Oktoberfest is just around the corner! What started as a horse race celebrating the marriage of King Louis I, the king of Bavaria, in 1810 grew into a food and beer celebration in 1818. It is now a world-famous two-week celebration of German beer, … Continue Reading
Category: Digital Collections
Celebrating National Estuaries Week with FLENH
In honor of National Estuaries Week, Digital Dialogs is celebrating with a collection of digital resources related to the environmental history, conservation, and study of Florida environments and ecosystems. Estuaries are “semi-enclosed areas, such as bays and lagoons, … Continue Reading
Announcing Digital Commons @ USF
Explore the new, consolidated institutional repository at the University of South FloridaHelping researchers find the scholarship they need has always been a goal of the USF Libraries. And that is the mission of the USF institutional repository, Digital Commons @ University of South Florida. This new, open access repository is a merger of …Continue Reading
USF Curiosities: The Golden Brahman?
Five years after the University of South Florida was founded and long before there was a football team, USF had no mascot. It wasn’t until the University Center sponsored a contest to name the school mascot that we officially adopted a mascot…and our first wasn’t Rocky D. Bull, … Continue Reading
New Digital Exhibits Highlight the USF Forest Preserve & Piney Point
USF Libraries are also collecting crisis-point data and research on the local environmental concernsTwo environmental controversies provide USF Libraries with new opportunities for collecting and collaboration. In April of this year, incidents involving the USF Forest Preserve and Piney Point prompted new projects to support the Libraries’ Florida Environment and Natural History (FLENH) initiative launched …Continue Reading
Fifty Years with Florence Jandreau: An Oral History
An oral history with the University of South Florida’s longest-serving non-faculty staff memberIn 1971, Florence Jandreau was fresh out of high school and beginning her first job at the University of South Florida—where she’d stay for 50 years and become USF’s longest serving non-faculty staff member. Florence’s institutional knowledge is invaluable: She has served under six presidents, many provosts, and seven of the eight library directors and deans. To commemorate her extraordinary five decades of service, … Continue Reading
Library Collections Showcase National and Local Treasures for Parks and Recreation Month
In celebration of July being Park and Recreation Month, we are highlighting our USF Libraries research developed by the Digital Heritage and Humanities Collections (DHHC) relating to work in our national, state, and local parks and recreation areas. Parks are home to significant historical and natural treasures that represent collective experiences and memories and are places that preserve and protect heritage, … Continue Reading
ICYMI: City Within a City, a screening and discussion
Tampa Special Collections & TBHC Celebrate City of Tampa's Archives Awareness WeekFor City of Tampa’s Archives Awareness Week 2021, the USF Libraries Tampa Special Collections and the Tampa Bay History Center (TBHC) screened City Within a City, the 1955 promotional film about Ybor City — created by Paul Rubenstein, Cesar Gonzmart, and the …Continue Reading
Vote for Your Favorites to be Included in our 2022 Celebration of the Public Domain
Every year in January, the copyright protection of a new group of material will expire and those items will become part of the public domain. In celebration of this key characteristic of copyright law, USF Libraries select titles from our physical collections to digitize each year, and this year we intend to digitize 22 items. We need your help to decide which will be highlighted by our public domain celebration! Vote for your favorites before July 21st … Continue Reading
The Liberty Boys of “76″
Years before Famous Funnies was first published in 1934, considered by some to be the first comic book as we’ve come to know it today, kids of the late 19th and early 20th centuries had dime novels to while away their free time. Dime novels were cheap magazine-sized books that serialized stories typically featuring Old West heroes, soldiers, … Continue Reading