Reading Time: 2 minutes Sarah Swiger, MLIS, USF Libraries Purchasing Administrator, introduces a new library project for putting license terms in the library catalog.
Category: Across the Academy
Finding the Public Domain
Reading Time: 3 minutes Digital 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.
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.
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
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
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
Generative AI resources at the Libraries
Reading Time: < 1 minute The USF Libraries have been following recent developments in publicly available generative AI tools. Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) system that generates text, images, and other media in response to user prompts. Interfaces like ChatGTP have brought advances …Continue Reading
Arsenic in the Archives
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Poison Book Project at Winterthur Library is an “ongoing investigation to explore the materiality of Victorian-era publishers’ bindings, with a focus on the identification of potentially toxic pigments used as book cloth colorants.” By using the Arsenical Books Database created by the project, USF Libraries Tampa Special Collections have identified a few books in our own archives that are likely colored with arsenic.