If you are interested in mythology and folklore, whether it’s for a class assignment, or for your own personal edification, the Gleeson Library/Geschke Learning Center has a wide array of resources on the subject. Here are just four titles that you may find interesting. These and many more works on mythology and folklore can be … Continue reading Reference Books of the Week
Update: The preventative maintenance work on our elevator has been completed…ahead of schedule! Please note: due to preventative maintenance work, the library elevator that travels from the lower level all the way to the fourth floor is currently out of service. It will be back in action on Friday, 9/17/2010. In the meantime, there are … Continue reading Elevator Back in Action!
In the Library by Dorothea Grossman The library always smells like this: an ancient stew of vinegar and wood. It’s autumn again, and I can do anything. Click Here to view Gleeson Library/Geschke Center Hours for Fall 2010 p.s. Don’t worry, Gleeson doesn’t have the pervasive smell Grossman’s poem describes, but you might say the … Continue reading Library Hours – Fall 2010
Hello everyone! From what I hear, Isabel Allende is an amazing writer so it’s high time Book Club read one of her books. Island Beneath the Sea is her newest and it is an historical novel that largely takes place in Haiti, so it is appropriate to the times. Opening in Saint Domingue a few … Continue reading USF Book Club: Island Beneath the Sea by Allende
The Ignacio Catalog now displays the status “New Book Areas” for all the new material displayed in Gleeson Library! There are three New Book Areas to browse. The first New Book Areas is located just west of the main entrance between the Circulation and Reference desks. The second highlights new art books, and is located … Continue reading New Book Areas
Puzzle Mania Now has Take-Out service. To show appreciation and expand opportunities to our PUZZLE loving patrons Jig Saw Puzzles are now available for borrowing. To see available puzzle pictures look up in Course Reserves, under either Faculty or Course Name: “Puzzle Mania“. Request puzzles at the Circulation Desk. Loan period is 1 week. It … Continue reading PUZZLE MANIA – TO GO
On campus this summer? We’ll be here, too! Click Here to view Gleeson Library/Geschke Center Hours for Summer 2010 Have you heard Mark Twain’s quote about San Francisco’s infamous summer weather? It turns out that the quote isn’t true, or Twain never said it, or something like that…. Continue reading Library Hours – Summer 2010
Hello everyone! April 11 – 17, 2010 is National Library Week. National Library Week is an annual celebration of the contributions of our nation’s libraries and librarians. This year’s theme and focus is on the many ways libraries support local communities. Here at Gleeson many of our events, displays, and exhibitions give library goers an … Continue reading Communities Thrive @ Gleeson
The Donohue Rare Book Room is currently hosting an exhibition of the book, Arch, a collaboration between Holly Downing, a printmaker, and Jack Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press. The book features an excerpt of a dialogue from Paul Valéry’s Eupalinos, or The Architect and five mezzotint engravings. The mezzotints were inspired by arches in Montecastello … Continue reading Exhibition of Mezzotints in the Rare Book Room
We’re proud that Gleeson Library is a co-sponsor of USF’s 8th Human Rights Film Festival, free and open to the public this Thursday through Saturday. From USF students’ short films screening Thursday afternoon, to presentations of documentaries co-sponsored by USF’s LGBT Caucus and the President’s Advisory Committee on the Status of Women… from the U.S. … Continue reading Human Rights Film Festival this week