- 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. - 'Incredible time capsule': One house remains from the lost town of Limona
November 24, 2020 - Fox 13 News
“The houses and the structures and the infrastructure of Limona is gone today,” said Lori Collins, associate research professor with USF’s Digital Heritage and Humanities Collections. But one house remains, and it’s called “The Nest”. It was built by the Moseley family who settled in what is now Brandon in the early 1880s. Collins and her team are making digital images of everything on the property. The USF team is working with the Tampa Bay History Center and the Timberly Trust to tell the story of how the Moseleys lived.