Gleeson Gleanings

Gleeson Library | Geschke Center is celebrating National Poetry Month (April 2009) by installing a poetry display from April 13 – May 1, 2009, and hosting a poetry reading featuring faculty poets. Save the date, poetry lovers!

The reading will feature David Holler, D.A. Powell, Dean Rader, Darrell Schramm, and Brian Teare.

Thursday, April 30, 2009 @ 7 pm in Gleeson Library’s Thacher Art Gallery

For everyone  out there who thought government documents were dull, check this out: President Obama’s brackets for the NCAA Tournament! How cool is that?

The USF web site, including the Library web site, will be getting a makeover this summer. The local company creating the new design, White Whale, has started a public blog on the USF redesign, and is looking for community input. Now is your chance to wield your influence!

Credo Reference is a great resource for finding articles from hundreds of reference sources such as encyclopedias, dictionaries and factbooks. The topics covered include almost anything: art, biography, business, education, geography, history, literature, medicine, movies, music, psychology, religion, science, and world cultures…if it’s included in a reference book it’s probably in Credo Reference. You can also look up word definitions (in English and other languages), synonyms, and quotations.

An exciting feature of Credo Reference is the “concept map” (see above image). Searching on keywords such as “global warming” in the concept map function brings up a visual display of people and topics that are related to the one you’ve searched on. For global warming, these include subjects such as greenhouse gases and the carbon cycle and people such as climate science pioneer Milutin Milankovich. Mousing over each related topic brings up a link to a specific article.

Credo Reference is a good place to get your quick reference questions answered or to help focus your research when you want to look at a topic in greater depth. Check it out today!
 

—Authored by Elliot Smith, Reference, Research & Instructional Services Dept. intern, Fall 2008

Hello everyone!

For April we are reading The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies.

We’ll meet from 12 noon – 1 pm in the seminar room (#209) of Gleeson Library on Tuesday, April 7, 2009. We’re open to the whole USF community, so bring your lunch, your friends, your colleagues, and your classmates!

“On one level, Davies’s novel is ‘about’ four academics: Maria Theotoky, the brilliant, beautiful graduate student; her adviser, the ascetic Dr. Hollier; Simon Darcourt, the bon vivant priest; and Parlabane, once an outstanding scholar, now sycophant to his former classmates. Then there is the basic plot theme: Who will end up with the girl? Standard stuff. Yet the real focus here is on the spiritual and/or mystical personal explorations of the main characters…” –Library Journal, March 1, 1998

You can request the book through the Library’s free service, Link+, and it will come to Gleeson in about 4 business days.

Faculty can now check out bound and unbound periodicals.

In addition to bound periodicals, unbound periodicals will now circulate to faculty members only. Newspapers and current issues of magazines will not circulate.

The Periodicals Unit will no longer be checking out bound or unbound periodicals. Faculty can check out their bound or unbound periodicals at the Access Services Circulation desk with a valid USF id. Checked out 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.