Category: Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

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Student Social Justice Exhibits: Homelessness and San Francisco Public Libraries

USF Masters in Public Health students Lindsay Barbic, Cynthia Gutierrez, Roberto Herrera and Josephine Borogo are the most recent contributors to Student Social Justice Exhibits. Their installation on homelessness and San Francisco Libraries focuses on the intersection of patrons experiencing homelessness and direct services provided by San Francisco Public Library librarians and social workers. Group … Continue reading Student Social Justice Exhibits: Homelessness and San Francisco Public Libraries

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Student Social Justice Exhibits: Root Causes of Homelessness in San Francisco

Graduate students from Dr. Kelly McDermott’s MPH 622 class, Communicating for Healthy Behavior and Social Change, have created a Student Social Justice Exhibit titled The Root Causes of Homelessness in San Francisco. Behavioral and Public Health graduate students Jessica Sanck, Wyatt Lim Tepper, Rebeca Garcia, and Syria Orizaba’s display addresses the root causes of the … Continue reading Student Social Justice Exhibits: Root Causes of Homelessness in San Francisco

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Student Social Justice Exhibits: San Francisco’s At-Risk of Homelessness Population

Behavioral Health and Public Health graduate students from Dr. Kelly McDermott’s MPH 622 class, Communicating for Healthy Behavior and Social Change, have created a new Student Social Justice Display. Kelly Scherer, Azeleah Tiamson, Vivian Le, and Shakera Elrington’s exhibit on San Francisco’s At-Risk of Homelessness Population is currently on display on the first floor of … Continue reading Student Social Justice Exhibits: San Francisco’s At-Risk of Homelessness Population

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Black Student Union’s 50th Anniversary

This past fall, University of San Francisco celebrated the Black Student Union’s 50th anniversary!  At Gleeson Library, we have a multitude of resources highlighting events/ documents that took place during the early years of BSU. Our online scholarship repository provides digitized archival materials that provide access to these unique events. We are able to look … Continue reading Black Student Union’s 50th Anniversary

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Gleeson Celebrates National Library Week 2018

Happy National Library Week from Gleeson Library|Geschke Center! National Library Week acknowledges the importance of libraries, library services, library staff, and library users (like you!). According to the American Library Association, “First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each … Continue reading Gleeson Celebrates National Library Week 2018

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USF Day of Remembrance

Last month, the University of San Francisco Asian Pacific American Studies and Gleeson Library | Geschke Center, along with a number of other co-sponsors, organized the 2018 USF Day of Remembrance: Building Sanctuary: Alliances and Action Across Communities. Day of Remembrance commemorates February 19, 1942, the day which President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the … Continue reading USF Day of Remembrance

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Gleeson to host 4th Annual Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon for Women’s History Month

March is Women’s History Month. Observe this important month with Gleeson by  helping to add reliable resources and information about women, art, and feminism to Wikipedia (a resource that has gender gaps in both participation and content). On March 9th from 10am-4pm, Gleeson will host its fourth annual Art+Feminism* Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon. All are welcome. Never … Continue reading Gleeson to host 4th Annual Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon for Women’s History Month

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Riot Grrrl in the Library: Employing Critical Active Learning

During library instruction sessions, Education Librarian Amy Gilgan employs a variety of methods to spark student curiosity, catapulting the research process from rote searching into active learning. Some of these methods involve discussion of the Wasco Clown and the Riot Grrrl punk movement and they usually focus on investigating the construction of authority, shining a … Continue reading Riot Grrrl in the Library: Employing Critical Active Learning