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Matthew Daley

Fall Fest 2023 Garners Over 650 Visitors

This past week we had another successful Fall Fest! We want to thank all the students and staff who came out to celebrate with us. We also want to thank the volunteers who are the backbone of the fest and make it a great event. The theme this year was "Libraries give you Superpowers!" With over 650 people participating in the event this year, we hope to bring even more out next year.

The Life She Wished to Live: Book talks by Ann McCutchan

Ann McCutchan is the author of ‘The Life She Wished to Live, A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Author of The Yearling’. The Life She Wished to Live paints a lively portrait of Rawlings, her contemporaries―including her legendary editor Maxwell Perkins and friends Zora Neale Hurston and Ernest Hemingway―and…

Campus memorial artifacts to be preserved in University Archives

George Floyd and Black Lives Matter memorials at 13th Street and University Avenue and at 34th Street are being documented by a small, dedicated team led by Sarah Coates, University Archives Associate, and Stephanie Birch, African American Studies Librarian, at the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida.