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
Category: Latest Dialogs
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.
USF Curiosities: A solar rotary?
Reading Time: 5 minutesSummer 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
This Day in USF History: Gasohol
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 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 minutesThis 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