Diario las Américas. [volume] (Miami, Fla.), 30 April 1959. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. The George A. Smathers Libraries are the awarded institution in Florida for the National Endowment for the Humanities National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). The NDNP provides access to a searchable database of historically…
Since 2019 UF has digitized more than 60,000 books through participation in mass digitization projects with Google. By project completion, the Smathers Libraries will have digitized hundreds of thousands of materials. Google Books is digitizing collections unique to the University of Florida, like the Latin American and Caribbean Collection and…
Roosevelt’s “Rough Riders,” Arrival at Tampa, Florida in 1898. Stereoview from the David Snedeker Collection of Florida Stereoviews. Steamer Marion in Ocklawaha River. Stereoview from the David Snedeker Collection of Florida Stereoviews. The following collections in the Special and Area Studies Department have been recently processed, expanded or…
On September 15th, Trey Shelton will assume the responsibilities of Chair of Academic Research & Consulting Services (ARCS) for the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida. In this position, he will oversee the ARCS team — https://arcs.uflib.ufl.edu/ — that offers unique expertise and services to support research activities including artificial…
Xiaoli Ma was recently named President-Elect for 2023 -2024 and President 2024-2026 for the Visual Resources Association (VRA). This honor acknowledges her years’ work with the association and contribution to VRA Core, an international metadata standard for describing visual culture and their digital surrogates. This offer also indicates VRA’s…
Congratulations to our faculty on their career milestones! Thank you for your service and dedication to the Libraries. tenure Jean Bosshart Associate University Librarian, Marston Science Library…
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…
In a recent collaboration with CLOCKSS, Dean Judy Russell explains the importance of online journal preservation and redundancy. This blog post recommends libraries deposit licensed e-resources in three digital archives. It’s easy, inexpensive and essential. CLOCKSS is collaboration between the world’s leading research libraries and academic publishers. CLOCKSS…
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…
“B is for Baldwin: An Alphabet Tour of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature” took home the silver medal at this year’s Florida Book Awards. Established in 2006, The Florida Book Awards is coordinated by the Florida State University Libraries and is the nation’s most comprehensive state…
