local shelter information

The Pinellas Hope Soft Shelter is scheduled to open Saturday, December 1, with plans to provide intake to 100 people on each of the first two days (Saturday and Sunday). As of this morning, Nov. 19, the street outreach teams in St. Pete, Pinellas Park, Lealman, and Clearwater will be giving 'referral slips ' to individuals the last week in November. Homeless individuals with these slips will go first to Catholic Charities for criminal checks, then on to the Pinellas Hope site. Catholic Charities does not plan to enroll people who just show up at the site, so please pass the word on to your staff members to tell homeless individuals that they should not go out to the site first. They want people to come to the site after 'referral' by the Street Outreach Teams, so that someone has talked to them before they show up; they also want people to use the buses, and not arrive by foot because of all the businesses in the area.

Journalism iMac availability

Fall 2007:

The FCT 107 lab and the Computer Center (where two other journalism department iMacs are available) are NOT open on Saturdays.

For your convenience, FCT 107 is available for you to use as follows:

Tuesdays and Thursdays - 9:30 am to 3:15 pm (Please leave the lab when the 3:30 class begins on those days.)

Fridays - 9:30 am to 5 pm

Sundays - 1pm to 6 pm

(Come to FCT 204 to request access if the room is not already unlocked.)

Additionally, there are two iMacs (exactly the same computers, with exactly the same programs as those in FCT 107) in the Computer Center (Bayboro Hall Room 225).

Those computers are available as follows:

Mondays through Thursdays - 8 am to 10 pm
Fridays - 8 am to 5 pm
(Those two computers are password protected so they can only be used by journalism students. Please contact Bridget for the password, if you don’t already know that it is the one we also use for the computers in FCT 107.)

Pinellas County Newspaper Index (WPA)

As many of you know, a lot of our Florida Studies students use the bound green volumes of the Pinellas County Newspaper Index created by the Works Progress Administration. Digital images in JPG or PDF format are now available for these volumes through the Florida Heritage Project of FCLA at http://palmm.fcla.edu

Now students can access this valuable resource from the comfort of their homes. The volumes are valuable, but the layout within them is sometimes confusing (how many people born after 1970 have ever used the word “Necrology”?) and not all of the sources cited are in existence (i.e., some early issues of the Clearwater Sun never survived long enough to get microfilmed). I have used these sources frequently for many years and am glad to provide assistance if student need help with them. Please feel free to refer them to me.

JIM


Search: k=pinellas county newspaperHit Count: 2Records: 1 to 2

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Pinellas County newspaper index WPA official project 665-35-3-244
1941
Electronic Resource
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Pinellas County newspaper index W.P.A. Project no. 2865, 1938-1939.
1939
Electronic Resource

Statistics and data sets

We have a business class where the students need to locate data sets. Marcy has created a nice web page on her nelson business page:

http://www.nelson.usf.edu/reference/subject_guides/business/statistics_data.html


Please refer students to this page if they need suggestions on where to locate statistics and data.

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Actually, I also just posted the updated course guide (for Business Statistics II) on the Business Reference portion of our web site at the following:

http://web.nelson.usf.edu/reference/documents/BusStatistics.html

And there is a related post on my blog

http://businessresearchstuff.blogspot.com