Welcome and welcome back! It’s mid-August as I write and every day I’m seeing more students, faculty and staff around The Hilltop – the campus is quickly returning to the vibrant, dynamic place we all enjoy. I am truly excited that there is so much news to share from Gleeson. While there were a number … Continue reading Fall 2022 Library Dean’s Update
Our new website is live! We’ve updated the look and feel, improved usability, and made changes so that library accounts now use preferred first names. Continue reading Library Website Redesign
Learn the basics of finding and using our electronic resources. Continue reading Overview of Key E-Resources
Gleeson’s Outreach team welcomes students and faculty back to campus. Continue reading Inside Outreach: Welcome Back Dons!
An update on the the new library classroom renovation. Continue reading Circle Takes the Square: Classroom renovations in Gleeson Library
With institutions around the city celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, I got to thinking about our own campus’ proximity to the Panhandle and to the Haight Ashbury neighborhood. I wonder how the experience of the USF community was touched or shaped by its location during that summer… Gleeson Library has copies of the … Continue reading “People at USF could be Diggers if they wanted to –“
Hello bookclubbers! Media Studies Professor Vamsee Juluri is teaching a Davies Seminar this semester, which is called Making American Book Culture. He has invited Book Club to be part of the class! I agreed to read Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart and visit the class on September 22, 2011 to join in … Continue reading USF Book Club ~ Special Meeting
Hi everyone! Today at Book Club we chose the titles for the next two months: Thursday, April 14, 2011 – Parfum by Patrick Süskind (trans. from the German) Thursday, May 12, 2011 – The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (trans. from the French) To get Parfum, you can put a hold on Gleeson’s … Continue reading USF Book Club: April and May Selections
Hello everyone! The members of the book club today acknowledged our trend of picking depressing/topically traumatic books recently, so we’re going with an uplifting page turner for April. We think The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows will do the trick. We’re meeting on April 14, 2010 (Wednesday) … Continue reading USF Book Club: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
You know lots of librarians turn to writing, right? That Jorge Luis Borges was a librarian is pretty well-known but this list of the Top 10 Books Written By Librarians from online bookseller AbeBooks might surprise you. I didn’t know Madeleine L’Engle was a librarian. But another of my very favorite children’s book authors, Beverly … Continue reading Books by Librarians
