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UNIVERSITY LIBRARY WELCOMES NEW LIBRARIAN,
The University Library is proud to announce that after four months of searching high and low, we have located our new Research Instruction Librarian! Josie Tam, in addition to her many talents and abilities, also brings with her a little bit of the Aloha spirit, by virtue of being a University of Hawaii graduate. Read on for more information on Ms. Tam's background and then stop in for a visit and welcome her to the GGU family.
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by Larry Burg
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I am originally from Hong Kong but I moved to Macau with my family and went to school there. I earned my undergraduate degree and master's in East Asian Studies from the University of Arizona and started my teaching career in Macau. Then I realized how much I missed doing research. What profession would allow me to do research AND teach at the same time? I ended up picking library science. I graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2006, moved around the country and finally settled down here in San Francisco a few months ago. My personal interests include cooking, traveling, typography, and dog-training.Looking forward to serving the GGU community. Let me know how I can be of help.
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Both the Math Lab and the Writing Lab are housed in the library. For those students who may need extra help with these subjects, tutors at the labs are always ready and willing to help. Just come into the library and sign-up for tutorial classes. Equipment, such as computers, scanners and copiers further facilitate student needs. In addition, an array of CDs of a variety of movies can be enjoyed whenever you wish. If you would like to watch a movie in-house, all you have to do is check out the CD and a headset from the Circulation Desk. For light reading, the library subscribes to a sizeable number of magazines, including Women's Wear Daily, Ebony, Fortune, and Consumer Reports, just to name a few.For those students interested in improving their English speaking, an English tutorial that operates like a website, is available in the library. Students simply check-out a special pair of headphones from the Circulation Desk and log onto the English learning system and voilà, you will be learning English at your own pace.Be sure to visit - and bookmark - the Library's 
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Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. 
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Celebrate the relationship between architecture and celluloid through these documentary films, which spotlight the built environment, the architectural profession and the ever-mythical architect's ego.
Location: Main Library Koret Auditorium |
Theme: AMANDLA! : South Africa During and After Apartheid
Location: Main Library Koret Auditorium, Lower Level |
2010 ARCHITECTURE and the CITY FILM SERIES
LABOR DAY FREE FISHING DAY
OLD ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL NOONTIME CONCERTS
SFPL THURSDAYS MOVIES
TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY, SEPTEMBER 19th
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      Works by architect Renzo Piano: Main Lobby, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Jibaou Cultural Centre, Nouméa, Nouvelle-Calédonie (New Caledonia); Offices, Cité Internationale, Lyon, France; Modern Wing, Art Institute of Chicago, USA; Atelier Brancusi, Paris; and The Sphere, Ancient Port of Genoa, Italy.
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 JOHANN PACHELBEL , (September 1, 1653 - March 3, 1706) born in Nürnberg, Germany; German Baroque composer, organist and teacher, who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most important composers of the middle Baroque era. (Wikipedia)
 AMY BEACH (September 5, 1867 - December 27, 1944), Henniker, New Hampshire; American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Most of her compositions and performances were under the name Mrs. H.H.A. Beach.Beach was born into a distinguished New England family. A child prodigy, she was able to sing forty tunes accurately by age one; by age two she could improvise a countermelody to any melody her mother sang; she taught herself to read at age three, and began composing simple waltzes at the age of four. She began formal piano lessons with her mother at the age of six, and a year later started giving public recitals, playing works by Handel, Beethoven, Chopin, and her own pieces. At age fourteen, Amy received her only formal training in composition with Junius W. Hill, with whom she studied harmony and counterpoint for a year. Other than this year of training, Amy was self-taught; she often learned by studying classical pieces, such as Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier. (Wikipedia)
 ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK (September 8, 1841 - May 1, 1904) Nelahozeves, Prague; Czech composer of Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvorák was a prolific composer, his works include operas, symphonic, choral and chamber music. His best-known works include his New World Symphony, the Slavonic Dances, "American" String Quartet, and Cello Concerto in B minor. A most prolific composer,
Dvorák wrote nine symphonies, fourteen string quartets, eight sets of pieces for the piano, nine operas and numerous songs. (Wikipedia)
 ALFRED GERALD CAPLIN (September 28, 1909-November 5, 1979) New Haven, Connecticut ; better known as AL CAPP; American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li'l Abner. He also wrote the comic strips Abbie an' Slats and Long Sam. He won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1947 for Cartoonist of the Year, and their 1979 the Elzie Segar Award (posthumously) for his "unique and outstanding contribution to the profession of cartooning."At 19, he became the youngest syndicated cartoonist in America, drawing Colonel Gilfeather, a daily panel for Associated Press. In 1934 Capp struck out on his own. He took his hillbilly idea to United Features Syndicate and Li'l Abner was born, now regarded by many as the greatest comic strip of all time. Abner was carried at first by only eight newspapers; within three short years it climbed to 253 newspapers, reaching over 15,000,000 readers. Before long he was in hundreds more, with a circulation exceeding 60,000,000. (excerpted from http://www.lil-abner.com/contact.html}
      BEN SHAHN (September 12, 1898 - March 14, 1969) Kaunas Lithuania; Lithuanian-born American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content.His family emigrated to America in 1904 and after he completed his schooling, Shahn became a lithographer's apprentice. Shahn continued his studies at night school and eventually attended New York University and the National Academy of Design. In the 1920s Shahn became a Social Realist and his work was often inspired by news reports. Text and lettering formed an integral part of his designs. Shahn held strong socialist views and his art often referred to cases of social injustice. A good example of this concerns the drawings about the proposed execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. He also played an important role in the campaign against the imprisonment of the trade union leader, Tom Mooney. (Wikipedia)
|  RENZO PIANO (September 14, 1937) Genoa, Italy; world renowned Italian architect and recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, AIA Gold Medal, Kyoto Prize and the Sonning Prize.Among other famous architects, Piano worked with Louis Kahn, Peter Rice, Richard Rogers, and designer B. Makowsky. Together with Rogers, Piano produced their most famous joint project, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. In 1981, Piano founded the "Renzo Piano Building Workshop" employing a hundred people with offices in Paris, Genoa, and New York. Piano became an honorary citizen of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in March 2008.
