Reading Time: 5 minutesThis post was guest authored by Andy Huse, Florida Studies Curator and Librarian in Special Collections at the Tampa Library There must be a whole universe of forgotten recipes. The favorites of yesterday often fall out of fashion, never to return. …Continue Reading
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Baking the Archives: Dead Bone Cookies
Reading Time: 7 minutesThis post was guest authored by Stephanie Mackin, Archives Librarian in Special Collections at the Tampa Library Growing up in a Greek and Italian household, I spent many days in the kitchen after school watching and learning how to make traditional …Continue Reading
The Haunted Churchyard
Reading Time: 5 minutesGuest Post by Richard Schmidt, Digitization Coordinator in the Digital Initiatives unit Warning: Spoilers Ahead You can check out the entire issue from The New York Detective Library here before continuing any further. Another Halloween is approaching stealthily through the pumpkin …Continue Reading
Bob, the Shadow, or, Solving a Double Mystery
Reading Time: 3 minutesGuest Post by Henesis Veras, Library Data Analyst in the Data Management and Visualization unit Warning: Spoilers Ahead I will spoil the plot and mystery of this dime novel during my review, but if you would like to check out this …Continue Reading
Open Access Week 2024
Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring the last full week of October each year, members of the research community come together for Open Access Week. Librarians and researchers around the globe take time to discuss the impact open access (OA) has had over the last few decades, identify recent trends in OA, and tackle new issues and problems in open access.
Baking the Archives: A sweet start for Fall
Reading Time: 6 minutesThis post was guest authored by Rebekah Nault, Library Specialist in Library Services at the Tampa Library From an early age, I tried to establish a solid relationship with baking, even though there were times when baking thought we would be …Continue Reading
Book Lovers Day 2024: Staff Recommendations
Reading Time: 11 minutesThis post was guest authored by Leslie Boydstun, Course Reserves Library Specialist For as long as I can remember, my favorite thing to talk about has been books. I love to find out what people are reading, why they love the genres …Continue Reading
Finding the Public Domain
Reading Time: 3 minutesDigital 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.