Reading Time: 8 minutes“Prescribed fire flames at Balm Boyette”, Environmental Lands Acquisition and Protection Program Collection. USF Libraries Digital Collections. Beginning in 2021 Dr. Ann Hodgson, scientist, ornithologist, and affiliated faculty at USF sat down with a number of Audubon employees, researchers, …Continue Reading
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Dion Boucicault, Irish immigrants, and USF Libraries Special Collections
Reading Time: 6 minutes Guest post from Dr. Matthew Knight, Associate Librarian USF Libraries, Tampa campus and Affiliate Faculty (History) at University of South Florida. As President Biden declared March 2023 to be Irish-American Heritage Month, he noted that Irish immigrants “helped …Continue Reading
Dr. John Ogden Caribbean and Coral Reef Collection joins USF Libraries’ FLENH collection
Reading Time: 4 minutes Guest post from John Clarke, Coordinator for Florida Environment and Natural History collections at Special Collections, USF Libraries, Tampa campus. The Dr. John Ogden Caribbean and Coral Reef collection is an important collection of marine science research materials …Continue Reading
Open Refine: A Beginners Guide
Reading Time: 4 minutes Guest post from Jason Boczar, Digital Scholarship and Publishing Librarian, USF Libraries, Tampa campus. Well-formed data is a luxury. When working with large datasets, researchers must engage in clean-up that includes fixing spelling mistakes or creating consistent numbering …Continue Reading
Annual Vote to Digitize for the Public Domain
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMother Nature’s Cheerful Children. Children’s Literature Books. USF Libraries. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/childrens_lit_books/72/ Help us choose the material that will be digitized for January 2024 as part of the Libraries’ annual celebration of the public domain! Each year, copyright will expire …Continue Reading
Launching EcoLiteracies for Climate Action in Florida: A Teaching and Learning Portal
Reading Time: 2 minutes USF Libraries is excited to share that a new Open Educational Resource (OER) is launching in Spring 2023! The EcoLiteracies for Climate Action in Florida (ELCAF) portal is part of a larger collaborative effort between faculty in …Continue Reading
USF Archives Sought Out For Perspective on Johns Committee
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
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