Thank you for considering donating to the Allen Lastinger Center for Florida History. We welcome gifts of manuscripts, books, maps, prints, and other unique materials whose topics fall within our collecting policy (see below). If you think you have something that would be a great fit for our collection, please send an email to the address below detailing your proposed donation, and we will respond as soon as possible.
Please note that we cannot accept everything offered to us, and we are unable to accept unsolicited items. Please do not mail or drop off anything before speaking with the Librarian.
Please contact lib-alcfh@unf.edu
The Allen Lastinger Center for Florida History collects primary and secondary source material related to the state of Florida’s transportation and economic industries, from the Precontact to the present, placing these Florida industries within the larger context of the history of the United States and Atlantic world. The Center’s foundational collection has a strong focus on banking, tourism, cartography, and trade.
While the Center does not place a limit on the type of material it collects, the following considerations will be considered before any acquisition decisions are made:
Does this item/collection’s topic support the Center’s collecting policy and mission?
Will this material need to be reformatted to ensure continued access? If so, can migration or reformatting be completed in a reasonable amount of time (no more than five years from acquisition)?
Physical condition of the item
Does the donor own the rights to the item/collection?
Does the material violate any federal or state privacy laws? Ie: HIPAA, FERPA, Florida’s Digital Bill of Rights, Florida Information Protection Act, not addressed in any records management destruction guidelines, etc.
Items the Center will not collect:
Photocopies, photostats, or reproductions of any kind.
Newspaper clippings
Moldy or heavily damaged items
Donor restricted items, without a reasonable date to lift the restrictions
Items/collections offered on loan or on deposit, the exception being a loan for an exhibition
Items/collections with unclear provenance (ownership history)
Advanced reader copies
Anything considered culturally sensitive under the Protocols for Native American Archival Material or the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the exception being items given by the Indigenous community
Personal identifying information (ie: social security numbers, bank accounts, etc.)
