Yesterday the library saw the installation of an exhibit put up by David Silver’s Intro to Media Studies classes. It is called Election Exhibit: Students Teaching Students. The point of the assignment is to encourage and educate the USF Community to vote. It is also part of The September Project. Many of the pieces are … Continue reading Election Exhibit Courtesy of Intro to Media Studies Classes
Date Change: The USF Book Club will be meeting on October 23, 2008. Same time (12 noon – 1 pm) same place (2nd fl Seminar Room). Click here for more details. **I [heart] Book Club image courtesy of www.book-club-queen.com** If you’ve been thinking about coming but haven’t, please know that we discuss our selections from … Continue reading USF Book Club Date Change to October 23
In conjunction with the dedication and opening of Kalmanovitz Hall, a sixteenth-century book from the Donohue Rare Book Room is featured in an exhibit showing the Jesuit history and presence at USF over the years. The title of the book is: A Particular Declaration or Testimony of the Undutifull and Traiterous Affection Borne Against her … Continue reading Rare Book Room Volume on Display at Kalmanovitz Hall
Librarians do lots of different things: we catalog books, digitize documents, search databases, teach people how to evaluate websites, build book collections, to name just a few. This week we did something different: we walked an informational picket line. Students may have seen us and wondered what was going on. The librarians here at Gleeson … Continue reading Librarians on the informational picket line
Oh Hai! The USF Book Club’s next selection is The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie Personally I love Alexie’s poetry and spoken word performances, but I am excited about next month’s meeting because I haven’t read any of his prose. Also, the movie Smoke Signals was based off this novel. … Continue reading USF Book Club: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Books in the Lower Level stacks from call numbers “A” through “BF 38.5” will be temporarily moved while Facilities Management works in the area (approximately August 18 – September 19). If you need a book that has been moved, please request it at the Circulation Desk for retrieval. Continue reading Lower Level Books Moved
The September selection for the USF Book Club is The Road by Cormac McCarthy. In addition to winning the Pulitzer Prize, this was one of the more controversial selections chosen by Oprah Winfrey for her book club, so we are bound to have a great discussion next month. We’re meeting on Tuesday Sept. 9, 2008 … Continue reading USF Book Club: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Hi everybody! The USF Book Club is now meeting on Wed. Aug. 6, 2008 to discuss Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees. See our older post for more information. Thanks, and we hope to see you there! Continue reading Date Change: USF Book Club: Secret Life of Bees
Howdy! The USF Book Club is reading The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd for our next selection. Come join us for some laughs and discussion! We’re meeting on Tuesday, August 5, 2008 12 noon – 1 pm in the Seminar Room (2nd Fl) of Gleeson Library Bring your lunch and tell your … Continue reading The Secret Life of Bees: USF Book Club
We had sad news here at Gleeson/Geschke this week. On Sunday, circulation staffer and stacks supervisor Jacquie Horton died. Jacquie had cancer and had been on leave for several months, returning to work briefly for a short period this spring. We miss her. I work in a different department and so didn’t work with Jacquie … Continue reading About a colleague