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UNIVERSITY LIBRARY LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE The University Library is proud to present to you its new and improved website, completely redesigned and overhauled. The purpose of this drastic reconstruction is to create a website that is totally user-centric and relevant to our users' needs today. This means that navigation around the site is intuitive. Its content is helpful. The library website is both a critical teaching and a learning tool through which information is available and easily accessible. The site is meant to be your all-encompassing home base from which you can work or get help to meet your research needs throughout your time with Golden Gate University. And perhaps beyond.You will note that some sections on the new home page are absent. There are new ones instead. Be assured that nothing of vital importance has been permanently removed, likely re-assigned to a different area. For example, while we may no longer have the "Reading Room," all you need to do is click on Find:Journals by Title to locate the Wall Street Journal or another daily. If you are looking for Research Guides they are now located under Research Assistance: Research Guides. Likewise, shortcuts to the library hours, online catalog, workshops, and so on, are now provided on the left-hand column. The major sections of the website, logically grouped, are located on the right-hand column. Information, instruction and guidelines you may need are found here, as are other services offered by the library.
 Unfortunately, when you go to the new website, you may encounter a number of snags. These may be glitches, dead links, typos, flawed information, etc. Though we work conscientiously to rid the site of their number, still a few bugs may have managed to sneak into our site, regardless. The other inconvenience is that bookmarks set from the previous website will no longer work. For this and all the annoyances you may experience, we apologize, and we ask that you continue to be patient as you explore our new website.Please try to report problems as soon as you detect them. We would like to keep our site bug-, typo- and dead-link free, with few or no crashes. More importantly, we would like our site to stay meticulously correct and current.
 We invite you to share your ideas on how we could improve or make this site more appealing or beneficial to you as a student, faculty member, staff or other fellow site-users. Please send us your suggestions and we will address them promptly. Whatever is feasible and possible will be seriously considered for implementation. We know that only by working together with you will we be able to create the very kind of website you would want to use.
 The Web Team would like to thank you for your patience with the inconveniences you might find on new library website; for your cooperation in identifying and reporting errors; and, for ideas and suggestions on how we can improve the site for you.Please address all library website-related issues you may have to Alice Dietrich at adietrich@ggu.edu.
 There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.--- Albert Schweitzer
(Click on the cat to hear the Adagio from Concerto for Two Harpsichords and Strings in C Minor, BWV 1060, by J. S. Bach)
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| DATE | WORKSHOP or EVENT | TIME |
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| May 7-10 | University Library Orientation Week | 5:30 to 6:30 pm |
| May 12 | University Library Orientation Week | 11 am to 12 pm |
| May 13 | University Library Orientation Week | 2 to 3 pm |
| May 15 | Finding Country Information | 5:30 to 6:30 pm |
| May 17 | Finding Country Information | 5:30 to 6:30 pm |
| May 19 | Finding Country Information | 11 am to 12 pm |
| May 20 | Finding Country Information | 2 to 3 pm |
| May 21 | Developing Your Research Skills: Evaluating Information | 5:30 to 6:30 pm |
| May 23 | Developing Your Research Skills: Evaluating Information | 5:30 to 6:30 pm |
| May 26 | Developing Your Research Skills: Evaluating Information | 11 am to 12 pm |
| May 27 | Developing Your Research Skills: Evaluating Information | 2 to 3 pm |
| May 31 | Database Spotlight: Morningstar and ValueLine | 5:30 to 6:30 pm |
Location: Unless stated otherwise, all of the above workshops begin at the Reference Desk, University Library, 536 Mission Street, San Francisco.
All University Library workshops are free and open to the faculty, students, alumni, and staff of GGU. We encourage you to register in advance for the workshop you wish to attend. You can do so in person at the Reference Desk or by calling 415-442-7244 or via e-mail askalibrarian@ggu.edu.For additional information about these workshops or any of our databases, please contact the Library's Reference Desk at 415-442-7244 or visit the University Library's Workshops and Events page.
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AND THE WINNER IS ...
