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
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Cuban Pathways Exhibition at the Tampa Bay History Center
The Cuban Pathways exhibition opens at the Tampa Bay History Center on Friday, February 11, 2022, telling the 500-year story of Cuba and its ties to Tampa. The exhibit features a Chug Boat digitally scanned and preserved by USF Libraries Digital Heritage …Continue Reading
#ColorOurCollections
Each 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
USF Libraries create history, not just preserve it
From USF Newsroom, University News: From solving century-old mysteries to changing what we know about Florida’s iconic bird, several resources at the USF Libraries have helped create actionable outcomes. … Continue Reading
Celebrating Black Heritage
Black Heritage Month, also known as African American History Month, allows us the opportunity to deepen our understanding of Black history and culture. Learning history, in its accuracy, allows for a “greater sensitivity to human and cultural diversity,” as stated by our …Continue Reading
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
Building a Website for Libraries
Before the first line of code is written, every website must answer the question of why? There must be conversations that ask, “Why is this website necessary? Could it be a page on another website?” Once the necessity of the website is …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
LIB Latest Research Publications
At the USF Libraries, our faculty librarians and staff regularly contribute research presentations, peer-reviewed articles, or equivalent publications that impact the profession. Explore the LIB Latest in publications below. Camielle Crampsie, Marketing and Outreach Librarian, and Karla Morris, Manager of Instructional …Continue Reading