Gleeson Library will have the 56th quadrennial Presidential Inauguration on TV live for community members to view in our Electronic Classroom and on the LCD display adjacent to the main library entrance. Please come on by the library the morning of January 20, 2009 and we’ll have the event going live. The library will start … Continue reading Obama Inauguration – Live at Gleeson Library
Gleeson’s video collection is an eclectic mix of documentaries and feature films on DVD and VHS. Although they’re all in the catalog, they’re somewhat hidden because you have to ask for them at the circulation desk. We’re featuring some of them in connection with USF’s celebration of International Education Week. Along with films from Africa, … Continue reading Spotlight on world cinema for International Education Week
Two of our library staff members and 32 other USF students, staff, and faculty have entered USF’s IEW 2008 photo contest. Depicting “Global Citizens in Action,” the photos illustrate how the USF community has been touched by cultural exchange. All USF staff, faculty and students are invited to vote this week on your favorites. See … Continue reading Library staffers compete in International Education Week photo contest — updated
Busy? We can help! Gleeson Library is offering a new on-campus book delivery service for USF faculty and a book paging option for all library borrowers. If you are designated as a USF Faculty Member by USF HR, to request a book for delivery, go to the library catalog, find the book you are … Continue reading New Library Services
For anyone who has ever served time in a gray cubicle (or known someone who has), here is the book that deserves a prime place in your in-box. THEN WE CAME TO THE END, by Joshua Ferris, was nominated for a National Book Award in 2007 and was chosen as the May/June pick for the … Continue reading USF Book Club: Then We Came to the End
This semester, Gleeson Library has been broadcasting the 2008 presidential debates on our information screen in the Access Services area lobby. I work just adjacent to this lobby and have watched as patrons take short study breaks to quietly, and earnestly, watch the candidates answer a question. Some patrons pull up a chair and stay … Continue reading Food for Thought: Watching the Presidential Debates at Gleeson
Yesterday the library saw the installation of an exhibit put up by David Silver’s Intro to Media Studies classes. It is called Election Exhibit: Students Teaching Students. The point of the assignment is to encourage and educate the USF Community to vote. It is also part of The September Project. Many of the pieces are … Continue reading Election Exhibit Courtesy of Intro to Media Studies Classes
Date Change: The USF Book Club will be meeting on October 23, 2008. Same time (12 noon – 1 pm) same place (2nd fl Seminar Room). Click here for more details. **I [heart] Book Club image courtesy of www.book-club-queen.com** If you’ve been thinking about coming but haven’t, please know that we discuss our selections from … Continue reading USF Book Club Date Change to October 23
In conjunction with the dedication and opening of Kalmanovitz Hall, a sixteenth-century book from the Donohue Rare Book Room is featured in an exhibit showing the Jesuit history and presence at USF over the years. The title of the book is: A Particular Declaration or Testimony of the Undutifull and Traiterous Affection Borne Against her … Continue reading Rare Book Room Volume on Display at Kalmanovitz Hall
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