One of 5 Most Beautiful Reading Rooms

April 23rd, 2010 by Larry T. Nix No comments »



Today I visited the newly renovated library reading room at the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison. After its renovation I believe that it is one of the five most beautiful reading rooms in America. Others in my opinion include the main reading room in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress, the main reading room of the New York Public Library's Research Division, and Bates Hall of the Boston Public Library. I invite you to nominate one or more libraries to complete or include in the top five most beautiful library reading rooms. When the American Library Association met in Waukesha in 1901, conference attendees came to Madison to visit the newly completed building of the Wisconsin Historical Society and, "There was but one opinion of the entire party in regard to the beauty and arrangement of the building, and that was satisfactory to the highest degree."

Gleeson Library is Celebrating National Poetry Month…

April 23rd, 2010 by Colette Hayes No comments »

And you can, too!

Check out a book (or multiple books!) from our National Poetry Month display, featuring Bay Area and California Poets:

and join us at the 2nd Annual Staff and Faculty Poetry Reading on Thursday, April 29th @ 5:30pm in the Library’s Rare Book Room:

See you soon!

(Special thanks to Rob Guillen for the photos of our display and to Rob Kroenert for letting us use his awesome photograph of St. Ignatius on our flyer).


getting students’ bodies and ideas into libraries: a talk for minnesotan librarians

April 22nd, 2010 by david silver No comments »
tomorrow, i'm giving the opening talk at ARLD Day, sponsored by the academic & research libraries division of the minnesota library association. the title of my talk is "getting students' bodies and ideas into libraries." i plan to limit my talk to a particular nook of gleeson library and what university of san francisco students and librarians do with and within it.


exhibit 1: good food (designed by USF librarian sherise kimura)





exhibit 2: get graphic (designed by USF librarians debbie benrubi and kathy woo)






exhibit 3: election exhibit (designed by students enrolled in two sections of david silver's introduction to media studies in fall 2008)







exhibit 4: the reading fort (designed by students enrolled in david silver's digital literacy class in spring 2008)


exhibit 5: our dinner table (currently being designed by students enrolled in david silver's green media in spring 2010)




Hot Lava!

April 20th, 2010 by Carol Spector No comments »

For credible information about volcanoes and the recent eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull, visit these government websites:

USGS – U.S. Geological Survey

NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration – see also NASA’s Earth Observatory for satellite images

Brought to you by Gleeson Library’s Government Information Librarian, Carol Spector. Find out more about our government information collection by visiting our homepage.


two summer paid research assistantships with the garden project

April 19th, 2010 by david silver No comments »
The USF Garden Project is currently seeking two garden research assistants for Summer 2010 (May 24- August 24)


Garden research assistants will be responsible for caring for all Garden Project gardens, including the campus garden and Booker T. Washington garden. Care includes: watering, mulching, weeding, seed saving, harvesting and distributing vegetables; tending to the orchard and fruit vines; managing compost; and hosting any visitors to the garden, which includes scheduling and overseeing a once a week garden workday. 10 hours a week will be split between the two assistants based on their schedules. Pay is based on USF student worker pay scale.


If interested please email David Silver (dmsilver [ at ] usfca [ dot ] edu) and/or Melinda Stone (stone [ at ] usfca [ dot ] edu) stating your interest by April 26. Please provide either a narrative and/or resume that reflects your experience related to this position. Decisions will be made by April 30.