructions for the knit and crochet square and more information on this wonderful charity are located at:  http://www.knit-a-square.com/
• http://www.knit-a-square.com/support-files/knit-a-squillion.pdf

Knitting instructions
FOR ONE 8"/20 cms SQUARE, you will need:
Yarn from a 100 gram (3.5 oz) ball of yarn or scraps of yarn or wool
8 ply (Aus), worsted (USA), double knit (UK)
Size 6mm needles (Aus) 4 (UK, Canada) 10 (USA)
A yarn sewing needle.
1. Cast on 32 stitches (try to make your stitches neither too loose nor too tight to help ensure uniform squares)
2. Row 1: knit
3. Row 2: knit. These two rows form the 'garter' stitch knitting pattern for your square
4. Continue knitting as per these two rows until you have knitted a square
5. To ensure you square is 8"/20cm either use a tape measure or form a triangle by folding one corner of your square over to meet the opposite corner as shown - if all sides are equal - then you have a square!
6. Cast off
7. Use your yarn sewing needle to sew in all the yarn ends using a darning method
VERY IMPORTANT
Leave a one metre (one and a quarter yards) length of your yarn attached to your work after you have cast off. This will be used to join the squares together.

P.S.  Thanks to Lee Ann Howlett for suggesting this great project.

TMI

Next time you want to buy or download a book, movie, or CD and enrich the 1%....Remember...

"Those of us who have faith in the future of democracy can only hold our faith fast by believing that the knowledge of the learned, the wisdom of the thoughtful, the conscience of the upright, will some day be common enough to prevail, always, over every fractious folly and every mischievous movement that evil minds or ignorance can set astir. When that blessed time of victory shall have come, there will be many to share the glory of it; but none among them will rank rightly before those who have led and inspired the work of the public libraries."

--Mary Salome Cutler quoting Joseph Nelson Larned from a paper read at Lake Placid - "Two Fundamentals" Library Journal, 1896, p. 446.

A Veteran's Day salute to our Librarians at the James A. Haley VA Hospital Library, Tampa, FL

http://www.tampa.va.gov/features/Health_Information_Your_VA_Library.asp

Writing for Publication in Library Science

Below please find Dr. McDermott's slide presentation given to FFJC on 10/7/11.

Did you have a craptastic week?

Hope not!!

If you want a fantastic kickoff to the weekend, please attend today's First Friday Journal Club.  Our very own tri-athlete, Ms. Claire Keneally, MLIS (below) will inspire you to put pen to paper and share your experiences in librarianship and life with the world.

 Where:  Shimberg HSL

Room 2215

When:  11/4/11

1-2 p.m.

Post work debriefing/Happy Hour

5 p.m.

http://wood-firedpizza.com/directions.aspx

St. Pete Times Festival of Reading October 22, 2011 - Thanks to all USF volunteers

FFJC Salutes our USF Author/Presenters:

Special Recognition to First Friday Journal Club Presenter:

Nick Fagnoni, Manager 

Julie Armstrong

Raymond Arsenault (with Laurens Grant, David Myers and Winonah Myers)

Mark Durand

Tony Silvia

Introducers
Helen Levine (External Affairs) – James W. Hall and Lisa Unger; Mark Durand
Vivian Fueyo (Education) – Herb Snitzer
Deanna Michael – Patricia Rossi
Patricia Pettijohn (Library) – Edwin Black; Ian Vasquez
David McMullen (History) - Robert Olen Butler
Susan Allen (Social Work) – Terry Tomalin
Jan Blake (Education) – Tammar Stein
Kim Hall (External Affairs) – Nick Fagnoni
Linda LaPointe (Honors Program) – Roy Peter Clark
Kaya Van Beynen (Library)
 

Captain - House Manager

Patricia Claytor – Williams House

CAC Events Facilitators
Don McCarty
Anthony Ingram
Jeremy Johnson

Faculty and Staff
Cynthia Brown
Harriet Fletcher
Michel Fougeres
Bill Heller
Barbra Higel
Charlie Justice
Melanie Marquez
Barry McDowell
Solitaire Kelley Pepper
Tony Pepper
Carissa Santana
Anita Thompson – USF Tampa
Sudsy Tschiderer
Robert Vessenmeyer
Barbara Wood – USF Tampa

Students
Talia De Angelo
Kevon Bremmer
Robert Burnham
Amaury Figueroa
Ingrid Morales
Taylor Upchurch

USF St. Petersburg Booth
Roy Callihan
Talia De Angelo

Campus Computing
Jeff Reisberg
John Diaz

Facilities Services
John Dickson
Kevin Cartmill
Cathy McClish
Rick Close
Ron Quincel
Guy Van Asten
Doug Maczis
Chris Heinrich
Jerry Coleman
Kevin Cowley
Robert Herrington
William Thornton
Howard Vail

Police
Rene Chenevert
Reggie Oliver
Ada Bell
Kevin Deloatch
Walter Ewing
John Neder
Michael Wasserman
Fred Wassmer
Michael Williams

Parking Services
Julie Jakway
Bill Benjamin
Ryan Sweeney

ROTC
Scott Macksam
William Millazo
Samantha Woodgreer
Adam Goetz
Josh Rivera
German Medina

Campus Associate
India Williams

"On Getting Published: The Good, the Bad, and the COMPLETELY Different?"

Ms. Claire Keneally, MLIS (below left), Librarian Shriner's Children's Hospital, Tampa, FL

November 4, 2011

Room 2215

Shimberg Health Sciences Library

1-2 p.m.

 

Claire will be allowing us to read a manuscript that she submitted and had published in "Guideposts" magazine.  Unlike, scholarly publication which is done for the honor and the glory, Claire was actually paid for writing this article!!  In addition, "Guideposts" didn't merely edit Claire's original submission, they completely re-wrote the article. 

Anyone who's ever attended one of Ms. Keneally's FFJC presentations, knows she's a master storyteller-- she literally has you on the edge of your seat. 

Join your colleagues for some tea and cookies, and what's certain to be an interesting story!!

For further information contact

bawood@usf.edu

or bwood25@tampabay.rr.com