The Library will be hosting a Game Night on Monday, October 29th from 8pm till 11pm in the Heritage Room on the 5th floor. We’ll be celebrating our 20th Anniversary, playing some board games and NEW video games! We now have an X-Box with Kinect and we’ll be playing Just Dance 4! We also got the new Rock Band with keyboard! We’ll also have old 
favorites–Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros.
Hope you can join us and try out the new games! We’ll also have pizza, snacks, drinks, and prizes!
This past Saturday, the Friends of the Weinberg Memorial Library honored award winning poet, biographer, fiction writer and educator Jay Parini, Ph.D., with the 2012 Royden B. Davis, S.J., Distinguished Author Award. We also kicked off the Library’s 20th anniversary celebration with another honored guest, American Library Association President Maureen Sullivan.
The evening was a wonderful success, and we’re so grateful to our event sponsors, the event planning committee, all of our Friends, and the many Library and University faculty and staff members who have contributed to our 20th Anniversary festivities.
The celebration is far from over, though – check out our calendar of events and join us for lectures, conversations, and our first ever wine-tasting fundraiser!
Photo courtesy of Film Movement
Join us for a presentation of the Cuban drama Viva Cuba at 7 p.m. Thursday October 25, 2012 in Room 305 of the Weinberg Memorial Library. Dr. Yamile Silva will lead a discussion following the film.
Viva Cuba is described by Film Movement as a tale akin to Romeo and Juliet. The friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences. Malú is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito’s mother, a poor socialist proud of her family’s social standing, places similar restrictions on her son. What neither woman recognizes is the immense strength of the bond between Malú and Jorgito.
Directed by Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti Viva Cuba is in Spanish with English subtitles.
This film was chosen in conjunction with the Scranton Reads: One City, One Book project and is open to the University community and the public. Seating is limited so please contact Sharon Finnerty at (570) 941-6330 or finnertys2@scranton.edu for reservations.
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Memorial Library is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. All are invited to enjoy the 20th Anniversary Exhibit entitled “Card Catalogs, Computers, and Learning Commons” on the 5th floor Heritage Room of the library throughout the fall semester. Students are encouraged to test their knowledge of the library and win fun prizes with an exhibit trivia quiz, available in both print and mobile friendly versions on the 5th floor. Answer the short quiz using the exhibit captions as hints and place the quiz in the box provided on the 5th floor. All correct trivia winners (students only) will be rewarded with a lovely bookmark and will be entered into random drawings to win fun giveaways every week throughout the fall semester.
Vendor Day, a set on Flickr.
As part of the Weinberg Memorial Library’s 20th Anniversary Celebration, several of our vendors visited to share information and new services with the students, staff and faculty. We also raffled prizes provided by our vendors.
“Wolfram Research will be on campus Tuesday, September 18 to give a technical talk on Mathematica 8 from 11:45am-1pm. The talk will be held in the Math Lab of the Loyola Science Center, Room 328.
This seminar will be given 100% in Mathematica and will show useful teaching and research examples for mathematics, the physical sciences, engineering, and business/economics. Ideas for creating universal examples in Mathematica that can be used by colleagues or students with no prior Mathematica experience will be a central theme.
The content will help attendees with no prior experience get started with the Mathematica language and workflow. Since there is a large amount of new functionality in Version 8, most intermediate and advanced users who attend these talks report learning quite a bit as well. All attendees will receive an electronic copy of the examples, which can be adapted to individual projects.
Students and Faculty from all departments are welcome to this event.
To make sure there will be enough space, please email andy_dorsett@wolfram.com to RSVP for the event.”
It’s 1957 and computers are just being introduced into the corporateworld. When a consultant arrives at the Federal Broadcasting Company and starts asking questions, everyone feels threatened – especially the Reference Department. Will the “electronic brain” make the staff redundant?
Join us for Desk Set on Friday September 21, 2012 in Room 305 of the Weinberg Memorial Library, and see if man, woman or machine is superior! Free show (including popcorn) at 7 p.m.
This classic American comedy stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in their eighth film together and is presented by the International Film Series (formerly the Foreign Film Series). Jean Lenville, Assistant Dean of the Weinberg Memorial Library, will lead a discussion following the film.
Seating is limited, so please contact Sharon Finnerty at Sharon.finnerty@scranton.edu or (570) 941-6330 for a reservation.
Find out the answers to these questions and brush up on your knowledge of the library’s history by visiting the exhibit, “Card Catalogs, Computers, and Learning Commons.” As part of WML’s 20th Anniversary celebration the exhibit will be on display in the 5th floor Heritage Room throughout the fall semester.
Students are encouraged to test their knowledge of the library and win fun prizes with an exhibit trivia quiz, available in both print and mobile friendly versions on the 5th floor. Answer the short quiz using the exhibit captions as hints and place the quiz in the box provided on the 5th floor. All correct trivia winners (students only) will be entered into random drawings to win fun giveaways every week throughout the fall semester!
When: Thursday, September 13th 10 a.m. – 12 Noon or 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
and Friday, September 14th 10 a.m. – 12 noon
Where: 24 Hour Room Library First Floor
What gifts, prizes and information? Our leading database vendors will be on hand to answer your toughest questions and queries. There will be giveaway gifts and refreshments too!
We will be holding free raffles every 15 minutes for some extra, special prizes:
Leather Portfolio cases
Stainless Steel travel mugs
T-Shirts
Rosewood, 2-GB flashdrive/pen combo
iPod Nano
Barnes & Noble gift cards
Each day there will be a special drawing for a Kindle Fire!
Don’t miss this special opportunity to hear about Library resources from the source:
ProQuest
Ebrary
Springer
SAGE
EBSCO
JSTOR
Oxford University Press
GALE / Cengage Learning
Drop by, stay and talk to the vendors as long as you like. No reservations are necessary.
On behalf of the Weinberg Memorial Library and the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence, we invite University of Scranton faculty and staff to our Fall 2012 Technology On Your Own Terms (TOYOT) workshops. Here’s what we’ve got planned for this semester:
Digital Photography: Part 1
Thomas Leong (CTLE Math Specialist) &
Brian Snapp (Associate Director of CTLE, Instructional Designer)
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 – 12PM-1PM in WML305How serious are you about your digital photography? Which device or camera fits your needs?
Brian Snapp and Tom Leong from the CTLE will provide an overview to help you make these decisions. In this workshop there will be a short review of current digital devices and common uses; best practices for taking digital pictures including subject, lighting, composition and shutter speed; and creative uses in digital photography. A light lunch will be provided.
Digital Photography: Part 2
Sheli McHugh (Cataloging and Metadata Librarian)
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 – 12PM-1PM in WML305Traditional photo-sharing sites, like Flickr and Picassa, have been studied in previous Technology on Your Own Terms sessions. In this session, we will explore the next generation of digital photo sharing with apps like Instagram and Hipstamatic; the photo blogging site Tumblr; and the virtual/visual bulletin board, Pinterest. Sheli McHugh, Cataloging and Metadata Librarian, will provide an overview and introduction to these sites, while demonstrating their various features and functions. A light lunch will be provided.
Both sessions are open to all University faculty and staff, but seats are limited, so please let us know you are coming You can register at www.scranton.edu/ctleregistration – under Technology on Your Own Terms.
