Press Coverage

  • Tampa Bay Exhibits, Festivals and Concerts Available Online

    April 3, 2020 - WUSF News

    USF 3D Virtual tours: The Digital Heritage and Humanities Collection of the University of South Florida offers virtual tours of St. Petersburg Parks, the Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, museums and 3D World Heritage Tours featuring Guatemala ruins. These tours can be found online for free and also include the VR experience.

  • Florida Attractions and Parks to Tour Virtually While You're Stuck At Home

    March 27, 2020 - WTSP 10 News

    Take a virtual tour of Castillo de San Marcos National monument thanks to a research grant with University of South Florida Libraries and the National Park Service.

  • USF Creates Coronavirus Tracking Map To Show Cases

    March 26, 2020 - Tampa Bay Business Journal

    The University of South Florida has created a coronavirus-tracking map that shows users both the cases and deaths that occur from the virus spreading across the world.

  • Through USF's 3D Virtual Tours, You Can Visit St. Pete Parks and Historic Sites From Isolation

    March 26, 2020 - Tampa Bay Times

    University of South Florida’s Libraries Digital Heritage and Humanities Collections has created a landing page for their virtual tours. The locations that they have scanned and turned into virtual tours are the four Native American ceremonial mounds and their surrounding parks maintained by the city of St. Petersburg and St. Augustine’s Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, the oldest masonry fort in the nation.

  • USF Confirms Its Third and Fourth COVID-19 Cases

    March 25, 2020 - The Oracle 

    An employee that worked in Innovative Education services located in the USF Library was confirmed to have the first positive case of the coronavirus.