Press Coverage

  • 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.

  • New USF Libraries Digital Collection Documents Coral Reef Changes

    March 24, 2020 - USF Libraries

    Forty years of coral reef research is now available to USF students and scientists worldwide. Integrative Biology Professor Emeritus John Ogden, PhD, donated thousands of photos from his research on tropical coastal marine ecosystems along with their accompanying journal publications, maps, data and field diaries.

  • USF Librarian Tracking Down Families of Those Buried at Zion Cemetery

    March 10, 2020 - Bay News 9

    Drew Smith, a USF genealogy librarian is trying to track down the families of hundreds of people who were buried at Zion Cemetery.