April is Poetry Month and the Gleeson Library will be celebrating with three evening programs in the Donohue Rare Book Room. The programs include an event on April 11, co-sponsored by Sigma Tau Delta, at which poets Camille Dungy and Matthew Zapruder will be reading from their work; the fourth annual faculty, staff and student … Continue reading Poetry Month in the Donohue Rare Book Room
Join Gleeson Library as we celebrate National Poetry Month (April 2012) with our 4th annual Faculty, Staff, and Student poetry reading! Thursday, April 19, 2012 @ 5 p.m. Gleeson Library | Geschke Center Rare Book Room, 3rd Floor Featuring the following USF Poets reading their original work: AVA KOOHBOR & PATRICK DUNAGAN LISA GIARRATANO STERLING … Continue reading 4th Annual Poetry Reading @ Your Library
California Native Wildflowers: Prints by Henry Evans is an exhibition of fifteen color linocut prints from the Donohue Rare Book Room’s recent acquisition of a limited edition portfolio of forty botanical prints by the San Francisco printmaker, Henry Evans. The linocut prints, on exhibition through May 11 in the Donohue Rare Book Room, portray some … Continue reading California Native Wildflowers
Need a digital copy of class assignments, handwritten notes, business and/or personal documents? Tired of wandering around campus looking for a scanner? Search no more! At Gleeson Library | Geschke Center, now you can scan documents and save them to a USB Flash Drive on a library copier! This feature is available on copier GL … Continue reading Scanning Available in the Library
Quick, save this number in your phone or scan this QR code! Start your text with the word: gleeson Example: gleeson What are the library hours on saturday? (after your first message to us, you don’t have to use the word gleeson any more). Give it a shot and send us a text—we would love … Continue reading New! Text A Librarian
The Gleeson Library is pleased to co-sponsor with the African American Studies Program a faculty reading on Thursday, February 2nd with University of San Francisco Associate Professor James Lance Taylor, who will read from his recent work Black Nationalism in the United States: From Malcolm X to Barack Obama (2011). Professor Taylor is also co-editor … Continue reading Library program on Black Nationalism
When I logged into WordPress to edit a blog post this morning, I encountered the following screen: What’s up with that? Turns out WordPress, along with sites such as Twitter and most notably Wikipedia, are raising awareness of pending legislation in the House and the Senate that could cause censorship of the Internet. The original … Continue reading What’s up with the Wikipedia black out?
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
As reported previously, Gleeson is hosting a Game Night at the library on 11-11-11 from 4-8 pm. Part of the night includes a Super Smash Brothers Tournament and the grand prize is a NOOK Color! So spread the word. The stakes are high, and the potential for fun is even higher. Continue reading Win a NOOK at Game Night Tournament
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