Special Collections Faculty and Staff Publications
Special Collections houses rare, fragile, and unique materials ranging from a 4,000 year old Sumerian tablet to early printed books, photographs and prints, sheet music, ephemera, and history and literature collections. Find out more by exploring our major collecting areas and our collection development policy.
Submissions from 2017
Special Deliveries: Towards a Methodology for Generous Fulfillment of Special Collections Interlibrary Loan Requests, Melanie Griffin and LeEtta M. Schmidt
Shifting Expectations: Revisiting Core Concepts of Academic Librarianship in Undergraduate Classes with a Digital Humanities Focus, Melanie Griffin and Tomaro I. Taylor
“From Gay Surfers to Old Lesbians Organizing for Change: Developing an LGBT Initiative at a State University in Florida”, Matthew Knight
"Plays Written and Rewritten: Exploring Irish Drama in the Dion Boucicault Theatre Collection at USF", Matthew Knight
The Irish Republic: Reconstructing Liberty, Right Principles, and the Fenian Brotherhood, Matthew Knight
Submissions from 2016
Book Review: Archives Alive: Expanding Engagement with Public Library Archives and Special Collections, Melanie Griffin
"Democratic Packing Horses No More: The Fenian Brotherhood and the Radical Republican Agenda in 1867", Matt Knight
Research First? Assessing the Role of Special Collections Librarians in Academia, Matthew Knight and Andrew Huse
Submissions from 2015
"Cultivating Identity: The Irish Miscellany and Irish-American Nationalism", Matt Knight
"Fighting for Irish Freedom Through the Press", Matt Knight
"The Army of Vindication: The Irish Echo and its Contribution to the Irish-Language Revival in America", Matt Knight
“Getting In the Stacks: Using Archival Sources to Better Understand LGBTQ+ Histories and Intersectional Identities”, Matt Knight and Keegan Shepherd
Submissions from 2014
The Right Tool at the Right Time: Implementing Responsive Reproduction Policies and Procedures, Melanie Griffin and Matthew Knight
"Fenianism and the Celtic Renaissance", Matt Knight
“Letters Home to the Crackerbox: Al Yorkunas’ World War II Correspondence”, Matt Knight
"Rose Kavanagh, the Irish Fireside Club, and Irish Cultural Nationalism", Matt Knight
"The Female Voice in Irish Elegiac Poetry, 900-1500 AD", Matt Knight
"The Irish Fireside and its Contributions to the Cause of Irish Independence", Matt Knight
"The Phoenix and its Contribution to Irish Cultural Nationalism", Matt Knight
Submissions from 2013
"Overexposed and Underappreciated: The Fortunes and Failures of Dion Boucicault", Matt Knight
Oral History Curation in an Academic Library, Barbara Lewis, Mary Beth Isaacson, Kimberly Nordon, and Alexandra Curran
Tablet technology in support of professional productivity, Barbara Lewis and Drew Smith
Submissions from 2012
Data-Driven Decision Making: A Holistic Approach to Assessment in Special Collections Repositories, Melanie Griffin, Barbara Lewis, and Mark I. Greenberg
“’To be unrecognized by such an age as this, is an honor’—a study of Dion Boucicault’s unpublished play, Ourselves.”, Matt Knight