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The University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) hosts more than 300 outstanding digital collections, containing over 15 million pages, covering over 78 thousand subjects in rare books, manuscripts, antique maps, children's literature, newspapers, theses and dissertations, data sets, photographs, oral histories, and more for permanent access and preservation. Through UFDC, users have free and Open Access to full unique and rare materials held by the University of Florida and partner institutions.

The UF Libraries encourage and support faculty collaboration on digital collections and digital scholarship.

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Alumnae/i Association Collection Collections of materials created by the New College Alumnae/i Association Collection.				Architecture Collections Collection of materials from the East Campus, West Campus, and Facilities Planning collections.
Arts Collections The Arts Collection Group includes collections of arts, from performing arts to graphical arts to comics and also includes architecture and landscape design as well as the psychology in art collection.				Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature The Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries contains more than 130,000 books and periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain from the mid-1600s to present day. The Library also has manuscript collections, original artwork, and assorted ephemera such as board games, puzzles, and toys. The Baldwin Library is known for comparative editions of books, with special emphasis on Robinson Crusoe, Pilgrim’s Progress, Aesop’s Fables, and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The Library also has the largest collection of Early American Juvenile Imprints of any academic institution in the United States.
Book Arts The Book Arts Digital Collection draws from the holdings in the Harold and Mary Jean Hanson Rare Book Collection in the UF Libraries' Special Collections.				Center for the Humanities & the Public Sphere The Center for the Humanities & the Public Sphere Digital Collection includes materials from events, research, and teaching.
Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations Materials from the Center for Study of Race and Race Relations.				Educational Policy Committee Collection A collection of items relating to the Educational Policy Committee. These items include documents and photos relating to educational conferences, meeting minutes, meeting minutes and reports, and more.
Environmental Studies Program Collection Environment Studies Program				Fine Arts Institute Collection, 1964-1970 Collection of materials from the Fine Arts Institution, generated between 1964 and 1970.
The Harold and Mary Jean Hanson Rare Book Collection The Harold and Mary Jean Hanson Rare Book Collection illustrates the emergence of literary, cultural, and scientific movements from the late Middle Ages to the present day. It contains over 60,000 books, prints, ephemera, and other items spanning the range of written and printed production around the world. Its holdings enrich the educational experiences of undergraduates and advance research in the humanities around the world. To see a more detailed description of the collection and its content areas, visit https://rarebooks.uflib.ufl.edu/				History and Heritage Collections History and heritage collections include the history of Florida, the historical role that Florida has played in the greater history of the U.S., and the general history of the United States.
History of New College Collection Collection of materials from the History of New College Collection.				Library Records Collection Material collection from the Library Records Collection
Literature Collections The literature collections include great literature and children's literature as well as general literary studies collections.				Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference Collection The Medieval and Renaissance Conference Collection contains records related to the biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies since 1978 to the present.
New College Student Association Archives This collection contains digitized materials from the New College Student Alliance (NCSA) Archives, a physical collection in New College of Florida’s Hamilton Center. The Archives are student-organized and student-run; their maintenance is part of a tutorial every semester. The materials in the Archives pertain exclusively to New College student life, such as NCSA or SAC meeting minutes or student publications like New Collage. For example, our icon is an infamous artifact from the Archives: an old banana from a former archivist’s lunch, dubiously from the 1970s. This and many more artifacts demonstrate the unique and eccentric culture of New College that the Archives hope to preserve. The NCSA Archives Digital Repository is incomplete and in progress. If you would like to know what the physical archives contain, you may access the finding aid here. If you have any questions, or would like to make a physical or digital donation, you can email one of the current archivists: Jenna				Office of Public Affairs Collection Collection contains information from the Office of Public Affairs
Office of the President Collection Material collection from the Office of the Presidents. This includes material from George F. Baughman (1961-1965), John van G. Elmendorf (1965-1972), and Arland F. Christ-Janer (1973-1975).				Office of the Registrar Collection Collection of materials published by the Office of the Registrar. This collection contains material from 1964 to current.
Philip H. Hiss Collection Philip H. Hiss, 1910-1988, was one of the initial founders of New College of Florida and served on the board of trustees as chairman from 1960 to 1964. He was also involved with Sarasota County's school building program from 1953-1961 as a Board of Public Instruction member and the driving force behind the Sarasota School of Architecture. The Philip H. Hiss digital collection contains items relating to his work with New College of Florida, including minutes of the New College Executive Committee and Board of Trustees meetings from 1962-1972, correspondence and records from the New College's Conference on Educational Objectives, 1962, other miscellaneous materials relating to New College.				Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPOHP) The Oral History Collections comprise the digital holdings of both the Matheson Museum (Gainesville, Florida) and the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida. Together, the Collections document life in Gainesville, across Florida, the Caribbean and other locales.
Schoenberg Manuscript Collection The Schoenberg Manuscript Collection contains images and information related to the items donated to New College of Florida by Lawrence Schoenberg in 2009.				Special Formats Collection Collection of materials in special formats.
Student Catalogs and Facebooks Collection of student catalogs and facebooks				Student Publications Collection of publication from the New College student body.

