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Thank you for your patience!
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The Weinberg Library begins (slightly) abbreviated service hours starting Tuesday, May 31. Regular weekdays (Monday-Thursday) hours are 8 A.M. until 10 P.M. We open at 8 A.M. and close at 4:30 P.M. on Fridays. Saturday hours are noon to 6 P.M. and Sunday hours are noon to 8 P.M. The complete holiday, break, and Media Resources hours are posted on the Library’s homepage.
The Weinberg Memorial Library held its first annual Library Research Prize Reception this afternoon to honor the winner of the 2011 Library Research Prize. The prize was given to the student who demonstrated exemplary research skills and use of library resources. Rosemary Shaver was the winning applicant with her essay describing her research for her paper entitled Pennsylvania’s First Civil Rights Movement: 1639-1900. The library also presented certificates to three honorable mentions: Bill Woody, Ben Redan, and Courtney Fluehr. We are very proud of all of the essays that were submitted and look forward to next year’s Library Research Prize. Please visit our Flickr page to view all of the photos from today’s reception.
Remaining flowers from the book sale are now available at circulation for $1.00.
Have a wonderful Mother’s Day!
The Weinberg Library has posted terms for using the group study rooms on the window/door of each room. As exam time approaches, there is a greater demand than usual on these rooms, found on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors of the Library. We ask that you observe these posted rules at all times. Most importantly, and for your own safety and security, we ask that you do not leave your valuables in the room when you take a dinner, coffee, or restroom break. Laptop computers, purses, backpacks, and textbooks can disappear very easily when left unattended. Leaving your personal belongings in the room does not “reserve or hold” the room for you. And please remember, the group study rooms are not for single studying. The Library has plenty of carrels on every floor where you can study individually. If you have any questions, please contact the Reference Desk on the 2nd floor of the Library.
Congratulations to Rosemary Shaver, a junior History/Political Science major, who was selected as the winner of the first annual Library Research Prize!
The Weinberg Memorial Library inaugurated the prize to recognize excellence in research projects that show evidence of significant knowledge in the methods of research and the information gathering process, and use of library resources, tools, and services.
Three students were selected to receive Honorable Mentions–Courtney Fluehr, Benjamin Redan, and William Woody.
Winners will be honored at a reception and awards ceremony on Thursday, May 12, 2011 in the Heritage Room of the Library.
The Weinberg Memorial Library would like to congratulate our senior work study students on their graduation! We’re so grateful for all of their hard work, and we’ll miss them all dearly.
The students were honored today with a luncheon, where they received a certificate of appreciation. Each student also will have a book in their major added to our collection in their honor (ask them which book is theirs!).
All are invited to the 2011 Faculty Publications Exhibit, now available at the Weinberg Memorial Library Heritage Room, on the 5th floor of the library, through May 27th. Come see the wide variety of interests the University of Scranton faculty have studied and written about in the last few years. These interests have been expressed in scholarly articles, conference presentations, book reviews, essays or chapters in books and sometimes entire books. For a fun twist, see if you can find the novel in the display. Let’s celebrate Scholarship Month! See you in the Heritage Room!
The Weinberg’s Green Team participated in a trail clean-up Saturday morning along their adopted section of the LHVA Heritage Trail. The team worked for two hours and made it through half the trail. In that short amount of time, they succeeded in filling 9 bags of garbage, several bags of recycling, a pile of metal, and a tire! Their adopted section is the CNJ portion and runs from 7th Avenue, along the South Side Sports Complex, to Elm St. The team will be planning more clean-ups in the future. Visit our Flickr page for more pictures from Saturday!
This year marked the second year the library celebrated Earth Week in order to raise awareness about sustainable issues…
Even though I’m happy to report our structural engineering skills have improved from 2010; unfortunately, our sustainable use of paper did not. However, the increase paper usage is likely because all computer labs on campus have eliminated student printing. Considering almost all students (excluding personal printers) were sent to the library to do their printing, its probably safe to say our “paper awareness” and educational outreach efforts throughout the year had probably payed off.
The good news is that immediately after Earth Week we installed double sided printers throughout the building. Part of the credit for double sided printers should be given to the anonymous student who wrote on our 2010 Earth Week student suggestion page which asked “How should the library Go Green in 2010?”
For Earth Week 2012 we fully expect the paper tower to be a fraction of the size of it’s ancestors thanks to a combination of duplex printing and outreach by the Green Team.
The “wasted paper” display is a tough comparison for a number of reasons. In 2010, we didn’t have the clearly labeled WedgeCycle recycling bins throughout the building and by and large most people weren’t sorting their recyclables. So, paper that otherwise might have ended up in a trash last year is now being properly placed in a paper recycling bin this year. Also, this year we did 10 days worth of recycling whereas last year we did 7 days.
Speaking qualitatively, it would seem that this years “wasted paper” display was an improvement over last years. It was approximately the same amount of paper, but there was no trash mixed in with the paper.
Curbing the amount of wasted paper, unnecessarily duplicated prints, and print jobs left at the printers is definitely a priority for the Green Team.
New for 2011, we had a Craft Night where students, staff, and faculty had a chance to come to the library to make Origami figures out of reused book covers. Pictured above is a display of some of our masterpieces.
This year we hosted our first ever Environmental Art Show as an alternative way to educate about sustainable issues and to reach out to the community. Considering this was our first time hosting an Art Show, we think it turned out pretty good. We are looking forward to see what Environmentally themed art our Students, Staff, and Faculty will have prepared for next years Environmental Art Show! Click the following link for more pictures from the Reception for the Environmental Art Show.
In this poster we displayed all of the library Green Team’s many accomplishments. Some of which include the selling of Reusable Water bottles at the same price it cost us to make them, the installation of a Water Bottle Filling Station, the installation of double-sided printers, tri-colored recycling bins, the adoption of a section of the LHVA’s Heritage trail, collaborating with the Communications department to make Sustainability PSAs which air on our TVs, and collaborating with students for their poster board session at the University’s Sustainability Fair.
The Green Team knows it has a lot of work to do if we are going to to accomplish as much as we did in our first year, but we welcome the challenge!
