Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 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 Mrudula Ravada, Research …Continue Reading
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Gasparilla 101
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis post was guest authored by Andy Huse, Florida Studies Curator and Librarian in Special Collections at the Tampa Library There has been a lot of ink spilled about the authenticity of the Jose Gaspar myth. For the better part of …Continue Reading
Helping the 3 A.M. Researcher: Linking Digitized Material to Finding Aids
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis post was guest authored by Ann Abney, Digital Initiatives Metadata Librarian in Collections & Discovery at the Tampa Library One of the most frequent questions I was asked in my previous job as an archivist was “What’s available online?” followed …Continue Reading
Baking the Archives: Rum Omelet
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
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.
