Smathers Centennial

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  1. 1. “__________ is an everyone issue, not a disability issue” (Source | Spring 2025)
  2. 9. “The Library’s 3D printers have been a draw to instructor’s…a PhD student in Geology, recently printed a 2’x2’ model of _______ to use with a digital sandbox for a large public outreach event at the Florida Museum of Natural History. (Source | Fall 2018)
  3. 10. On January 1, 1925, Norway changes its capital from Christiania to ___. (What happened in 1925? 100 Years Ago)
  4. 11. John T. ______, a teacher in Tennessee was arrested on May 5, 1925 for teaching evolution, leading to the famous Scopes Trial. (What happened in 1925? 100 Years Ago)
  5. 12. It’s a num. identifier found in most modern monographic or book publications. (General Knowledge)
  6. 14. What the unique num. identifier for The Source and other serials is called? (Source | Spring 2025)
  7. 16. A _________ binding, referring to the thin, wooden boards used for the cover of the book. (Source | Fall 2023)
  8. 19. Smathers was a member of the Sigma _____ Epsilon fraternity. (Source | Spring 2025)
  9. 21. In 1967, _________ were given access to the library stacks for the first time. (Source | Spring 2025)
  10. 22. Florida Agricultural College became the University of Florida in ____ City (1903)? (Source | Spring 2025)
  11. 23. Terry _____, the creator of the powerful open-source metadata software suite MarcEdit. (General Knowledge)
  12. 24. The ____ peer mentor program started in 2021 was designed to increase undergraduate student engagement with Smathers Libraries. (Source | Fall 2024)
  13. 26. Founded by Harold Ross and Jane Grant, The New ______, an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry was first debuted on February 21, 1925. (What happened in 1925? 100 Years Ago)
  14. 28. The book, A Supposed Direction of Gravity was created by Jay ___”. (Source | Fall 2024)
  15. 29. Jim Liversidge spent much of his 30-year career at the Smathers Libraries amassing and curating material for the library ___ Collection. (Source | Fall 2024)
  16. 33. The _____ punchcard system was implemented in the late 1940s. (Source | Spring 2025)
  17. 34. What does the “C” in Judy Russell’s middle name stand for? (Smathers Town Hall)
  18. 36. George _______, First dean of the College of Health. (Source | Spring 2025)
  19. 38. The Smathers Bookstore was last located in what is now commonly called the _____ Library. (General Knowledge)
  20. 40. The library had around 150,000 holdings during WWII. In 1963, the one _____________ milestone was achieved. (Source | Spring 2025)
  21. 41. Students enrolled in IDH 3931, with the assistance of Dr. Sara Gonzalez, assembled a ________ 3D printer from scratch. (Source | Fall 2018)
  22. 43. ________ Collections are curated selections of titles in the library collections and the tab can be found at the top of Primo. (General Knowledge)
  23. 46. Famous surrealist who illustrated Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. (Source | Spring 2019)
  24. 51. The 10,000th DVD (English film name) added to the Library West collection, based on accession number. (General Knowledge)
  25. 52. A sixth-century war Indian war game deemed to be the earliest recognizable form of the game of chess. (Source | Fall 2024)
  26. 53. Washington ________ Diary: Spain 1828-1829 (book with the oldest date stamp) (Source | Spring 2025)
  27. 54. Charlie Chaplin’s ____ Rush is released on June 26, 1925. (What happened in 1925? 100 Years Ago)
  28. 55. In the past, subject specialists would visit Acquisitions & Collections Services Department in Smathers Libraries on the fourth floor at Smathers Library to review _____ books. (General Knowledge)
  29. 56. What famous item did a UF student in 1913 place a stamp on and mail to Georgia. (General Knowledge)
  30. 60. What month (1927) is the oldest date due stamp in a Smathers book? (Source | Spring 2025)
  31. 62. Who provides the libraries top 1000 frequently requested streaming video collection? (General Knowledge)
  32. 64. _________ replaces the use of the IBM punchcard system for circulation of library resources. (Source | Spring 2025)
  33. 65. In 1987 Library East was renamed __________ Library. (Source | Spring 2025)
