Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s that time of the year: Public Domain Digitization! We’ve pulled a list of titles from our collections that will fall into the public domain on January 1, 2025, and now we need your help selecting the 25 items that we will scan to celebrate Public Domain 2025.
Category: Featured Projects
“Love is a familiar”: A letter collection chronicles a decades-long love story
Reading Time: 3 minutes Guest Post by Marlena Carrillo, Student Assistant, tells the story of a whirlwind 19th-century, long-distance romance will make you feel like you’re reading a novel – but the courtship was far from fiction.
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
Celebrating the Public Domain through digitization
Reading Time: 3 minutes For six years now, the USF Libraries have celebrated this transition of copyrighted work by digitizing a selection of material from our collections. After a public vote, we added 23 titles across collections including three growing Digital Collection areas: Florida Studies, Environmental and Natural History, and Sheet Music.
Illuminating the Archives through Art
Reading Time: 3 minutes Guest post from Erin Peel, Coordinator, Library Operations: FLENH, on connecting new archival collections from the Florida Ornithological Society with Art classes at USF.
Gandy Digitization Project: Completing 100 Years of Tampa Photography
Reading Time: 3 minutes George “Skip” Gandy IV, 1942-2020, captured images of a Tampa Bay very much in transition. In 2012, Gandy donated over 80,000 images to Special Collections as photographic negatives, slides, and prints. A small sample of 218 of these have been reformatted and …Continue Reading
Annual Vote to Digitize for the Public Domain
Reading Time: < 1 minute Help us choose the material that will be digitized for January 2024 as part of the Libraries’ annual celebration of the public domain! We have searched our physical collections to find the rarest titles whose copyright will expire in 2024, and now we need your help to figure out which 24 to digitize. Please vote for your favorites below (choose up to 24)!
Launching EcoLiteracies for Climate Action in Florida: A Teaching and Learning Portal
Reading Time: 2 minutes USF Libraries is excited to share that a new Open Educational Resource (OER) is launching in Spring 2023! The EcoLiteracies for Climate Action in Florida (ELCAF) portal is part of a larger collaborative effort between faculty in the USF Libraries, the College …Continue Reading
Celebrating the Public Domain through digitization
Reading Time: 3 minutes Join the USF Libraries in our annual celebration of the public domain through digitization! The USF Libraries have selected material from the Libraries’ collections published in 1927 that are newly in the public domain to digitize in celebration. This is the fifth year we have celebrated through digitization!
Florida Ornithological Society Partnership Takes Flight
Reading Time: 4 minutes Andrew Huse, Librarian and Curator for Florida Studies at Special Collections, USF Libraries, Tampa campus recounts his attendance and contributions to the 50th annual meeting of the Florida Ornithological Society.