April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and there’s still time to get informed and participate in prevention! At the library, we have a display of books, videos, and DVDs on topics related to sexual assault, prevention, healing, and support. The table is to the right just as you walk into the library: All of the … Continue reading Sexual Assault Awareness Month: Inform Yourself at the Library
Book Club is breaking out of our habit of reading books about boys/kids who have lost their fathers! April 13, 2012 (Fri), 12-1 pm: A Private Life by Jane Smiley. Room 209 of Gleeson Library. Gleeson library doesn’t have a paper copy of this one (yet?), so you’ll have to request it through Link+ (comes … Continue reading USF Book Club: April and May Selections
Hello! USF Book Club continues its procession of books about kids who have lost their fathers with The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. We will meet on March 16, 2012 from 12-1 pm in room 314 of Gleeson Library (note the different room — up on the third floor). How to get the … Continue reading USF Book Club: The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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
Howdy everyone! The Book Club will read and discuss Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay for December. We will meet on December 9, 2011 in Room 139 of Gleeson Library from 12-1 pm. Gleeson has a copy of Savage Beauty that you can request, but it will probably go fast so your alternatives are requesting … Continue reading USF Book Club: Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
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
Join us for Game Night at the Gleeson Library! Friday 11/11/11 from 4:00-8:00 in the Atrium Xbox, Playstation, Wii and board-games too. UPDATE: Super Smash Brothers Tournament At Game night Grand Prize: NOOK color The Gleeson library also has video games for check out. To browse our collection go to http://www.usfca.edu/library/videogames/ Board-games for check out are … Continue reading Game Night at Gleeson Library
Howdy bookclubbers! Today we discussed Packing for Mars under a bright blue sky in the USF Garden and we choose our next two selections. We’ll meet in the seminar room of Gleeson Library (#209) for both of these meetings. 12-1 pm, November 11, 2011 (Friday): A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore (novel) Gleeson … Continue reading USF Book Club: Nov/Dec Selections
The U.S. Constitution is celebrating its 224th birthday on September 17th. Check out recent books on the Constitution which are currently on display at the library. For additional information on the Constitution, see the library’s online guide. Continue reading Happy Constitution Day!
Hello bookclubbers! Media Studies Professor Vamsee Juluri is teaching a Davies Seminar this semester, which is called Making American Book Culture. He has invited Book Club to be part of the class! I agreed to read Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart and visit the class on September 22, 2011 to join in … Continue reading USF Book Club ~ Special Meeting