- USF Libraries creates digital Covid vaccine dashboard
January 4, 2021 - THE ST. PETE CATALYST
USF Libraries has created a digital dashboard to track Covid-19 vaccine distribution in Florida. The dashboard monitors the number of vaccine recipients and their location, which can be broken down to the county level, along with demographic information including the number of vaccinations by race, age and gender. - Association of College and Research Libraries, Vol 82, No 1 (2021)
January 1, 2021 - ACRL
This month’s cover features the 1908 image “Robert Bruce Horsfall Tree Swallow Illustration,” part of the Audubon Florida Tavernier Research Papers collection at the University of South Florida Libraries-Tampa Campus. The images in the collection reflect the focus of Audubon’s work in research and conservation efforts to preserve wildlife and its habitat. - Research project to recover, engage public on lost history of Black burial grounds in Tampa Bay
December 23, 2020 - The Weekly Challenger
In Tampa Bay and across the nation, many African-American burial grounds and cemeteries have been lost to history, neglected, abandoned, even paved over and developed on. A research project funded by a University of South Florida anti-racism initiative seeks to recover and reimagine the forgotten history of these sacred places. (Photo courtesy of David Sheddon, St. Petersburg NMPL Special Collections) - Tampa: Birthplace of the Cuban sandwich
December 13, 2020 - Orlando Sentinel
Food historian and USF Libraries - Special Collections librarian Andy Huse is at work on a book about the Cuban sandwich, working with USF Social Science professor Barbara Cruz and Director of Public Relations & Marketing for the Columbia Restaurant Group Jeff Houck: “There’s something about the Cuban sandwich that is historical, yes.... But it’s also emotional.... It’s just an experience that most sandwiches are not." - USF researchers develop web portals to map COVID-19 by ZIP code, forecast outbreaks
December 8, 2020 - 83 Degrees
USF Library Digital Heritage & Humanities Center (DHHC) GIS Project Manager Ben Mittler designed the Florida COVID-19 Hub. The Hub features GIS dashboards tracking COVID-19 infections in Florida, with additional info localized to the Tampa Bay Area. USF's GIS dashboards pull state data from the Florida Department of Health and global data from Johns Hopkins University's global GIS dashboard, but the Florida COVID-19 Hub is unique in its inclusion of maps that are curated for local residents and stakeholders. These include Tampa General Hospital, emergency planning officials, and the USF community.