The campus and the library will be closed Nov. 26 for Thanksgiving Day; Nov. 27 (Friday) and Nov. 30 (Monday) have been designated as state-budget closure days.
In a departure from prior years, and in light of the campus closures on either side, the library will remain closed over that weekend, Nov. 28-29. Our online services remain available 24/7.
A Series of San Bernardino History Lectures to Celebrate the Bicentennial of the City of San Bernardino & the 100th Anniversary of Community Hospital
Community Hospital of San Bernardino:
1910 - 2010
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009
Lecture: Noon-1p.m.
Book signing: 1:15 p.m.-2 p.m.
Location: Pfau Library, PL-4005
The staff of Community Hospital of San Bernardino is proud of its accomplishments through the years and grateful to the physicians, employees, volunteers, board members and community members who helped attain them. This centennial presentation will highlight the early leaders, the story of Sammy Davis Jr’s., accident and recovery at Community Hospital, and the people who have devoted their lives to shaping the richness of the first 100 years of service to this community.
Presenter: Kimiko Ford, MSW, MPA
During her 25-year career at Community Hospital of San Bernardino, Kimiko Ford has managed multiple ancillary and support departments. In her current position as vice president of Mission and Support Services, she oversees the hospital’s community benefit function, foundation, marketing, advocacy, volunteer services, spiritual care and facilities.
Kimiko has a great passion and commitment to her work and to Community Hospital, noting, “I have stayed here all these years because I admire and respect the people I work with and the community that we serve. Our organizational sense of purpose and values is deeply rooted in our culture. This hospital is like a family to me.” Community Hospital has been serving the Inland Empire for almost 100 years, and has a reputation for being one of the best kept secrets in town. Kimiko would like for more people to be aware of the amazing, excellent patient care and community services that Community Hospital provides.
A native of Pomona, Kimiko earned bachelor’s degrees in sociology and law & society at the University of California at Riverside. She went on to earn her MSW and MPA from the University of Southern California.
The lecture is free and open to all students, staff, employees and the community.
If you have ideas for future lectures or would like to know more about upcoming events, please e-mail Iwona Contreras at icontrer@csusb.edu or call (909) 537-3447.
Community Hospital lecture flier (PDF) Requires Acrobat Reader
The John M. Pfau Library is proud to honor our American heroes for Veterans’ Day. Please come and enjoy our display on the first floor of the library in the alcove between the elevators.
Campus community members were encouraged to submit stories about their personal heroes. These stories along with pictures of the heroes form the display.
American Heroes Presentation (PDF) Requires Adobe Reader
Come and view the flags, pictures, and the memory wall of family and friends from our campus community. The table display holds information on the new Veterans’ Club at CSUSB and brochures from all branches of the Armed Forces.
Thank you to everyone that submitted their stories and shared pictures of their American heroes.
Suggested Readings (all are books available from Pfau Library):
Thank you,
Iwona-Maria Luczkiewicz Contreras
Pfau Library’s Rheubottom-Webster Local History Lecture Series presents:
“Rialto Citrus … from the Label to the Grove”
By Richard McInnis
Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009
Desserts: 1:30 p.m.
Lecture: 2 p.m.
Location: CSUSB/Pfau Library-4005
FREE Parking in LOT D
Southern California was developed on the shoulders of two key industries: railroads and citrus. Rialto, from its first Methodist settlers in the late 1880s until the 1950s and 60s, when grove land became more valuable as possible subdivisions, was a central player in the region’s citrus industry. Rialto’s citrus history reflects that of Southern California. The labels pasted on boxes shipped from Rialto packing houses touched every corner of the Inland Empire. Although Redlands had more packing houses and Colton started shipping citrus earlier, Rialto had more than 80 different labels used by the companies that occupied “Packing House Row” near the Santa Fe tracks south of town. This lecture will offer insights into the industry that created the labels as well as a look at the unique nature of the labels themselves as collectible art objects and historical documents.
About the speaker: Richard McInnis is a third-generation Californian, born in San Bernardino. His father worked for Santa Fe and Richard spent his early years growing up in the shadow of the Santa Fe smokestack. In 1953 his family moved to Rialto, before all the groves were destroyed to make room for subdivisions. He was lucky enough to be able to cut through an orange grove (sometimes picking an orange for lunch) on the way to school.
Mr. McInnis has a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications, a master’s in education, and a diploma in graphic design. He currently works as a substitute teacher for Rialto Adult Education and the Colton Joint Unified school and also teaches ROP classes.
