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INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION WEEKNovember 12-15, 2007International Education Week is just around the corner and all GGU students, staff, and faculty are invited to participate! Highlights include:
Come to the 5th floor auditorium for tea and refreshments and hear a GGU alum speak about his international tea business. |
A Tea Party!
Cultural Fair
BOOKS OF INTEREST
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FOOD for THOUGHT
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SITE OF THE MONTH
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According to the website, PRB analyzes complex demographic data and research to provide the most objective, accurate, and up-to-date population information in a format that is easily understood by advocates, journalists, and decision makers alike.PRB focuses their on four "core themes": Reproductive Health and Fertility; Children and Families; Population and the Environment; and Population Futures-Aging, Inequality and Poverty, Migration and Urbanization, and Gender."Among free download offerings are: the 2007 World Population Data Sheet, the periodical Population Bulletin and an electronic library of material supplied by partner organizations working in reproductive and child health, HIV/AIDS, and population. And check out the database that contains data on 133 population, health, and environment variables for more than 220 countries, 28 world regions and sub-regions, and the world as a whole.
GGU CIO DONATES HIS NEW BOOK TO LIBRARY
The University Library thanks Anthony Hill,GGU Chief Information Officer, for donating and autographing a copy of the new book CIO Best Practices: Enabling Strategic Value with Information Technology. Anthony wrote the chapter "Architecture, portfolio management, organizational development--integrated foundations for strategy realization." In reviewing the book, Jackson Grantham of Fisher IT Center, UC Berkeley, writes:"This book demonstrates the special knowledge and unique skills required to succeed as an exceptional best practices CIO. It gives the rationale for the enterprise-wide scope of that position, and lays out the recommended practices and concepts as well as case studies and practical examples of the application of these ideas, testifying to the rich experience and insight of its IT executive authors. CIO Best Practices is a useful reference and guide for both newly appointed and experience CIOs, as well as to aspiring CIOs. It is among the top group of recommended readings for all senior executives."---J. Carter Photos shown above: Left: CIO Hill signs his book; Right: Public Services Librarian Rob Bain and Research Instruction Librarian Melissa Beuoy, flank CIO Hill after accepting donation
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY LAUNCHES GREEN INITIATIVES
"If only 15% of U.S. college students used mugs instead of disposable cups every day, we would eliminate more than a billion cups a year." (quote from Sustainableworks.org). This statistic is particularly powerful because it shows how small deeds performed collectively can affect a significant outcome.The University Library has begun implementing green initiatives in the library and its offices and workstations. In taking this proactive stance, the Library attempts to make us aware of how we can help in small, practical but effective ways in helping keep the environment green. It is hoped that this action will motivate others to follow suit, in offices within the University, in workplaces outside of the university, in homes, and even in larger communities.The Library's Green Team has identified a number of green initiatives that can immediately be implemented in most workplace environments. Among these are:- Computers, monitors, printers, fans, lights, etc. in offices and public workstations turned off at end of day.
- Reduction in printing.
- When available, duplex printing enabled.
- Files downloaded to USB flash drives.
- Paper, trash, plastic bottles and aluminum cans disposed of in appropriate bins.
- Unwanted and no-longer-needed office supplies offered for reuse.
- Senders of junk mail and duplicate mailings asked to stop flow of unsolicited materials.
- Stairs taken instead of the elevator.
- Used batteries properly disposed of at GGU's Mail Room, Plaza Level.
- Use of styrofoam cups and other material that are not recyclable curtailed.
Green Idea of the Month: Recycle your dead batteries
These include batteries commonly found in laptop computers, cellular and cordless telephones, digital cameras, camcorders, flashlights, etc. and other wireless electronic devices. Improperly disposed, batteries can corrode and leach toxic material, such as lead, cadmium, and mercury into the earth and ultimately drinking water.The next time you need to purchase batteries, consider rechargeable ones over disposable. Rechargeable batteries significantly reduce both waste and the need for new batteries to be manufactured and purchased. Choosing rechargeables not only helps keep our planet green but saves you some of your hard earned 'green' money.The GGU Mail Room on the Plaza level collects dead batteries for proper disposal.For more use tips and helpful information on "reducing, reusing, and recycling" in the San Francisco Bay Area, visit clutterfreeservices.com's resource page.
