Press Coverage

  • Heritage on the Edge: New Google Project Reveals Climate Change Damage to UNESCO Sites

    February 5, 2020 - The Art Newspaper 

    "The raw data sets are also freely available to download for educational and other non-commercial uses from the Open Heritage 3D Alliance database, founded by CyArk with Historic Environment Scotland and the University of South Florida Libraries."

  • Search For Story of Zion Cemetery Shifts From Graves to Family Records

    January 13, 2020 - Tampa Bay Times

    These people were intentionally erased,” said University of South Florida genealogist Drew Smith, who leads a five-member team of volunteers. "We want to undo that damage to some degree by making them known again.” Zion was believed to be Tampa’s first all-black burial ground and the final resting place for more than 800 people. It disappeared as buildings were constructed there starting in the late 1920s.

  • Climate Change Once Flooded Florida – And It Could Again

    December 3, 2019 - WJCT Public Media, WUSF News, & WMFE

    A map create by the University of South Florida's Libraries and School of Geosciences reveals only parts of the Lake Wales Ridge and the northern extreme of the state bordering Georgia and Alabama as above water during the last extreme event of global warming, about 125,000 years ago.

  • Vol 80, No 11 (2019) December

    December 1, 2019 - College & Research Libraries News

    This month's cover features a 1920's photograph of a newspaper reader walking through St. Petersburg, Florida's downtown open air post office. This photograph comes from the Earl R. Jacobs III Collection of Francis G. Wagner Photographs at the University of South Florida St Petersburg's Nelson Poynter Memorial Library.

  • Ten Smithsonian Artifacts You Can 3D Print

    November 27, 2019 - Smithsonian Magazine 

    The Smithsonian Institution partnered with the University of South Florida Library's Digital Heritage and Humanities Collections to carry out structured light scanning and high definition imaging of the Key Marco Cat.