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
The EdLib Report
New Multilingual Writing Center
The Multilingual Writing Center offers FREE one-on-one writing consultations to international and/or multilingual USF graduate students from any field who may encounter unique challenges in the academic writing process. They hold 45-minute sessions in which students will be working one-on-one with Sean Farrell, a …Continue Reading
Unite Against Book Bans
The week of September 18-24 is Banned Books Week sponsored by the American Library Association. Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read and spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. Unite Against Book Bans is a …Continue Reading
Websites use URLs to Track You
This article by Brook Cagle, from Popular Science gives you some tips on how to stop being tracked when you visit Websites. The article describes how tracking URLs work and how to stop them in Firefox, which has a tracking URL blocker …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
Meet St. Pete’s New Education Librarian!!
Shawna Durtschi (sadurtschi@usf.edu) joined USF St. Petersburg’s Nelson Poynter Memorial Library in July as the Digital Scholarship Librarian. She has experience in both public and academic libraries, where her work focused on promoting equitable access and opportunities for literacy and information-seeking. Alongside …Continue Reading
Delivering Equitable Access to America’s Research
Recently the White House announced that all federally funded research will be made openly available, by 2026. Importantly, it eliminates the 12-month embargo. This is the result of decades of work by the library community’s push for equity through open access. For …Continue Reading
Planning for the Fall–Including Library Instruction into Your Course
As you plan for the Fall semester, you might want to consider what type of library instruction would best scaffold any research projects for your students. Available to instructors are asynchronous digital badging workshops about such topics as avoiding plagiarism, APA citation …Continue Reading