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Go Gators! Congratulations!
Someday we’ll be archiving photos of tonight’s game in the University Archives Digital Collection, but tonight is for rejoicing by Gators everywhere!
The University of Florida’s historic biscuit dates back to 1913 when a hungry student mailed it to his parents as evidence of UF’s food quality. The George A. Smathers Libraries now preserves the historic biscuit. Our biscuit can be viewed online along with millions of other images through the University of Florida Digital Collections. [...]
Logan upgraded the blog server so that we’re now running WordPress MU 2.6.2! This may not sound exciting, but it means an improved interface for authors/editors and it means that we can now take advantage of newer WordPress themes and plugins and more!
Please let me know if you have any new themes you’d like installed [...]
For works first published in the USA, the “Copyright Slider” is a handy reference. In using it, if it comes up that you need to check to see if the copyright has been renewed, the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database is another great complimentary resource.
I learned a ton at ALA since I’m still new (it was my first time attending the annual conference), but I’m sure we all did so it would be great to share. One particularly unexpected tidbit of information I learned was that the University of Chicago is building a new storage facility, and the design [...]
The other day, project management software came up and the Libraries do have an account with Basecamp from 37Signals (the site is here, this link goes to an external site off of the University webspace and is provided for reference only). The account (and this may be incorrect and may be subject to correction) is [...]
Lifehacker (a techie tools website) mentioned several tools that convert text files to audio, in mp3 or other formats. This is handy for teachers and others who may type notes for a presentation or a class and may not have time to then record themselves reading the notes. While the automatic voice won’t sound lively, [...]
Logan activated the Akismet spam blocker on all of the active blogs.
To further reduce spam problems, the blogs are set to only allow user accounts with UFLIB.ufl.edu or UFL.edu email addresses. In general, this should be fine and it makes it easier for us to manage the blogs for spam, possible hack attempts, and [...]
