Reading Time: 7 minutes In honor of Women’s History Month, Digital Dialogs is delving into the past to take a look at an early form of photography: glass plate negatives. Before photographs were printed on paper or saved as digital files, images were imprinted on metal …Continue Reading
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Fair Use Week 2024
Reading Time: 2 minutes Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week, February 26th-March 1st, 2024, is a celebration of this exception in copyright law. Every year, fairuseweek.org provides a central location where libraries, museums, and related institutions can share the events and programming that they have planned as a celebration of fair use.
“Love is a familiar”: A letter collection chronicles a decades-long love story
Reading Time: 3 minutes Guest Post by Marlena Carrillo, Student Assistant, tells the story of a whirlwind 19th-century, long-distance romance will make you feel like you’re reading a novel – but the courtship was far from fiction.
Library Lovers’ Day: Learning to be a skeptical reader
Reading Time: 6 minutes In honor of Library Lovers’ Day, Digital Dialogs asked members of USF Libraries’ faculty and staff to share a story about a book that impacted their life. Read one of these stories below! This guest post was written by Zibby Wilder, Assistant …Continue Reading
Library Lovers’ Day: “And in that moment, I swear, we were infinite”
Reading Time: 3 minutes In honor of Library Lovers’ Day, Digital Dialogs asked members of USF Libraries’ faculty and staff to share a story about a book that impacted their life. Read one of these stories below! This guest post was written by Jessica Szempruch, Assistant …Continue Reading
Library Lovers’ Day: Finding a Voice
Reading Time: 4 minutes In honor of Library Lovers’ Day, Digital Dialogs asked members of USF Libraries’ faculty and staff to share a story about a book that impacted their life. Read one of these stories below! This guest post was written by Charlayne Sullivan, HR …Continue Reading
Sociedad La Union Marti-Maceo Collection Now in Digital Collections
Reading Time: 4 minutes By Stephanie Mackin, Visiting Assistant Librarian, Special Collections Since its arrival in 1983, the Sociedad la Union Marti-Maceo collection has been a popular and heavily utilized collection at the University of South Florida Libraries’ Tampa Special Collections. The uniqueness and historical significance …Continue Reading
TAP, Part II: Reducing the Financial Burden on Students
Reading Time: 4 minutes Guest Post by Alex Neff, Director of Data Analytics and Textbook Affordability (DATA) at USF Libraries Building upon the previous post on Florida’s textbook affordability environment, this entry will cover several of the most popular initiatives implemented by the Textbook Affordability Project (TAP) at …Continue Reading
Celebrating the Public Domain through digitization
Reading Time: 3 minutes For six years now, the USF Libraries have celebrated this transition of copyrighted work by digitizing a selection of material from our collections. After a public vote, we added 23 titles across collections including three growing Digital Collection areas: Florida Studies, Environmental and Natural History, and Sheet Music.
TAP, Part I: Over a Decade of Textbook Affordability at USF
Reading Time: 2 minutes Guest Post by Alex Neff, Director of Data Analytics and Textbook Affordability (DATA) at USF Libraries The Textbook Affordability Project (TAP) at the University of South Florida (USF) has been a vital advocate for addressing the challenges of rising textbook costs since …Continue Reading