The USF Libraries are proud to celebrate Earth Day 2024! We are committed to the preservation and accessibility of data-driven resources concerning the impact of Florida’s natural environment. Take some time this Earth Day to explore our Florida Environment and Natural History …Continue Reading
Category: Special Collections
News related to USF Special Collections
USF Libraries and NPML Special Collections & Archives to House Elie Weisel Archive
The USF Libraries will partner with the Florida Holocaust Museum to house and provide access to the papers and other materials (including photos, unfinished manuscripts, and audio and video recordings) of the scholar and humanitarian, Elie Wiesel within Special Collections & Archives …Continue Reading
The African American Experience in Florida
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
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
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
Launching EcoLiteracies for Climate Action in Florida–A Teaching and Learning Portal
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
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
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
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
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