Members of the Library Green Team will be participating in an LHVA Heritage Trail Cleanup on Saturday, May 3rd at 10am at the Elm St. Trailhead in South Side. If you’re interested in attending, we’ll be meeting on the Linden St. circle at 9:50am or you can meet us at the trailhead. We hope many of you are able to join us!
Please, Take a Seat
You may have seen the article in the April 28th issue of Aquinas about the changes coming to the Reilly Learning Commons. In addition to collaborative spaces, high-end computers and larger study surfaces, there will be additional group study rooms, a lecture capture room and CTLE Writing Center satellite service. You may be wondering what will happen to the furniture that is now located in this first floor room. We are looking throughout the building to match places where a person might enjoy studying or sitting that currently do not have seating. If you have some suggestions, please email reference@scranton.edu
New TechCon Positions for Fall
The Library will be hiring new TechCons, student work study positions, to provide technical support to students within the new Reilly Learning Commons. The Learning Commons will open in August on the first floor of the Library.
TechCons (technology consultants) are highly skilled student workers who are technology savvy, self-driven, reliable, and able to work independently as well as in a team environment. They work approximately ten to twelve hours each week, with flexible scheduling, and gain valuable real-world experience and training.
The Learning Commons TechCons will:
- Provide technical support/troubleshoot technology related problems for students and faculty in the Learning Commons in the use of:
- Software: Windows and Macintosh Operating Systems, Microsoft Office Applications, E-mail, Web browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox), Panopto lecture capture software, LibCal room reservation, audio and video editing software on MACs and PCs (GarageBand, iMovie, etc.)
- Hardware: PC and Macintosh basics, printer basics, Scannx scanner
- Network: wireless network access
- Systems: MyScranton, LMS, Royal Drive
- Work directly with faculty and students on a wide range of projects.
- Research and Present emerging technologies
- Are knowledgeable about web design and multimedia software
Apply Online and be sure to select Learning Commons when selecting the job that you are applying.
The International Film Series Presents: Waiting for Happiness
Please join us on Friday May 2, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. in Room 305 of the Weinberg Memorial Library for a free presentation of the Mauritanian/French drama Waiting for Happiness. Dr. Annie Hounsokou will lead an engaging discussion following the film.
New Yorker Films describes Waiting for Happiness as the story of the diverse people of the small transit city of Nouadhibou in Mauritania which serves as a resting stop for people from all over the world. The lives of its inhabitants are pared down to two basic choices: adaptation or exile. In the latter category is Abdallah, a citified college student who temporarily returns home and, unable to speak or dress like a native, becomes painfully, comically alienated. Opposed to him is Khatra, an alert, curious boy apprenticed to the wizardly local electrician, who demonstrates how apparent oppositions (such as magic and technology, tradition and modernity) might be reconciled through improvisation and patience. Waiting for Happiness spins its overlapping stories and intersecting characters into a prismatic cascade of enigmas, epiphanies, deadpan gags, and haunting images: a light bulb glowing in the middle of the desert, a low window disclosing passersby from the knees down, huge ships bobbing in the offshore haze with the tantalizing promise of distant happiness.
Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako Waiting for Happiness is in French and Hassanya with English subtitles.
This event is open to faculty, staff, students and the public. Please email sharon.finnerty@scranton.edu for reservations.
Environmental Art Show Reception Tonight!
Please join us in the Heritage Room tonight from 5-7PM to admire this year’s Environmental Art Show submissions. Light refreshments will be served.
500 Words = $500
Writing a paper? Doing a project? Tell us about it!
www.scranton.edu/libraryresearchprize
Application Deadline: Friday, May 2, 2014 at 2:00pm
(for intersession/spring courses)
Seniors: Vote for Teacher of the Year
VOTE FOR:
TEACHER OF THE YEAR
ATTENTION: GRADUATING SENIORS
2014 University of Scranton Teacher of the Year Award
Each year the Graduating Senior Class selects its “Teacher of the Year.” Beginning Monday, April 28th, please vote for the faculty member who you believe best exhibits the following characteristics:
- Maintains the highest standards of academic excellence and fairness.
- Inspires interest in the discipline through personal enthusiasm and dedication.
- Is consistently effective in communication.
- Is available outside of the classroom.
The award will be presented during Class Night on Friday, May 30th, 2014.
HOW TO VOTE: To cast your electronic ballot, access www.scranton.edu/toy
WHEN TO VOTE: Monday, April 28th, 9:00 a.m. – Friday, May 2nd,5:00 p.m.
Remember a Faculty Member Whose Teaching Has Inspired You!
(Posted on behalf of our CTLE colleagues)
Join Us for a Roundtable Discussion
Join us Monday, April 28th for a
A Roundtable Discussion
“We Are All Others: The American Story”
Co-Moderated by Sondra Myers, Director of the Schemel Forum
and Julie Schumacher Cohen, University of Scranton Director of Community and Government Relations
Monday, April 28, 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Weinberg Memorial Library, Room 305
This roundtable discussion will explore how all of us are “others” to someone. Our nation has welcomed people from all corners of the globe, as has Northeastern Pennsylvania. Can we celebrate our diversity by becoming more inclusive? How do we welcome newcomers today? What does the American melting pot experience say about an increasingly globalized world?
Event is Free & Open to the Public. Spaces are limited.
RSVP Here or email emily.brees@scranton.edu
The Great Cathedral Mystery
Looking for something interesting to watch this Easter break? Check out the NOVA/National Geographic special “The Great Cathedral Mystery” about the construction of Brunelleschi’s dome atop the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, Italy.
The full episode is available here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/great-cathedral-mystery.html
You’ll learn about how Filippo Brunelleschi, a fifteenth century metalsmith, was able to bridge a chasm of 150 feet by building a dome nearly 300 feet in the air without using any internal supporting framework—a task that would be difficult even with today’s technology. Brunelleschi developed a special bricklaying technique and also invented the first reversing gear system for hoisting tools and materials. These were just a few of his innovations that allowed the dome to rise skyward, unsupported from within.
Then for more details, check out Brunelleschi’s Dome by Ross King, available here in the library. The television program and the book complement each other well because the program focuses on unraveling the methods used to build the dome, while the book dives deeper into the life of Brunelleschi and the context and history of the period in which the cathedral was built.
Have a nice break!
Lackawanna County Lecture Series with Douglas Preston
From our friends at The Lackawanna County Library System: We are pleased to invite you to the Lackawanna County Library Lecture Series with Douglas Preston on Friday, April 25th at 7PM in The Theater at Lackawanna College.
Douglas Preston is the author of techno-thriller and horror novels alone and in collaboration with co-author Lincoln Child. He is also the author of non-fiction books, and has been involved in real-life murder investigations in Italy, including the controversial Amanda Knox case.
Tickets are free with a library card from any library! Tickets available at any Lackawanna County library or visit www.lclshome.org
View the Flyer for more information: Preston Lecture