USF Libraries are excited to congratulate Tomaro Taylor, Director of USF Libraries Special Collections, on receiving the 2023 Academy of Certified Archivists’ (ACA) Distinguished Service Award. The Distinguished Service Award acknowledges extraordinary services rendered to the Academy by its members. Award recipients …Continue Reading
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Schedule a Virtual Reality Visit to Tampa Bay’s Kellogg Mansion
In residence at the University of South Florida (USF) Tampa Library September 21, 2023 through March 1, 2024, the Kellogg Mansion Immersive Experience uses cutting edge virtual reality technology to take participants back in time while learning about the history of Dunedin’s …Continue Reading
USF Libraries Workshops for Researchers Announced
The USF Libraries have kicked off their Fall 2023 Workshops for Researchers programming. There are dozens of workshops available on a range of tools and techniques supporting the endeavors of USF researchers across disciplines. Workshops are organized around topical “tracks”, which are: …Continue Reading
Don’t Miss: September Events at the Libraries!
We’ve got some great events going on in September at USF Libraries. Here’s a quick overview: September – October 6: “Alice in Wonderland Exhibition Extravaganza” at Nelson Poynter Memorial Library, USF St. Pete This creative collaboration between USF Libraries and The Dali …Continue Reading
Dali at the Library: An Alice in Wonderland Collaborative Exhibit
September 13, 2023
6 pm
USF St. Pete’s Nelson Poynter Memorial Library has gone down the rabbit hole with a lively Alice in Wonderland collaborative exhibit that is now on view. The exhibit features everything “Alice” from USF Libraries’ Special Collections complemented by Salvador Dali’s enchanting Alice …Continue Reading
Gandy Digitization Project: Completing 100 Years of Tampa Bay Photography
by Amanda Boczar – George “Skip” Gandy IV, 1942-2020, captured images of a Tampa Bay very much in transition. In 2012, Gandy donated over 80,000 images to Special Collections as photographic negatives, slides, and prints. A small sample of 218 of these …Continue Reading
Juneteenth Reading List
Juneteenth celebrates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, became aware of the Emancipation Proclamation and the freedom that came with that executive order. In observance of this important historic event, the DEI committee has compiled a list of …Continue Reading
University of South Florida accepts invitation into the Association of American Universities
USF is one of six universities in the U.S. announced today as new AAU members. The University of South Florida has reached a historic milestone by accepting an invitation to join the Association of American Universities (AAU), a prestigious group of the …Continue Reading
Arsenic in the Archives
Reading Time: 3 minutesExamples of USF Libraries Tampa Special Collections books likely tinted with arsenic. Some wholly bound in green cloth, others with green tinted inserts. Painters and art students are probably already aware that that cadmium accentuated paints they may use …Continue Reading
USF Libraries expert part of groundbreaking research on western Africa’s prehistory
Africa has the deepest record of human evolution, but to date there is little evidence from west Africa. A new article in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution adds to our understanding with a study of the oldest directly dated archaeological site …Continue Reading