Staff Spotlights
Over the past year, several Gleeson Library staff members have moved into new positions within the library, Gleeson Library has hired new staff, and Gleeson has gone through a reorganization. Continue reading Staff Spotlights
Over the past year, several Gleeson Library staff members have moved into new positions within the library, Gleeson Library has hired new staff, and Gleeson has gone through a reorganization. Continue reading Staff Spotlights
A week ago, the Library was honored to receive a sweet letter from a young person named, Lizbet, a fourth-grader at a Bay Area school who, as part of a class project, wrote us for a USF pennant. The Gleeson Library staff, always touched by a sincere, handwritten letter, immediately jumped at the chance to … Continue reading The Stewards of Knowledge
You know lots of librarians turn to writing, right? That Jorge Luis Borges was a librarian is pretty well-known but this list of the Top 10 Books Written By Librarians from online bookseller AbeBooks might surprise you. I didn’t know Madeleine L’Engle was a librarian. But another of my very favorite children’s book authors, Beverly … Continue reading Books by Librarians
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