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This semester, Gleeson Library has been broadcasting the 2008 presidential debates on our information screen in the Access Services area lobby. I work just adjacent to this lobby and have watched as patrons take short study breaks to quietly, and earnestly, watch the candidates answer a question. Some patrons pull up a chair and stay … Continue reading Food for Thought: Watching the Presidential Debates at Gleeson
Yesterday the library saw the installation of an exhibit put up by David Silver’s Intro to Media Studies classes. It is called Election Exhibit: Students Teaching Students. The point of the assignment is to encourage and educate the USF Community to vote. It is also part of The September Project. Many of the pieces are … Continue reading Election Exhibit Courtesy of Intro to Media Studies Classes
The 2008 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics have been announced, the former for the discovery and development of Green Fluorescent Protein from the mellifluously named jellyfish Aequorea victoria, later used as a tag to watch the interactions of various proteins; the latter for discoveries in broken symmetries in subatomic physics. Gleeson Library | Geschke … Continue reading Glowing Jellyfish and Broken Symmetry
Mail-in voter registration forms are available at Gleeson Library for voting in San Francisco County. (update: thanks to David Silver’s media studies classes’ fabulous installation in the library we have registration forms for any county in California – mail or take to your county elections office.) College students may legally register either at their college … Continue reading Voter registration forms & info at the library – updated
Date Change: The USF Book Club will be meeting on October 23, 2008. Same time (12 noon – 1 pm) same place (2nd fl Seminar Room). Click here for more details. **I [heart] Book Club image courtesy of www.book-club-queen.com** If you’ve been thinking about coming but haven’t, please know that we discuss our selections from … Continue reading USF Book Club Date Change to October 23
Looking for voter information guides for the upcoming elections? Find them here: San Francisco Voter Information Pamphlet California Official Voter Information Guide Continue reading Voter Information Guides
In conjunction with the dedication and opening of Kalmanovitz Hall, a sixteenth-century book from the Donohue Rare Book Room is featured in an exhibit showing the Jesuit history and presence at USF over the years. The title of the book is: A Particular Declaration or Testimony of the Undutifull and Traiterous Affection Borne Against her … Continue reading Rare Book Room Volume on Display at Kalmanovitz Hall
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