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
The EdLib Report
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
Encyclopedia of Queer Studies in Education
The Encyclopedia of Queer Studies in Education, edited by Kamden Strunk and Stephanie Anne Shelton, focuses on education and education research as it relates to queer studies. chapters include such topics as AIDs activism, Androgyny, Antidiscrimination Laws and Policies, Bisexuality, Campus Climate …Continue Reading
Helping Students with College Costs through the Textbook Affordability Project (TAP)
The USF Libraries’ Textbook Affordability Project (TAP) may be able to purchase electronic versions of key texts for your courses! TAP’s Ebooks for the Classroom+ program works to provide free access to required course readings which helps to mitigate high textbook costs …Continue Reading
