Holiday closures are July 4 (Independence Day) and Sept. 2 (Labor Day).

All of our online resources remain available 24/7.

If you need to return a book while the library is closed, you can use the drive-up book drop boxes at the front of campus. These two boxes are located in the turnaround at the University Parkway entrance to campus, near the flagpoles, and are labeled as “library book drop.”

A walk-up drop box is located at the northeast corner of the Pfau Library building, just outside the alcove that holds the elevators and stairwell.

View all the book drop locations in our video About the Library (start at time marker 2:33).

You can use the drop boxes to return library materials any time the library is closed. But if the library is open, it’s best to return your books inside the library to avoid fines. The outside drop boxes are checked only once a day, in the morning.

Please note that any items checked out from the Reserves Desk must be returned to the Reserves Desk only.

The John M. Pfau Library invites you to stop by and visit The Mexican Revolution and Beyond: “Mirada Y Memoria” Archivo fotografico Casasola, Mexico: 1900-1940  exhibit in the library  first floor.

This amazing exhibit was made possible by a partnership between the Pfau Library and The Consulate of Mexico in San Bernardino.  Please join us Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at noon in PL-4005 for a noon time lecture on “The Mexican Revolution”.

MEXICAN REVOLUTION

With The Mexican Consulate

WEDNESDAY, May 29, 2013

Noon – 1 p.m.   Location: PL- 4005

Exhibit Open: May 17- June 30

Complimentary Parking Available (See Kiosk)

Agustín Víctor Casasola: A Brief Portrait

He began his career as a typographer’s apprentice, became a reporter for the Catholic newspaper, El Tiempo, during the 1890s, and by 1900 was a staff photographer.  He worked as a freelance photographer for El imparcial and El Mundo Ilustrado during the first decade of the both century, then established the Society of Press Photographers in 1911. In 1914, he founded the Photographers’ Information Agency, which both commissioned and purchased photographs from other news photographers.  The Photographers’ Information Agency accumulated a rich archive of historical photos taken between 1895 and 1972 by more than 500 photographers, which was purchased by the Mexican government in the 1976.  Known as the Casasola Archives, the Casasola Collection, or Fondo Casasola, the Fototeca Nacional of the National Institute of Anthropology and History preserves and protects the archive in an old convent in Pachuca, Hidalgo.

Mirada y Memoria: Casasola Archives

Mirada y Memoria (Glance and Memory) showcases the photographic treasures of the Casasola Archives from 1900-1939. Among the historical events portrayed are two key periods of Mexican history, the Porfiriato, and the Mexican Revolution. The Photographer’s Information Agency not only documented major historical events as they happened, but also the new reality that emerged from them.The most unique feature of this archive is its strong historical vocation. The exhibit begins with two chapters regarding key periods of recent Mexican history: “The Porfiriato” and the Revolution. The photographs have been selected based upon their historical significance, but especially spotlight their quality and artistry. The chapters dedicated to modernism, justice and trades display the Casasola Agency’s ability to document the new reality that emerged from the Revolutionary War: the development of modernism as a formula for national development.  All the sections, but especially the ones dedicated to the night and personages, showcase portraits that include anonymous people, politicians, artists or celebrities; all in which the Casasola developed a remarkable ability.

If you have ideas for future lectures or want to know more about upcoming events, please e-mail Iwona Contreras at icontrer@csusb.edu or call (909) 537-5102.  The lectures are free to all CSUSB students, employees and the community at large.

When: May 22, 2013

Where: PL -4005 (4th floor)

Time: Lecture 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Meet/greet 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.

Presenter: Dr Roberto Rodriguez

Dr. Rodriguez is an assistant professor at the Mexican American & Raza studies department at the University of Arizona. He is a longtime award winning journalist/columnist who returned to school in 2003 in pursuit of a master’s degree (2005) and a Ph.D. in mass communication (2008) at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He returned as a result of a research interest that developed pursuant to his column writing concerning origins and migration stories of indigenous people, including Mexican and Central American peoples. He has a forthcoming book in 2014 (US Press): “Non Toanantzin Non Centeoli: Our Sacred Maiz is Our Mother” He teaches classes on the history of maize, Chicano Culture, and the Chicano Movement and the history of red-brown journalism.

Andrea Fingerson

Donna Hilbert

7 pm, Thursday, May 16, 2013, Pfau Library, RM 4005, CSUSB

In September 2012, approximately 20,000 ERIC Documents were restored. These come only from peer-reviewed journals and from publications of the Institute of Education Sciences, a government agency.

In March 2013, an additional 21,000 documents published from 2005-2013 were returned to the web. These represent documents that were never available in any other format.

Other documents are being returned to the web on a case by case basis, at user request. The best guess is that ERIC takes 4-6 weeks to respond to user requests.

For current information on the status of the ERIC Documents, please check the message on the ERIC web site and ERIC News. Additional information may be available from the ERIC Weeding Project blog.

Pfau Library still has its microfiche collection of older ERIC Documents; however, no microfiche copies have been produced by ERIC since 2004. Ask at the Check Out Desk to have an ERIC microfiche document retrieved from Storage; you must supply the 6-digit ED number for the document you are requesting. Microfiche documents may be printed or scanned using the microform readers on our 4th floor.

ARTstor offers images provided by numerous museums, artists’ estates, special collections, and more. In addition to fine arts such as painting and sculpture, ARTstor covers the traditional arts of numerous world cultures, archaeological sites, architecture, design, fashion & costume, and even images from the history of science.

A few examples of ARTstor’s variety:

• Magnum Photos: Contemporary Photojournalism
• Vesalius Anatomical Illustrations (Northwestern University)
• Mexican Retablos (Jorge Durand and Douglas Massey)
• Near Eastern Archaeology (Bryn Mawr College)
• Metropolitan Museum of Art: Brooklyn Museum Costumes

Images in ARTstor are for scholarly and educational use, not for advertising or promotion. For information on acceptable reproduction of ARTstor images, see Permitted and Prohibited Uses. Selected images are licensed for reproduction in non-commercial scholarly publications, such as journals. For details, see Images for Academic Publishing (IAP).

Funds from the Vital Technology Initiative paid for the initial archiving fee and first two years of access to this database. Our thanks go to VTI and the Art Department, which initiated the VTI request, for enabling us to offer this resource.

Where: North Entrance to the Library Time: 4 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Come Demonstrate your creative side and chalk it up at the Library! 

We provide the chalk!

Featuring exhibits inside the library: “Latinos in Hollywood,” a historical photographic show, and exhibit work from high school students who were winners in a local art contest.

In addition, “The Mexican Revolution and Beyond,” a display coordinated in partnership with the Consulate of Mexico in San Bernardino, will be shown through June 30 with a noontime lecture on the Mexican Revolution coming soon.

This event is one of many that will take place during the Arts and Music Festival, so please join us and lets have a great time.

If you have questions or would like to know more about upcoming events, please e-mail Iwona Contreras at icontrer@csusb.edu or call (909) 537-5102.

Author F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the novel the film is adapted from in 1941 for “the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.”  However, the novel failed to secure a position as a masterpiece of American literature until the 60’s.  Find out for yourself what all the fuss is about!  Read the novel (4^th Floor  PS3511 .I9 G7 1995b) then explore some of the abundant critical and biographical sources on Fitzgerald and his best-known novel.

See what was daily life like some 90 years ago?  Stop by the library to view our display on the first floor to feel like you’re in the roaring twenties with Gatsby and his friends.