When do you most frequently encounter copyright law? Is it when you click on a YouTube video and you find — uh oh — that it’s been taken down at the request of the owner? In fact, we use an important part of our copyright law every day when we engage in “criticism, comment, news … Continue reading Fan Fiction and Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2018
Join Gleeson Library and USF’s Emergency Medical Response Services this Wednesday February 14th for Save a Heart! We’ll be answering your questions and teaching Hands-Only CPR! 11:30a-1:30pm Gleeson Library’s 1st Floor Lobby What better way to spend your Valentine’s day than learning how to save a heart! This event is brought to you in partnership … Continue reading Valentine’s Day Save a Heart at Gleeson Library!
There have been lots of changes in Gleeson Library in the last year. Want a quick tour of Gleeson and see what’s new in the building? Join us for a Spring Semester tour. They last about 30 minutes and a Library staff person will take you around the building and show you what’s here that … Continue reading Tours of Gleeson Library
Perhaps you’ve stopped for a moment and marveled at the many colorful READ posters that decorate Gleeson Library | Geschke Center’s walls? A few years ago, at the suggestion of library dean Tyrone Cannon, the library started creating READ posters (a fun take on an American Library Association campaign that started in 1985) as a celebration and acknowledgement of … Continue reading Library Celebrates Research with READ Posters
Are final papers, projects, and exams finding you a bit stressed? Gleeson has some friends visiting the library this week (and next!) to help with that. Take a study break and relax with some therapy dogs (and their super awesome humans) from the San Francisco SPCA! Wrigley, Tessa Rose, Brixton, Ollie, and Callie will take … Continue reading Furriends for Finals: SPCA Therapy Dogs are Visiting Gleeson!
Members of USF’s Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity have created a Student Social Justice Exhibit for Gleeson Library on the topic of foster care. The fraternity annually donates money to Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), an organization that provides foster children with consistent, caring volunteer advocates, trained to address each child’s needs in the court and … Continue reading Foster Care – Student Social Justice Exhibit
The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each loves you. Each has left something undone. —From Unbidden by Rae Armantrout So do not leave this undone. Come to the Gleeson Library Haunted Tour Halloween Day October 31st at 12:00 noon Dead Hour. Hear history and stories of ghosts who … Continue reading Haunted Gleeson Library Tour
The animatronic Halloween Village will be haunting the Gleeson Library front lobby from now until November 1st. Watch the village come to life as you approach it…if you dare! Continue reading Halloween Village
Express yourself. Make your own zine! Zines are self published magazines made by artists, writers, and other interesting people. Zines are created in a variety of ways using comics, collage, drawings, hand written, or typed text. Thursday October 12 from 11:00-2:00 we will show people how to make zines and will make some ourselves. Join … Continue reading Gleeson Zine Workshop
One of the pillars of the Library Bill of Rights set forth by the American Library Association is that “Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.” One way libraries get to do this is by observing and celebrating Banned Books Week, when we shine a light on … Continue reading Banned Books and Intellectual Freedom