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, graphics & layout: A. Dietrich
Other contributors to this issue: H. Amjadi (photos of Anthony Hill), J. Carter, R. Bain, M. Beuoy
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 PICTURES AT TOP show murals of the Mission District in San Francisco. Potrero Street to Mission Street along 24th is a world-renowned mural corridor. Spectacular murals can be seen on Balmy Alley, Clarion Alley, 17th & 18th Streets, 25th & 26th Streets, and on many other Mission District houses, garages, fences, stores, schools, parks, etc. Precita Eyes, one of only three community mural centers in the United States, has played an integral role in The City's cultural heritage and arts education. More pictures of the Mission District murals also can be viewed on the photo-sharing Flikr.
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MOVIES at SAN FRANCISCO MAIN LIBRARY
FIRST AMERICANS Thursdays, 12 - 2 pm, November 1, 8, 15, & 29 Little Big Man, Ishi, The Last Yahi Smoke Signals, and The New World 
MOVIES at SAN FRANCISCO MAIN LIBRARY
TAIWAN FILM FESTIVAL Friday, Nov. 2, 2 p.m.: Let it Be Saturday, Nov. 3, 2-5 pm: Taipei's Bohemians, Jump! Boys, & The Rhythm in Wulu Village 
SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
November 3, 4, and 6, 2007 San Francisco, Berkeley, and San Mateo Check website for exact date, time, and place 
SONOMA VALLEY MUSEUM OF ART
EXHIBIT: 8th Annual Dia de los Muertos Ongoing through Nov 3, 11 am - 7 pm and Nov 4, 11 am - 5 pm Painting & sculpture tribute to 14 Mexican states 
ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL ORGAN CONCERTS
Jean Langlais: Composer, Musician & Teacher Sundays, 3:30 pm, November 4, 11, 18, & 25; Tietze, Langlais Symposiette, Kraft-Cross, de Pol 1111 Gough St., San Francisco 
GHIRARDELLI SQUARE TREE LIGHTING
43rd ANNUAL TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY Live music, entertainment, visit from Santa Ghirardelli hot chocolate for all attendees 900 North Point St., San Francisco | 
UNION SQUARE TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY
18th ANNUAL MACY'S TREE LIGHTING Event is free but for $10 you can sponsor a light in support of the UCSF Children's Hospital Friday, November 23, 6:00 pm 
FERRY BUILDING MARKETPLACE
2nd ANNUAL FUNGUS FESTIVAL Celebrate culinary mushrooms Satuday, Nov. 24 & Sunday Nov. 25, 10 am One The Embarcadero, San Francisco 
JELLY BELLY VISITORS CENTER
JELLY BELLY TOURS Daily tours from 9 am to 4 pm One Jelly Belly Lane Fairfield, CA 94533 
SILENT LANGUAGE OF THE SOUL
Exterior acrylic mural on facade of the Cesar Chavez Elementary School. Designed & painted by Juana Alicia and Susan Cervantes. 23rd and Shotwell Streets 
24th STREET MINI PARK
Designed and executed by Precita Eyes Community Mural Workshop, Colette Crutcher and Buena Vista Elementary school children. 24th Street between York and Bryant 
WOMEN'S BUILDING
Largest and most colorful mural in The City. Ten San Francisco artists and 80 female volunteers, some of them local schoolchildren, painted this mural in 1994. 18th and Lapidge Streets |
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SCHEDULE of FREE DAYS at MUSEUMS in the BAY AREA
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NOVEMBER 2007 volume 2, no. 11
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