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MEET OUR NEW WEB LIBRARIAN, MARGOT HANSON I'm delighted to join the Golden Gate University Library ohana as the new Web Services Librarian. I hear wonderful things about Gene Springs and I will do my best to live up to the standards he had for this role. I look forward to meeting and working with students, staff and faculty in the University.I'm originally from Northern California, graduated from UC Berkeley for my undergraduate degree in English Literature, and moved to Hawaii in 2005 to pursue Library and Information Science. I graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2007 and worked as a librarian for two years in the University of Hawaii system before moving back to California this fall. My personal interests include eating, reading and knitting.Please introduce yourself to me when you see me, and let's get to know each other!
--M. Hanson back to top MERGENT ONLINE DATABASE The University Library is pleased to announce the availability of the Mergent Online database
Mergent provides corporate information covering US and foreign public companies. Information available for each company includes the following:
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The University Library's LibGuides are online research guides written by university librarians that identify resources that will aid you in your studies.The LibGuides are especially useful for CyberCampus students and those students who can't regularly come in to the library to consult with a librarian in person.For example, we have guides that provide resources for such topics as:
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REFWORKS GOES MOBILE 
LIBRARY INSTRUCTION in FULL SWING!
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
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Join the San Francisco Public Library and Friends of SFPL in celebrating the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one's opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox. A lunchtime reading & performance includes Ben Fong-Torres, Kathi Kamen Goldmark and Sam Barry, Jack Boulware, Frank Portman, Penelope Houston and Patricio Johnson, Richie Unterberger, Jewelle Gomez as emcee and more!
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Opera Guild preview lectures featuring a renowned musicologist who may use recordings and/or handouts to familiarize the audience with repertoire from the current season.
Where: San Francisco Public Library, Main, Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin St. @ Grove
THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT by Gaetano Donizetti; lecture by Mary Ann Smart |
Have Lunch @ the Banned Books Readout
AT THE MOVIES @ SFPL
Superfest Classics International Disability Film Festival
Fall 2009 Preview Lecture Series on Opera
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Top, left to right: Pierre Bonnard (self portrait), Alvin Toffler, Maya Lin, Le Corbusier and Camille Saint Saens
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Top, left to right: Giuseppi Verdi, Oscar Wilde, Pele, Roy Lichtenstein, and John Keats
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PIERRE BONNARD (October 3, 1867 - January 23, 1947) born in Fontenay-aux-Roses; French painter and printmaker, a founding member of Les Nabis, group of Post-Impressionist avant-garde artists who set the pace for fine arts and graphic arts in France in the 1890s.
   ALVIN TOFFLER (October 3, 1928 - ); American writer and futurist, known for his works discussing the digital revolution, communications revolution, corporate revolution and technological singularity; considered third most influential voice among business leaders, after Bill Gates and Peter Drucker; wrote books with wife Heidi credited to "Alvin Toffler" together.
MAYA YING LIN (born October 5, 1959 - ), born in Athens, Ohio; American artist , architect and sculptor; best-known work is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Maya Lin was a 21-year-old architecture student at Yale when her design for the memorial was chosen over 1,421 others. Today, she is known for her sculpture and innovative landscape art.
  
LE CORBUSIER (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris) (October 6, 1887 - August 27, 1965), born in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland; Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, writer, sculptor and also painter, who is famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called Modern architecture or the International Style; was dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities, with his buildings constructed throughout central Europe, India, Russia, and in North and South America.
  
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS (9 October 1835 - 16 December 1921) Paris, France; French composer, organist, conductor, and pianist, known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre, Samson and Delilah, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, and his Symphony No. 3 (Organ Symphony).
KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (October or November 1760 - May 10, 1849) born in Edo (now Tokyo); Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. In his time, he was Japan's leading expert on Chinese painting; best-known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji which includes the iconic and internationally recognized print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820s.    | GIUSEPPE VERDI (October 9 or 10, 1813 - January 27, 1901) born in Le Roncole, then French Duchy of Parma and Piacenza.; Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers in the 19th century; his works still frequently performed in opera houses throughout the world.
OSCAR WILDE (October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900) born in Dublin, Ireland; Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day.
PELE (Edison Arantes do Nascimento) KBE (October 23, 1940 - ) born in Brazil; Brazilian football player given the title of Athlete of the Century by the International Olympic Committee; one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century (Time). In his native Brazil, Pelé is hailed as a national hero.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (October 27, 1923 - September 29, 1997) born in New York City; prominent American pop artist, work heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style; described Pop art as, "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting".
  
JOHN KEATS (October 31, 1795 - February 23, 1821), born in London; English poet, one of key figures of the Romantic movement. Keats's poetry is characterized by elaborate word choice and sensual imagery, notably in his odes, which remain among the most popular poems in English literature; his posthumous influence on poets is immense.
JOHANNES VERMEER (baptized on October 31, 1632 - December 16, 1675), Delft, Netherlands; a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of middle class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He is renowned particularly for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work.
   
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 PICTURES ON TOP. Left to right: Dragonfly, A Metabolic Farm For Urban Agriculture, New York; Perfumed Jungle, Hong Kong; and Lilypad City, A Floating Ecopolis For Climate Refugees, any ocean. On left, Anti-Smog, Paris. All conceptual projects are by VINCENT CALLEBAUT.Vincent Callebaut is an award-winning Belgian ecological architect. At 23 years of age, Callebaut graduated with the Great Architecture Prize, the René Serrure, awarding him the best diploma project at the Institute Victor Horta in Brussels for its Parisian project, Metamuseum of Arts and Civilisations, Quay Branly. On the Leonardo da Vinci scholarship attributed by the European Community, he interned for two years in agencies that fascinated him, including Odile Decq Benoit Cornette Architectes Urbanistes and Massimiliano Fuksas.
 In 2001, he won the Grand Architecture Prize, the Napoléon Godecharle of the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts of Brussels, awarding the best hope of the Belgian architecture with its ecological project, Elasticity, an aquatic city of 50,000 inhabitants entirely autonomous. The jury appreciated "his dynamism, his expression, force, and the coherence of concept." Two years later, he was the finalist of the RE-New Architecture Pleasures awarding the 12 best figures of the Architecture in the French Community of Belgium. During the same year, the Edition Company Damdi of Seoul dedicated him at the age of 28 its first architecture monograph detailing the story of its awarded and exhibited projects during worldwide spontaneous proposals and international competitions. (from the Vincent Callebaut Architecture website)
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