My name is Deepshika Verma and I am an International Studies major here at USF, with a minor in Health Sciences. I hope to go into the public health in the future as a result! I am super passionate about advocacy, an avid sports fan (Go Giants!), and also a student performer (been dancing my … Continue reading Student Post: #TEXTBOOKBROKE Student Survey for Open Education
How much is your textbook? Is it too much? This year, Gleeson Library is working to address the cost of textbooks and its impact on student learning. We’re celebrating Open Education Week and making moves! For more information about Open Education Week please contact Charlotte Roh at croh2@usfca.edu. Continue reading Open Education Week 2018: #textbookbroke #OEWeek
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
“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” -Joseph Stalin, 1953 Simpson, J. B. (1964). Contemporary quotations. New York : Crowell, [1964]. Image: Youth Theatres are a weapon of Communist education. 1933 by kitchener.lord Continue reading Wednesday Wisdom
The Library of Congress today announced: Sixty-four motion pictures, named to the Library’s National Film Registry, are now available online on the Library’s website. The collection, “Selections from the National Film Registry,” is also available to the public on YouTube. These films are among hundreds of titles that have been tapped for preservation because of their cultural, historical … Continue reading Holiday gift for movie lovers, from the Library of Congress
“The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter” –Rosenberg, M. S. (1978).(94). Quotations for the New Age. Secaucus, N.J: Citadel Press. Image: Laughter by David Bergin Continue reading Wednesday Wisdom
“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” -Jacques Barzun, 1955 Simpson, J. B. (1964). Contemporary quotations. New York : Crowell, [1964]. Image: tradition by Caffeinatrix Continue reading Wednesday Wisdom
“Opinion in goodmen is but knowledge in the making.” -In Partridge, E. (1960). (103) A first book of quotations. London: Hamish Hamilton. Image: Opinion by Transformer18 Continue reading Wednesday Wisdom
“Particularly in Western, late capitalist societies (where the decoration, ornamentation, and scarification of the body have lost much meaning for the individual in the existential sense of “Which people do I belong to? What is the meaning of my life?” and have instead become commoditized by the media, corporations, and even medicine in the name … Continue reading Wednesday Wisdom
“We are here and it is now. Further than that , all human knowledge is moonshine.” —H.L. Mencken Metcalf, F. (1987). The Penguin dictionary of modern humorous quotations. London: Penguin Books. Image: Moonshine by Angus MacRae Continue reading Wednesday Wisdom
