Reading Time: 5 minutesGuest Post by Richard Schmidt, Digitization Coordinator in the Digital Initiatives unit Warning: Spoilers Ahead You can check out the entire issue from The New York Detective Library here before continuing any further. Another Halloween is approaching stealthily through the pumpkin …Continue Reading
Digital Dialogs
Latest Posts
Bob, the Shadow, or, Solving a Double Mystery
Reading Time: 3 minutesGuest Post by Henesis Veras, Library Data Analyst in the Data Management and Visualization unit Warning: Spoilers Ahead I will spoil the plot and mystery of this dime novel during my review, but if you would like to check out this …Continue Reading
Open Access Week 2024
Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring the last full week of October each year, members of the research community come together for Open Access Week. Librarians and researchers around the globe take time to discuss the impact open access (OA) has had over the last few decades, identify recent trends in OA, and tackle new issues and problems in open access.
Electronic Resource License Terms in the Catalog: What to Know
Reading Time: 2 minutesSarah Swiger, MLIS, USF Libraries Purchasing Administrator, introduces a new library project for putting license terms in the library catalog.
The Searchable Ornithological Research Archive at USF
Reading Time: 3 minutesJason Boczar, Digital Scholarship and Publishing Librarian, and Carol Ann Borchert, Sr. Associate Dean, introduce a new project of the USF Libraries to create the Searchable Ornithological Research Archive (SORA) in USF’s Digital Commons. SORA is a digital collection of important international ornithological journals.
Harnessing Generative AI for Your Academic Research: A Look at Semantic Scholar and Associated Toolsets
Reading Time: 3 minutesExplore AI Research tools in this guest post by Evan Fruehauf.
Baking the Archives: A sweet start for Fall
Reading Time: 6 minutesThis post was guest authored by Rebekah Nault, Library Specialist in Library Services at the Tampa Library From an early age, I tried to establish a solid relationship with baking, even though there were times when baking thought we would be …Continue Reading
Book Lovers Day 2024: Staff Recommendations
Reading Time: 11 minutesThis post was guest authored by Leslie Boydstun, Course Reserves Library Specialist For as long as I can remember, my favorite thing to talk about has been books. I love to find out what people are reading, why they love the genres …Continue Reading
Finding the Public Domain
Reading Time: 3 minutesDigital Dialogs has often featured posts on the public domain and the USF Libraries’ new public domain materials. For our annual digitization the Libraries’ selects material with a publication date that indicates it would fall in to the public domain by its copyright expiration. No matter how straightforward this may seem, determining what is public domain can be quite complicated.
USF Curiosities: A solar rotary?
Reading Time: 5 minutesSummer days are here at last! Today, we will experience not only the first day of summer but also the longest day of the year. In the Northern Hemisphere, the June solstice (aka summer solstice) occurs when the Sun travels along its …Continue Reading