Celebrate National Picture Book Month!

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November is National Picture Book Month, a tribute to the enduring importance of the picture book form.  This post features a digital archive of 7,000 historic children books that includes mid to late 19th century titles at University of Florida’s Baldwin Library …Continue Reading

Featured Workshop: Finding a Home for Your Manuscript

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This online workshop on Thursday, October 20th, from 2-3 PM,  is designed to show scholars how to research journals, their scope and rankings in order to find a good fit for their manuscripts. By the end of this workshop you will be …Continue Reading

Books Unbanned

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New York Libraries have been fighting book bans across the country by lending 25,000 books to nonresidents since last spring.  Brooklyn (N.Y.) Public Library has been particularly proactive with its Books Unbanned program, offering its e-books collection to young people ages 13-21 …Continue Reading

Workshops for Researchers this Fall

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USF Libraries is pleased to launch our 2022-23 Workshops for Researchers program, offering a wide array of research training for faculty, graduate students and USF researchers. Taught by expert faculty and librarian, our virtual workshops cover a range of essential data analysis …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

New Multilingual Writing Center

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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

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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

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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

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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