Archives & Special Collections

Digital Collections

The Macdonald-Kelce Digital Collections serve as the library’s online intellectual and historical repository. Learn more about each collection below.

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Browse Collections:

• University Archives - The University Archives digital collection preserves and makes available primary sources on the history of UT Included in this collection are official university records, publications, and more.
• Special and Manuscript Collections - Special and Manuscript Collections document the people and culture of the Tampa Bay area. These items include correspondence, photographs, diaries, film and video, family and institutional records, and much more.
• UoTIR - The University of Tampa Institutional Repository collects, preserves, and distributes the intellectual output of the UT community. This repository is an important tool for preserving UT's legacy, while promoting the University’s scholarship around the world. Read more about the UoTIR at utopia.ut.edu/repository
• Lectures and Events – Browse recorded lectures and events hosted by The University of Tampa.
• Exhibits - Specialty exhibits highlighting library archives and history from the MKL digital collection.

University Archives & Publications

The University Archives digital collection preserves and makes available primary sources on the history of the University of Tampa. This includes university publications like the student newspaper, Faculty Handbook, and records pertaining to academics, administrative concerns, student life, and the development of the university.

Within the University Archives, the UT Publications collection contains a wide variety of journals, periodicals, and newsletters produced by The University of Tampa's various colleges, offices, departments and UT Press. Included in this collection are the student newspaper The Minaret, and the yearbook The Moroccan.

Browse the collection of University of Tampa publications in our Digital Collections: 

University Archives

University Publications

If you publish a campus journal, magazine, or other publication and would like to get permission from your authors to post their work in the MKL Digital Repository, use this form:

In written correspondence with contributors during the submission process (or included in your guidelines for submission), you can also share the following wording for a blanket permission to include their work in the MKL Digital Collections:

Acceptance of your work to [insert journal name] includes disseminating the work freely online in The University of Tampa Macdonald-Kelce Library Digital Collections.

Institutional Repository

The University of Tampa Institutional Repository (UoTIR) is a digital service that collects, preserves, and distributes the intellectual output of the UT community. Our repository is an important tool for preserving UT's legacy while promoting the University’s scholarship around the world.

Special and Manuscript Collections

Special and Manuscript Collections document the people and culture of the Tampa Bay area. These items include correspondence, photographs, diaries, film and video, family and institutional records, and much more.

Special and Manuscript Collections

Digital Exhibits

Browse current exhibits of UT Digital Collections.
 

Exhibits

Lectures and Events

Lectures and other events hosted by The University of Tampa are collected here. 

Lectures and Events

If you are interested in archiving a filmed presentation in the MKL Digital Collections, please fill out the form below and send to Special Collections Librarian Gino Pasi gpasi@ut.edu.

Speaker Agreement Form

1. If you have a speaker coming to campus and would like to post the lecture/presentation in the MKL Digital Collections, have the speaker sign the form above.
2. Please contact Media Services at least a week beforehand. Under special instructions on the online form, write in a request for the event to be filmed.
3. The filmed event will be posted to Digital Collections: Lectures and Events page.