The Gleeson Library is pleased to sponsor a faculty reading on Thursday, April 26 as it welcomes University of San Francisco Associate Professor Dean Rader, who will read from his book Works & Days (Truman State University Press) which received the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry in 2010. Professor Rader has published widely in the … Continue reading Dean Rader Poetry Reading
April is Poetry Month and the Gleeson Library will be celebrating with three evening programs in the Donohue Rare Book Room. The programs include an event on April 11, co-sponsored by Sigma Tau Delta, at which poets Camille Dungy and Matthew Zapruder will be reading from their work; the fourth annual faculty, staff and student … Continue reading Poetry Month in the Donohue Rare Book Room
California Native Wildflowers: Prints by Henry Evans is an exhibition of fifteen color linocut prints from the Donohue Rare Book Room’s recent acquisition of a limited edition portfolio of forty botanical prints by the San Francisco printmaker, Henry Evans. The linocut prints, on exhibition through May 11 in the Donohue Rare Book Room, portray some … Continue reading California Native Wildflowers
The Gleeson Library is pleased to co-sponsor with the African American Studies Program a faculty reading on Thursday, February 2nd with University of San Francisco Associate Professor James Lance Taylor, who will read from his recent work Black Nationalism in the United States: From Malcolm X to Barack Obama (2011). Professor Taylor is also co-editor … Continue reading Library program on Black Nationalism
On exhibition in the Donohue Rare Book Room through December 16 are over eighty volumes from the Rare Book Room’s Dr. M. Wallace Freidman Collection of L. Frank Baum and Oziana. L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) wrote over thirty-eight children’s books, the most famous of which The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published in 1900 and … Continue reading Follow the Yellow Brick Road
The Gleeson Library is pleased to sponsor a faculty reading on Tuesday, November 15 when it welcomes David Vann, University of San Francisco Associate Professor in the MFA in Writing Program, who will read from his recent works Last Day on Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter (University of Georgia Press, 2011) and … Continue reading David Vann Reading
Please plan to celebrate an important acquisition in the Donohue Rare Book Room on April 14 when the Gleeson Library welcomes Irvin Unger who will give an illustrated talk on the artistry of Arthur Szyk and the history of The Szyk Haggadah. Mr. Ungar is the proprietor of the antiquarian bookselling firm, Historicana and is … Continue reading Arthur Szyk Program on April 14
Please plan to attend a program in the Donohue Rare Book Room on March 24th with USF Associate Professor of Sociology, Stephanie Sears, who will be speaking on Imagining Black Womanhood. In her recent publication, Imagining Black Womanhood: The Negotiation of Identity and Power within the Girls Empowerment Project, published in 2010 by the State … Continue reading Program on Black Womanhood
The Donohue Rare Book Room is pleased to exhibit two recent acquisitions: Moth and Bonelight and a facsimile edition of the Szyk Haggadah. Moth and Bonelight with poems by Steven Brown and photographs by Jerry Uelsmann, is an important addition to the Rare Book Room’s growing collection of fine press books with an emphasis on … Continue reading Two Recent Acquisitions
The Donohue Rare Book Room’s Chertsey Breviary, a fourteenth-century liturgical manuscript, was recently digitized and is now available online in the Library’s Digital Collections. The vellum manuscript is a psalter, a volume containing the Book of Psalms. Psalters were frequently owned by wealthy individuals and were often richly illuminated. The Donohue Rare Book Room manuscript, … Continue reading Chertsey Breviary Digitized