GGU Student Government Association officers President Barkwende Frank Sawadogo, VP of Finance Nicolas Hantzsch, and VP of Administration Mukesh C. Punjabi join forces to pick the winner of the $50-Amazon.com gift certificate for a survey on the library taken by students at the beginning of the academic year.
While Barkwende and Mukesh hold the basket of slips with participants' names, Nic covers his eyes to assure fairness in drawing the name of the lucky winner.
Relief is registered on their faces as the process is completed. A winner has been chosen!
Who won the contest? Find out in the June issue of The Update. It just may be you!
BOOKS of INTEREST
Con$umed : how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole / Benjamin R. Barber. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., c2007. HC110.C6 B324 2007 Entrepreneurship / Alan L. Carsrud and Malin E. Brännback. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007. HB615 .C295 2007 What do unions do?: a twenty-year perspective / James T. Bennett, Bruce E. Kaufman, editors. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, c2007. HD6508 .W44 2007 China's economic transformation / Gregory C. Chow. Malden, MA ;Oxford : Blackwell Publishers, 2007. HC427.92 .C4782 2007 The three skills of top trading : behavioral systems building, pattern recognition, and mental state management / Hank Pruden. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2007 HG4529 .P78 2007 Libraries and Google / William Miller, Rita M. Pellen, editors. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Information Press, c2005 Z674.75.I58 L535 2005 Wiley IFRS 2007 : interpretation and application of international financial reporting standards / Barry J. Epstein. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley ; Chichester : John Wiley , 2007 Ref. HF5626 .W55 OECD factbook : economic, environmental and social statistics , Paris: OECD Publications, Ref HC10 .O74 2006 Arab American yearbook the resource and referral guide for and about Arab Americans. McLean, Va.: TIYM Pub., c2007. Ref E185.5 .A65 2007-08
FREE CULTURAL EVENTS, FAIRS & FESTIVALS
May 2007
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| San Francisco State University | Jazz Combos: Gospel, Chorus, World & Big Band | Apr 30 to May 2 7:30 pm | Knuth Hall, SFSU Campus 19th Ave & Holloway, SF |
| San Francisco Main Library | Documenting China: Contemporary Photography | May 2 | 100 Larkin at Grove San Francisco |
| AIA San Francisco | 2006 & 2007 AIA San Francisco Design Awards | May 3-28 | 130 Sutter Street, Suite 600, SF |
| San Francisco Botanical Gardens | Birding for Everyone | Free 1st Saturday: May 5 | Bookstore 9th Avenue, San Francisco |
| Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University | In the American West Photographs by Richard Avedon | May 6 | 328 Lomita Dr. & Museum Way Palo Alto |
| San Francisco Main Library | SF Community Services Directory: A Guide to City Government and Local Organizations | May 9 | 100 Larkin at Grove San Francisco |
| San Francisco Main Library | Teen Anime and J-Pop Club | May 11 | 100 Larkin at Grove San Francisco |
| San Francisco Main Library | 2007 Annual Min-Sok Korean Festival | May 25 | 100 Larkin at Grove San Francisco |
| Cantor Arts Center, Stanford | Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks | Thru July 1 | Stanford 328 Lomita Drive & Museum Way Palo Alto |
| Berkeley Rose Garden | 3,000 rose bushes and 250 varieties of roses | Ongoing | Euclid Ave & Bayview Place Berkeley |
The Update is a regular feature of the University Library's website. If you wish to be added to our mailing list, please contact The Update Editor. Suggestions and questions regarding the newsletter may also be directed to this address.Consultant: Janice Carter | 415-442-7248
Editor: Alice Dietrich | 415-442-7259
Site of the Month: Larry Burg | 415- 442-7250
Books of Interest: L. Burg
Food for Thought: A. Dietrich
Free Cultural Events Calendar: A. Dietrich
Photos of the library: A. Dietrich
Other contributors to this issue: L. Burg, C. Goff, A. Dietrich
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May 2007 volume 2, no. 5
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