In 2016, students of USF History professor Dr. K. Stephen Prince created an exhibit on the Civil Rights Movement utilizing fifteen archival collections housed in USF Tampa Special Collections. The items displayed are accompanied by information that expounds on the importance of the material, calling on the reader to think more deeply about their historical context and significance. … Continue Reading
Category: Digital Dialogs
Celebrating the Public Domain in 2022
Join the USF Libraries in our fourth year of celebrating the public domain through digitization! Since 2019, the USF Libraries’ Digital Collections have been selecting newly public domain material from the Libraries’ collections to digitize in celebration… Continue Reading
USF Curiosities: A faculty airplane?
How do you normally get to campus? A car, a bicycle, a bus, or walk… What about an airplane? Well, that’s just what USF faculty members did in the early 1980s.. … Continue Reading
“Banned and Burned: Why Worry? It’s Just Kiddie Lit”
Headlines reporting a movement to pass massive book bans have been making the news across the United States. The majority of the books on the proposed ban lists have LGBTQ+ themes or characters, and books centered on the topic of race and racism also make up a significant percentage of the lists. … Continue Reading
LinkedIn Learning
Have a new class or assignment that requires a software you have never used before? LinkedIn Learning is an excellent place to augment the skills you have begun to develop in your courses or career. … Continue Reading
Preserving Media: The Sam Gibbons Collection
Tampa Special Collections is home to all types of exciting resources from historic documents to rare books, vintage photographs, and digital recordings. We recently had the opportunity to digitize seven reels of film and magnetic video from the Sam Gibbons collection, former Congressman and USF founder. … Continue Reading
USF Curiosities: Chariot races?
When you think of student activities on our campuses, what comes to mind? Basketball games, charity drives, bake sales, jogging, walking with friends, maybe lunches on the lawn. But…what about chariot races? … Continue Reading
Open Access Week 2021
This year Open Access Week is from October 25-31. The theme is “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.” This year’s theme is intended to coincide with UNESCO’s Recommendation on Open Science, which emphasizes equity and openness in the sciences…. Continue Reading
USF Curiosities: A Pablo Picasso sculpture 10 stories tall?
In 1971, a small-scale model of a Pablo Picasso sculpture, “Bust of a Woman,” was donated to the University of South Florida. Fifty years later, it has received new attention from researchers after it was spotted on a shelf in the Tampa Library. … Continue Reading
Oktoberfest in the Archives
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