Piano's recent expansion of the Art Institute of Chicago includes a 264,000 square foot wing with 60,000 square feet of gallery space called the Modern Wing. It includes a "flying carpet", a sunscreen that hovers above the roof and a 620-foot steel bridge connecting Millennium Park to a sculpture terrace that leads into a restaurant on the wing's third floor.
 UPTON SINCLAIR, JR. (September 20, 1878 - November 25, 1968) Baltimore, Maryland; Novelist, writer, journalist, political activist, Pulitzer Prize-winning American author who wrote over 90 books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the 20th century, acquiring particular fame for his 1906 novel, The Jungle. It exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.At the age of thirteen, Sinclair entered the City College of New York, writing novels and magazine articles to pay for his tuition. It was at Columbia University that he became acquainted with and embraced Socialism.Sinclair caused much controversy and change in his lifetime, widely read in North and South America, Europe, and Russia. Sinclair's productivity continued through his life: he published almost 100 books. (Wikipedia)
 JIM HENSON (September 24, 1936 - May 16, 1990); one of the most widely known puppeteers in history; American puppeteer and creator of The Muppets. Henson was the leading source behind the Muppets' long run in the television series Sesame Street and The Muppet Show and films such as The Muppet Movie (1979) and creator of advanced puppets for projects like Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, and Labyrinth. He was also an Oscar-nominated film director, Emmy Award-winning television producer, and the founder of The Jim Henson Company, the Jim Henson Foundation, and Jim Henson's Creature Shop. Henson died unexpectedly in 1990 at the age of 53. (Wikipedia)
 WILLIAM FAULKNER (September 25, 1897 - July 6, 1962) New Albany, Mississippi; Nobel Prize-winning American author. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, his reputation is based on his novels, novellas and short stories. Faulkner was also a published poet and an occasional screenwriter.Most of Faulkner's works are set in his native state of Mississippi. He is considered one of the most important Southern writers along with Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Eudora Welty, and Tennessee Williams. (Wikipedia)
 DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (September 25, 1906 -August 9, 1975) Saint Petersburg, Russia; Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century.
Shostakovich achieved fame in the Soviet Union under the patronage of Leon Trotsky's chief of staff Mikhail Tukhachevsky, but later had a complex and difficult relationship with the Stalinist bureaucracy. His music was officially denounced twice, in 1936 and 1948, and was periodically banned. Yet he also received accolades and state awards and served in the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. Despite the official controversy, his works were popular and well received.After a period influenced by Prokofiev and Stravinsky, Shostakovich developed a hybrid style, as exemplified by his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (1934). This single work juxtaposed a wide variety of trends, including the neo-classical style (showing the influence of Stravinsky) and post-Romanticism (after Mahler). Sharp contrasts and elements of the grotesque characterize much of his music. (Wikipedia)
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       Works by Ben Shahn, including Years of Dust, Three Men Study for Rikers Island Mural, Seward Park, and a protest poster against H-Bomb testing.
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 PICTURES ON BANNER HEAD: Noe Valley, Twin Peaks, Castro, and Diamond Heights. At left is the Vulcan Stairway in Upper Market.
This issue of The Update features the eighth of 15 neighborhoods of San Francisco we will be covering in the next several months. This month's neighborhood is the Castro/Upper Market, including Castro, Diamond Heights/Twin Peaks, Glen Park, Noe Valley, and Upper Market. Material for this series comes mainly from the Only in San Francisco website. CASTRO/UPPER MARKET DISTRICTCastro, Diamond Heights/Twin Peaks, Glen Park, Noe Valley, Upper Market"Sweeping views and grand Victorians, pride of place and person coalesce in an area embracing the "gay capital of the world" also known for village-like shopping enclaves.""San Francisco's historic F-Line streetcars are one of the best ways to reach the Castro and Upper Market areas. The Castro and nearby Noe Valley, offer village-like amenities including pedestrian-friendly streets, Victorian homes in historic Eureka Valley, an array of trendy stores and outdoor cafes for the "see and scene" crowd. The upper stretch of Market Street coils around the lower reaches of Twin Peaks. Noted for their sweeping vistas of the Bay Area, these crests are popular with sightseers. Glen Park on the lower slopes of Diamond Heights has a canyon park and is near a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station." (from Only in San Francisco)"Did you know the exact center of San Francisco is located at 20th and Douglass streets?"
Next month's featured neighborhood: Japantown/Fillmore back to top |
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SEPTEMBER 2010, volume 5, no.9
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