Reading Time: 4 minutes Guest post from Andrew Huse, Librarian and Curator for Florida Studies at Special Collections, USF Libraries, Tampa campus. When Emma Pettit, Senior Reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Education, heard of the Johns Committee a couple years ago, …Continue Reading
Category: Digital Dialogs
Celebrating the Public Domain through digitization
Reading Time: 3 minutesCitrus County Florida far enough south to insure semi-tropical. City, County, and Regional Histories E-book Collection. USF Libraries. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/regional_ebooks/43/ Join the USF Libraries in our annual celebration of the public domain through digitization! The public domain consists of material …Continue Reading
Crowd Sourced Archival Collections in Libraries
Reading Time: 2 minutes Over the last 10 years, accessibility has become a topic of great importance in public and academic libraries as awareness of the challenges some patrons face increases. Digitizing material has been an excellent way that libraries can open …Continue Reading
Green OA and self-archiving: Using your Author’s Approved Manuscript (AAM) to increase the impact of your research
Reading Time: 2 minutes Authors, who take extra steps after publication by sharing and advertising their work, can help to increase the impact of their publications. One method of increasing a journal article’s audience is to make use of the publisher’s author …Continue Reading
Florida Ornithological Society Partnership Takes Flight
Reading Time: 4 minutes Guest post from Andrew Huse, Librarian and Curator for Florida Studies at Special Collections, USF Libraries, Tampa campus. Special Collections personnel went birding at Landmark Cemetery in Ft. Lauderdale with some of Florida’s very best. They could tell …Continue Reading
Millions of Years in the Making: A New Platform for the Karst Information Portal
June 6th is the National Day of Caves and Karst, and we’re celebrating with the official launch of the newly redesigned Karst Information Portal (KIP). For 2021 and 2022, the scientific community is also engaging in the International Year of Cave and Karsts, a global celebration organized by the International Union of Speleology.[1] Caves and karsts are geological formations that play a significant role in Florida’s environment. …Continue Reading
The Oracle in the Archives: The Grim Reaper of Pizza
The push for the USF Libraries to digitize the college’s student newspaper, The USF Oracle, began several years before I was hired as a staff member in the building. Alumni and researchers alike have always been interested in being able to view campus newspapers, and the more that they could view online, the better… …Continue Reading
Annual Vote for Public Domain Digitization
Tell us what to digitize for our 2023 celebration of the public domainEvery year in January, a new group of material will have their copyrights expire and become part of the public domain. These items can be made available online through library digitization, and to celebrate this, the USF Libraries have been selecting titles from our physical collections to digitize each year. …Continue Reading
Snapshots of Women at Work
The 20th century marked a watershed century for the women’s labor movement, starting with the progressive era and evolving as world wars and the women’s rights movements reshaped how society responded to a gender-integrated workforce. As we continue to celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth and accomplishments of women, this week we’re taking a look at this evolution through documents. …Continue Reading
Womyn’s Words and the Women’s Energy Bank Collections
March is #WomensHistoryMonth, a time to reflect on, give voice to, and celebrate the lives of women throughout history. Women of the Tampa Bay area have no shortage of stories to tell, and many of their stories are available in USF Libraries and Tampa Special Collections. The Women’s Energy Bank was a non-profit organization run for women, by women, and … Continue Reading