Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’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.
Tag: USF Digital Collections
Celebrating the Public Domain through digitization
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor 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.
The Spotted Six or The Mystery of Calvert Hathaway
Reading Time: 4 minutesGuest Post by Richard Schmidt, Coordinator of Library Operations and Resident Dime Novel Reviewer Warning: Spoilers Ahead I will be spoiling several of the plot twists in my review, and while I can’t recommend reading this particular dime novel, you can …Continue Reading
Picasso at USF
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you’ve ever had a tour of Tampa Campus Special Collections, then you have probably seen the mock-up of a Picasso sculpture that never came to be. Originally planned to be erected at USF in the 1970s by the sculptor Carl Nesjar, the sculpture was meant to be over 100 feet tall. Recently, additional material from the USF Archives has been digitized. These items provide another glimpse into the monumental sculpture that, if it had been erected, would have drastically changed the feel of USF’s Tampa campus from what we know it to be today.
Digital Commons Roadshow: Learn More About Library Digital Services
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUSF Libraries’ Digital Commons at USF is more than just a repository for research and archives. It is also a valuable tool, backed by a team of experts, to help you achieve your goals for tenure and promotion. In addition to free …Continue Reading
Food Conservation in the Home and Recipes in the Archives
Reading Time: 2 minutesFood is a way to understand a place and a culture. Sharing a meal is a bonding ritual that transcends many cultural boundaries. The recipes of the past can also teach us about history, with useful tips for today’s challenges. That is the case for Blanche Armwood Perkins’ Food Conservation in the Home: A Collection of War-Time Recipes.
Gandy Digitization Project: Completing 100 Years of Tampa Photography
Reading Time: 3 minutesGeorge “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
