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LIFELONG LEARNING and LEARNING ORGANIZATION SYMPOSIUM Please join us for the exciting events in this spring's Lifelong Learning and Learning Organization Symposium. With the wonderful skill and enthusiasm of Wendy Giblin, DBA student and member of the GGU Alumni Board, we have an exciting lineup of events coming this March and April, sponsored by various clubs and departments in the University. Please see The Update's supplement on Lifelong Learning and Learning Organization for details and check our Workshops and Events page for additional events as they are scheduled.
--J. Carter back to top Pick Up Your Complimentary Copy of Financial Times at the University Library Thanks to Going Global, Financial Times is providing complimentary copies of the Financial Times for ten weeks, starting February 16, 2010. Thanks to Gili Assa in MarCom, we have 50 copies available each day in the University Library. Stop by the University Library to pick up your copy. One copy per person per day, please. (Yes! We are trying to LURE you into the Library - you never know what other wonderful things you will find here!)Of course we also have a print subscription to the Financial Times, so if we have run out of complimentary copies when you come, you can read the library's copy in the comfort of the Dana and Teresa Waldman Reading Room on the front mezzanine.Can't get to the library? You can access the Financial Times via the ABI Inform Database via Proquest - and even set up an alert or RSS feed for topics you are following. Your friendly library staff will be glad to show you how to access Financial Times and other resources, through the University Library databases. You are welcome to stop by the reference desk, call 415 442-7244 or toll free 1-877-448-8542, e-mail askalibrarian@ggu.edu, or IM us from the University Library website or Facebook page.We are your partners for success - here to help you Shine!
--J. Carter back to top New Data Analysis Opportunities in the University Library Miro Costa recently presented to GGU University Library staff with a donation from the SAS Institute of the SAS Learning Edition version 4.1, with a license valid until December 31, 2011. Also included is the Little SAS Book for Enterprise Guide 4.1, which is now on reserve in the University Library.
 Miro is kindly scheduling workshops providing an Introduction to SAS, on March 9 and March 10 from 5 pm to 6:30 pm, in room 5224 at 536 Mission Street. Join us and learn how you can add the power of data analysis to your research projects here at GGU.
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We in the University Library are always learning from YOU. A big thank you to those of you who filled out our recent survey. We were able to incorporate your suggestions and comments in our Strategic Action Plans. It was a national library survey, not one we created, and we agree with all the critiques you provided of the survey.We love the positive comments, such as:"An absolutely outstanding library and library staff. Key characteristics of the library staff: expertise, friendly, hard working, sensitive to user needs. flexible. I and my students reap great benefits from the library and the staff.""In terms of service and helpful librarians, the only grade that makes sense in an A+! I have worked with librarians at dozens of university libraries, and while I never had complaints, the library staff at Golden Gate University are by FAR the best …""Overall, this is the very best functioning library I have ever used, including libraries at several major universities both inside and outside the inside and outside the US."However, we also pay great attention to the complaints and suggestions for improvement.
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COMPLEMENTARY and ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE INDEX
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The University Library as a Learning Organization
We are delighted to say that ETS* staff have replaced the slower computers in the Mission Street Room with faster computers.We have made staff training a high priority for this coming year, and we continue to welcome your suggestions regarding how we can provide more effective, better service.Noise, we know, is a problem. Did you know that the University Library used to be the Sherman Clay Piano Showroom? So sound travels very well, perhaps too well, throughout the library. We are working on cutting down the noise, and we welcome your assistance in reminding us to do so, when it becomes too noisy. We have also put into our strategic plan objectives a request to explore the possibility of soundproofing the meeting room and the tutoring room/group study room, as well as a request to explore ways of improving lighting.Over the next few months, we will continue to report on actions we have taken as a result of your survey results. Please remember to keep your comments and suggestions coming. We appreciate the opportunity to learn from you.
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The University Library has added the LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collection (aka "CRDC") to its list of online services.The CRDC "provides full-text access to more than 5,000 Congressional committee prints published from 2004 to present and more than 23,000 Congressional Research Service reports published from 2004 to present."The Congressional Research Service reports are especially useful sources for coming "up to speed" on a variety of topics and issues facing the nation, from Global Financial Crisis: Analysis and Policy Implications (
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Koto performance with lecture
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13th Annual Contra Costa Jewish Film Festival
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KOTO PERFORMANCE
FIST OF LEGEND (1994, 103 min.)
