After a decade with the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library, Samuel Holloway III will be retiring. If you have been at the USF St. Petersburg library well into the night, no doubt you have seen Holloway hard at work. As a supervisor of …Continue Reading
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Emily Mann Receives USF Inclusive Excellence Faculty Award
The USF Libraries are pleased to share that Emily Mann, Assistant Librarian at the USF Nelson Poynter Memorial Library (NPML), has been selected for the 2022 Inclusive Excellence Faculty Award from the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at USF. The Inclusive …Continue Reading
Diversify Your Syllabi
How our librarians are supporting the Inclusive & Equitable Pedagogy Faculty Learning CommunityWhat makes an authority on a topic? How do we balance diverse voices with the canon from an academic discipline? Are we perpetuating systems of oppression with the texts we choose? These thought-provoking questions and more were discussed in depth during a …Continue Reading
#ColorOurCollections
Special Collections invite you to explore, color, and connect with their collectionsEach year in February, the New York Academy of Medicine Library sponsors #ColorOurCollections, an annual coloring festival promoted on social media, where libraries, museums, archives, and other cultural organizations around the world are invited to share images from their collections for coloring. …Continue Reading
ICYMI: Dyslexia and the Journalist: Battling a Silent Disability
ICYMI: Dyslexia and the Journalist: Battling a Silent Disability
The USF Libraries hosted speaker Dr. Tony Silvia, Professor Emeritus in the department of Journalism & Digital Communications at the USF St. Petersburg campus, to discuss his book Dyslexia and the Journalist: Battling a Silent Disability. Dr. Silvia was introduced by Camielle …Continue Reading
ICYMI: Racism in School Suspensions: Through the lens of students, families & community members
ICYMI: Racism in School Suspensions: Through the lens of students, families & community members
The USF Libraries hosted speakers Dr. Brenda Walker and Dr. Marquis Holley to discuss Project R.I.S.E.S. (Racism in School Exclusionary Suspensions). Focusing on the high suspension rates of Black/African-American students in elementary, middle, and high schools, this initiative is a part of …Continue Reading
Dyslexia and the Journalist: Battling a Silent Disability
Dyslexia and the Journalist: Battling a Silent Disability
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
4-5 p.m.
Join us Tuesday, November 16th from 4-5 p.m. to hear speaker Dr. Tony Silvia, Professor Emeritus in the department of Journalism & Digital Communications at the USF St. Petersburg campus, discuss his book Dyslexia and the Journalist: Battling a Silent Disability. Event …Continue Reading
Outstanding Staff Awards Honor Terry Hutchings & Berrie Watson!
Each year the University of South Florida seeks to recognize employees who demonstrate above-and-beyond performance excellence and are ambassadors for USF’s Principles of Community. It is their hard work and dedication that greatly contributes to USF’s success and upward trajectory. This year, …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
Announcing Digital Commons @ USF
Explore the new, consolidated institutional repository at the University of South FloridaHelping researchers find the scholarship they need has always been a goal of the USF Libraries. And that is the mission of the USF institutional repository, Digital Commons @ University of South Florida. This new, open access repository is a merger of …Continue Reading