There have been lots of changes in Gleeson Library in the last year. Want a quick tour of Gleeson and see what’s new in the building? Join us for a Spring Semester tour. They last about 30 minutes and a Library staff person will take you around the building and show you what’s here that … Continue reading Tours of Gleeson Library
We have a tradition here at Gleeson Library for the last 24 years: we celebrate the feast of Saint Jerome on September 30th. Why? Because Jerome is the patron saint of librarians and Jerome spent his life searching for the truth. Jerome was born in 347 and died on September 30 in 420. He was … Continue reading Saint Jerome and fake news
There’s been lots happening at Gleeson this summer! If you’re new to USF or just curious to see how Gleeson has changed, join us for a tour of Gleeson Library. Tours are given on: Monday August 21 at 2pm Tuesday August 22 at 12 noon Wednesday August 23 at 3pm Thursday August 24 at 11am … Continue reading Tours of Gleeson Library
Are you curious about the Library? Want to learn about how Gleeson can help you in your studies? Or just want to learn more about what’s here? Join us for a Gleeson Library tour! Tours are given Monday January 23rd at 11am Tuesday January 24th at 12 noon Wednesday January 25th at 3pm Thursday January … Continue reading Tours of the Library
Friday September 30th is the feast day of St. Jerome. Why, you wonder, should you care? Who was he? Jerome, who was born around 347 and died in 420, was a priest, scholar, historian, and translator. And he is the patron saint of librarians and libraries. We’ve blogged about him in the past on his … Continue reading Who was St. Jerome?
Something new on google: if you search a broad topic, like climate change, poverty, or the death penalty, it lists the usual websites but if you scroll down to the bottom of the results page, they now have some links to what they call “In-Depth Articles” from publications like The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The … Continue reading In-Depth on Google
The New York Times recently published an interesting article about how the traditional peer review process is being looked at in the context of the democracy of the web. It described an experiment by the journal Shakespeare Quarterly which posted four articles not yet accepted for publication and invited people to submit comments on the … Continue reading Peer Review and the web
For the last couple of months, if you search Google and put in words like oil spill or gulf oil spill, at the top of the results list, you will get an ad from BP with the title BP Response. In it, BP gives you their side of the story about the oil disaster in … Continue reading BP and search engines
Google books has begun adding full text magazines. They have digitized almost 100 magazines, from cover to cover, showing us the ads, pictures, articles. Each magazine seems to vary how far back in time they go. They wrote about adding magazines to google books on their blog a year ago. They are really interesting and … Continue reading Magazines in Google Books
Last week, on World AIDS Day, the GLBT Historical Society and the Bay Area Reporter, the local glbt newspaper, released a database of obituaries of persons who died of AIDS. Looking through it is like looking at a time capsule. I moved to San Francisco in 1983 and like so many gay men of my … Continue reading Obituaries and history
