It took me a little time to track this info down, so I thought posting up a few quick links might help. The following is a synopsis of the bill from Speaker Pelosi’s blog. A link to the full text is at the bottom of this post. EMERGENCY ECONOMIC STABILIZATION ACT OF 2008 I. Stabilizing … Continue reading Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (H.R. 3777)
Librarians do lots of different things: we catalog books, digitize documents, search databases, teach people how to evaluate websites, build book collections, to name just a few. This week we did something different: we walked an informational picket line. Students may have seen us and wondered what was going on. The librarians here at Gleeson … Continue reading Librarians on the informational picket line
It’s Roadworks: Steamroller Prints, San Francisco Center for the Book’s fifth annual art-in-the-street-festival at Potrero Hill on Saturday, September 20. Here’s the link where you can see what it looked like last year. In addition to steamroller printmaking, there’s music, free bookmaking and printmaking fun for kids, and dozens of the Bay Area’s finest book … Continue reading What do you get when you put together 6 artists, some big linoleum blocks, and a 3-ton steamroller?
Have you hugged your Constitution today? September 17th is Constitution Day, a day to commemorate the September 17, 1787 signing of the Constitution. I like to think of it as a day to reflect upon and celebrate the rights we have thanks to the U.S. Constitution. Take a minute to look at our Constitution Day online guide, and maybe … Continue reading Constitution Day
Oh Hai! The USF Book Club’s next selection is The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie Personally I love Alexie’s poetry and spoken word performances, but I am excited about next month’s meeting because I haven’t read any of his prose. Also, the movie Smoke Signals was based off this novel. … Continue reading USF Book Club: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Good people, There is work occurring in several locations around the library. The workmen make every attempt to minimize the disruption to Gleeson Library patrons and staff. Unfortunately sometimes the noise and disruption is unavoidable. Today’s (9-9-08) noise was related to work on the third floor near the “R” stacks. Facilities is apologetic for the … Continue reading Facilities work and noise in the Library
There was a recent interesting article in The Atlantic about the web and the impact it may be having on the way we read. Asking “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” the author, Nicholas Carr, is not some mindless Luddite saying the web is always bad, but he says he can see within himself that he … Continue reading Is Google Making Us Stupid?
The staff at Gleeson Library/Geschke Center is glad you are here! Our thoughts are on the new school year, transitions and new beginnings. Along those lines, on view at the library beginning today is a display of books and DVDs with a college-life theme. (All of them can be checked out, of course.) You can … Continue reading Welcome to new and returning students
Are you a new student at USF? Or just curious about the layout of the Library? Then join us for a tour of the Gleeson Library Geschke Center. On the tour, a staff member will show you around the library and tell you about our services. Tours meet inside the Library in the lobby, across … Continue reading Tours of the Library
Books in the Lower Level stacks from call numbers “A” through “BF 38.5” will be temporarily moved while Facilities Management works in the area (approximately August 18 – September 19). If you need a book that has been moved, please request it at the Circulation Desk for retrieval. Continue reading Lower Level Books Moved