Hello! The USF Book Club is joining the city of San Francisco in the One City | One Book program by reading ZEITOUN by Dave Eggers. We will meet to discuss the book on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 from 12-1 pm in the seminar room of Gleeson Library (#209) New Location USF Community Garden, just … Continue reading USF Book Club: Zeitoun
If you aren’t familiar with Foursquare, the social media location-based game, a brief explanation comes from their website: “We’re all about helping you find new ways to explore the city. We’ll help you meet up with your friends and let you earn points and unlock badges for discovering new places, doing new things and meeting … Continue reading Who’s the next mayor of Gleeson Library?
We know you. You’re ambitious. You never give up. You continually strive for higher and higher levels. You stay awake at all hours until your eyes burn, and a vicious thirst rouses you from your single-minded drive. You ignore every distraction, until, at last, you reach the finale to all your aspirations, the culmination of … Continue reading Gleeson Library Welcome Weekends Event
WE HAVE SO MANY WONDERFUL EVENTS happening here at Gleeson, and we’d love to let you know all about them. Follow us, fan us, tweet us.. We would love to get to know you, and keep you up to date on what’s happening at Gleeson Library, and beyond. And by the way, which networks are … Continue reading Follow Us
This year the USF Reading Project selection is a mural entitled “Man at the Crossroads,” by artist Diego Rivera. This mural was commissioned by J.D. Rockefeller for the Rockefeller Center in New York, but was destroyed before it was even completed. For the USF Reading Project the campus will use the visual reference of “Man, … Continue reading USF Reading Project – Diego Rivera Mural
Thanks to the recommendation of one of my MFA classmates, I started reading The Archivist by Martha Cooley a few weeks ago. She was right to recommend it to me — it brings together my two worlds: poetry and libraries. Most of the novel centers around the letters between TS Eliot and his American confidante … Continue reading USF Book Club: The Archivist
The complex, daily work of an academic library could not be easily completed without the support of our industrious team of student workers. This afternoon, Gleeson Library staff, librarians, and the Dean’s Office, honored our wonderful, hard-working, student assistants with an end-of-the-year appreciation party. This spring semester in particular, our party felt a little more … Continue reading The Student Assistant Appreciation Party, Spring 2010
To observe Sexual Violence Awareness Week, the library has a display of tee shirts from the Clothesline Project which were made by USF students. It’s next to the entrance gate, by the fountain. Along with the tee shirts, there are also library materials and other resources to learn about and prevent sexual violence. All books … Continue reading Sexual Violence Awareness Week Display in Library
And you can, too! Check out a book (or multiple books!) from our National Poetry Month display, featuring Bay Area and California Poets: and join us at the 2nd Annual Staff and Faculty Poetry Reading on Thursday, April 29th @ 5:30pm in the Library’s Rare Book Room: See you soon! (Special thanks to Rob Guillen … Continue reading Gleeson Library is Celebrating National Poetry Month…
Hello! The USF Book Club continues our theme of less traumatizing novels by selecting Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey for our May pick. It’s a classic… and I’m ashamed to admit that I have never finished a book by Jane Austen even though I was an English major and I have an MFA in Writing. 2010 … Continue reading USF Book Club: Northanger Abbey