Author: Laurie Taylor

CFP: sx archipelagos: Special Issue on the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)

For me, December is always a time to finish things, clean-up, prep for the new year, and take stock, reflecting on what we’ve accomplished. In other years, this has meant sorting paper files, shredding old documents, and dusting my office. While those things are different, in taking stock of little to big projects and our LibraryPress@UF program, we have so much to celebrate!

With the pandemic and the move to remote work, the Digital Partnerships & Strategies Department, DEI Librarian, and LibraryPress@UF collaborated to create the “Practicing Kindness in Crisis” series which
offers multiple ways for Smathers Libraries personnel to share what makes them a “whole person.” We’ll have more to share on this important series soon, with several presentations and publications in process.

Webinar on November 6, 2020: a special conversation on the history and fight against polio from a child’s perspective

Impact of Materials on Society: the class, the TED talk, the Open Access textbook.

We’re preparing for our next issue of SOURCE, including a special issue or featured series on our destination spaces and places in the Libraries!

In early 2020, the LibraryPress@UF published My Scrapbook of My Illness with Polio by Edna Black and Lassie G. Black, with contributing editor Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig, and designer Tracy MacKay-Ratliff. The book is available as Open Access online and in print.

LibraryPress@UF has been awarded the 2019 LoPresti Award by the Southeast Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America for the publication Madagascar from A to Z in the Children’s Book category.