Howdy everyone! The Book Club will read and discuss Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay for December. We will meet on December 9, 2011 in Room 139 of Gleeson Library from 12-1 pm. Gleeson has a copy of Savage Beauty that you can request, but it will probably go fast so your alternatives are requesting … Continue reading USF Book Club: Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
On exhibition in the Donohue Rare Book Room through December 16 are over eighty volumes from the Rare Book Room’s Dr. M. Wallace Freidman Collection of L. Frank Baum and Oziana. L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) wrote over thirty-eight children’s books, the most famous of which The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published in 1900 and … Continue reading Follow the Yellow Brick Road
The Gleeson Library is pleased to sponsor a faculty reading on Tuesday, November 15 when it welcomes David Vann, University of San Francisco Associate Professor in the MFA in Writing Program, who will read from his recent works Last Day on Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter (University of Georgia Press, 2011) and … Continue reading David Vann Reading
Howdy bookclubbers! Today we discussed Packing for Mars under a bright blue sky in the USF Garden and we choose our next two selections. We’ll meet in the seminar room of Gleeson Library (#209) for both of these meetings. 12-1 pm, November 11, 2011 (Friday): A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore (novel) Gleeson … Continue reading USF Book Club: Nov/Dec Selections
Howdy book lovers! The USF Book Club’s next meeting will be on Friday, October 7, 2011 from 12 noon – 1 pm in the USF Community Garden (located next to the School of Education Parking lot, entrance at Turk Blvd. and Tamalpais Terrace). We will discuss Packing for Mars by Mary Roach. Packing for Mars … Continue reading USF Book Club: Packing for Mars
Fusion is a new tool that will allow you search, in one place, the majority of the library’s books and articles. It will include all the materials in our library catalog Ignacio, as well as the content of the majority of our many, many journal article databases. Figuring out where to start looking for articles … Continue reading Fusion
Hello friends! The USF Book Club has made its selections for the next two months: September: Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas by Rebecca Solnit — 12 noon, Friday September 9, 2011, in the community garden. Infinite City is the 2011 USF Reading Project selection, so we are reading this beautiful, full color, large-format book … Continue reading USF Book Club: Infinite City and Packing for Mars
Hello! On July 20, 2011 the USF Book Club will meet to discuss The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall. Gleeson’s copy is checked out right now, but we’ve got it loaded on our iPads and our Kindle. There’s always Link+ or SF Public until our copy comes in! Come meet us in the seminar room, … Continue reading USF Book Club: The Lonely Polygamist
Hello friends! Today Book Club picked its next two titles: On June 15, 2011 we will discuss Delicate Edible Birds by Lauren Groff. Gleeson does not yet own a physical copy of this, but you can view it on one of our iPads or our Kindle, request it through Link+, or get it from SF … Continue reading USF Book Club: June & July Selections
Bookends: Illustrated Works Spanning 500 Years From The Donohue Rare Book Room Reception: Thursday, May 12, 3:00-4:30, Gleeson Library, Donohue Rare Book Room Exhibition Dates: April 29th-June 17th, Gleeson Library, Donohue Rare Book Room Curated by the University of San Francisco’s Spring 2011 Museum Studies I class and drawn from the Donohue Rare Book Room’s permanent collection, this exhibit celebrates … Continue reading Student Curated Exhibit: Illustrated Books in the Rare Book Room