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.
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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
This Day in USF History: Gasohol
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe USF Oracle has been the student newspaper of USF since 1966, when it replaced the Campus Edition of the Tampa Daily Times. The USF Libraries have been digitizing the print editions of the Oracle from 1966 onward and adding them to the USF Oracle Archive in our online digital collections
Baking the Archives: Blueberry cake(ish)
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis post was guest authored by Tomaro Taylor, Director of USF Libraries’ Special Collections – Tampa campus. I did not grow up in a family of bakers. My mother cooks and eats out of necessity, and few things are ever the …Continue Reading
Endangered Species Day: Using the Archives to Advocate for Conservation
Reading Time: 5 minutesTo help celebrate and raise awareness for Endangered Species Day, Digital Dialogs is highlighting a recent dusky seaside sparrow exhibit released by the former FLENH Coordinator, Erin Peel, who also shares some other endangered species resources from within the Florida Environment & Natural History (FLENH) Collection.
Exploring St. Petersburg with the Francis G. Wagner Photograph Collection as a Guide
Reading Time: 7 minutesThis post was guest authored by Alexandra Vargas-Minor, Florida Studies Curator & Campus Archivist at the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library, USF Libraries – St. Petersburg campus. As the incoming Florida Studies Curator & Campus Archivist at the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library, …Continue Reading