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The University Library would like to welcome all of you to the summer term. Have a question and not sure who to ask? Stop by the reference desk where a librarian can point you in the right direction. Librarians are also available for one-on-one consultations; in person, on the phone or via email.On top of our great collection of books and journals, we offer a selection of academic databases, e-books, electronic research guides and trained professionals available to help you use them.Visit the University Library's website for updates on new resources, and databases. You will also find information on events and workshops the library will be hosting. Remember, you can always contact a librarian at askalibrarian@ggu.edu if you ever need help during the research process!
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by Larry Burg
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Did you know that the library has almost 50,000 electronic books that you can read online? Yes, it's true! E-books have been getting a lot of attention lately with the advent of the Kindle and iPad, but the library has been making e-books accessible to the Golden Gate University community for several years before these gadgets came out. The majority of our e-book collection is from a database called ebrary, and you can access the books directly from this database or through our online library catalog, GOLDPAC.E-books are fully searchable, which means that you can find every time a particular word or phrase appears within the text of the book. You can save books to a virtual bookshelf, write notes to yourself, highlight passages, and bookmark important pages. Our e-book database, ebrary, has been making some changes to its interface, and its new improvements include the "ability to select text and navigate throughout documents by finger swiping on the iPad and iPhone" (quote from ebrary website).Due to copyright restrictions, the books aren't available for download. However, you are able to print chapters, or copy and paste portions of the text into a word processing document, which includes an automatic citation. Citations are also available in four different styles, and ebrary allows you to add sources to your RefWorks library. RefWorks is another great resource the library has for you, which enables you to keep track of all your references!To explore our e-book collection, select ebrary from our 
The University Library is pleased to announce that we now provide free access to all the "premium" content on the Chronicle of Higher Education website. In order to access the premium content, you must access the Chronicle's website via the library's 
Are you an early adopter who bought an Apple iPad? If so, did you know that the Financial Times is providing free access to their content via their iPad-specific application until July 31, 2010? To download the FT iPad application and learn more, check out this page: 
Looking for information regarding sustainability? Check out the EarthTrends website: 
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. --Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing will work unless you do. --Maya Angelou
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SUMMER PREVIEW LECTURE SERIES IN OPERA
Koret Auditorium, SFLP Main Library, 100 Larkin StreetOpera Guild preview lectures are scheduled in communities throughout the greater Bay Area by local guild chapters. Each preview features a renowned musicologist who may use recordings and/or handouts to familiarize the audience with repertoire from the current season.
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YERBA BUENA GARDENS FESTIVALThe Best Things in Life Are Free! The Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents music, theater, dance, cultural events, educational and children's programs, reflecting the rich cultures and creativity of the region, all free and open to the public.June 2010 Calendar: http://www.ybgf.org/cgi-local/Calendar/calendar.pl?month=6&year=2010
SAN FRANCISCO BICYCLE MUSIC FESTIVAL 2010 The 4th annual San Francisco Bicycle Music Festival is an all day mobile community music festival that's 100% powered by bicycles and takes you to four different locations for four different mini bicycle festivals.After setting up for a four hour music festival in Golden Gate Park, the entire festival (that's the stage, speakers, the musicians and the fans) packs up and sets off to Dolores Park, Precita Park and ending up in Showplace Triangle with a late night concert and scraper bike demonstration.
When: Saturday, June 19, 2010Where: Marx Meadow, Golden Gate Park; Dolores Park, Mission District; Precita Park, Mission District; and, Showplace Triangle, SOMA/Potrero Hill Details : Visit http://sf.funcheap.com/san-francisco-bicycle-music-festival-golden-gate-park/ 
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Wednesday, June 2, 12-2 pm
The San Francisco Opera Guild presents a lecture by Rosalind Gray Davis on the Giacomo Puccini opera The Girl of the Golden West.
Wednesday, June 9, 12-2 pm
Oakland City Center's annual Summer Sounds Concert series offers free tunes that are perfect for the summer season. Open to the public, the free concerts run from noon to 1:00 p.m. on Wednesdays throughout the summer, from June through August. The concerts are held in Oakland City Center's City Square, just steps away from the 12th Street BART station in downtown Oakland.
June 2 : Seone Stylist - Michael Jackson Tribute 
SFPL THURSDAYS @ NOON FILMS
The always entertaining Golden Gate Park Band performs from its huge repertoire of music of all styles and eras, while wearing cool uniforms. A not-to-be-missed San Francisco tradition. Michael L. Wirgler is the Music Director and Conductor.
Celebrate the longest day of the year at the continent's edge, Muir Beach. Join us for storytelling and songs around a bonfire. Dress warmly and bring a mug for hot drinks. Meet at Muir Beach. Free and no reservations are required.
When: Monday, June 21; call for specifics
Come celebrate one of the more colorful and prominent 
When: Sundays at 2:00 pm, June 20 - August 22, 2010
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        Some of Antoni Gaudí's work, including La Sagrada Familia, Parc Güell, Casa Batlló, and Casa Milà.
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 SIR EDWARD ELGAR (June 2, 1857 - February 23, 1934) in Worcester, England; English composer known for orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed oratorios, including The Dream of Gerontius, chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924.
Elgar was one of the first composers who recorded their works for the gramophone.
