This June, USF will be hosting Western Association of College Admission Counselors (WACAC). Among other locations, some events will be held in the Gleeson Library’s Monihan Atrium. To accommodate this event, the Atrium and the 4th floor reading lounge will be inaccessible from Monday June 7th through Friday June 11th. Access to the elevator, stairwells … Continue reading Temporary Atrium Closure
To observe Sexual Violence Awareness Week, the library has a display of tee shirts from the Clothesline Project which were made by USF students. It’s next to the entrance gate, by the fountain. Along with the tee shirts, there are also library materials and other resources to learn about and prevent sexual violence. All books … Continue reading Sexual Violence Awareness Week Display in Library
I am confident that we are of a size and nimbleness that allow us to capitalize on the positive underpinnings beneath an iceberg that most folks can only see the tip of. This is a time for vision, imagination, energy and action tempered by a prudence that capitalizes on latent opportunities without jeopardizing the enterprise … Continue reading The Crisis in Higher Education: A Reading List
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
We’re proud that Gleeson Library is a co-sponsor of USF’s 8th Human Rights Film Festival, free and open to the public this Thursday through Saturday. From USF students’ short films screening Thursday afternoon, to presentations of documentaries co-sponsored by USF’s LGBT Caucus and the President’s Advisory Committee on the Status of Women… from the U.S. … Continue reading Human Rights Film Festival this week
Last week, on World AIDS Day, the GLBT Historical Society and the Bay Area Reporter, the local glbt newspaper, released a database of obituaries of persons who died of AIDS. Looking through it is like looking at a time capsule. I moved to San Francisco in 1983 and like so many gay men of my … Continue reading Obituaries and history
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
To kick off USF’s celebration of International Education Week 2009, USF students, staff, and faculty are invited to enter the IEW photo contest. Last year we had two fabulous entries from Gleeson Library staff! To enter, send a photo from your experiences abroad to usf.iew@gmail.com by Friday, October 30th. Include a brief (one or two … Continue reading Photo Contest for International Education Week
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
One can now follow the Donohue Rare Book Room on Flickr! The Rare Book Room’s Flickr account documents recent exhibitions, receptions and other Library activities. As the site continues to develop, it will also feature images of collection materials thus representing a visual archive of the Donohue Rare Book Room and special collections at the … Continue reading Donohue Rare Book Room on Flickr