Everything’s coming up shiny and fresh with the start of the academic year — new and returning students, new classes, and hot-off-the-press syllabi with library resources to back them up. Faculty, please make your requests for library acquisitions and library instruction as early as possible, to give library staff the time we need to get … Continue reading Faculty Requests
Are resource-rich countries exposed to the “curse” of distorted economic signals and civil conflict? Will your voice studies help with gossip or with intercultural communications and foreign relations? And what do you know about Charles Brockden Brown? Find out in recently purchased ebooks at Gleeson Library, listed below.
O’Reilly Safari Books has over new 200 titles (all with unlimited access), including these great summer reads:
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A call for data seeing women. Perhaps some xenofeminist reading will influence your deep learning.
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The author of Emergent Strategy has a favorite question: “How do we turn our collective full-bodied intelligence towards collaboration, if that is the way we will survive?”
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Therapy, politics, and the future of the humanity in recently purchased ebooks at Gleeson Library:
Continue reading “New ebooks at Gleeson March 19, 2019”Join us for an evening of reading zines, talking about zines, and making zines. We will make mini-zines, stitch and bind some zines, and create some collaborative zines. You can contribute a page to a zine about social justice, your weirdest dream, your favorite spot in San Francisco. For more information, check out the Gleeson Zine … Continue reading Make Zines!
Enhance your learning on the new O’Reilly-Safari platform. Gleeson Library | Geschke Center now brings you unlimited access to their Academic Catalog: over 48,000 books, videos, case studies, learning paths, and content from O’Reilly conferences, from beginner to advanced. Read online or download to their app for offline use. You might know O’Reilly-Safari for its … Continue reading O’Reilly-Safari: new look, more books
Congratulations to Gleeson Library’s rare book librarian, John Hawk, on the publication of his book Mallette Dean, a Printmaker and His Art, published by the Book Club of California. The book documents the work of Mallette Dean (1907-1975) who was a California artist, illustrator, and letterpress printer. Dean was a W.P.A. artist who contributed panels to Coit … Continue reading Mallette Dean, a Printmaker and His Art by John T. Hawk
Articles about a couple of books caught my eye today. Both feature fantastic voyages, though one was real and one entirely fictional. The first book, Aurura Australis, was the first ever printed in Antarctica — written, illustrated, AND printed by bored and lonely sailors aboard the Nimrod on the first of Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expeditions, … Continue reading Fantastic voyages