Caribbean Newspapers, dLOC The Caribbean Newspaper Collection in dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean newspapers, gazettes, and other research materials on newsprint currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.				Digital Aerospace Collection The Digital Aerospace Collection is an ongoing project to house, organize and preserve contemporary and historic material pertaining to NASA operations in Florida and around the country, as well as non-NASA content from both U.S. and International publishers. The history of Florida has been inextricably linked to NASA since the Launch Operations Center was opened in the early 1960s.
Digital Military Collection The Digital Military Collection is an ongoing project to house, organize and preserve contemporary and historic military books, newspapers, periodicals, video and audio content.				Expatriate Newspapers Expatriate newspapers
Florida Digital Newspaper Library The Florida Digital Newspaper Library, hosted by the University of Florida Libraries, provides access to the news and history of Florida.				Judaica Newspapers The Ralph Lowenstein Historical Jewish Newspapers Collection includes a range of periodicals representing over 300 titles from almost thirty countries, offering a glimpse into the Jewish press worldwide throughout the twentieth century. It illustrates a multitude of Jewish political, cultural, and economic voices and the religious, literary, and mundane interests of Jewish readers in various countries. The collection is not representative of the period's Jewish news publications; nevertheless, it introduces readers to the main trends of Jewish journalism in Europe, North and South America, and in Mandatory Palestine and Israel. Also included here is a digital sub-collection, the Price Library of Judaica Anniversary Collection, which was created as part of a pilot digitization project.
LGBTQIA Collection The University of Florida’s Digital LGBTQIA+ Collection consists of varied materials including bulletins, journals, magazines, newsletters, and newspapers, photographs and assorted ephemera published by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex and asexual (LGBTQIA) organizations supporting the State of Florida’s LGBTQIA+ community.				US Caribbean & Ethnic Florida Digital Newspaper Project The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress, is a long-term effort to provide permanent, free access to historic newspapers selected and digitized by NEH-funded awardees in the United States. This program was created to build upon the United States Newspaper Program (USNP), another NEH & Library of Congress sponsored program geared toward locating, cataloging, and preserving microfilm newspapers published in the U.S. from the 18th Century to present. The NDNP extends the usefulness of the USNP digitized assets by incorporating newspapers published from 1690-1963 into a national digital newspaper resource, Chronicling America, where the digitized pages are made available. Through this resource over 15 million newspaper pages have been made available thus far. The University of Florida was one of the original NDNP awardees in 2005 when the program first started. Approximately 100,000 page

Florida History & Heritage Collections The 'Florida History and Heritage Collections' document Florida arts, culture, history, and society.				Florida Law Collections Florida Law currently holds the Journal of the Florida House of Reprentatives and a Florida Water Law collection. Planned additions include the Laws of the Florida Territory and the Early Florida Constitutions, as well as a variety of general texts on Florida laws, the legislative process, and government.
Florida Museum of Natural History Added automatically				Florida Photograph Collections Historic and contemporary photographs visually document Florida and the University of Florida. This collaborative collection was created with content from several schools within the University of Florida, the Matheson Historical Center Collection, SWFLN, and many other smaller archives, libraries, and museums.
Historic St. Augustine The Historic St. Augustine collection contains primary source material including historic interpretation notes, architectural sketches, drawings, archaeological field reports, maps and photographs related to properties in the historic district. The majority of the material comes from the Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board (HSAPB) block and lot files which were created with the intention to provide historical information and guide HSAPB administrators in the development and management of the colonial town and properties. The files were maintained and augmented over the years by each successive Preservation Board and housed within the Government House Library. These materials will be of particular interest to those in architecture, museum studies, historic preservation and restoration, as well as to those interested in the history of St. Augustine.				Living in Florida: Its Cities and People These collection groups tell the stories of the people that lived in Florida and the cities they built.
Michael Gannon Digital Collection Digital collection of materials relating Michael V. Gannon, the noted historian, radio commentator, former priest, and emeritus professor of the University of Florida.