 ALEKSANDR PUSHKIN (June 6, 1799 - February 10, 1837) Moscow, Russia; Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems and plays, creating a style of storytelling-mixing drama, romance, and satire-associated with Russian literature ever since and greatly influencing later Russian writers.Pushkin gradually became committed to social reform and emerged as a spokesman for literary radicals. In the early 1820s he clashed with the government, which sent him into exile in southern Russia. While under the strict surveillance of government censors and unable to travel or publish at will, he wrote his most famous play, the drama Boris Godunov, but could not publish it until years later. His novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, was published serially from 1825 to 1832.
 ROBERT SCHUMANN (June 8, 1810 - July 29, 1856) in Zwickau, Saxony; German composer, aesthete and influential music critic; one of the most famous and important Romantic composers of the 19th century; virtuoso pianist who turned to composition after a hand injury. Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra, many lieder, four symphonies, an opera, and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. His writings about music appeared mostly in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik ("The New Journal for Music"), a Leipzig-based publication that he jointly founded. For the last two years of his life, after an attempted suicide, Schumann was confined to a mental institution at his own request.
 RICHARD STRAUSS (June 11, 1864 - September 8, 1949) in Munich, Germany; leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, particularly of operas, Lieder and tone poems. Together with Gustav Mahler he represents the extraordinary late flowering of German Romanticism, after Wagner, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style. Strauss's music had a profound influence on the development of music in the twentieth century. Like Mahler, Strauss was also a prominent conductor.
 ANNE FRANK June 12, 1929 - early March 1945) in Frankfurt am Main in Weimar, Germany but lived most of her life in Amsterdam); one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films. She gained international fame posthumously following the publication of her diary which documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.Otto Frank, Anne's father, the only survivor of the family, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that Anne's diary had been saved, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl. It has since been translated into many languages. The diary, which was given to Anne on her 13th birthday, chronicles her life from 12 June 1942 until 1 August 1944.
back to top |  IGOR STRAVINSKY (June 17, 1882 - April 6, 1971) in Oranienbaum (renamed Lomonosov in 1948), Russia, brought up in Saint Petersburg; Russian composer, pianist, and conductor, widely acknowledged as one of the most important and influential composers of 20th century music; named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people and of the century. In addition to the recognition he received for his compositions, he also achieved fame as a pianist and a conductor, often at the premieres of his own works. Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity.
 JOHANNES GUTENBERG (circa 1398 - February 3, 1468); German goldsmith and printer who introduced modern book printing. His invention of mechanical movable type printing started the Printing Revolution and is widely regarded the most important event of the modern period. It played a key role in the development of the Renaissance, Reformation and the Scientific Revolution and laid the material basis for the modern knowledge-based economy and the spread of learning to the masses.
 GEORGE ORWELL (born Eric Arthur Blair) (June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950), better known by his pen name , was an English author and journalist. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense, revolutionary opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language and a belief in democratic socialism.Considered perhaps the 20th century's best chronicler of English culture, as well as fiction and polemical journalism, Orwell wrote literary criticism and poetry. He is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and the satirical novella Animal Farm (1945).
 ROBERT CHARLES VENTURI, JR. (June 25, 1925 - ) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: American architect and founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. After graduating summa cum laude from Princeton University he briefly worked under Eero Saarinen in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and later for Louis Kahn in Philadelphia, both Pritzker Prize architects. Venturi himself was awarded the Pritzker Prize in Architecture in 1991.Venturi and his wife and partner, Denise Scott Brown, are regarded among the most influential architects of the twentieth century, both through their architecture and planning, and theoretical writings and teaching. He is also known for coining the maxim "Less is a bore" as antidote to Mies van der Rohe's famous modernist dictum "Less is more".
 ANTONI GAUDÍ (June 25, 1852 - June 10, 1926) in Tarragona, Catalonia; Spanish architect and designer; famous for his unique and highly individualistic designs; most internationally prestigious figure in Spanish architecture."In close collaboration with some of the very fine artisans of his time, Gaudí incorporated all those elements making up architectural space - wrought iron, furniture, stained glass, sculptural work, mosaics, ceramics and so on - within an organic concept of decoration and with the integration of these elements into the construction process. The sea landscape was one of his most preferred inspirations."In his own time, Gaudí was both admired and criticized for the audacity and singularity of his innovative solutions. His fame on a world scale has become an unquestioned fact both in specialized circles and among the general public." (from an interview with designer Pedro Uhart)
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      Some of Robert Venturi's work, including Village Street Hotel, Nikko, Japan; Seattle Art Museum, Venturi Duck, and the Millman House.
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 PICTURES ON TOP and at LEFT: Various view of Union Square stores and its plaza.
UNION SQUAREVirtually every fashion label in the world has set up shop in and around Union Square, a landmark park in the heart of the downtown shopping and hotel district. Granite plazas, a stage, a café and four grand entrance corner plazas bordered by the park's signature palms, pay tribute to the Square's distinctive history and offer a forum for civic celebrations. The cable cars head up Powell Street from here and flower stands populate every corner. Thousands originally from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam have given the Tenderloin, a 20-square-block district west of Union Square new life. A landmark church, an experimental theatre house, jazz and blues clubs, restaurants and cafes point to a neighborhood renaissance."Did you know that Union Square was named for pro-Union demonstrations on the eve of the Civil War?" (from Only in San Francisco)Short clips of Union Square:
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