  34. 68. In 1950, George Smathers successfully ran against Claude ______ for a Senate seat. (Source | Spring 2025)
  35. 71. University of Florida is in the ancestral territory of the ____ and Seminole peoples. (Source | Fall 2023)
  36. 72. The 1917 _____-Shafroth Act granted Puerto Ricans US citizenship. (Source | Fall 2024)
  37. 73. “...it looked like one big hammock”-George A. Smathers (Source | Spring 2025)
  38. 75. On January 6, 1925, the Supreme Court of this state was made up of entirely women. (What happened in 1925? 100 Years Ago)
  39. 78. Film on a ____ was a collaborative effort to digitize and provide access to hundreds of thousands of pages of Caribbean newspapers and other serials, resulting in the digitization of over 800,000 pages of historical newspapers on microfilm. (Source | Fall 2024)
  40. 79. Marston was the first library to open without a physical card catalog and librarians performed article searches for patrons in databases using the ______ Online Search System. (Source | Spring 2022)
  41. 81. “If you think rock and roll started with Elvis, you don’t know _______.” NEBA Kickoff Party Poster in Boston, MA. (Source | Fall 2019)
  42. 82. Long before the availability of Liquid Death, this thirst quencher was invented by a team of scientists at the University of Florida College of Medicine. (General Knowledge)
  43. 85. What type of trees were planted to represent the republics of the Americas for the closing ceremony of the Plaza of Americas in 1931? (Source | Fall 2023)
  44. 87. Italian Fascist leader _________ did not become the dictator of a totalitarian regime immediately. Over several years, he and his allies moistly worked within the confines of the Italian constitution to accrue power & ultimately dissolved democratic institutions altogether. It is generally agreed that that moment came in the speech Mussolini gave to the Italian parliament on January 3, 1925. (What happened in 1925? 100 Years Ago)
  45. 88. Besides the U.S., what other country did she have a residency at? (Smathers Town Hall)
  46. 90. Coming-of-age novel about a young country boy, Jody, who adopts an orphan fawn (The). (Source | Spring 2025)
  47. 91. Published in 1925, The Great ______ is a fictional portrayal of the hedonistic society during the Jazz Age. (What happened in 1925? 100 Years Ago)
  48. 92. The “W” in WCAG. (Source | Spring 2025)
  49. 94. Not the blue Muppet, but the help ticket system at Smathers. (General Knowledge)
  50. 95. The language of the rare book titled “The Little Leopard that Became a Big Leopard” that resulted in extensive research to uncover the language it was written in. (Source | Fall 2024)
  51. 98. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings childhood nickname given to her by her father. (Source | Spring 2025)
  52. 99. The Albert H. Nahmad ______ Canal Gallery opens in Smathers Library in 2017. (Source | Spring 2025)
  53. 100. The _______ Library of Historical Children's Literature held around 35,000 books in 1977 and now holds over 120,000 titles. (Source | Spring 2019)
Down
  1. 2. This "link" from Smathers Library and Library West was an eyesore to some but a refuge from the rain and sun before it was removed in 2024. (General Knowledge)
  2. 3. A _______ Direction of Gravity by Jay Fox in The Harold and Mary Jean Hanson Rare Book Collection. (Source | Spring 2025)
  3. 4. ______ Taylor Ross became the first woman elected as Governor in the US on January 5, 1925. (What happened in 1925? 100 Years Ago)
  4. 5. “El Nuevo ___,” Puerto Rico’s widest circulating newspaper. (Source | Fall 2024)
  5. 6. Marjorie ________ Rawlings manuscripts were acquired by the library. (Source | Spring 2025)
  6. 7. It’s not only a desert, but an online collection development tool used heavily in multiple academic institutions around the US for ordering, managing, and reporting on library print and ebook collections. (General Knowledge)
  7. 8. What costume created by John David Ridge is in Special Collections? It might get cobwebs if left unattended for too long? (John David Ridge Collection Presentation | Grand Reading Room)
  8. 13. Borland Library is dedicated to serving the academic, research and clinical needs of the faculty, staff and students in what city? (General Knowledge)
  9. 15. Its debut issue was released in the Fall of 2018.
