Hey everyone! The next book club selection is The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood. We will meet on Wednesday February 10, 2010 from 12 noon – 1 pm in Gleeson Library Room 209 to discuss it. Bring your lunch and bring your friends! The book club is open to the entire USF Community. … Continue reading USF Book Club: The Year of the Flood
Want to get informed about the death penalty debate? Check out the library’s latest display of books, videos, and government documents on this controversial issue in the lobby. Our display coincides with the USF College Players’ performance of Dead Man Walking this weekend, Friday, December 11 and Saturday, December 12, at 8pm in Studio Theater … Continue reading Dead Man Walking
Greetings! The next book club selection is Love Life by Ray Kluun, translated from the Dutch by Shaun Whiteside. We will meet on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 from 12 noon – 1 pm in Kalmanovitz Hall, Room 265. Bring your lunch and tell your friends — the book club is open to the whole USF … Continue reading USF Book Club: Love Life by Ray Kluun
Here at the library we’re proud to co-sponsor USF’s celebration of International Education Week 2009. Now in the lobby we’re featuring film, recent fiction and poetry by international newcomers to the Bay Area and across the U.S., in honor of IEW and our international students. You might have already spotted photos from the IEW photo … Continue reading The World at our Doorstep– with a photo contest
Greetings! The USF Book Club will discuss Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout on Tuesday November 17, 2009. We will meet in the seminar room of Gleeson Library (room 209) from 12 noon – 1 pm. Bring your lunch and tell your friends! Olive Kitteridge is a short story cycle where all the pieces are about … Continue reading USF Book Club: Olive Kitteridge
Need a book that Gleeson Library doesn’t own and isn’t available through Link+? The Library doesn’t have a journal you’re looking for? This doesn’t happen often, but if it does, don’t worry. Gleeson Library/Geschke Learning Resource Center’s Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Department can help. And now, all current USF students, faculty, and staff * can easily … Continue reading ILLiad is Here!
In honor of Constitution Day and The September Project, the library has created a display highlighting books and government documents from our collection on the First Amendment. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was ratified on December 15th, 1791. It reads: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the … Continue reading Constitution Day
The USF Book Club will discuss The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on October 13, 2009 (Tuesday) from 12-1 pm. Continue reading USF Book Club: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
A version of this post is in the Fall 2009 issue of the library newsletter Global Update. If you work at USF, one of your benefits is free access to library services and materials for personal and professional use. The library has lots of ways to help you get through these trying economic times. It’s … Continue reading Library service to USF staff in tough economic times
Check this out: it’s a new opera called “The Gonzales Cantata” based on the testimony of Alberto Gonzales, the former U.S. attorney general, before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Here’s a trailer of the opera, featuring Gonzales’ quote, “I don’t recall”: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqCzxXUD–g] See a webcast of the actual hearing at http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=2632 For a brief interview of … Continue reading Congressional Testimony Mashup!