African Studies Collections African Studies Collections support the past, ongoing, and future needs of the University of Florida's Center for African Studies, among the most active and highly regarded such teaching and research centers in the United States.				Albert Huet's WWI Documents This collection is comprised of Albert Huet's WWI diary and other artifacts related to his time in the French army.
Archives Collections Set of archival collections				Asian Collections This digital collection draws from the Asian Studies Collections at the University of Florida, and includes rare resources on Chinese Art History.
Campus Art Collections A collection focusing on the campus art collection of the New College of Florida. Developed and curated by NCF students.				Cuban Collections The recent thawing of U.S./Cuba relations is a watershed moment and provides a unique opportunity for strategic collaborations involving the Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí(BNJM). The University of Florida (UF Libraries) has expanded its historical collaboration with Cuban institutions by signing an agreement with the BNJM to create broad and deep open access to digital collections of Cuban Heritage materials. Under the 2016 agreement, the University of Florida and the Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí have identified four major projects for the development and exchange of digital content from and about Cuba.
Digital Library of the Caribbean The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.				European Collections European History Resources comprises resources digitized from the University of Florida's special and circulating collections pertaining to the history and cultures of Europe. The bulk of materials collected here document France and the Unit.
Jewish Diaspora Collection The Jewish Diaspora Collection (JDoC) is a collaborative and cooperative digital library designed to preserve and provide wide access to Jewish heritage materials from Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Modelled on the Digital Library of the Caribbean, JDoC provides a host site and portal for digitized versions of hidden and/or endangered Jewish cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.				Open@NCF Open access repository to research produced by New College of Florida faculty, students, and staff.
South American Collections The South American Collections relect deep intellectual coverage of South America in the University of Florida Libraries. For decades the Libraries have acquired books, journals, newspapers, maps and other materials in print and computer based formats covering all countries and cultures of the region. These holdings are primarily housed in the University's Latin American Collection, but also include important resources in the other units of the UF Libraries, such as the Science Library, Map & Imagery Library, the Art Library, and the Legal Information Center. Researchers can study a wide range of diverse topics including Southern Cone literature and politics, Andean indigenous societies, Brazil’s creative expressions, and South America’s vast natural resources. Colombia, Venezuela, and the Guianas are also very well represented.				Student Work This collection serves as a repository for non-thesis student work, including ISP and tutorial projects.
Theses Collection Collection of theses from the New College student body. This is collection contains restricted material.				World Studies Collections The World Studies collections includes area studies outside of the United States, Florida, and the Caribbean.

Exhibits from the University of Florida and Partners				General Manuscripts & Archives The General Manuscripts & Archives Collection contains selected materials from UF's Manuscripts & Archives that are not in their own discrete digital collection.
Institutional Repository at the University of Florida (IR@UF) The Institutional Repository at the University of Florida is a collection of the University of Florida community's research, news, outreach, and educational materials.				Panama and the Canal Panama and the Canal is a rich collection of resources relating to the Panama Canal, the Canal Zone, and the Republic of Panama. The collection primarily includes materials from the University of Florida's Panama Canal Museum Collection, Latin American & Caribbean Collection, Map & Imagery Library, and government documents of the Panama Canal Commission and its predecessor agencies that are held in the Panama Canal Center of Excellence at UF.
Papers of George A. Smathers This collection holds materials from and related to former US Senator George A. Smathers, who was designated a Great Floridian by the State of Florida in 1994.				Papers of Governor C. Farris Bryant The Papers of Governor C. Farris Bryant cover the years 1942 to 1977, with an emphasis on the Florida Legislative, gubernatorial elections in 1956 and 1960, and his career in the Federal Office of Emergency Planning.
Teacher Resources Collection Collection to house teacher resources, primarily lesson plans.				UF Health Science Archives Photograph Collections The Health Science Center Archives is a unit associated with and containing historical materials from the six colleges in the Health Science Center as well as the Health Center administrative unit, the Vice President for Health Affairs, and the Health Center Library. The materials in these collections help describe the history of founding of the Center in the 1940s and 1950s and its opening in 1956. The collections include administrative records, copies of oral histories from founding members of
University Archives The University of Florida Archives supports topical research on the history of the University. It is the custodian of the University's historically significant public records including the administrative files of its past presidents. The Archives also collects the papers and records of individuals and organizations associated with the University and maintains files of yearbooks, student publications, and official University documents.				US Federal Document Digital Collections The US Federal Document Digital Collections houses federal documents.
Women in Development Women in Development collects research on societal structures in Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. These materials reflect the impact of women in rural and urban settings. They discuss issues of education, economic growth and legal rights among other topics.

This is the original site; see more about the system change.
See the new beta sites UFDC, dLOC, and the Florida Digital Newspaper Library

Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Collections

Science and Technology Collections

Map Collections

Newspaper Collections

Florida Collections

World Collections

University of Florida and Endowed Collections

Food and Agricultural Sciences The 'Food and Agricultural Sciences' General Collections holds general resources about agriculture, crops, farming, food science, and natural resources (e.g. climate, water, and soil conditions) related to agriculture. A mainstay of the collection is the publications of the Institute for Food and Agricultural Sciences. Sub-collections include Florida Historical Agriculture and Rural Life, International Farming Systems, and U.S. Department of Agriculture Soil Survey publications of Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.				Herbarium Collections The 'University of Florida Herbarium Specimen Collections' provides digital images for selected specimens from the Florida Museum of Natural History / University of Florida Herbarium.
Sciences Collections The sciences collections includes natural and earth sciences, herbarium collections, wetlands research, as well as food and agricultural sciences and sciences and technologies.