Highlights & Updates

Provocative participant comments collected during collaboration workshops in response to the question, “What’s one thing most people don’t know about you?” are coalesced with images selected from the rich, library collections of the University of Florida (UF) Digital Collections (DC).

Happy Holidays from DP&S and LP@UF!

The Undergraduate Guide to the George A. Smathers Libraries was written by undergraduate students to give fellow undergrads a better understanding of the George A. Smathers Libraries.

Congrats to Denise Bookwalter and Paul Shortt, the 2021 Coffey Residency Artists!

As SOURCE continues to evolve with our seventh issue released, we want to make sure our fantastic stories are being shared!

Fight for Rights traces the years leading up to the racial violence of 1919, as well as the aftermath of that summer and its impact on Black Chicagoans’ lives over the next decade. Drawing on newspapers, photographs, and government documents, this multimedia monograph intersects with a rich body of current scholarship.

Coffey Residency for Book Arts: Presentations by Denise Bookwalter and Paul Shortt

As SOURCE continues to evolve with our sixth issue released, we want to make sure our fantastic stories are being shared!

This event celebrates the publication of Inspired by Cuba, Delivering Cuba Through the Mail: Cuba’s Presence in Non-Cuban Postage Stamps and Envelopes by the LibraryPress@UF. The book is a lushly illustrated volume by renowned author Emilio Cueto telling the story of Cuba as depicted in over 1,000 stamps from countries other than Cuba.

Happy Holidays from LP@UF!

This event celebrates the publication of Inspired by Cuba, Delivering Cuba Through the Mail: Cuba’s Presence in Non-Cuban Postage Stamps and Envelopes by the LibraryPress@UF. The book is a lushly illustrated volume by renowned author Emilio Cueto telling the story of Cuba as depicted in over 1,000 stamps from countries other than Cuba.

As SOURCE continues to evolve with our sixth issue released, we want to make sure our fantastic stories are being shared!

Dear Dordo, a collection of letters between the author John D. MacDonald and his wife Dorothy, provides a fascinating and honest account of life during World War II from a husband in the U.S. Army and a wife on the home front.

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

Congrats to Denise Bookwalter and Paul Shortt, the 2021 Coffey Residency Artists!

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.

Now on our site! We have our mission statement, selection criteria, information about the LibraryPress@UF Editorial Collective, and the name change policy!

Abstract for our presentation at the Library Publishing Forum in 2021, where we will present on our first virtual book launch, and sharing our new documentation on promotional work.

As SOURCE continues to evolve with our fifth issue released, we want to make sure our fantastic stories are being shared!

The LibraryPress@UF has these books in process, and we look forward to announcing and promoting each before the end of 2021:

1. Impact of Materials on Society (textbook, print-on-demand, POD, and digital)
2. African American Studies: 50 Years at the University of Florida (edited collection, and course reader; POD and digital)
3. Inspired by…

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

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

Enjoy our wild & fun holiday message.

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…

While we were sad to miss a scheduled presentation at the 2020 Florida Digital Humanities Conference in St. Augustine due to the pandemic, we were thrilled to be asked to contribute a mini version of our talk in video form. Each member of the LP@UF four-person team explores an aspect of the program, including journal…

The goal of the DEI in Publishing Interview Series is to learn from scholars at different stages in their careers, in hopes that their publishing experience will drive others into exploring strategies for promoting equity and inclusion.

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…

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

The goal of the DEI in Publishing Interview Series is to learn from scholars at different stages in their careers, in hopes that their publishing experience will drive others into exploring strategies for promoting equity and inclusion.

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!

As SOURCE continues to evolve with our fourth issue released, we want to make sure our fantastic stories are being shared!

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.

Madagascar from A to Z is a children’s alphabet book written in English and translated into Malagasy.

Launched in 2018, SOURCE has evolved into a recurring publication and hallmark of the LibraryPress@UF (LP@UF) program.

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.