Thanks again to David Silver‘s Davies Forum Digital Literacy class for installing the wonderful Reading Fort in celebration of National Library Week. Update: May 5, 2008 by Deborah Malone Check out the audio slideshow done by Lulu McAllister and Lis Bartlett!!! Thanks Lulu and Lis! Also available on youtube: National Library Week at USF. And … Continue reading National Library Week celebration continues (updated)
The USF Book Club will discuss The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls on May 28, 2008 (Wednesday). We will meet in the Seminar Room (2nd Fl) of Gleeson Library | Geschke Resource Center from 12 noon – 1 pm. Bring your lunch! (Faculty and staff only.) If you want to request this book through the … Continue reading USF Book Club: The Glass Castle
The National Library of Scotland’s “The Private Lives of Books” website notes that “Books can tell all kinds of surprising stories through inscriptions people wrote in them, through the signatures of their owners, special bookplates and bindings.” Did you know that many of Gleeson Library’s books had “private lives” before they reached our stacks? Peruse … Continue reading The “Private Lives” of Gleeson Library’s Books
Starting immediately the library’s catalog, Ignacio, will include records that link to online U.S. government documents that are not distributed in print. This is a critical new service for USF because the U.S. government is increasingly distributing information solely online, and discovering these documents can be very difficult without the help of a catalog. The … Continue reading Do Mandrakes Really Scream? (and other online government documents!)
Version 71 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. This selective bibliography presents over 3,250 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (SEPB) presents selected English-language articles, books, and other printed and … Continue reading Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Faculty and Staff: Please join the USF Book Club for a lively discussion of Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants. We will meet on Tuesday March 25 from 12 noon – 1 pm in the Seminar Room (2nd Floor) of Gleeson Library | Geschke Center. Bring your lunch! Although the library’s affiliated libraries in the Link+ … Continue reading USF Book Club: Water For Elephants
Attention all USF Faculty and Staff! You are invited to join the USF Book Club’s next meeting, where we will be discussing Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera We will meet on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 from 12 noon – 1 pm in the Seminar Room (2nd Floor) of Gleeson Library Bring … Continue reading USF Book Club: Love in the Time of Cholera
The Digital Repository is sponsored by the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) Library Deans to showcase historic images from AJCU libraries and archives that document the tradition of Catholic higher education. You can find Gleeson Library’s contribution by selecting “University of San Francisco” in the “Browse by Institution” pull-down menu. Continue reading AJCU Digital Repository now live online
Most of the library’s DVDs and VHS tapes are acquired when professors want their classes to see a film. As a result our video collection is an eclectic blend of documentary, educational, and feature films, with a few popular Hollywood movies thrown into the mix. For instance we have quite a few titles from California … Continue reading Checking out DVD and VHS videos in the library