The Library will be hosting a Game Night on March 8th @ 8PM in the Heritage Room on the 5th floor. 
We’ll have Wii, Mario Cart, Rockband and board games too! Stop by for some snacks, play some games, and enter to win a grand prize! We’ll be raffling off 2 Amazon Gift Cards! Students, Faculty and Staff are all welcome! We hope to see you there!
Now available at the Library for purchase are BPA-Free reusable water bottles. These BPA-Free reusable water bottles are only $7 and you can use the Library’s new water purifier to fill-up for free!
The Library Green Team has been dedicated to tackling as many environmental issues as we can. By purchasing one of these bottles and filling up for free at the new water purifier in the 24 hour room, you can help show your Scranton Pride and support Sustainability!
The water bottles are 28 ounces and are made with BPA-Free plastic.
Each year at the University of Scranton, graduating masters and honors students demonstrate their research prowess by writing and defending a scholarly thesis. Since 1955, the University Library has preserved these works in print form in our Special Collections.
Now, the Weinberg Memorial Library is proud to introduce the new Electronic Masters and Honors Theses Collection, a new digital home for University of Scranton masters and honors student scholarship.
The collection currently includes 359 graduate and undergraduate theses written by University of Scranton students from 1955 to the present. While the digital collection does not yet include all of the theses the Library holds in print, we are continually adding newly digitized and newly submitted works. With the permission of their respective authors, these theses are either available to the public or restricted to on-campus users only.
If you’re an alumnus who wrote an honors or masters thesis as part of your University of Scranton coursework and would like to include your thesis in the collection, please visit our Thesis Permission page to find out how you can request that your thesis be digitized. As in the past, your original printed thesis will still be preserved in the Library’s Special Collections.
Questions or comments about the Electronic Masters and Honors Theses collection may be directed to the Digital Services department at etheses@scranton.edu or 570-941-7003.
Foursquare users should be sure to check in to the Library each time they visit – our Mayor wins a free Library water bottle!
So far, we’ve had 87 check in a total of 570 times. Our goal is to be more popular than the DeNaples Center, where 134 people have checked in 936 times.
Keep an eye out for other Foursquare specials on campus – they’re coming soon!
There is now a filtered water dispenser in the new 24 hours space. The first button on the right dispenses room temperature water. Press the second button for cold. To get hot, you need to press the key icon before pressing the button on the left. This feature prevents accidentally discharging hot water.
Coming soon: 100 BPA-Free reusable water bottles which feature the University of Scranton “S” and a green leafy “W” for the Weinberg Memorial Library
On March 9, our Spring 2011 Technology on Your Own Terms workshops will continue with The Changing Face of Facebook, to be held from 1pm-2pm in WML305.
If you are a Facebook user, you have probably asked yourself at least once, “Why does Facebook make so many changes to its site?” In this session, librarian Donna Mazziotti will present an overview of the latest wave of changes made to the Facebook user interface. She will also offer a rationale for why Facebook is an ever-evolving tool, as well as reasons why users should embrace Facebook’s mission to always improve its product. After this session, attendees will grow from passive to proactive Facebook users, able to educate themselves about changes made to Facebook as the changes occur. A light lunch will be provided during the discussion.
All faculty and staff members are welcome, but seats are limited, so please register at www.scranton.edu/ctleregistration (under Technology On Your Own Terms).
The Foreign Film Series at the Weinberg Memorial Library premiered on Friday February 11, 2011 with a faculty event. Faculty members from many departments came together to view the bittersweet comedy Bomber. A lively and insightful discussion led by Dr. Ileana Szymanski followed.
The series will continue through the Spring semester. Each month a different award-winning independent or foreign film will be featured. The film series will be open to members of the University community and the general public.
Watch for information about next month’s feature on Infospot @ WML.
This year the library will be hosting its first ever Environmental Art Show. The purpose of the art show is to promote sustainability and to raise awareness about environmental issues. The Library Green Team is asking any interested students, staff, or faculty to submit their environmentally themed art.
All types of environmentally themed art are welcome, this includes photography, painting, sculpting, graphic design, altered images, fashion, film art, and any other areas of creativity. Submissions must be environmentally themed. Examples of environmentally themed art include nature scenes, animals, humanity’s effect on the environment, and creative messages about sustainable issues. Any questions about specific themes or ideas could be directed to george.aulisio@scranton.edu. There is no limit on submissions. However, not all submissions will necessarily be displayed.
Submissions are asked to be ready for display (within reason) This means, for example, that photographs and paintings are to be matted or framed, TVs and additional devices for film art will be provided by the library, any artist who has special display needs should contact George Aulisio. The Environmental Art Show will be held in the Heritage room of the library and will coincide with the University’s celebration of Earth week. All artwork will be returned by the end of the semester.
For any additional questions please contact george.aulisio@scranton.edu.
Congratulations to Frank Subasic of Clarks Summit who won memberships to the Everhart Museum and Lackawac Sanctuary, a gift certificate for 2 tickets to a Broadway Theatre League of NEPA 2011 production, 2 tickets to Langston Hughes’ Ask Your Mama, Twelve Moods for Jazz, courtesy of Community Concerts at Lackawanna College, 4 movie passes to Cinemark Theatres, a $50 gift certificate toward performances at the Scranton Cultural Center, 2 tickets to an Actors Circle production, a new haircut at CK Salon, a gift basket of fabulous lotions and more from LAVISH Body+Home, a 2 day/one night midweek stay at any one of three Cove Haven Entertainment Resorts, a meal at Old Country Buffet (2 adult and 3 children,) and a 3-month “exclusive” Black Card membership to Planet Fitness.
Remember there’s still eleven more chances to win great prizes ~ Click here to purchase your Leaves of Class Raffle Ticket.
Winter weather keeping you indoors? Well the e-book is celebrating its 40th birthday this year! Why not download a free e-book to your device (Nook, Kindle, Sony Reader, smartphone), or just download and read one right on your computer. You’ll first need to check to see which of the different available text formats are compatible with your device.
To help you get started, check out this list of some of the sites where you can download free e-books, along with an informational quote from each website:
“Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.”
“Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format.”
“The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet.”
“PublicLiterature.org provides a user-friendly interface to read books online. Many tools are provided to explore and utilize this collection of public domain books, poetry, tutorials and audio.”
“Bookyards has a total of 17,008 books, 41,784 external web links, 4,197 news & blogs links, 384 videos, 32,963 Ebook links and access to hundreds of online libraries (800,000 Ebooks) for your reading pleasure.”
“We format and package books so that you can read them on a java enabled phone. Most phones sold today are java enabled – you probably have one in your pocket right now.”
“Standard memberships are FREE and allow members unlimited access to eBooks in the HTML format or access to 5 eBooks each and every month in the PDF and/or TXT formats.”
“All of the eBooks from manybooks.net are free…Many of the etexts are from the November, 2003 Project Gutenberg DVD.”
“Getfreeebooks.com is a free ebooks site where you can download free books totally free.”
“We have lots of links to free ebooks in more than 90 categories. You can find scientific, engineering, programming, fiction and many other books.”
For more information, check out the following websites that have created lists of their favorite free e-book sources on the Web:
25 Websites for Download Best Free Ebooks
Top 9 Site to Download Free eBooks for Nooks and Kindles Reader that You Couldn’t Miss!
