Category: Development

Christina Wisz Stevens, Graduating Student Spotlight

Spring 2022 Edition
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Christina Wisz Stevens is the Associate Director of Development for the USF Libraries on the Tampa campus. She is graduating this spring with her Master of Public Administration (MPA). Christina loves checking out new restaurants with her husband Dalton, taking their sweet …Continue Reading

USF Giving Week 2022 is here!

Celebrate and support the USF Libraries by making a gift from April 4-8th
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Giving Week joins together thousands of USF alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends for a spirited week-long celebration to support a college, program, research area, or cause. This annual fundraising initiative also celebrates Rocky D. Bull’s birthday, and there is no greater …Continue Reading

NEW DATE! Preserving LGBTQ+ History

A conversation about LGBTQ+ archives and why they're important
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Preserving LGBTQ+ History: A conversation about LGBTQ+ archives and why they're important
Monday, April 18th
6PM, virtual via Zoom

Special Collections is hosting a very special conversation, originally scheduled for #WomensHistoryMonth, with Edie Daly (She/Her/Hers), local lesbian activist and community organizer, and S. L. Crawley, PhD (They/Them/Theirs), Associate Professor in the USF Department of Sociology. Monday, April 18th 6PM, virtual via …Continue Reading

Karam Collection at the Tampa Museum of Art 

On view starting November 11, 2021 
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The Farid Karam, M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection is on view at the Tampa Museum of Art from November 11, 2021 to April 11, 2022. Fifty-six items from the 149-item collection are included in the exhibit and are on loan from the USF Libraries Tampa …Continue Reading

Meet Our 2021-2022 Student Scholars

Congratulations to our scholarship, research award, and essay prize recipients!
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The USF Libraries scholarship, research award, and essay prize program ensures USF students are given opportunities to learn, discover, and succeed. We feel honored to work with and support our students in their academic achievements, and in the 2021-2022 academic year we …Continue Reading

Small Island, Global Impact: The Growth of Irish Studies at USF

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Ireland is a country that is deceptively small on the map in relation to its substantial global impact. Since 2013, Dr. Jennifer Knight, Instructor in the Department of History, and Dr. Matthew Knight, Associate Librarian and Affiliate Faculty in Department of History have been committed to developing the Irish Studies program at the university. … Continue Reading

The Tampa Chapter of The Links, Incorporated Selects USF Libraries to House Archives

The historical records and documents from one of Tampa's oldest African American women's organizations is now at the USF Tampa Special Collections
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On a beautiful spring day last Friday, April 23rd, the USF Tampa Library acquired a particularly special collection: The Tampa Chapter of The Links, Incorporated archives. The Links, Incorporated is an international, not-for-profit corporation established in 1946, whose membership consists of more …Continue Reading

Remembering Dr. Henrietta M. Smith

May 2, 1922 - April 21, 2021
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Dr. Henrietta M. Smith, Professor Emerita in the USF School of Information, passed away April 21, 2021 at the age of 98. She was a scholar, writer, librarian, and nationally known storyteller.  Dr. Smith studied English and History at Hunter College in …Continue Reading

YA Books Save Lives: A Spotlight on Dr. Joan F. Kaywell

National Support Teen Literature Day, April 23, 2021
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Young adult (YA) literature is a dynamic and expanding genre that has moved well-beyond the adventure series of the 19th and 20th centuries, into novels that explore sexuality, identity, prejudice, life choices, substance abuse, and family. At the Tampa Special Collections, Children’s …Continue Reading

Recovering Lost History at Chinsegut Hill

Join us for a Florida Conversation about the historic site in Hernando County
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Sometimes you find special places in your life. Sometimes those special places seem to find you, or some part of you you hadn’t known before. The beautiful estate known as Chinsegut Hill can tell scholars much about the history of Florida. Chinsegut …Continue Reading