Three John Muir manuscripts from the Donohue Rare Book Room have been added to the Gleeson Library Digital Collections. John Muir (1938-1914) was a naturalist and key advocate of preserving wilderness areas in the western United States. His writings inspired the U.S. Congress to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and King’s Canyon National … Continue reading Muir Manuscripts Digitized
On Tuesday, October 19th at noon, University Professor of Art + Architecture and Director of the Thacher Gallery, Thomas Lucas, S.J., will give an illustrated lecture in the Donohue Rare Book Room. The talk will highlight the current Thacher Gallery exhibition “Galleons and Globalization: California Mission Arts and the Pacific Rim” which explores the lively … Continue reading Galleons and Globalization Program
Celebrate the Fall Classic and “America’s favorite pastime” in the Donohue Rare Book Room with a special program on the history of baseball. On October 7th the Gleeson Library will welcome University of San Francisco Professor of Politics, Robert Elias, who will give an illustrated lecture entitled “The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. … Continue reading Baseball in the Rare Book Room
On this day in history (July 21, 1899) Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois. In his distinguished career as a journalist and writer, he wrote several novels, collections of short stories and works of non-fiction. In 1954 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Donohue Rare Book Room holds several Hemingway … Continue reading Ernest Hemingway in the Rare Book Room
April 1 is almost here… and with it comes the start of National Poetry Month 2010! Here at Gleeson we are celebrating National Poetry Month by doing a couple things. First we’re putting up a display of cool books written by California and Bay Area poets and books of poems written about California and the … Continue reading National Poetry Month @ 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
The Donohue Rare Book Room and the Gleeson Library lost a good friend with the recent passing of Fauno Cordes on Christmas day. Fauno was a book collector, bibliographer, Rare Book Room benefactor and member of the Gleeson Library Associates. She presented to the Rare Book Room her world-renown collection of Antarctic fiction and continued … Continue reading Remembering Fauno Cordes
On Wednesday, November 11th from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. the Thacher Gallery and the Donohue Rare Book Room will hold an opening reception for the exhibition “Eric Gill, Iconographer: Engravings from the Albert Sperisen Collection.” During the reception there will be an opportunity to print on the Rare Book Room’s 1854 Albion handpress, once owned … Continue reading Printing on the RBR Handpress
In conjunction with the Thacher Gallery exhibition: Eric Gill: Iconographer, the Gleeson Library has digitized the wood engravings in the Eric Gill collection from the Donohue Rare Book Room and made it available online to USF community. Nearly 400 digitized images are included in the Printing and Graphic Arts Collection and available for view on … Continue reading New Digital Collection: Eric Gill Prints – updated
On Thursday evening, October 8, at 5:00 p.m. the Gleeson Library Associates will host a program in the Donohue Rare Book Room on The Seven Wonders of the World: Ancient and Modern. Dr. Andrew Jameson, historian, world-traveler and lecturer will present an illustrated slide talk. His presentation begins with consideration of the canonical number seven … Continue reading Program on the Seven Wonders of the World