On exhibition in the Donohue Rare Book Room through December 16 are over eighty volumes from the Rare Book Room’s Dr. M. Wallace Freidman Collection of L. Frank Baum and Oziana. L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) wrote over thirty-eight children’s books, the most famous of which The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published in 1900 and … Continue reading Follow the Yellow Brick Road
The Gleeson Library is pleased to sponsor a faculty reading on Tuesday, November 15 when it welcomes David Vann, University of San Francisco Associate Professor in the MFA in Writing Program, who will read from his recent works Last Day on Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter (University of Georgia Press, 2011) and … Continue reading David Vann Reading
Bookends: Illustrated Works Spanning 500 Years From The Donohue Rare Book Room Reception: Thursday, May 12, 3:00-4:30, Gleeson Library, Donohue Rare Book Room Exhibition Dates: April 29th-June 17th, Gleeson Library, Donohue Rare Book Room Curated by the University of San Francisco’s Spring 2011 Museum Studies I class and drawn from the Donohue Rare Book Room’s permanent collection, this exhibit celebrates … Continue reading Student Curated Exhibit: Illustrated Books in the Rare Book Room
Join Gleeson Library as we celebrate National Poetry Month with our 3rd Annual Faculty, Staff, and Student Poetry Reading! Photo by Brett Baxter of glass mannequin at Salt Lake City Public Library Wednesday, April 27, 2011 @ 5 p.m. Gleeson Library | Geschke Center Rare Book Room, 3rd Floor Featuring the following USF Poets reading … Continue reading Poetry Reading @ Your Library on April 27
Please plan to celebrate an important acquisition in the Donohue Rare Book Room on April 14 when the Gleeson Library welcomes Irvin Unger who will give an illustrated talk on the artistry of Arthur Szyk and the history of The Szyk Haggadah. Mr. Ungar is the proprietor of the antiquarian bookselling firm, Historicana and is … Continue reading Arthur Szyk Program on April 14
Please plan to attend a program in the Donohue Rare Book Room on March 24th with USF Associate Professor of Sociology, Stephanie Sears, who will be speaking on Imagining Black Womanhood. In her recent publication, Imagining Black Womanhood: The Negotiation of Identity and Power within the Girls Empowerment Project, published in 2010 by the State … Continue reading Program on Black Womanhood
Hello poets and friends of poets! As we announced in this post a couple weeks ago, we are accepting submissions from students, staff, and faculty poets who would like to read their original work in the 3rd annual Gleeson Poetry Reading and Celebration. **The date of the reading has changed: it is now Wednesday April … Continue reading Date Change: Calling All Poets
The Donohue Rare Book Room is pleased to exhibit two recent acquisitions: Moth and Bonelight and a facsimile edition of the Szyk Haggadah. Moth and Bonelight with poems by Steven Brown and photographs by Jerry Uelsmann, is an important addition to the Rare Book Room’s growing collection of fine press books with an emphasis on … Continue reading Two Recent Acquisitions
Gleeson Library wants your help celebrating National Poetry Month! We are currently accepting submissions for our 3rd annual Poetry Reading. The deadline to submit is Friday March 18, 2011 Wednesday March 23, 2011. The reading will be on Thursday, April 28, 2011 from 5:00-6:30 pm Wednesday April 27, 2011 from 5 – 6:30 p.m. in … Continue reading Calling All Poets!
The Donohue Rare Book Room’s Chertsey Breviary, a fourteenth-century liturgical manuscript, was recently digitized and is now available online in the Library’s Digital Collections. The vellum manuscript is a psalter, a volume containing the Book of Psalms. Psalters were frequently owned by wealthy individuals and were often richly illuminated. The Donohue Rare Book Room manuscript, … Continue reading Chertsey Breviary Digitized