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
Fall 2018 Semester started early for Gleeson Library | Geschke Learning Resource Center as we prepared to meet an amazing cohort of incoming freshmen from the Muscat Scholars Program once again this year. The Muscat Scholars Program (MSP) is an academic program at USF named in memory of School of Management Professor and Associate Dean … Continue reading Gleeson Library Meets This Year’s Muscat Scholars
Join us for a Zine Making Workshop! Thursday 9/13/2018 11:00-2:00 Gleeson Library second floor Come when you can but only leave when you absolutely have to. Zines are short-run, independently published magazines on a variety of subjects. Common themes include art, comics, poetry, short stories, memoirs, cultural criticism, and social commentary. Zines are an important … Continue reading Zine Making Workshop
The Gleeson Library book club is a friendly group of USF Students, Staff, and Faculty, who come together in Gleeson Library on the first Friday of each month to talk about a book they have all read in common. Everyone in our USF Community is welcome (even if you haven’t quite finished the book yet.) “Little … Continue reading Gleeson Library Book Club reads “Little Fires Everywhere” by Celeste Ng
Get to know Gleeson Library|Geschke Center better by joining us on a library tour! A library staff member will show you around our beautiful building, and all that it has to offer. Tours are about 30 minutes long. There’s no need to sign up ahead of time – just meet us in the lobby of … Continue reading Fall 2018 Library Tours
Gleeson Library | Geschke Center Hours Summer 2018 May 21, Monday – August 12, Sunday Monday—Thursday 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM Friday 8:00 AM—6:00 PM Saturday … Continue reading Library Hours – Summer 2018
Come find out what Zines are all about. Make a zine or learn some simple binding techniques and make a small notebook. The Zine & Simple Binding Workshop is on Thursday April 26th from 11:00am to 2:00pm up on the second floor of the Gleeson Library. A “Zine” is a self published magazine. They come in many … Continue reading Zine Making and Simple Binding Workshop
Every year, around this time – when finals are quickly approaching and summer seems both far away and right here – The Ignatian literary magazine comes out, breathing a burst of great, carefully curated creative writing onto campus for everyone to read. This year, The Ignatian is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Its editorial staff, comprised … Continue reading Gleeson to co-host 30th anniversary release party for student-run literary magazine The Ignatian
My name is Deepshika Verma and I am an International Studies major here at USF, with a minor in Health Sciences. I hope to go into the public health in the future as a result! I am super passionate about advocacy, an avid sports fan (Go Giants!), and also a student performer (been dancing my … Continue reading Student Post: #TEXTBOOKBROKE Student Survey for Open Education
Last month, the University of San Francisco Asian Pacific American Studies and Gleeson Library | Geschke Center, along with a number of other co-sponsors, organized the 2018 USF Day of Remembrance: Building Sanctuary: Alliances and Action Across Communities. Day of Remembrance commemorates February 19, 1942, the day which President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the … Continue reading USF Day of Remembrance
