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
Category: Special Collections
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
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
City Within a City: Screening and Discussion
Tampa Special Collections & TBHC Celebrate City of Tampa's Archives Awareness Week
City Within a City: Screening and Discussion
Thursday, July 15th
6:00 p.m.
USF Libraries Tampa Special Collections & Tampa Bay History Center are celebrating City of Tampa’s Archives Awareness Week! Join us Thursday, July 15th from 6 – 7 p.m. for a special live virtual screening of the 1955 promotional film about Ybor City, …Continue Reading
Juneteenth & the Celebration of Freedom
The commemoration of Jubilee Day in the Robert W. And Helen S. Saunders PapersJuneteenth is a holiday celebrating and commemorating the emancipation of the last enslaved African Americans in the United States, where on June 19, 1865, federal troops arrived in Texas to demand all enslaved peoples be free. This was two years after the …Continue Reading
Special Collections Interns Highlight LGBTQIA+ Stories
Celebrate Pride Month with USF Special CollectionsThe month of June celebrates Pride and the LGBTQIA+ community and the ongoing strides being made to fight for equality, create awareness, build acceptance, and celebrate accomplishments. At the Tampa Special Collections, we host more than two dozen archival collections and thousands of …Continue Reading
Mimi Coto, Graduating Student Spotlight
Spring 2021 EditionMaria “Mimi” Coto is a Student Assistant and the Conscious Editing Intern in Tampa Special Collections, working with the Hipple Collection of Young Adult Literature and LGBTQ+ Collections. She presented her LGBTQ+ Inclusion through Conscious Editing work at the 2021 USF Undergraduate …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 CollectionsOn 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
YA Books Save Lives: A Spotlight on Dr. Joan F. Kaywell
National Support Teen Literature Day, April 23, 2021Young 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 CountySometimes 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