- How the LGBTQIA+ community revitalized Ybor City
June 1, 2021 - 10 Tampa Bay - Jennifer Stanton
USF Libraries Special Collections tell how the LGBTQIA+ community helped to revitalize Tampa Bay and Florida. - Web extra: A history of how the LGBTQIA+ community helped bars skirt the law in the 40s and 50s
June 1, 2021 - WTSP.com
Special Collections Librarian Andy Huse with USF Libraries talks about how cross-dressing men helped bars skirt the law in the 40s and 50s. - Web extra: How organized crime was connected to Tampa's LGBTQIA+ community
June 1, 2021 - WTSP.com
How the past connection with Tampa's LGBTQIA+ community and the mafia as told by Andy Huse / Special Collections Librarian at USF Libraries. - Debate over USF Forest Preserve heats up as deadline nears for developers
May 18, 2021 - Tampa Bay Times - Divya Kumar
For 50 or so people on a Friday evening in early May, the weekend started with a protest at the entrance to the University of South Florida’s Forest Preserve and golf course. Their target: the USF administrators who recently put out feelers to develop the 769-acre preserve as a possible revenue stream for the university — a move that surprised faculty and students. - Henrietta Mays Smith, 'rock star' librarian and champion storyteller, dies at 98
May 17, 2021 - Palm Beach Post - Victoria Villanueva-Marquez
Henrietta Mays Smith was the first Black professor in the University of South Florida's School of Information before retiring to Delray Beach.