Category: Highlights and Updates

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!

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 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

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.