LIB Events

  • Earth Day Lecture: #Creekshed Map Launch

    April 22, 2025
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (EST)
    Nelson Poynter Memorial Library, USF St. Petersburg campus

    USF Libraries will be launching a new #Creekshed map, asking — “What are the Human and Natural Stories that Drain into the Gulf?” Join us on April 22 (Earth Day) from 4:00-5:30 p.m. at Nelson Poynter Memorial Library,  USF St. Petersburg campus …Continue Reading
  • 2025 Florida Studies Book Festival

    April 5, 2025
    9:15am - 4:30pm EDT. Doors at 9am
    Nelson Poynter Memorial Library, USF St. Petersburg

    Mark your calendars! USF’s Florida Studies program is hosting the Florida Studies Book Festival on April 5th, 9am-4pm, at the USF St. Petersburg Library! Our very own Curator of Florida Studies in Special Collections, Andy Huse, will be speaking on the defining …Continue Reading
  • 2024 Joan F. Kaywell Books Save Lives Award Ceremony

    February 24, 2025
    1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
    Room 125, USF Tampa campus library

    You are invited to the annual Joan F. Kaywell Books Save Lives Award reception celebrating Han Nolan, 2024 award winner and author of Running Past Dark. Date: February 24, 2025 Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Location: Tampa campus Library, Room 125G The …Continue Reading
  • A flyer promoting the PlaceMattersSP - Forty Years of Preserving the 'Burg event, held at the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library at USF Saint. Petersburg.

    Forty Years of Preserving the 'Burg: A Conversation with Peter Belmont and Gary Mormino

    February 20, 2025
    6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
    Nelson Poynter Memorial Library, USF St. Petersburg campus

    Join us for a very special evening with Preserve the ‘Burg founder Peter Belmont and University of South Florida Professor Emeritus, Dr. Gary Mormino, Thursday, February 20 at 6 p.m. at the USF St. Petersburg’s Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Belmont and Mormino …Continue Reading
  • USF Libraries Presents: GIS Day 2024

    November 20, 2024
    10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
    Microsoft Teams

    USF Libraries is excited to host a virtual GIS Day on November 20th, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event will feature lightning talks and presentations by USF students, faculty, and staff celebrating innovative applications of geographic information system (GIS) technology …Continue Reading
  • Sheryl Oring, "I Wish to Say" Performance

    October 31, 2024
    2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
    Nelson Poynter Memorial Library Atrium, USF St. Petersburg campus

    “I Wish to Say” grew out of Sheryl Oring’s concern that not enough voices were being heard about the state-of-affairs in this country and her belief in the value of free expression that is guaranteed under our Constitution. For this project, Oring …Continue Reading
  • An image of the The Ybor City Dwelling Album exhibit captured through the Tampa Through Time Portal.

    The Ybor City Dwelling Album: Photos From the Great Depression, Then and Now

    October 22, 2024
    5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
    Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Ybor City

    USF Libraries and The Florida Museum of Photographic Art present The Ybor City Dwelling Album: Photos From the Great Depression, Then and Now A recently digitized album of photos sheds light on the city’s early Slum Clearance efforts decades before they were …Continue Reading
  • image reads Tony Pizzo's Tampa: Making History on Television, free and open to the public. Picture of a man in a suit.

    Tony Pizzo’s Tampa: Making History on Television

    September 17, 2024
    6:30 p.m.
    J.C. Newman Cigar Company's El Reloj Factory

    USF Libraries’ Florida Studies curator, Andy Huse, will present a screening and discussion of Tony Pizzo’s Tampa at J.C. Newman Cigar Company’s historic El Reloj factory . The show, produced by WUSF in 1979, explored Tampa’s rich history and now has become …Continue Reading