With all the renovations that occurred in the library in the past 12 months, we updated the designations for study zones, more clearly indicating where you are allowed to converse, study quietly, and where to expect silence. Silent study zones: • 1st floor, room behind the Reference Desk • 3rd floor South (front half of … Continue reading Updated Study Zones
To wish you a Merry Christmas from USF Library I share some season’s greetings from the Rare Book Room. Christmas in California by Edward Rowland Sill printed for Caroline and Hudson Poole by John Henry Nash, 1928 San Francisco at Christmas by Sherwood Anderson printed for Eleanor Anderson by Ted Lilienthal at Quercus Press, 1941 … Continue reading Merry Christmas from San Francisco
One of the pillars of the Library Bill of Rights set forth by the American Library Association is that “Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.” One way libraries get to do this is by observing and celebrating Banned Books Week, when we shine a light on … Continue reading Banned Books and Intellectual Freedom
We still have a bit over a week to celebrate National Poetry Month. One way you can do that is by joining us to celebrate the release of the new issue of the Ignatian Literary Magazine! Thursday, April 27, 2017 5:30 – 7 pm Del Santo Reading Room, Lone Mountain 270 The celebration will feature: … Continue reading Ignatian Literary Magazine Release Party
The following book reviews were written by student assistants in the Reference & Research Services Department here in the library. We hope they inspire you to pick up a good book! NW, reviewed by Brianna Cockett-Mamiya Zadie Smith’s 2012 novel NW follows the lives of four different characters — Natalie, Leah, Felix, and Nathan — … Continue reading Book Reviews from Students
Please join us from 12-1 pm on Thursday 4/28 in the library foyer for a rare book pop-up exhibit of small and fine press poetry books by female poets of the Beat Generation. The center piece of the pop-up is Lenore Kandel’s The Love Book, which went on trial for obscenity here in San Francisco … Continue reading Poetry Rare Book Pop-Up
April is National Poetry Month! We’re celebrating a couple ways. We’ve got a display of Women Poets of the Beat Generation up in the foyer of Gleeson Library through the end of the month. The display was made in conjunction with a feature from the new issue of the Ignatian Literary Magazine on the same … Continue reading National Poetry Month @ Gleeson
This is a guest post by Reference & Research Services student assistants Jacqueline Cao and Andrew Gonzales. William James vs. Gerald G. Jampolsky “To perceive the world differently we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now and dissolve the fear in our minds.” It … Continue reading Mysterious Misattributions of the Quoting kind
Newspapers can be powerful agents of social change and newspapers can contain powerful primary sources for historical research. The Chicago Defender is powerful in both these ways, and is a great resource to check out when celebrating Black History Month. Under the direction of its founder, Robert S. Abbott, and his successor, John H. Sengstacke, The Defender brought focus to … Continue reading A Primary Source for Black History
This is a guest post by Reference and Research Services student assistant Ariana Varela. The definition of public history is fluid and debated between the various types of public historians. One form of public history is archival work where documents and other types of media are collected, preserved, and cataloged in order to facilitate research. … Continue reading Public Historian by way of Archives and Reference
