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The African American Experience in Florida

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An initiative of USF Libraries’ Special Collections, The African American Experience in Florida (AAE), is an online portal containing materials and archives from Black communities, individuals, and businesses. The portal aims to help students, educators, researchers, and the public learn about Black …Continue Reading

Picasso at USF

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This post from the Digital Dialogs, blog a blog hosted by Special Collections, outlines plans for a Picasso sculpture that never came to be.  The sculpture was originally planned to be erected in the 1970’s by sculptor Carl Nesjar. The Digital Dialogs …Continue Reading

Alice in Wonderland Exhibition at USF St. Pete Library

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The USF St. Pete library has gone a little mad here. We have collaborated with the USF Tampa Library Special Collections and the Dali Museum to create an Alice in Wonderland Exhibition Extravaganza. In the gallery we have Dali’s Alice Suite, where …Continue Reading

Celebrating the Public Domain through Digitization

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Join the USF Libraries in our annual celebration of the public domain through digitization!  The public domain consists of material for which copyright protection has expired, was forfeit, or does not apply.  The vast majority of materials in the public domain are …Continue Reading

Ecoliteracies for Climate Action in Florida

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USF Libraries is excited to share that a new Open Educational Resource is launching this fall! The EcoLiteracies for Climate Action in Florida (ELCAF) portal is part of a larger collaborative effort between faculty in the USF Libraries, the College of Education, …Continue Reading

Highlighting the Weekly Challenger Digital Archive

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At the USF Libraries we house a number of digitized and “born digital” material in our repository. Our collections cover a range of subjects including art, science, local Florida studies, and more, and we would like to highlight our digital newspaper archive …Continue Reading

Preserving LGBTQ + History

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Special Collections is hosting a very timely and interesting conversation originally scheduled for Women’s History Month.  Local lesbian activist and community organizer Edie Daly (She/Her/Hers) and S.L. Crawley, PhD (They/Them/Theirs), Associate Professor in the USF Department of Sociology, will explore gender and …Continue Reading