Update: Penny Scott has alerted us that SFPL’s eCard program has been suspended due to electronic vendor licensing agreements. See Penny’s comment #5 below. — Debbie B.
The San Francisco Public Library has introduced a new kind of library card. They call it their eCard and any California resident can register on their website for one. You don’t even have to go to the library to register, you can do it all at your computer.
It gives you access to all of their electronic resources and databases. They have some databases that we don’t subscribe to here at USF, like the San Francisco Chronicle Historical file or the History Resource Center.
So if you are a student, faculty, or staff person, getting an eCard increases your access to more electronic resources!
And thanks to Jerry Dear, an SFPL Librarian, who pointed this new resource out to me.
2009 marks the 400th anniversary of the first use of an astronomical telescope by Galileo Galilei, as well as the beginning of The International Year of Astronomy: a global celebration of astronomy and its contributions to society and culture.
The library joins in the celebration with a display in the lobby of astronomy-related books and magazines. Check them out (literally)!
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You asked…we answered! Library patrons can now pay library fines and fees online using Visa or MasterCard. It’s easy:
1. Go to: https://ignacio.usfca.edu/patroninfo~S0.
2. Enter your name and USF ID number to access your library record.
3. Review your fines and/or fees and click “Pay Online.”
4. Enter your credit card information and click “Submit.”
5. Verify that the information you submitted is correct and click “Submit” again.
6. Print the confirmation page for your records.
If all of your library fines and fees are paid, any library holds on your university record related to these fines/fees will be lifted within 24 business hours.
If you have questions about your Gleeson Library fines and/or fees, please contact the Access Services Department at 415-422-2662 or email access_services@usfca.edu.
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Want to learn more about the library? Join us for a tour of the Gleeson Library Geschke Center. A library staff member will show you around the building and tell you about our services. We’ll visit areas you may not be as familiar with like Government Documents and the Rare Book Room. Tours meet inside the Library in the lobby, across from the Circulation Desk, and last about 30 minutes.
No need to sign up–just show up at any of these times.
Monday, January 26th at 2 pm
Tuesday, January 27th at 10 am
Wednesday, January 28th at 3pm
Thursday, January 29th at 12:30 pm
Friday, January 30th at 11 am
If you can’t make any of these times, we also give tours of the library on the first Monday of each month at 3pm.
Update: See more current information in the Faculty Periodicals Borrowing post of March 6, 2009.
With the new semester come some changes to Gleeson Library|Geschke Center. To ensure that important materials are available to everyone, unbound periodicals and newspapers will only be available for use in the library. Bound periodical volumes will now circulate to faculty members only. The Periodicals Unit will no longer be checking out these materials. Faculty can check out their bound periodical volumes at the Access Services Circulation desk with a valid USF id. Checked out bound periodicals can also be returned to Access Services in the return book chute located at the front desk.
For more information on borrowing periodicals and the faculty loan policies, please read over the library’s website.
As always, if you have any questions, please contact Access Services or the Periodicals Dept.
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 coverage at 8:00 AM and the swearing in takes place at 9:00 (noon on the east coast). If you can’t make it by to watch with us in the library, you can watch the event on-line here and most of the major news sources will stream the swearing-in live as well.
Executive Oath of Office: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
United States Constitution, Article II, Section 1, Clause 8
Now the trumpet summons us again–not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are–but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, “rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation”–a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.
President Kennedy’s 1961 Swearing-In Ceremony
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) recently published a bibliography of resources that focus on the documentation and preservation of African American Collections. The author, Karla Y. Davis (davisk@stolaf.edu) from St. Olaf College wrote:
This article profiles African American collections held at libraries, both public and academic, museums, and cultural organizations dedicated to preserving Black history.
The article includes links to over 30 resources for students of the African American experience. Please be sure to check-out a few of the related resources Gleeson Library has to offer as well.
Are there are other AAS resources you thing should be mentioned (e.g San Francisco’s Museum of the Aftican Diaspora – MoAD)? Does one of the resources really stand out to you? Please post your thoughts in the comments section below.
Hi everyone! Our next meeting for the book club is Tuesday, February 10, 2009.
We’re going to discuss Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, an old classic that many people may have read for school.
We’ll meet in the Seminar Room (2nd Floor) of Gleeson Library from 12 noon – 1 pm.
If you want to get the book through Link+, follow this link. Link+ is free and takes about 4 business days.
Alternatively, you can get the book through San Francisco Public Library.
Or get an audio book of it through San Francisco Public Library.
Remember the book club is now open to all members of the USF Community, so bring your friends, professors, students, and your lunch for a great discussion!
Tax season is upon us! Find the forms you need at Gleeson Library|Geschke Center, just inside the access gates. Or find them online at 
