Want to learn more about the Division of Library and Information Services and Florida Memory from the experts? The Florida Memory team is conducting a series of webinars that provide detailed information about the website and digitized collections from the State Library and Archives of Florida.
All webinars are free upon registration. Simply provide your name and an email address when registering.
Recordings of past webinars:
Using Florida Memory to Enhance Your Viva Florida Events and Programming
2013 marks the 500 year anniversary of the arrival of European and African peoples in the land now known as Florida. This webinar provides an overview of materials available on the Florida Memory Program website suitable for Viva Florida events and programming.
Finding and Using Primary Sources from the Florida Memory Website This webinar focuses on using Florida Memory to find primary source materials for the Florida History Fair and for teaching Florida history. Special Guest: K.C. Smith, Florida History Fair Coordinator and Curator of Education, Museum of Florida History.
Florida Memory: An Introduction to Audio Resources Audio Archivist Will Chase discusses the different components and features of the audio page, sound recordings from the Florida Folklife Collection, and issues pertaining to preservation of and access to these resources.
Florida Memory: Florida’s Role in the Civil War Archivist Boyd Murphree discusses the variety of Civil War resources available on the Florida Memory website as well as additional collections housed in the State Library and Archives of Florida.
Slideshows
Florida Winter Holidays
Most of the nation considers Florida the escape from the cold winter weather. But for Florida residents, winter was a time of holidays, family celebrations, and–sometimes–cold weather.
Joseph Janney Steinmetz Slideshow Joseph Janney Steinmetz was a world-renowned commercial photographer whose images appeared in such publications as The Saturday Evening Post, Life, Look, Time, Holiday, Collier's, and Town & Country. His work has been referred to as “an American social history,” which documented diverse scenes of American life from affluent northeasterners to middle-class Floridians.
