Eric Ewen, Head of Cataloging, wrote the following piece on the recent retirement of Kathy Woo, Head of Acquisitions. Our beloved colleague Kathleen Ann Magri Woo joined the Gleeson Library as an assistant cataloger at precisely 9:00 A.M. on Tuesday, September 3, 1974. On the ecclesiastical calendar it was the Feast of St. Gregory the … Continue reading Farewell, Kathy
This week, in preparation for a library construction project, we will be moving books with call numbers U – Z, and folios, to storage for a few months. USF students, staff and faculty will be able to request books from storage using the “request it” link or “request” button in the library catalog (see screenshots … Continue reading Temporary Book Move
The next book the Book Club will be discussing is: “The Plague of Doves,” by Louise Erdrich. We will meet on June 14th at noon in room 209 (if room unavailable, other location tbd) of the Gleeson Library. If you are unable to obtain a copy from the Gleeson Library, you may request it from … Continue reading USF Book Club June Selection
The Gleeson Library is pleased to sponsor a faculty reading on Thursday, April 18 as it welcomes University of San Francisco Professors Kathleen Winter and Brian Dempster (Rhetoric and Language) who will read from their recent works. Kathleen Winter will read from her volume of poetry Nostalgia for the Criminal Past (Elixir Press, 2012). The … Continue reading Library Faculty Reading
We have decided to read Cheryl Strayed’s book for November. Wild: from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed. November 2nd, 2012 in the Gleeson Library at noon in room 209. Request from Link+ or get at SFPL. …Four years after her mother’s death, with nothing more to lose, Strayed made … Continue reading USF Book Club November and December Selections
The Gleeson Library is pleased to welcome University of San Francisco Associate Professor Richard Greggory Johnson III, who will read from his most recent book on October 25 in the Donohue Rare Book Room. Professor Johnson teaches in the Department of Public and Nonprofit Administration in the School of Management where his focus is public … Continue reading Richard Greggory Johnson III Library Reading
The USF Book Club will be discussing Just Kids by Patti Smith on Friday, October 5th at the Gleeson Library. Join us in room 209 from 12-1 pm. Request via Link+ or from SFPL. “Just Kids” begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City … Continue reading USF Book Club October
On exhibition in the Donohue Rare Book Room through October 9 is the recent acquisition Walls: A Journey Across Three Continents (Santa Cruz: Quail Press, 1990) by master printmaker, Tom Killion. Exhibited with the book is an archive, on loan from the artist, which includes original watercolors and woodcut blocks used to illustrate the book. A … Continue reading Walls Exhibition
The next two books being discussed by the USF Book Club are: The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje. Thursday, August 9th, 2012 in the Gleeson Library at noon in room 209. Request from Link+ or get to at SFPL. In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At … Continue reading USF Book Club August & September Selections
We’ve always had books in the Library, but now the Library is in a book. A small piece of the Library … The San Francisco Chronicle reviews Bookshelf by Alex Johnson, and includes a photo of the Library’s “I Left My Cart In San Francisco” cable-car themed book cart. Continue reading The Library in a Book