April 15th, 2010 by Kelci
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Hello!
The USF Book Club continues our theme of less traumatizing novels by selecting Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey for our May pick. It’s a classic… and I’m ashamed to admit that I have never finished a book by Jane Austen even though I was an English major and I have an MFA in Writing. 2010 is a year of change for me!
We’ll meet on Wednesday May 19, 2010 from 12 – 1 in the USF Community Garden, which is just West of the Education Building on Turk Blvd.
How do I get a copy?
As of this writing, we still have one copy here in the library — click here to request it. We also have three E-book versions of it — click here to go to the record & access it. You can also request it through Link+, which is a service that delivers books from libraries all over California and Nevada to you here at Gleeson.
“Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen’s earliest novels, it was not published until after her death–well after she’d established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers.”
-Amazon.com
Hope to see you there!
p.s. Did you know book club has a wiki? Check us out! Or you can email Kelci Baughman McDowell for details or to sign up on the mailing list.
April 13th, 2010 by david silver
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lunch project assignment for
green media
1. research and prepare a delicious meal for lunch for this friday's class.
2. your meal must include at least one ingredient from USF's organic garden. as we discussed last friday in the garden, seasonal veggies ready for picking include arugula, lettuce greens on the south side of the garden, chard and green onions in the middle of the garden, and beets and beet greens towards the north side of the garden. you are also welcome to use the herbs located in the herb spiral. because the veggies "sold" at thursday's campus farmstand come directly from USF's garden, you are welcome to get your veggies and ingredients there.
3. prepare your delicious meal individually or as a group. pack as much soul as possible into your delicious meal.
4. bring your delicious meal to class on friday (april 16). also bring some kind of serving utensil. share your meal with others. also bring to class your favorite bowl (or plate) and fork (or spoon) so that you can sample other people's meals.
5. make a recipe for your delicious meal and share it online via the platform of your choice. regardless of your platform, your recipe must: a) use multimedia; b) be publicly accessible; and c) allow user comments. your recipes are due no later than sunday at midnight.
6. once finished, tweet your recipe.
April 7th, 2010 by david silver
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later this evening,
melinda stone and i will be giving a presentation at the main branch of
san francisco public library. our talk is called
stir it up - in the pot and on the web: making media about making food. it's free and open to the public and yer invited!
with luck, i hope to share ideas via a single flickr set:
if time permits, i also hope to share:
Daniele Dominguez's
Vegan Lemon Scones with Lemon GlazeKate Greenspan & Sophia Lorenzi's
Soph's Loaf of Chocolate Banana BreadChristina Hammill's
No-Knead BreadSamuel Hernandez & Peter Thoene's
rosemary rock salt focacciaJoel Weston's
Blueberry-Lime Poundcakehope to see you at the library!
April 6th, 2010 by Larry T. Nix
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April is School Library Month and in recognition of that occasion I have compiled this post which features two pieces of New York school library ephemera. The first piece is a letter written on October 31, 1844 from a County School Superintendent in Epex, New York to Samuel S. Randall, the General Deputy Superintendent of Common Schools for the State of New York. The County Superintendent writes: "My Annual Returns are ready for transmission with the exception of the Library Returns required of the Town Superintendents. They have been slow to forward the necessary catalogues and I have just written to nine delinquents urging speedy compliance ... . Shall I be permitted to delay a few days to secure the complete returns? Or shall I forward my own Returns without them?" Those darn Town Superintendents! Governor De Witt Clinton of New York advocated collections of books attached to common schools as early as 1827 but it was not until 1835 that legislation implementing this requirement was passed. Samuel S. Randall wrote a history of the New York common school system in 1871.
The second piece is a small Library Catalogue of Public School No. 19 in Buffalo, New York dated 1885. The catalogue is 4 1/4 inches by 6 inches and has 18 pages. The catalogue is organized by topic/subject but the books are labeled in consecutive order going from 1 to 449.
The American Association of School Libraries (AASL) is celebrating the 25th anniversary of School Library Month. Originally the celebration was titled School Library Media Month, but in an interesting development the AASL Board decided this year to readopt the professional title of "school librarian" to replace "school library media specialist" and also decided to change the name of the monthly celebration to School Library Month. A decision that I heartedly applaud.
