The USF wellness folks had a Bring Your Child to Work Day which included a treasure hunt in the Gleeson Library’s Thacher Gallery. At the same time the librarians and staff of Gleeson had a Picture Your “Kid” at the Library Day people put up pictures of their “kids” (children, grandchildren, dogs, cats, fish, hamsters or other pets) A few folks were able to bring in their kids for a library family photo.
ALA and the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago
June 19th, 2013 by Larry T. Nix No comments »USF Book Club – July Selection
June 17th, 2013 by David Ferguson No comments »The next book we will be discussing is Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon.
Please join us on July 12th at noon in room 209 in the Gleeson library. The library copy is checked out so you are welcome to request it through Link+ or at the SF Public Library. The SF Public library also has sound recordings and digital editions available for check out.
As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there–longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, two semi-legendary midwives who
have welcomed more than a thousand newly minted citizens into the dented utopia at whose heart–half tavern, half temple–stands Brokeland. When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth-richest black man in America, announces plans to build his latest Dogpile megastore on a nearby stretch of Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their vulnerable little enterprise. Meanwhile, Aviva and Gwen also find themselves caught up in a battle for their professional existence, one that tests the limits of their friendship. Adding another layer of complication to the couples already tangled lives is the surprise appearance of Titus Joyner, the teenage son Archy has never acknowledged and the love of fifteen-year-old Julius Jaffes life. (back cover)
Military Libraries Division, SLA 60th Anniversary
June 5th, 2013 by Larry T. Nix No comments »This year, the Military Libraries Division of the Special Libraries Association is celebrating its 60th anniversary so I thought I would feature a couple of artifacts in my collection to honor this occasion. The first artifact (shown above) is a letter written by J. H. Offley, the Librarian of the War Department Library, on November 11, 1839 to Hilliard Gray in Boston in regard to several missing volumes of the Works of Benjamin Franklin which the library had previously ordered. The War Department Library was established in 1832. The War Department existed from 1790 to 1947 and is now the Defense Department. The successor to the War Department Library is the Pentagon Library which was created in 1944 when 28 departmental libraries and information centers were consolidated into a single library. The second artifact is a reprint of an article about the Pentagon Library and other military libraries in Library Journal for February 16, 1966 for National Library Week (see below). See some of my other posts about military libraries.










