Check out the UF Digital Collections

Filed under Academic on September 17, 2007.

The University of Florida Libraries now has over 1,000,000 pages in the University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC). See Little Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast, thousands of children’s and picture books, photographs of the football team, handwritten works by important authors like Harriet Beecher Stowe, maps from around the world and across history, and more.

The one million pages fall into more than 20 collections representing more than 44,000 titles in more than 52,000 volumes.

Included are maps, newspapers, photographs and books, as well as archival resources, recorded sound and video. Collection content ranges geographically from the University of Florida to the South American Andes, from Africa to the Russian steps. Topical content spans local and world history, covering the arts, humanities and social sciences, as well as agriculture and the sciences.  In addition to content from the University Libraries, content also comes from the Florida Museum of Natural History, the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, the Matheson Museum and partners in several Caribbean countries.

Anyone can access the UFDC anytime at no charge at www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc.