The Library Dean, Tyrone Cannon, announced the news: “I am sad to let you know that after a courageous battle with cancer, Emeritus Librarian and former Head of Cataloging, Eric Ewen, passed away Saturday evening, January 18th. Eric started work at Gleeson in September 1974 and retired in September 2014. During those 40 years of … Continue reading Eric Paul Ewen
Written by Erika Johnson and Shawn Calhoun, Associate Deans of Gleeson Library|Geschke Center. The Gleeson Library | Geschke Center staff completed our most recent program review in 2017. From that process, we not only gained important insights into our educational project and how it best fits into USF’s larger educational mission, we also experienced firsthand how … Continue reading Reflection and Direction from Gleeson|Geschke’s Program Review
Gleeson Library|Geschke Center staff fondly remembers Karen Johnson, Librarian Emerita. Karen Johnson retired as the Systems Head Librarian in December 2017. She was a cataloger when she joined the University of San Francisco in 1984 and was promoted to systems librarian in 1995. Karen touched many lives, professionally and personally, and we miss her dearly. … Continue reading In Memoriam: Karen Johnson
Did you know…that Gleeson Library has digital collections? We do! Currently, there are over 15 collections in Gleeson Library Digital Collections. Among the many highlights in the digital collections: Every collection in the Gleeson Library Digital Collections is accessible for free through the Gleeson Library website. No special login or credentials are required for you … Continue reading Highlights from Gleeson’s Digital Collections
Here at Gleeson Library we have a wealth of resources that are readily available in our Digital Collections. Our Digital Collections include materials from our own community including many academic works from our students and faculty. Thanks to the great work of two past Gleeson Library Librarians, Vicki Rosen and Jessica Lu, Practicing Ignatian Pedagogy … Continue reading Digital Collections Highlight: Practicing Ignatian Pedagogy; Ignatian Colleagues Program
Congratulations to Gleeson Library’s rare book librarian, John Hawk, on the publication of his book Mallette Dean, a Printmaker and His Art, published by the Book Club of California. The book documents the work of Mallette Dean (1907-1975) who was a California artist, illustrator, and letterpress printer. Dean was a W.P.A. artist who contributed panels to Coit … Continue reading Mallette Dean, a Printmaker and His Art by John T. Hawk
Every year, around this time – when finals are quickly approaching and summer seems both far away and right here – The Ignatian literary magazine comes out, breathing a burst of great, carefully curated creative writing onto campus for everyone to read. This year, The Ignatian is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Its editorial staff, comprised … Continue reading Gleeson to co-host 30th anniversary release party for student-run literary magazine The Ignatian
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
The Gleeson Library has a new, small (but growing!) collection of zines. What are zines? Zines are self published magazines. They are a great means of self expression for artists, writers, and anyone passionate about a topic. Zines are created in a variety of ways with drawings, comics, collage, hand written, or typed text. They … Continue reading Gleeson Zine Library: a new collection
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 –“
