Join us for GIS Day!
USF Libraries GIS Day is a campus-wide event celebrating geographic information systems (GIS), mapping, spatial analysis, and location-based techno...
Celebrate Homecoming at the Tampa Library!
The USF Libraries and our Building Partner, the Academic Success Center, are celebrating Homecoming in style! Join us for crafts, pizza and snacks, library swag, and a birthday paw-ty for our beloved Therapy K9 Star. If you have any questions...
USF Libraries welcome new Dean!
The University of South Florida has announced the appointment of Carol Ann Borchert as the new Dean of the USF Libraries, bringing to the role a di...
USF Libraries featured on PBS Florida This Week
USF Libraries’ St. Pete campus Dean, Kristina Keogh, was featured on the local PBS show, Florida This Week, as part of a panel on preserving ...
Farewell to Todd Chavez, 11 years as USF Libraries Dean!
It’s the end of an era! Our greatest thanks go out to Dean Todd Chavez, for 11 years of visionary leadership. Todd started with USF Libraries...
NEW: Summer Visualization Institute for Faculty
USF Libraries invite faculty applications for the first annual Visualization Summer Institute, July 27-31, 2026; an in-person, intensive wor...
Library eBook & Collection Changes in May
Greetings! The USF Libraries are making several ebook platform updates this spring in response to publisher changes. These are the changes faculty ...
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Five Decades of Birding: Florida Ornithological Society Records Available Online
The Digital Initiatives team is proud to announce the completion of a major digitization project: over 4,400 items from the Florida Ornithological Society (FOS) Records are now available online. Th...
Cultivating Access: National Gardening Day and the USF Botanical Gardens Virtual Tour
This post was guest authored by Denise Wright, GIS Analyst II in Digital Initiatives at the Tampa Library April 14th is National Gardening Day, and...
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Vote on What Collections We Digitize in Celebration of 2027 Public Domain!
We want your input on which titles from the list we should add to the USF Libraries’ Digital Collections; 27 titles for 2027!
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USF Libraries’ Special Collections Department to Hold City of Tampa Archives Awareness Week Presentation
Date:
July 17, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: USF Tampa Library, Grace Allen Reading Room (Special Collections, fourth floor)
Join the USF Libraries’ Special Collections this Thursday in the USF Libraries’ Grace Allen Room (4th Floor) at 2pm for a City of Tampa Archives Awareness...
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USF Libraries to Launch Online Narrative Map With Special In-Person Event
Date:
April 22, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (EST)
Location: 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...
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The Annual Florida Studies Book Festival Returns in April
Date:
April 5, 2025
Time: 9:15am - 4:30pm EDT. Doors at 9am
Location: 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...
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