LUST, CAUTION (2008, 148 min.)
SHANGHAI GHETTO (2002, 95 min.)
SEEKING ART IN SHANGHAI (2008, 90 min.)
FILM FESTIVALS in and around the BAY AREA 
Welcome to our 22nd annual Pi Day, founded at the 
The oldest and largest St Patrick's Day parade west of the Mississippi
FACULTY ARTIST SERIES. Yoshikazu Nagai, piano; Axel Strauss, violin; and Jean-Michel Fonteneau, cello: Dvorák Piano Trio in F Minor, Op. 65 and other works
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Left to right: Frédéric Chopin, Antonio Vivaldi, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Maurice Ravel, and Rosa Bonheur
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Left to right: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Johann Sebastian Bach, Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Béla Bartók, and Robert Frost
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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Frédéric François Chopin (March 1,1810 - 17 October 1849) in the Duchy of Warsaw; Polish composer and virtuoso pianist; regarded as a child-prodigy pianist. At age twenty, became one of many expatriates of the Polish Great Emigration.Chopin's compositions were written primarily for the piano as solo instrument. Though technically demanding, they emphasize nuance and expressive depth rather than sheer virtuosity. Chopin invented musical forms such as the instrumental ballade and was responsible for major innovations in the piano sonata, mazurka, waltz, nocturne, polonaise, étude, impromptu and prélude. Chopin was one of the great masters of Romantic music. (Wikipedia)
ANTONIO VIVALDI (March 4, 1678 - July 28, 1741), in Venice, Italy; Italian baroque composer and violinist and priest. After his ordination in 1703 embarked on an intermittent career in the service of the Ospedale della Pietà, an institution for the education of orphan, illegitimate or indigent girls, an establishment with a formidable musical reputation. His later career brought involvement in opera. As a composer Vivaldi was prolific, with some 500 concertos to his credit, in addition to a quantity of works for the church and for the theatre. He left Venice in 1741 in the apparent hope of finding new patrons in Vienna, where he died shortly after his arrival in the city. The Four Seasons, a popular series of four violin concerti, is his best-known work and is representative of the baroque period in European art music. (Naxos)
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWING (March 6, 1806 - June 29, 1861) in County Durham, England; one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was widely popular in both England and the United States during her lifetime, many more after her death.Elizabeth was educated at home, learning Greek, Latin, and several modern languages at an early age. In 1844, Robert Browning wrote to Elizabeth admiring her poems. He continued to write to her and they were engaged a year later. Elizabeth's father disapproved of their relationship, and so Elizabeth and Robert eloped to Italy where they married and lived happily in each others company for many years. Elizabeth's health improved and they both continued to write. In 1850, Elizabeth's best known book of poems, Sonnets from the Portugese, a sequence of 44 sonnets recording the growth of her love for Robert, was published. After Elizabeth's death in 1861, Robert and their son returned to England. (rephrased, cswnet and Wikipedia)
MAURICE RAVEL (March 7, 1875 - December 28, 1937) in Ciboure, France; French composer of Impressionist music known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects. Much of his piano music, chamber music, vocal music and orchestral music has entered the standard concert repertoire. Ravel's piano compositions, such as Jeux d'eau, Miroirsand Gaspard de la Nuit, demand considerable virtuosity from the performer, and his orchestral music, including Daphnis et Chloé and his arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, uses a variety of sound and instrumentation very effectively. Ravel is perhaps known best for his orchestral work, Boléro (1928), which he considered trivial and once described as "a piece for orchestra without music." (Wikipedia)
ROSA BONHEUR (March 16, 1822 - May 25, 1899) French painter of animals, realist artist, and sculptor. She was a pupil of her father, Raymond Bonheur, landscape and portrait painter. Her paintings were regularly exhibited in the Salon from 1841. Bonheur's informed and sympathetic pictures of animal life were remarkably enlightened in approach. They gained her wide popularity, particularly in England and America, where much of her work is to be seen. Her most famous painting, The Horse Fair (1853-55) is in the Metropolitan Museum; Ploughing in the Nivernais first exhibited at the Salon of 1848, now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Bonheur is widely considered to have been the most famous woman painter of the nineteenth century. If you wish to learn more about the remarkable people featured in this month's Born This Month, check them out in our e-book collection.back to top | NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (March 18, 1844 - June 