Want to know what your President is up to? Find out with The Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents. This resource has been known historically as the “Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents,” but with the new administration, it’s now daily. No more waiting! Continue reading Day by Day with President Obama
Update: Penny Scott has alerted us that SFPL’s eCard program has been suspended due to electronic vendor licensing agreements. See Penny’s comment #5 below. — Debbie B. The San Francisco Public Library has introduced a new kind of library card. They call it their eCard and any California resident can register on their website for … Continue reading The eCard from the San Francisco Public Library – updated
2009 marks the 400th anniversary of the first use of an astronomical telescope by Galileo Galilei, as well as the beginning of The International Year of Astronomy: a global celebration of astronomy and its contributions to society and culture. The library joins in the celebration with a display in the lobby of astronomy-related books and magazines. Check … Continue reading Astronomy at the Library
You asked…we answered! Library patrons can now pay library fines and fees online using Visa or MasterCard. It’s easy: 1. Go to: https://ignacio.usfca.edu/patroninfo~S0. 2. Enter your name and USF ID number to access your library record. 3. Review your fines and/or fees and click “Pay Online.” 4. Enter your credit card information and click “Submit.” … Continue reading Pay Your Library Fines and Fees Online!
Tax season is upon us! Find the forms you need at Gleeson Library|Geschke Center, just inside the access gates. Or find them online at http://www.usfca.edu/library/govdocs/tax.html Continue reading Tax forms are here!
Update: See more current information in the Faculty Periodicals Borrowing post of March 6, 2009. With the new semester come some changes to Gleeson Library|Geschke Center. To ensure that important materials are available to everyone, unbound periodicals and newspapers will only be available for use in the library. Bound periodical volumes will now circulate to … Continue reading Periodicals migration to Access Services
Gleeson Library will have the 56th quadrennial Presidential Inauguration on TV live for community members to view in our Electronic Classroom and on the LCD display adjacent to the main library entrance. Please come on by the library the morning of January 20, 2009 and we’ll have the event going live. The library will start … Continue reading Obama Inauguration – Live at Gleeson Library
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) recently published a bibliography of resources that focus on the documentation and preservation of African American Collections. The author, Karla Y. Davis (davisk@stolaf.edu) from St. Olaf College wrote: This article profiles African American collections held at libraries, both public and academic, museums, and cultural organizations dedicated to … Continue reading African American cultural collections and museums: Archiving and preserving Black history
Hi everyone! Our next meeting for the book club is Tuesday, February 10, 2009. We’re going to discuss Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, an old classic that many people may have read for school. We’ll meet in the Seminar Room (2nd Floor) of Gleeson Library from 12 noon – 1 pm. If you want … Continue reading USF Book Club Now Open To Students!
Following the digitization of our computer science and theology master’s theses, we now have a total of 123 biology master’s theses available full-text online. They cover a period dating from the present, back to 1950. With the exception of a few of the very oldest, whose text defied character recognition, these are all searchable by … Continue reading Biology master’s theses are now available full-text online.