- Terry Hutchings and Sandra Law are USF Heroes!
August 11, 2020 - USF News
As operations manager, Terry Hutchings and his team have designed a new seat reservation system that will allow students to safely study at the USF Tampa Library. And since the University transitioned to virtual learning, Sandra Law and her staff have been coming into the Library to manage up to 50 book requests a week. Their efforts have ensured students and faculty's research and studies remained uninterrupted. - How La Segunda’s Cuban bread became a 105-year-old Ybor City tradition
July 21, 2020 - Tampa Bay Times
“The Latin community, the immigrants, were just as prosperous as everybody else,” said Andy Huse, a librarian with the University of South Florida’s Special Collections. “Everybody made Cuban bread if you wanted to survive — not only because there’s so many Cubans here, but they set the tone here in Tampa in so many ways.” - ArcGIS Hub Enables Communities to Rapidly Share Up-to-Date Data on COVID-19
July 12, 2020 - ESRI
The Digital Heritage and Humanities Collections GIS team at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa developed the Florida COVID-19 Hub site with both a regional and statewide focus. The site is designed to provide a platform for data access, research, and visualization. - COVID-19 adds urgency to USF researchers’ high-tech solution to nursing home care crisis
June 16, 2020 - Mirage News
Nearly 2,400 nursing home workers also tested positive for the virus, and 10 workers have died from COVID-19 by mid-June, according to Florida Department Health data compiled by the Florida COVID-19 Hub at the USF Libraries GIS Unit of the Digital Heritage and Humanities Collections. - USF Libraries Stand Against Racism, Injustice, and Violence
June 15, 2020 - Statement from the Dean
I think we would all agree that 2020 has been a heartbreaking year around the globe and, most especially, in the last week here in the United States as we witnessed brutality and injustice directed against our fellow citizens, friends, neighbors, and families. Anyone watching the recent protests and demonstrations has to wonder, how will we solve the deep, ingrained problem of systemic racism? ...