As a board member of the Rialto Historical Society, where he does historical research, he provides computer support and docent assistance to visitors of the society’s museum. He also is a member of the City of San Bernardino Historic Preservation Commission.
Pfau Library Presents:
For the Love of Cookies!
Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009
Noon-1 p.m. PL-4005
By Bonnie Petry
Homemade cookies are welcome any time of the year but especially so during the holiday season. Come and celebrate your love of this comfort food with librarian and avid baker, Bonnie Petry, who will present an entertaining exploration of the world of homemade cookies.
Submit your favorite cookie recipe by Nov. 16, 2009 to Iwona Contreras at icontrer@csusb.edu and it will be included in the free booklet distributed at the event. Please bring some of your own homemade cookies to share if you feel inspired.
Bonnie Petry received her M.L.I.S. from UCLA in 1989. She has been a reference librarian at the Pfau Library since 1992 and, among many other duties, is the editor and graphic artist of Peacock, the library newsletter. She has been baking (and eating!) cookies for a very long time and shows no sign of stopping.
The lecture is free and open to all students, staff, employees and the community. If you have ideas for future lectures or would like to know more about upcoming events, please e-mail Iwona Contreras at icontrer@csusb.edu or call her at (909) 537-3447.
ScienceDirect will be down for maintenance from 6 PM Saturday Oct. 31 to 2 AM Sunday Nov. 1.
The Lexis-Nexis database will be down for maintenance from 6 PM, Oct. 31, to 2 AM, Nov. 1
Pfau Library presents the first in a series of lectures to celebrate the Bicentennial of the City of San Bernardino:
San Bernardino’s Bicentennial!
May 20, 1810- May 20, 2010
Monday, Nov. 9, 2009
Lecture: Noon-1 p.m.
Location: CSUSB/Pfau Library
PL-4005 (4th floor, Special Collections)
Presenter: Rabbi Hillel Cohn,
Chair of San Bernardino’s Bicentennial Committee
In 2007, San Bernardino’s mayor and City Council appointed a Bicentennial Ad Hoc Committee to plan the celebrations. San Bernardino’s Bicentennial is coming soon and it will never come again. This is your chance to learn more about San Bernardino’s first 200 years so you can pass the legacy on to your children and grandchildren.
How did a contest held in 1939 and a committee appointed by the mayor in 1959 confirm San Bernardino’s May 20, 1810, founding date?
Who came to San Bernardino in 1910 to help celebrate San Bernardino’s Centennial?
How is San Bernardino going to celebrate its Bicentennial?
The lecture is free and open to all students, staff, employees and the community.
San Bernardino lecture flier (PDF) Requires Adobe Reader
If you have ideas for future lectures or would like to know more about upcoming events, please e-mail Iwona Contreras at icontrer@csusb.edu or call (909) 537-3447.
So, you found a journal article citation in a footnote or bibliography, and you’re wondering how to get it. Does Pfau Library have it?
Try this new search form available from the library: Find an Article by Citation
Fill in as much information as you can; at a minimum, you must have journal title and year. The information you enter runs through our “Search for Full Text” service. If the article is available online, you’ll get a link to it. If the library has a print copy, you’ll get a link to our catalog record, with location information. And if it isn’t available, you’ll get a link to our Interlibrary Loan service (ILLiad); log-in and the service will even fill out the request form for you!
Still in doubt? You can always look up the journal manually in the Pfau Library Catalog. For instructions, see our printable guide, Finding a copy of an article when you know the citation (PDF). Requires Adobe Reader.
Pfau Library presents a noontime lecture:
They Painted Their Own Stories: Illustrators of Picture Books
Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009
Noon-1 p.m.
PL-4005
Presenter: Professor Katherine Thomerson
The best children’s picture books are the product of a happy marriage between the text and the illustrations. It is usually an arranged marriage since the publishers, not the writers, choose the artists. A good illustrator enhances written stories by telling their own visual stories in a number of ways that are not readily apparent. This lecture will focus on three well-known illustrators and their artwork: Maurice Sendak, Marla Frazee, and Kathryn Brown. We will take a closer look at the visual stories painted and drawn by these illustrators.
Professor Katherine Thomerson is the coordinator of Liberal Studies Department at CSUSB. In addition to the time she devotes to teaching, winning various awards, and the pursuit of university activities, she still finds time to write young adult novels.
“They Painted” lecture flier (PDF) Requires Adobe Reader.
The lecture is free and open to all students, staff, employees and the community. If you have ideas for future lectures or would like to know more about upcoming events, please e-mail Iwona Contreras at icontrer@csusb.edu or call (909) 537-3447.