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We would like to honor and acknowledge the career of Bernadette Storck, public librarian, consultant, archivist, and adjunct faculty member for the USF School of Information. Storck was an administrator at the Tampa-Hillsborough Public Library System and Leon County Public Library, and …Continue Reading
Two environmental controversies provide USF Libraries with new opportunities for collecting and collaboration. In April of this year, incidents involving the USF Forest Preserve and Piney Point prompted new projects to support the Libraries’ Florida Environment and Natural History (FLENH) initiative launched …Continue Reading
ACRL - Gena Parsons-Diamond — ACRL Member of the week, Kaya van Beynen is the Associate Dean of the USF Libraries Research & Instruction and for the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library at University of South Florida Saint Petersburg campus answers questions on their leadership style and current initiatives. Kaya has been a member of ACRL for 18 years and is your ACRL Member of the Week for May 10, 2021.
Florida Book Club — There’s a long tradition of making cheesy promotional videos to lure people to Tampa Bay area. One of them, from the 1960s, even features an alien visitor who decides to relocate to St. Pete Beach after seeing all the dazzling attractions the town has to offer! Host Christopher Nank is joined by Andy Huse, Special Collections Librarian at University of South Florida, to discuss these old promotional films and a bit of Tampa Bay culinary history about the Cuban sandwich.
Mirage News — An international team of scientists has uncovered the earliest modern human burial in Africa – changing what we know about social behaviors in Homo sapiens - and researcher Jorge González García at the University of South Florida Libraries' Digital Heritage and Humanities Collections has helped use 3D and advanced imaging technologies to bring the 78,000-year-old remains of a child back to life.
On a beautiful spring day last Friday, April 23rd, the USF Tampa Library acquired a particularly special collection: The Tampa Chapter of The Links, Incorporated archives. The Links, Incorporated is an international, not-for-profit corporation established in 1946, whose membership consists of more …Continue Reading
Dr. Henrietta M. Smith, Professor Emerita in the USF School of Information, passed away April 21, 2021 at the age of 98. She was a scholar, writer, librarian, and nationally known storyteller. Dr. Smith studied English and History at Hunter College in …Continue Reading
Young adult (YA) literature is a dynamic and expanding genre that has moved well-beyond the adventure series of the 19th and 20th centuries, into novels that explore sexuality, identity, prejudice, life choices, substance abuse, and family. At the Tampa Special Collections, Children’s …Continue Reading
Sometimes you find special places in your life. Sometimes those special places seem to find you, or some part of you you hadn’t known before. The beautiful estate known as Chinsegut Hill can tell scholars much about the history of Florida. Chinsegut …Continue Reading