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Temple Terrace Beacon newspaper collection, 1978-2008

 

Summary

Creator:
Temple Terrace Beacon
Peduzzi, Kelsey
Abstract:
Collection consists of the Temple Terrace Beacon newspaper issues from 1978 through 2008.
Extent:
7 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Temple Terrace Beacon Newspaper collection, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL.

Background

Scope and content:

Materials include physical issues of the Temple Terrace Beacon newspaper. This local publication, first published in 1931, focused on news and events in the City of Temple Terrace as well as the surrounding University community. The issues offer an portrait of community-based journalism over a period of nearly 30 years between 1978 and 2008.

Biographical / historical:

For many years, the Temple Terrace Public Library maintained copies of the Temple Terrace Beacon. Kelsey Peduzzi, a librarian at the Temple Terrace Public Library, embarked on a project to scan and digitize issues of the newspaper in the library's possession. After this successful project led to the creation of a digital archive of more than 800 issues of the newspaper on the Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative's digital collections webpage, the library decided that it no longer wished to maintain the paper issues. Given the focus of Journalism, Media Studies, Florida Studies, and other liberal arts disciplines offered at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, Peduzzi arranged for the transfer of these newspapers in February 2017 to the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library.

Access and use

Terms of access:

None. The contents of the collection may be subject to copyright. Visit the United States Copyright Office's website at http://www.copyright.gov/ for more information.

Preferred citation:

Temple Terrace Beacon Newspaper collection, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL.

Location of this collection:
140 7th Avenue South
St. Petersburg
FL
33701
USA