FSU Libraries Celebrates its Custodial Staff
Custodians are essential for any building or facility to function at its best. Nowhere is this truer than at FSU Libraries. Check out the promotional video that FSU Libraries put together for National Custodial Worker’s Recognition Day!
Coming Soon: Major Upgrade to FSU Libraries Research Repository
FSU’s Digital Repository is currently home to two collections: the Digital Library, which provides online access to historic materials from FSU campus libraries and beyond, and the Research Repository, which offers open access to the research products of the FSU community.
Following the Digital Library’s transition in Fall 2026 to the TIND Digital Archive, FSU’s Research Repository will also have a new home with Figshare, a modern, user-friendly, and visually compelling institutional repository platform. Users will notice features such as enhanced usage statistics, improved robust data, a new organizational structure, and researcher profiles where users can display statistics, biographies, CVs, publications, ORCID, and contact information.
The Figshare Research Repository supports FSU’s Open Access Policy by providing online public access to the FSU community’s research output at no cost to the author or the user. This includes preprints of published peer-reviewed journal articles, conference posters and presentations, datasets, reports, theses and dissertations, and multimedia. Figshare promotes equity by allowing researchers worldwide to freely access otherwise paywalled or unavailable scholarship.
Look for the new FSU Research Repository in early Spring 2027!
FSU Libraries Collaborates with Shakespeare Studies
Esteemed Professor of English, Dr. Gary Taylor’s newest book, Elements in Shakespeare and Text: Textual Genealogies and Shakespeare’s History Plays, analyzes spoken genealogies in Shakespeare’s Henry V and Henry VI, Part Two. Written alongside Dr. Taylor’s former student, Dr. John Nance, Elements in Shakespeare and Text is the product of meticulous research and collaboration, and not just between the co-authors.
Dr. Taylor’s work was assisted by FSU Libraries, which not only offered services in the form of Digital Humanities Librarian, Dr. Aaron Rodriguez, but also assisted in making Elements in Shakespeare and Text freely available through Open Access, thanks to the Open Access fund available to both faculty and graduate students. Presently, Dr. Taylor’s and Dr. Nance’s work can be found online through Cambridge University Press, the publishers of Elements in Shakespeare and Text.
Dr. Aaron Rodriguez, Director of Digital Research and Scholarship at FSU Libraries, and once a student of Dr. Taylor himself was instrumental in the completion of Dr. Taylor and Dr. Nance’s book and thanked in the ‘Acknowledgements’ section as a result. As a Digital Humanities Librarian, Aaron offered his services, creating the eight stemmata codicum, family tree diagrams that map the genealogical relationships between manuscripts of a text used in Elements of Shakespeare and Text.
Read more about FSU Libraries and Dr. Gary Taylor’s work here!
Upcoming Events
Carothers Faculty Lecture: Zina Ward and Thomas Juzek (10/20)
The FSU Carothers Faculty Lecture Series opens the 2026-27 season with Professors Zina Ward (Philosophy) and Thomas Juzek (Linguistics). They will speak on how AI is shaping human language. This will be a crossover event with FSU Discovery Days! aimed to celebrate and share the cutting edge work being done at FSU.
If you would like to reserve a free lunch provided by Office of Research, please RSVP: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/a50DsqqGpg.
From UFOs to UAPs: Science, Sensationalism, and Things that Go Blip in the Night (10/27)
This interdisciplinary panel conversation brings together faculty members from across Florida State University to analyze the UAP phenomenon through multiple academic lenses. Panelists will discuss the validity of recorded sightings, the long and fraught history of the field, and break down how journalistic framing and digital platforms influence public perception.
Whether you are a curious skeptic or a seasoned researcher, join us for an engaging discussion on what lies behind the headlines, the hype, and the things that go blip in the night. Light lunch will be provided for attendees at 11:30am, with the official panel starting at 12pm.
Note: Registration for this event is required because lunch is provided.
Dirac-ula Fall Fest 2026 (10/28)
Join in on the fun at Dirac Science Library for the sixth annual Dirac-ula Fall Festival. Gather with us as we celebrate the life and legacy of Paul Dirac. Grab a green wristband at the check-in table to join in all the fun! Celebrate with a spooky photo booth, treats from Seminole Dining, face painting, games, prizes and more (while supplies last)!
Be sure to enter our Costume Contest @ the event between 3:00-5:30pm – vote on our Instagram stories starting after the event! Round 1 will go from Wednesday-Thursday, with the final round going from Thursday-Friday! We’ll announce the winner online and contact them on Friday, October 30!
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