Florida Commission on Mental Health and Substance Abuse Papers (1999-2001)
Created in 1999 by House Bill 2003 for the purpose of conducting a systematic review of the overall management of the state's mental health and substance abuse system, the Commission conducted a year-long series of public meetings, culminating in a final report to the Governor and State Legislature with recommendations for change improvement in areas including planning service strategies, funding, accountability, emergency health services, and the unique needs of children, adults, and the elderly.

The papers contain background materials, including research articles, legislative and agency reports, testimony, first person accounts, and briefing materials from those individuals who attended the meetings or sent their materials to the Commission for review. In addition to the print archive, the meetings of the Commission were videotaped and made available on the Commission website. These streaming video will soon be added to the Institute's streaming video database (see below).

Charles S. Mahan Papers (1989-2000)
Charles S. Mahan, M.D., was the Deputy Secretary for Health and the State Health Officer for the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services. His papers, arranged in chronological order, provide information on a number of important public health initiatives in the state.

Study Commission on Child Welfare Papers (1989-1991)
These Papers were donated to the Institute Library by Christian Holland Giblin, a former staff director for the Study Commission on Child Welfare, one of many commissions that has issued many reports on Florida's child welfare system over the years.

The Institute Archive
The Archive contains the institutional history of the Institute, the publications and scholarship of its faculty and staff, and ephemeral items that have enduring historical value, including materials dealing with the history of mental health in Florida, through 1991.

SUBJECT SPECIALTY COLLECTIONS
The HIV/AIDS collection
The HIV/AIDS collection is comprised of existing and new HIV and AIDS monographs, journals, and media from the Library and from the USF Center for HIV Education and Research. Academic journals, such as AIDS Patient Care, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, and IAS-USA Topics in HIV Medicine, will be supplemented by consumer publications, such as Pos and A&U: America's AIDS magazine. Read the Press Release for more information about the Library/Center collaboration.

The Multicultural Collection
Donated by Dr. Richard Briscoe of the Multicultural Mental Health Training Program (MMHTP), the collection contains works of seminal African American writers, articles, and magazines from the early 1960s to the 1980s. Examples of works in the collection include The Negro in the Making of America (1957), The Me Nobody Knows (1969), The Nigger Bible (1972), The Man Who Cried I Am (1968), and Crisis in Black and White (1964). Authors include Dick Gregory, Eldridge Cleaver, Robert McCoy, Jean Toomer, John Williams, Langston Hughes, and others.

Streaming Video Databases in Support of Mental Health Education & Training
In 1998, the University of South Florida was awarded an Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research Grant by the National Science Foundation (#ANI-9810154). The de la Parte Institute Research Library was developed a meritorious application of a searchable database of on-line video archives capable of being viewed across a number of network bandwidths ranging from 56 kb/sec. up to 1Mbit/sec. The Institute’s interest was in furthering the dissemination of knowledge about various mental illnesses and to lessen the stigma associated with them. For more information about the project. Download the I2 brochure on the project. Search the database.

Epidemiology and Policy Collection
This collection managed behavioral health care, health care reform, and health policy, includes reports, position papers, statistics, working and draft papers, the Florida Statutes, Laws of Florida, West's Annotated, and other legal aids.

The Ch.A.D.D. ADD/ADHD Collection (Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit Disorder)

The ChADD Collection is comprised of books for parents, children, and siblings of persons who have ADD or ADHD and a large number of national conference audiotapes. A community outreach program begun by ChADD and the Library in 1993, the collection also contains materials on homeschooling and on individualized education plans. For more about services for ChADD members.

The Autism Collection (CARD) donated by the Center for Autism and Related Disabilities, this collection contains materials for professionals and parents dealing with rights under the law, interventions, and schooling issues. This Collection has been augmented by a gift for materials from the John Maxwell Biasco Foundation for Children with Autism of Florida. For more information about the Biasco foundation, CARD, or on autism (Autism Facts & Unravelling Autism)

About the Institute's Research Collection
Our collection follows a multidisciplinary approach to materials on the study, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders, the delivery of comprehensive mental health services to persons with mental illness, and the development of mental health law and policy. The Institute Library has over 40,000 titles in its circulating collection. In addition to the main collection, the library has a number of specialised collections. Approximately 85% of our collection can be found on the USF Libraries catalogue.