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I think the post title about says it all. March is the birthday month for the University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) and this year UFDC turns 3! Where most three year olds aren’t yet learning to read, UFDC is already onto using Lucene for indexing (it’s like reading, so this metaphor sort of works) and UFDC already has well over a million pages for each year. Those millions of pages weren’t added evenly throughout UFDC’s early year and a half or so, but UFDC is now growing and thriving. As we look forward to the next year and the next series of millions ofRead More →

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Learn what the University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) has to offer, and how to fully explore the broad range of resources available. We’ll cover the basics of UFDC: searching, advanced searching (including by collection and subcollection), viewing results, and saving images. We will also cover tips and tricks: collections that may be of particular interest or for use in teaching browsing options using the email contact forms for help and using the citation on items to find the permanent URL The majority of the time will be spent learning about the wonderful resources available in UFDC and we’ll spend time on three of theRead More →

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I haven’t posted on UF Digital Collections (UFDC) stats lately, so while there’s no milestone, I like to share frequently. Since July 1, UFDC has added 76,152 items in 8,837 titles (newspapers have lots of issues under a single title) with 1,215,009 pages to the UF Digital Collections. I love seeing that many digits for pages loaded this year alone, and the year isn’t over yet!Read More →

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America’s Swamp: the Historic Everglades, a new collection within the University of Florida Digital Collections should be up this week. In the meantime, we’ve already started loading some of the photos to Flickr. If the photos on Flickr aren’t enough, the Everglades Digital Library from FIU’s Digital Collections Center is already a massive digital collection of amazing material, and it’s always growing.Read More →

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The Louise Bechtel Fellowship provides a $4,000 grant to a qualified children’s librarian to spend a month or more reading and studying at the Baldwin Library of the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville. The Baldwin Library contains a special collection of 85,000 volumes of children’s literature published mostly before 1950. The fellowship is endowed in memory of Louise Seaman Bechtel and Ruth M. Baldwin. This year’s winner is Mary Elizabeth Beardsley Land, director of the Abbeville County Library System, who will be studying “Home for the Holidays: the Depiction of Holiday Themes in Books for Children.”Read More →

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We now have usage statistics for our collections as a whole and by collection! They’re online here in an Excel spreadsheet. Our overall usage stats, while good, are far smaller than they will be because so much of our content is recent (over a million pages since July alone) and because UFDC was forced to deny search engine robots entirely for several months in early 2008 because the search engines were behaving improperly and overly taxing the database. As expected, our most used collections are the oldest and largest, with the Baldwin, the Florida Newspaper Digital Library, and the Digital Library of the Caribbean. GivenRead More →

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After finding so many great New Year’s images, I quickly scanned the University of Florida Digital Collections for images of Christmas and found these. Santa’s mighty large book of naughty and nice is from a book in the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, one of the Special Collections in the University of Florida Libraries, and the black and white photograph is from the University Archives, another Special Collection in the University of Florida Libraries.Read More →

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The title says it all–or as much as can be said with any brevity. The University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) now have 3 million pages! Or to be exact 3,012,406 which means that since October 4 we’ve added over 500,000 pages and that we’ve added a full million pages since July. Our largest collection is the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature Digital Collection, which now has 749,686 pages. The Baldwin’s many pages have been digitized through NEH grants and the current grant is coming to a close so we’ll see comparatively fewer books load in the near future, but the many wonders ofRead More →

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The UF Digital Collections are in the newest issue of Florida, UF Alumni Magazine on “Gator Bytes” with a note on the Baldwin Library Digital Collection and with a four page story on postcards from UF and Gainesville, from the Matheson Museum Collection hosted by UFDC. The story includes beautiful images of the postcard covers and their backs, with personal messages from 1917, 1915, 1949 and more. The UF Libraries are in InsideUF for the African Beadwork exhibit,  “Between the Beads: Reading African Beadwork” that just opened! Every digital item and collection is built through our work across the UF Libraries and our connections withRead More →