Digital Dialogs

Welcome to Digital Dialogs at the University of South Florida!

Welcome to Digital Dialogs!  This blog features topics in four topic sections designed to help you discover ways to incorporate digital collections, many of which are primary resources, into your projects.  We also cover tools that you could use to create multimedia projects of your topic, and provide examples of exhibits and other projects that have been created here at the University of South Florida Libraries.
  • Collections of Interest—highlighting digital collections at the USF Libraries
  • Featured Projects— recent and existing digital projects at the USF Libraries or that incorporate USF Libraries materials
  • Tools of the Trade—tools you can use to create and augment your own projects
  • Across the Academy—trends, news, and projects affecting, inspiring, or connected to our work
We look forward to developing an online resource that will invite conversation, encourage collaboration, and inspire your next digital exhibit or research project.

Latest Dialogs

Baking the Archives: A Pie for Pi Day 

Reading Time: 7 minutes As someone who works in data analytics and visualization, I had to honor Pi Day in some way. Pi Day serves to raise awareness of the importance, beauty, and relevance of mathematics and its role in shaping our world. Pi, or π, …Continue Reading

Celebrating Women’s History Month with Snapshots of Early Photography

Reading Time: 7 minutes In honor of Women’s History Month, Digital Dialogs is delving into the past to take a look at an early form of photography: glass plate negatives. Before photographs were printed on paper or saved as digital files, images were imprinted on metal …Continue Reading

Fair Use Week 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week, February 26th-March 1st, 2024, is a celebration of this exception in copyright law.  Every year, fairuseweek.org provides a central location where libraries, museums, and related institutions can share the events and programming that they have planned as a celebration of fair use. 

“Love is a familiar”: A letter collection chronicles a decades-long love story

Reading Time: 3 minutes Guest Post by Marlena Carrillo, Student Assistant, tells the story of a whirlwind 19th-century, long-distance romance will make you feel like you’re reading a novel – but the courtship was far from fiction. 

Library Lovers’ Day: Learning to be a skeptical reader

Reading Time: 6 minutes In honor of Library Lovers’ Day, Digital Dialogs asked members of USF Libraries’ faculty and staff to share a story about a book that impacted their life. Read one of these stories below! This guest post was written by Zibby Wilder, Assistant …Continue Reading

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