21, 1908) in Tikhvin, St. Petersburg, Russia; Russian composer and a member of the group of composers known as "The Five". He was noted for folk and fairy-tale subjects as well as his skill in orchestration. His best-known orchestral compositions-Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade - are considered staples of the classical music repertoire, along with suites and excerpts from some of his 15 operas. Rimsky-Korsakov initially believed in developing a nationalistic style of classical music. This style would employ Russian folk song and lore along with exotic harmonic, melodic and rhythmic elements in a practice known as musical orientalism. Rimsky-Korsakov embraced folk song and subjects for the musical and programmatic content of his compositions throughout his career. (Wikipedia)
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (March 21, 1685 - 28 July 1750); German composer, organist, violist, and violinist whose ecclesiastical and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity. Although he did not introduce new forms, he enriched the prevailing German style with a robust contrapuntal technique, an unrivalled control of harmonic and motivic organisation, and the adaptation of rhythms, forms and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France.Bach's works are revered for their intellectual depth, technical command and artistic beauty. Bach's abilities as an organist were highly respected throughout Europe during his lifetime, although he was not widely recognized as a great composer until a revival of interest and performances of his music in the first half of the 19th century. He is now regarded as the supreme composer of the Baroque, and as one of the greatest of all time.Bach was a prolific composer, his works include vocal and choral music, music for organ and keyboard, orchestra and chamber orchestra, and music for solo instruments. (Wikipedia)
ANDREW LLOYD-WEBBER (March 22, 1948) in London, England; English composer of musical theatre. He started composing at the age of six, and published his first piece at the age of nine. Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success, with several musicals that have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. He has also gained a number of honors, including a knighthood in 1992, followed by a peerage from the British Government for services to Music, six Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, seven Olivier Awards, a Golden Globe, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2006. Several of his songs, The Music of the Night, I Don't Know How to Love Him, Don't Cry for Me, Argentina, Any Dream Will Do, and Memory have been widely recorded and were hits outside of their parent musicals. His company, the Really Useful Group, is one of the largest theatre operators in London. (rephrased, Wikipedia)
BÉLA BARTÓK (March 25, 1881 - September 26,1945) in Sânnicolau Mare, Romania; Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as his country's greatest composer. He shared with his friend Zoltán Kodály, another leading Hungarian composer, a passion for ethnomusicology. His music was invigorated by the themes, modes, and rhythmic patterns of the Hungarian and other folk music traditions he studied, which he synthesized with influences from his contemporaries into his own distinctive style. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology. (rephrased, Notable Americans, Wikipedia)
ROBERT FROST (March 26, 1874 - January 29, 1963) in San Francisco, California; American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. A popular and often-quoted poet, Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. (rehashed, Poets.org and Wikipedia)
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Left to right: Rosa Bonheur's: Plowing in the Nivernais, Three Cows, William F. Cody - Buffalo Bill, Sheep by the Sea, Horse Fair, and The King
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Telegraph HillThis issue of The Update features the second of 15 neighborhoods of San Francisco we will be covering in the next several months. This month's neighborhood is North Beach. Material for this series will mainly come from the Only in San Francisco website.A perfect spot for cappuccino and espresso, North Beach is transformed into one of San Francisco's most electric playgrounds by night; live music and dancing keep the streets swinging. In the morning practice tai chi with the regulars in Washington Square and from here, catch the No. 39 bus to the top of Telegraph Hill. Coit Tower atop Telegraph Hill is blessed with marvelous views. Thirty local artists painted murals on its ground floor walls in 1933. This hill is also home to a flock of wild parrots and is laced with stairways off Filbert and Greenwich streets as well as lush gardens.Did you know that the name Telegraph Hill stems from earlier days when a semaphore was used to signal the arrival of a ship through the Golden Gate? (from Only in San Francisco)Next month's featured neighborhood: Chinatown
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MARCH 2010, volume 5, no.3
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NORTH BEACH
