Greetings! The USF Book Club will discuss Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout on Tuesday November 17, 2009. We will meet in the seminar room of Gleeson Library (room 209) from 12 noon – 1 pm. Bring your lunch and tell your friends! Olive Kitteridge is a short story cycle where all the pieces are about … Continue reading USF Book Club: Olive Kitteridge
With 131 chemistry theses available full-text online, the chemistry phase of the Master’s Thesis Project is now finished. The chemistry theses are searchable by content, using “Thesis Keyword,” under Advanced Keyword Search in Ignacio.” The image below is from Youling Zou’s 2005 thesis, Attempted identification and characterization of metallothionein in Dictyostelium discoideum, and depicts the … Continue reading Chemistry master’s theses are now available full-text online
In 6 Lessons One Campus Learned About E-Textbooks the Chronicle of Higher Education provides an intriguing report on Northwest Missouri State University’s experiment with e-textbooks. In a move to cut costs of the campus textbook-rental program, the university provided 240 students with textbooks on Sony Reader devices. Frustrated with the software and format, the next … Continue reading E-textbooks experiment — wave of the future?
The USF Book Club is discussing King of Shadows by Aaron Shurin on June 9, 2009 in the USF Community Garden. Continue reading Book Club: King of Shadows
With all the talk about printed newspapers dying out, there’s a funny video on YouTube from a 1981 news program on San Francisco’s KRON channel 4. On it, they describe how some people are now able to read the San Francisco Examiner and San Francisco Chronicle using their home computers. It’s a great reminder of … Continue reading Reading newspapers on computers in 1981
Library patrons can now pay library fines and fees online using Visa or MasterCard. It’s easy: 1. Go to: https://ignacio.usfca.edu/patroninfo~S0. 2. Enter your name and USF ID number to access your library record. 3. Review your fines and/or fees and click “Pay Online.” 4. Enter your credit card information and click “Submit.” 5. Verify that … Continue reading REMINDER: Pay Your Library Fees and Fines Online!
You asked…we answered! Library patrons can now pay library fines and fees online using Visa or MasterCard. It’s easy: 1. Go to: https://ignacio.usfca.edu/patroninfo~S0. 2. Enter your name and USF ID number to access your library record. 3. Review your fines and/or fees and click “Pay Online.” 4. Enter your credit card information and click “Submit.” … Continue reading Pay Your Library Fines and Fees Online!
Following the digitization of our computer science and theology master’s theses, we now have a total of 123 biology master’s theses available full-text online. They cover a period dating from the present, back to 1950. With the exception of a few of the very oldest, whose text defied character recognition, these are all searchable by … Continue reading Biology master’s theses are now available full-text online.
It’s Roadworks: Steamroller Prints, San Francisco Center for the Book’s fifth annual art-in-the-street-festival at Potrero Hill on Saturday, September 20. Here’s the link where you can see what it looked like last year. In addition to steamroller printmaking, there’s music, free bookmaking and printmaking fun for kids, and dozens of the Bay Area’s finest book … Continue reading What do you get when you put together 6 artists, some big linoleum blocks, and a 3-ton steamroller?
There was a recent interesting article in The Atlantic about the web and the impact it may be having on the way we read. Asking “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” the author, Nicholas Carr, is not some mindless Luddite saying the web is always bad, but he says he can see within himself that he … Continue reading Is Google Making Us Stupid?