Thanks again to David Silver‘s Davies Forum Digital Literacy class for installing the wonderful Reading Fort in celebration of National Library Week. Update: May 5, 2008 by Deborah Malone Check out the audio slideshow done by Lulu McAllister and Lis Bartlett!!! Thanks Lulu and Lis! Also available on youtube: National Library Week at USF. And … Continue reading National Library Week celebration continues (updated)
The USF Book Club will discuss The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls on May 28, 2008 (Wednesday). We will meet in the Seminar Room (2nd Fl) of Gleeson Library | Geschke Resource Center from 12 noon – 1 pm. Bring your lunch! (Faculty and staff only.) If you want to request this book through the … Continue reading USF Book Club: The Glass Castle
The University of San Francisco recently hosted the bi-annual Joint Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities Library Directors/Chief Information Officers/Educational Technology conference. Close to 100 individuals attended and their reviews of the meeting were excellent. While many timely issues facing academic libraries, IT, and the use of technology in the classroom were discussed, we also … Continue reading AJCU Library Directors/Chief Information Officers/Educational Technology Conference hosted at USF
The Davies Forum Digital Literacy class invaded the library last night and transformed the space between the Circulation and Reference desks into a reading fort with comfy chairs, library flip books, and their reading favorites along with an annotated list posted on the wall (See the list here), plus space where we’re invited to add … Continue reading Reading Fort explodes on the scene
and Prof. David Silver’s Digital Literacy class is helping us celebrate, in part by letting us know what students wish we would do as well as what they appreciate about the library. I’m looking forward to seeing more students’ ideas. Here’s what National Library Week is all about. Continue reading It’s National Library Week
The National Library of Scotland’s “The Private Lives of Books” website notes that “Books can tell all kinds of surprising stories through inscriptions people wrote in them, through the signatures of their owners, special bookplates and bindings.” Did you know that many of Gleeson Library’s books had “private lives” before they reached our stacks? Peruse … Continue reading The “Private Lives” of Gleeson Library’s Books
So God apparently has a special place waiting for Greg Mortenson when he gets to heaven. He did all this good like building over 50 schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan and he founded the Central Asia Institute, which he uses to promote education and literacy advancement for girls in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In case God’s … Continue reading Three Cups of Tea: USF Book Club
The Gleeson Library’s Atrium is once again open 24/7. The Atrium is a great place for late night studying. The way it works: while the Library is open, anyone in the USF community can access the Atrium through the Library. As the library closes for the evening, access in and out of the Atrium via the library ceases … Continue reading Atrium 24/7 Study Resumes!
Starting immediately the library’s catalog, Ignacio, will include records that link to online U.S. government documents that are not distributed in print. This is a critical new service for USF because the U.S. government is increasingly distributing information solely online, and discovering these documents can be very difficult without the help of a catalog. The … Continue reading Do Mandrakes Really Scream? (and other online government documents!)
On March 6th the Donohue Rare Book Room hosted a Thacher Gallery talk that coincided with the opening of “Power Up: Serigraphs by Corita Kent.” The talk included a presentation by Sasha Carrera of the Corita Art Center, as well as presentations by Professors Amy Franceschini and Stuart McKee of the University’s Visual Arts Department. … Continue reading Donohue Rare Book Room Hosts Corita Kent Presentation