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
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day
The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD), marks the day that Auschwitz-Birkenau – the largest Nazi death camp – was liberated in 1945. It seeks to remember the lives of the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, along …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
Florida Ornithological Society Partnership Takes Flight
Reading Time: 4 minutes Guest post from Andrew Huse, Librarian and Curator for Florida Studies at Special Collections, USF Libraries, Tampa campus. Special Collections personnel went birding at Landmark Cemetery in Ft. Lauderdale with some of Florida’s very best. They could tell …Continue Reading
USF Curiosities: A 40-foot Band-Aid?
Reading Time: 5 minutesJames Rosenquist, It Heals Up: For All Children’s Hospital (2002), USF Collection Mom! Mom, look! A giant Band-Aid! Walking into a hospital can be a scary experience for anyone. But, for a sick child, walking into a hospital seems …Continue Reading
Botanical Resources from USF
Reading Time: 2 minutes Extreme environmental and climate changes have caught the attention of politics and the news, pushing environmental sciences into the spotlight. Like the USF Libraries Florida Environment and Natural History collections, the Atlas of Florida Plants from the Institute …Continue Reading
#Creekshed – USF Creek Shed Digital Collection
Reading Time: 2 minutes USF Libraries is collaborating with Dr. Thomas Hallock (USF St. Petersburg campus) and Dr. Amanda Hagood (Eckerd College) to archive a series of columns called City Wilds for the newspaper Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. The articles are intended …Continue Reading
Introducing Digital Commons @ USF
Reading Time: 2 minutes We are happy to announce a new, consolidated, Institutional Repository at the USF Libraries! The new repository, Digital Commons at the University of South Florida, highlights the research of USF faculty, students, and staff across our three campuses …Continue Reading