How much is your textbook? Is it too much? This year, Gleeson Library is working to address the cost of textbooks and its impact on student learning. We’re celebrating Open Education Week and making moves! For more information about Open Education Week please contact Charlotte Roh at croh2@usfca.edu. Continue reading Open Education Week 2018: #textbookbroke #OEWeek
March is Women’s History Month. Observe this important month with Gleeson by helping to add reliable resources and information about women, art, and feminism to Wikipedia (a resource that has gender gaps in both participation and content). On March 9th from 10am-4pm, Gleeson will host its fourth annual Art+Feminism* Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon. All are welcome. Never … Continue reading Gleeson to host 4th Annual Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon for Women’s History Month
Join Gleeson Library and USF’s Emergency Medical Response Services this Wednesday February 14th for Save a Heart! We’ll be answering your questions and teaching Hands-Only CPR! 11:30a-1:30pm Gleeson Library’s 1st Floor Lobby What better way to spend your Valentine’s day than learning how to save a heart! This event is brought to you in partnership … Continue reading Valentine’s Day Save a Heart at Gleeson Library!
Do you like lists? Look back at 2017 with these Top Fives at Gleeson Library! (Updated January 29, 2018)
Continue reading “2017 by the numbers”There have been lots of changes in Gleeson Library in the last year. Want a quick tour of Gleeson and see what’s new in the building? Join us for a Spring Semester tour. They last about 30 minutes and a Library staff person will take you around the building and show you what’s here that … Continue reading Tours of Gleeson Library
To wish you a Merry Christmas from USF Library I share some season’s greetings from the Rare Book Room. Christmas in California by Edward Rowland Sill printed for Caroline and Hudson Poole by John Henry Nash, 1928 San Francisco at Christmas by Sherwood Anderson printed for Eleanor Anderson by Ted Lilienthal at Quercus Press, 1941 … Continue reading Merry Christmas from San Francisco
Read about multiculturalism, postcolonialism, Japanese music, content warnings in education, video games, and sports—then build a website about it—with these recently purchased eBooks:
Continue reading “New eBooks at Gleeson”The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot tells the story of the woman—Henrietta—whose cells led a scientific revolution. Henrietta died from cervical cancer in 1951, but her cells are still used in many laboratories to this day. This book takes you through the life of Henrietta as well her children’s lives after her … Continue reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Book Review
Historically, Thanksgiving traditions were celebrated as gratitude to the gods after a successful harvest. These traditions date back to Ancient Greece and Rome; they are not unique to nor did they originate in the United States. As a matter of fact, the day we celebrate as Thanksgiving Day (currently) was not the first Thanksgiving … Continue reading Reframing Thanksgiving
Gleeson Library recently purchased some new nursing eBooks, available on the Ovid platform. These are unlimited access, so read away!
Continue reading “New and Updated Nursing eBooks Available from Ovid”