  10. 17. ____ access is the practice of making scholarly research, such as journal articles, books, and data, freely available online for anyone to access, use, and distribute without financial, legal, or technical barriers. (General Knowledge)
  11. 18. “_______ medicine is an emerging field connected to the medical humanities and has growing applications in health literacy and health science student education, as a method of inspiring empathy and improving communication between patients and providers. Source | Fall 2018)
  12. 20. The 1184-piece set of The Panama Canal purchased for Special Collections was produced by what company? (Acquisitions Purchase)
  13. 25. St. Augustine is the setting for Hurston’s 1926 play _____ Struck. (Source | Fall 2024)
  14. 27. “Miss _____ Law, holder of the American distance record through her airplane flight from Chicago to New York, is on her way to Europe, where she will study airplanes used by the allies. She expects to return with new ideas for adoption in this country.” The Pensacola Journal, January 24, 1917 (photograph) (Source | Fall 2018)
  15. 30. The Grand Ole ____, a popular showcase for western music, begins broadcasting live from Nashville, Tennessee on November 28, 1925. (What happened in 1925? 100 Years Ago)
  16. 31. Cuban journalist Eduardo Hernández Toledo is commonly referred to as “___________”. (Source | Fall 2024)
  17. 32. At the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in the Revue Nègre, Josephine _____ made her Paris debut. (What happened in 1925? 100 Years Ago)
  18. 35. Statewide shared collection of low use print materials from academic libraries in FL. (Source | Spring 2025)
  19. 37. A multi-institutional, international digital library that provides users free and open access to Caribbean cultural, historical, scientific and research materials held in archives, libraries, museums, private collections, and other institutions of memory and preservation. (Source | Spring 2025)
  20. 39. _______ Neale Hurston (Source | Fall 2024)
  21. 40. “It’s A ____, Mad, Mad, Mad World” (Source | Fall 2024)
  22. 42. The ________ Act of 1905 unintentionally created the University of Florida. (Source | Spring 2025)
  23. 44. Name of the library virtual chatbot assistant. (General Knowledge)
  24. 45. Not the popular E.T. from 80s television, this offsite storage is home to a vast collection of government documents. (General Knowledge)
  25. 46. Ephemerus, an artist book in Special Collections integrated native Florida species and local landmark, The _____ Millhopper. (Source | Fall 2018)
  26. 47. On January 1, 2024,Steamboat______, a version of Mickey Mouse entered public domain, and within hours a dubstep remix, NFTs, and a horror game was created based on the character. (General Knowledge)
  27. 48. “The true book-hunter considers himself a discoverer rather than a purchaser, and it is the essence of this of his skill to find value in those things which in the eye of the ordinary possessor are really worthless” John _______ Slater (1891) (Source | Spring 2019)
  28. 49. ______ tape, the name of the security strip applied to library materials to help prevent theft. (General Knowledge)
  29. 50. In 2025, this replaced ILLiad as the Libraries resource sharing platform. (General Knowledge)
  30. 54. Judy Russell was the first woman superintendent at the U.S. ___. (Source | Spring 2025)
  31. 57. What research campus located in Jupiter, Florida, integrated with UF in 2022? (Source | Spring 2025)
  32. 58. On March 2, 1925 ____ suffrage is recognized in Japan. (What happened in 1925? 100 Years Ago)
  33. 59. William Jennings Bryan earned the moniker “The Great _______” for his fight for the economic rights of working people. (Source | Fall 2024)
  34. 61. Virginia Woolf publishes ___ Dalloway on May 14, 1925. (What happened in 1925? 100 Years Ago)
  35. 63. Taste of Memory: Rice & ____ Across the Caribbean, an exhibit presented in the Latin American &Caribbean Collection Reading Room. (Source | Fall 2023)
  36. 66. ____& Co., the maker of the Cristobal HS Victory Bell located in the Panama Canal Gallery. (Source | Spring 2022)
  37. 67. Broken ____ influenced George Smathers to give up football for basketball and track. (Source | Spring 2025)
  38. 69. The ______ Act of 1765 taxed all paper goods. (Source | Fall 2023)
  39. 70. Tip & Top and the ____ Rocket by Vojtech Kubasta, a numbered (we own #388) pop-up book in the Baldwin Collection. (Source | Fall 2018)
  40. 74. It slithered its way into attending a libray event in room 100 of Smathers Library. (General Knowledge)
  41. 76. Milton ______ served as the first full-time librarian at UF from 1908 to 1918. (Source | Spring 2025)
  42. 77. The __________ State University Image Description Generator can create alt-text for images. (Source | Spring 2025)
  43. 80. A planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone or a metal plate with a smooth surface. (Source | Spring 2025)
  44. 83. This student “rag” began its publication under the name “The University News” in 1906. (Source | Fall 2019)
  45. 84. Jim Liversidge was a radio host for ____ Radio in 1984. (Source | Fall 2024)
  46. 86. Before Netflix, Scottish inventor, John _____ Baird, gave the first public demonstration of moving silhouette images by television at Selfridges department store in London on March 25, 1925. (What happened in 1925? 100 Years Ago)
  47. 89. The History of _________ in Florida (1953) by Hollis Holbrook. (Source | Spring 2025)
  48. 93. The course reserve management system used by staff, students, and faculty at UF (as of 8/1/2025) (General Knowledge)
  49. 96. Open ______, a recently implemented single sign-on (SSO) service that provides users with secure and convenient access to online library resources, such as journals, articles, and ebooks, using a single set of credentials. It eliminates the need to log in repeatedly to access different resources. (General Knowledge)
  50. 97. _____, by Edna Ferber was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel on April 26, 2025. (What happened in 1925? 100 Years Ago)