Reading Time: 5 minutes Summer 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
Category: Collections of Interest
This Day in USF History: Gasohol
Reading Time: 2 minutes The 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 minutes This 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
Exploring St. Petersburg with the Francis G. Wagner Photograph Collection as a Guide
Reading Time: 7 minutes This 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 minutes What 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
Take your Poet to School: John Keats
Reading Time: 3 minutes This 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
Celebrating Women’s History Month with Snapshots of Early Photography
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
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
Baking the Archives: Utilizing historical recipes in honor of National Homemade Bread Day
Reading Time: 5 minutes As 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 minutes In 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