Classic rounded back binding is the epitome of a sturdy binding that holds up well against the ravages of time/use and will be the featured binding of this post. This post also marks the last installment of my series about examples of bindings found in Gleeson Library’s Rare Book Room. Thanks to John Hawk, Head of … Continue reading Classic Rounded Back Binding
A champagne reception was held today in the library atrium to celebrate the launch of a new open access, peer-reviewed research journal: Nursing Communication, edited by our esteemed faculty member Bryan B. Whaley and published by, drum roll please, the Gleeson Library | Geschke Center! Yes, the library is officially launching digital publishing support service … Continue reading In Celebration of the Launch of Nursing Communication and More…
The Japan Film Festival of San Francisco and J-POP Summit begin this weekend (that’s tomorrow!), so we thought you might want to get in the mood by watching some Japanese films courtesy of Gleeson Library. Supplement your festival viewing pleasures with streaming Japanese independent films straight from the library’s web site in our new database Asian Films Online: … Continue reading Japanese Films & Festival
Earlier today, the “long list” of thirteen finalists for the 2015 Booker Prize was released by the prize’s judging panel, headed by Princeton professor Michael Wood. No fewer than five of the novels named were works by authors from the U.S., the largest contingent from any country. Though the Booker Prize has been awarded every … Continue reading Booker Prize Winning Authors on Display
In case you haven’t found something interesting to pick up in our last few posts on summer reading, here’s one more! The Octopus: a story of California by Frank Norris (also available as an ebook) Last winter I took a class with Prof. Kevin Starr, USF ’62, former state librarian and USC history professor, called … Continue reading Summer Reading Just Keeps Coming
It’s a mass of black gowns and caps in front of the library today, so we’re going to kick off summer with our first installment of Staff Summer Reading posts! We’ll tell you what we’re looking forward to reading this summer, or what we’ve read that you might like. Grab a book and get cozy. … Continue reading Time for Summer Reading!
As another way to celebrate National Poetry Month, Gleeson Library is co-sponsoring the issue 27 release party for the IGNATIAN LITERARY MAGAZINE. The IGNATIAN has had a long tradition here at USF, and the library has collected issues from past years. Other past years not held in Gleeson are available in the English Department office. I had … Continue reading IGNATIAN Release Party
Gleeson Library is celebrating National Poetry Month (April) with a display in the lobby foyer of American Poets of Color. We have a couple objectives for the theme of this year’s display: 1) to hear from the poets on the topics of racism, stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination because poetry is often less rhetorically charged than … Continue reading Poets of Color
A fresh semester brings fresh book reviews, fresh from the student assistants who work in Gleeson Library | Geschke Center. This week is part one of this semester’s recommendations… stay tuned for following parts, in case you have enough free time to squeeze in some extra reads. Sharp Objects, reviewed by Hannah Bunting In this chilling … Continue reading What Are the Students Reading? Spring 2015 edition
A couple weeks ago I shared what some of the students workers in the library read over the summer. Here is the next batch to inspire some extracurricular reading for you as well! Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, reviewed by Hannah Bunting Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See is based in nineteenth-century China in … Continue reading What Are the Students Reading? (part 2)
