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EXTRA! EXTRA! THE FINANCIAL TIMES FREE GIVEAWAY Don't forget to pick up your free copy of the Financial Times from the University Library. The complimentary copies will be available through the end of this month. Don't miss out!While in the library, why not check out the many other free services the library has in store for you?
GGU AS A LEARNING ORGANIZATION - the Dialogue Continuesby Janice CarterWe learned from the March 11th GGU as a Learning Organization session of this spring's ongoing Lifelong Learning and Learning Organization Symposium, that people want MORE - more opportunities to talk about GGU as a Learning Organization. Please join us on Thursday, April 22, from noon to 1 pm in room 6211 at 536 Mission Street for a discussion on GGU as a Learning Organization: Best Practices, Opportunities and Challenges. You are welcome to bring your lunch, as well as food for thought.For other Lifelong Learning and Learning Organization Symposium events - as well as University Library sponsored events scheduled for this month, please see April 2010 Workshops elsewhere in this issue.
back to top RESERVES: A NOTE FOR FACULTY
by Gilles Poitras
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by Larry Burg
FARMERS' ALMANAC
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The Library provides student reserves in both the traditional in-library format as well as electronically. Students will be able to locate what is on reserve for a particular class by checking the class reserve list in the library catalog.For printed items we can place a faculty member's personal copy or a library owned copy of a work on reserve and students can come into the library and check the item out.Far more common and popular is Electronic Reserves (e-reserves). This system enables students to access items from off campus through the Internet by going to the reserve list for the class and using the link provided there.There are some restrictions on what can go on reserve. It is best to check the Golden Gate University Copyright Policy to information on this:
Topics covered will include: Locating guides and templates to help you create your business plan, developing a research strategy for organizing your research effectively and efficiently, and much, much more.
GGU MAC USERS GROUP MEETING -iPAD OVERVIEW
Learn how to find indispensable information for your projects including Industry overviews, trends and forecasts, key competitors and much more.
Join us as we explore pocket parks and other magical places near Golden Gate University. You are most welcome to bring your friends and your camera.
Come join us for an overview of the best resources for doing market research.
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SITE OF THE MONTH
Amy Hofer and Margot Hanson, both reference librarians in the University Library, will travel to Sacramento this month to present at the California Academic & Research Libraries conference, "People make libraries: Digging into our past and polishing our present to transform our future." Our research and travel are made possible by the support of the University Library and Lisa Kramer, GGU's Assessment Coordinator.Our presentation is titled "Upstairs-downstairs: Working with a campus assessment coordinator and other allies for effective information literacy assessment." Researchers have identified lack of coordination as one of the barriers librarians face in conducting assessment. We are going to confirm this finding by sharing how the presence of a smart, committed, and trustworthy coordinator made all the difference to our research project. Our presentation focuses on the people connections that made this assessment work: between librarian collaborators, with students and instructors in the ELL program, and all the way upstairs to our University-wide assessment coordinator.If you are interested in learning more about this, please contact me at 
Many of our subscription databases have been announcing changes to their user interfaces recently. One of these is LexisNexis Statistical Insight, and it's a big improvement! This database is chock full of valuable statistical reports, and the new interface makes it much more user-friendly.According to their website, "LexisNexis Statistical Insight provides fast and easy access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations."One of the new and improved features is the single search box. In one search box, you can search all the content of the Statistical Insight database, as well as a related database, LexisNexis Statistical DataSets. The search box suggests keywords and subject terms with a new smart search type-ahead feature. After searching, you can narrow your results with faceted categories, such as geographical region, data source, date, and related subjects. If you want to find projections, set the "date covered" slider into the future!The advanced search feature allows you to search by data source, such as associations (the American Library Association is included!), business organizations, state agencies, etc. If you want to find that perfect data table, you can search by table title. If you'd like to save your searches to replicate the same results later on, you can create a free account within the database.For more information about the new interface, check out their wiki: 
We in the University Library continue to learn from YOU. Frequently, students ask, "do you have my textbook?" On the University Library survey, one of the complaints was that the library does not carry textbooks. Traditionally, this has been true, but we have heard and listened to students' questions and comments. By asking faculty to donate textbooks they are not using, we have started to develop a two-hour reserve collection of textbooks in the library. The textbook collection is not a replacement for students purchasing their own texts, but it does provide emergency access to textbooks for students, who experience a delay in obtaining their textbooks, or forget their textbooks and want to consult the textbooks while they are in the library. In the University Library strategic plan, we have requested funding to purchase textbooks for the textbook collection.We also encourage faculty to put the assigned reading for the first week on electronic reserve, so that if there is a delay in students receiving their textbooks students can access the readings online. What else can we do? Let us know! Keep your questions and comments coming.
Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are. 
Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. 
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APRIL 2010 |
April Fools' Day Origins
"April Fools" Day began in the 1500s when the Gregorian calendar took over from the Julian. Those who forgot the change and attempted to celebrate New Year's (previously celebrated on the 1st of April) on the wrong date were teased as "April fools." - Snopes.com
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See the most recent developments in renewable energy and green technology; learn how to invest in your community, green your home, avoid products made in sweatshops; and even sample Fair Trade chocolate and coffee.Green Festival® is the largest sustainability event in the world and continues to grow year after year.For more information about the Green Festival®, visit http://www.globalexchange.org/ and http://greenamericatoday.org/.
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APRIL FOOLS DAY - APRIL 1
SFPL THURSDAYS @ NOON FILMS
PHOTOGRAPHY HIKE at MUIR WOODS
WALK CRISSY FIELD and LEARN ITS HISTORY
SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
OPENING DAY ON THE BAY 2010
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         Works by Joan Miró: Left to right: Vuelo de Pajaros, Retrat IV, Figur Gegen Rote Sonne II, L'Oiseau au Plumage Deploye, Trois Femmes, Red Sun, The Village of Prades, Der Sonnenschlucker, and L'Oro Dell'azzurro.
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 EMIL OTTO HOPPE (April 14, 1878 - December 9, 1972) in Munich, Germany; German born, yet English by citizenship, photographer Emil Otto Hoppe has been called one of England's most influential photographers of the Edwardian era. Born in 1878. Hoppe was actively photographing from about 1910 to 1940. Known for his portrait studies, his subjects ranged from the upper class British society to the natives of the Americas and Asia. While Hoppe's still life images were remarkable in their own right. As a photographer he also documented London before the First World War and published a number of books on the city in the early 1930's.An early and important Modernist, his images are unusual and almost dream-like. His work paralleled those of Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham.Cecil Beaton called Hoppé "The Master" and wrote that his "photographs have managed to outlast fashion-one of the rare achievements of photographic history." (Michael Hoppen Gallery)
 HAROLD LLOYD (April 20, 1893 - March 8, 1971) in Burchard, Nebraska; American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies.
Harold Lloyd ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era. Lloyd made nearly 200 comedy films, both silent and "talkies," between 1914 and 1947. He is best known for his "Glasses Character", a resourceful, success-seeking go-getter who was perfectly in tune with 1920s era America. (Wikipedia)
 JOAN MIRÓ (April 20, 1893 - December 25, 1983) in Barcelona, Spain; Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramist born in Barcelona. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and famously declared an "assassination of painting" in favor of upsetting the visual elements of established painting. (Wikipedia)
 SERGEI PROKOFIEV (April 23, 1891 - March 3, 1953) in Sontsovka, Ukraine; Russian composer and pianist. Began writing piano pieces at age five and wrote an opera at nine; studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov and others. Prolific and arrogant, he made a living by performing as a virtuoso. His works include the Scythian Suite and First ("Classical") Symphony, The Love for Three Oranges; scores for the ballet Romeo and Juliet, Peter and the Wolf, and striking national music for Sergey Eisenstein's films Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible. The government's denunciation of his work in 1948 was a harsh blow to Prokofiev; his health failed, and he died on the same day as Joseph Stalin.
