Gore Vidal’s “An Evening with Richard Nixon” (LP), 1972 – Steven Abbott Collection of Materials relating to the Gore Vidal Bibliography (MSS 0544) The following collections in the Special and Area Studies Department have been recently processed, expanded or revised at the University of Florida. Miguel Ángel Quevedo Papers…
In celebration of Juneteenth, the Map and Imagery Library is hosting a display featuring Louise E. Jefferson. Jefferson is known as an illustrator, photographer, graphic designer, founding member of the Harlem Artists Guild, and as one of the first Black female cartographers. Louise E. Jefferson’s passion for portraying disenfranchised populations…
Florence M. Turcotte, Literary Manuscripts Archivist, recently won the Southeastern Conference (SEC) Visiting Faculty Travel Grant and will travel to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN for research at the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries. She will consult with Mary McSparran, Curator of Manuscripts and conduct research in the Edwin Mims…
Margarita Vargas-Betancourt In the new text, Collective Creativity and Artistic Agency in Colonial Latin America, Librarian Margarita Vargas-Betancourt presents her research on an Aztec merchant woman and uses the case to illustrate and overcome the bias that has surrounded the study of Indigenous women. This book brought together art…
At the University of Florida, we are pleased to announce the debut of The Journal of Assessment in Higher Education (JAHE), a collaboration between the UF Office of Institutional Assessment and the George A. Smathers Libraries. The journal is an open-access, semi-annual publication that presents articles on current philosophy,…
