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
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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
Pets in the Archives: Horses and roosters too!
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat is a pet? A companion. A friend. A member of the family. They provide so much comfort and enhance our lives on a daily basis. As proud pet moms, the authors of Digital Dialogs would like to celebrate National Pet Day …Continue Reading
Annual Vote for Public Domain Digitization: 2025
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s that time of the year: Public Domain Digitization! We’ve pulled a list of titles from our collections that will fall into the public domain on January 1, 2025, and now we need your help selecting the 25 items that we will scan to celebrate Public Domain 2025.
Take your Poet to School: John Keats
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis post was guest authored by Jason Boczar, Digital Scholarship and Publishing Librarian at USF Libraries. This week is “Take your Poet to School” week, a week celebrating the reading, writing, and history of poetry across the globe. During the week, …Continue Reading
Baking the Archives: A Pie for Pi Day
Reading Time: 7 minutesAs someone who works in data analytics and visualization, I had to honor Pi Day in some way. Pi Day serves to raise awareness of the importance, beauty, and relevance of mathematics and its role in shaping our world. Pi, or π, …Continue Reading
Fair Use Week 2024
Reading Time: 2 minutesFair 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 minutesGuest 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.