 SHIRLEY TEMPLE (born April 23, 1928 - ) in Santa Monica, California : a former American child actress; began her screen career in 1932 at the age of three with comedy shorts and bit parts in feature films. Following her breakthrough film Stand Up and Cheer! in 1934, she skyrocketed to superstardom the same year with the Christmas release of Bright Eyes, a feature film designed specifically for her talents. Star status was confirmed with an Academy Award in February 1935, and blockbusting super hits such as Curly Top and Heidi followed year after year during the mid to late 1930s. She is the youngest person ever to be awarded an Oscar (at age 6). (Wikipedia)
back to top |  JOHN MUIR (April 23, 1838 - December 24, 1914) in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland ; Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of U.S. wilderness. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California, have been read by millions and are still popular today. His direct activism helped to save the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is now one of the most important conservation organizations in the United States. His writings and philosophy strongly influenced the formation of the modern environmental movement. (Wikipedia)
 IEOH MING PEI (April 26, 1917 - ) commonly known by his initials I. M. Pei, born in Guangzhou raised in Hong Kong and Shanghai; Chinese-born American architect; considered a master of modern architecture.Pei has won a wide variety of prizes and awards in the field of architecture, including the AIA Gold Medal in 1979, the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture in 1989, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in 2003. In 1983 he won the Pritzker Prize, sometimes called the Nobel Prize of architecture. In its citation, the jury wrote: "Ieoh Ming Pei has given this century some of its most beautiful interior spaces and exterior forms.... His versatility and skill in the use of materials approach the level of poetry." (Wikipedia)
 SAMUEL MORSE (April 27, 1791 - April 2, 1872) in Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts; American contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs, co-inventor of the Morse code, and a painter of historic scenes.Morse was a professional artist. However, he is remembered for his Code, still used, and less for the invention that enabled it to be used, probably since landline telegraphy eventually gave way to wireless telegraphy.The telegraph came to be important for the military, being used first at Varna during the Crimean War in 1854; the American Civil War, where rapid deployment techniques for land-lines were developed; and the Spanish-American War where it was used by newspaper correspondents. The first military use for radio telegraphy was during the Russo-Japanes War in 1904-5. (Wikipedia and Library of Congress)
 FERRUCCIO LAMBORGHINI (April 28, 1916 - February 20, 1993) in the Province of Ferrara, Northern Italy; Italian industrialist. Born to grape farmers from the commune of Renazzo di Cento in the Emilia-Romagna region, his mechanical know-how led him to enter the business of tractor manufacturing in 1948, when he founded Lamborghini Trattori, which quickly became an important manufacturer of agricultural equipment in the midst of Italy's post-war economic reform. In 1959, he opened an oil heater factory, Lamborghini Bruciatori, which later entered the business of producing air conditioning equipment. In 1963, he most famously created Automobili Lamborghini, a maker of high-end sports cars. Lamborghini sold off many of his interests by the late 1970s, and retired to an estate in Umbria, where he pursued winemaking. (Wikipedia)
 FRANZ LEHÁR (April 30, 1870 - October 24, 1948) in Komáron, (presently) Slovakia; Austrian composer of Hungarian descent. He was the leading composer of operettas in the 20th century; also wrote sonatas, symphonic poems, marches and a number of waltzes. Perhaps his most famous operetta is The Merry Widow; he is also well known for Vilha (from The Merry Widow) and You Are My Heart's Delight (from The Land of Smiles)
He is still one of the most popular composers of light music.
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        Photographs by Emil Otto Hoppe: Left to right: Totnesbutterwalk; Middletown in the Snow, Connecticut; Locomotive Wheels, Borsig Locomotive Works, Berlin; Early Morning, Pemberton, Western Australia; 6th Avenue at 42nd Street, NYC 1921; Piccadilly Circus, London 1918; The Alhambra at Night; and Kite in Bali.
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This issue of The Update features the third of 15 neighborhoods of San Francisco we will be covering in the next several months. This month's neighborhood is Chinatown. Material for this series will mainly come from the Only in San Francisco website.The entrance to Chinatown at Grant Avenue and Bush Street is called the "Dragon's Gate." Inside are 24 blocks of hustle and bustle, most of it taking place along Grant, the oldest street in San Francisco. This city within a city is best explored on foot; exotic shops, food markets, temples and small museums comprise its boundaries. Visitors can buy herbal remedies, enjoy samples at a tea bar or order a "dim sum" lunch. The former central telephone exchange of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company stands at 743 Washington St. Now a bank, it is the first Chinese-style building constructed in San Francisco, and the exact site where California's first newspaper was printed."Did you know that you can watch fortune cookies being made on Ross Alley? This small factory produces some 200,000 a year." (from Only in San Francisco)
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APRIL 2010, volume 5, no.4
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CHINATOWN
