Press Coverage

  • 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.

  • Secrets of the Sulphur Springs Water Tower Revealed in 3D

    November 15, 2019 - Fox 13 News

    Dr. Lori Collins, Director of digital mapping group from USF Libraries, and Debi Johnson, leader of the Preserve Our Tower group, lead a project to preserve the Sulphur Springs Tower in Tampa. The tower was a famous tourist attraction from the 1920's.

  • USF to Honor Lurlene McDaniel, Whose Books Inspired Young Adults

    November 6, 2019 - WUSF News

    Lurlene McDaniel, USF Class of 1965, will have her writing career showcased at the USF Tampa Library on Thursday, November 7th with a "Coffee & Conversations" lecture and discussion about her final novel, "The Girl with the Broken Heart."