Reading Time: 4 minutesBy 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
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TAP, Part II: Reducing the Financial Burden on Students
Reading Time: 4 minutesGuest 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 minutesFor 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 minutesGuest 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
Baking the Archives: Utilizing historical recipes in honor of National Homemade Bread Day
Reading Time: 6 minutesAs an avid baker, I wasn’t about to let National Homemade Bread Day go by without a loaf baked in its honor. Even though bread is not my specialty, I bake bread almost every week. Usually, I dig a well-worn recipe card …Continue Reading
Celebrating National Author’s Day: 2023 Reading List
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn honor of National Author’s Day, Digital Dialogs wanted to share with you some of our favorite authors. The reading list below was assembled by our very own USF Libraries’ staff and faculty. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry… mystery, comedy, science fiction, fantasy, thriller… …Continue Reading
The Spotted Six or The Mystery of Calvert Hathaway
Reading Time: 4 minutesGuest Post by Richard Schmidt, Coordinator of Library Operations and Resident Dime Novel Reviewer Warning: Spoilers Ahead I will be spoiling several of the plot twists in my review, and while I can’t recommend reading this particular dime novel, you can …Continue Reading
Picasso at USF
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you’ve ever had a tour of Tampa Campus Special Collections, then you have probably seen the mock-up of a Picasso sculpture that never came to be. Originally planned to be erected at USF in the 1970s by the sculptor Carl Nesjar, the sculpture was meant to be over 100 feet tall. Recently, additional material from the USF Archives has been digitized. These items provide another glimpse into the monumental sculpture that, if it had been erected, would have drastically changed the feel of USF’s Tampa campus from what we know it to be today.
Open Access Week 2023: Dr. Lawrence’s Translated Texts
Reading Time: 2 minutesGuest post by Jason Boczar, Digital Scholarship and Publishing Librarian As it celebrates its fifteenth year, SPARC’s International Open Access Week aims to “raise awareness” about the “importance of community control of knowledge sharing systems.” To celebrate, the team behind USF Library’s …Continue Reading
Digital Commons Data @ USF: Our New Data Repository
Reading Time: 2 minutesEarlier this year, USF Libraries rolled out Digital Commons Data Repository @ USF (DCD), a new data platform that stores and shares datasets produced by University of South Florida researchers. Overview A data repository is a tool used to share and store …Continue Reading