Category: Latest Dialogs

Baking the Archives: Dead Bone Cookies

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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

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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 before continuing any further.  Another Halloween is approaching stealthily through the pumpkin patch …Continue Reading

Bob, the Shadow, or, Solving a Double Mystery

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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

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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.

The Searchable Ornithological Research Archive at USF

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Reading Time: 3 minutesJason Boczar, Digital Scholarship and Publishing Librarian, and Carol Ann Borchert, Sr. Associate Dean, introduce a new project of the USF Libraries to create the Searchable Ornithological Research Archive (SORA) in USF’s Digital Commons. SORA is a digital collection of important international ornithological journals.

Book Lovers Day: 2024 Staff Recommendations

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Reading Time: 11 minutesLeslie Boydstun gathers together book and film recommendations from USF Libraries colleagues.

Finding the Public Domain

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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.