Author: Donna Witek, MA, MLIS

The WML on Facebook Converts to Timeline

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March 14, 2012

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The Weinberg Memorial Library is excited to announce that we’ve converted our Facebook Page to the new Timeline format! If you haven’t visited our Page in a while, come on over and take a look around.

Over the coming months we’ll be adding to our Facebook Timeline information about our history since moving into our current building in 1992, in honor of celebrating our 20th Anniversary since becoming the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Memorial Library (formerly the Alumni Memorial Library).

“Like” our Page on Facebook if you haven’t already (hint: you can do this in the right-hand panel of our blog), encourage your friends to “Like” us too, and check back at the Page often to stay up to date on Library news as well as 20th Anniversary events and festivities!

Thanksgiving Hours 2011

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November 21, 2011

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happy thanksgiving!

Image courtesy of Flickr user the hanner under a CC license

Thanksgiving is a few days away, which means a break for student and librarian alike. The Library’s hours for the Thanksgiving Holiday are:

November 22, Tuesday: 8:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m.
November 23, Wednesday: 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
November 24-26, Thursday-Saturday: Closed
November 27, Sunday: 12 Noon-11:30 p.m.

A blessed holiday to everyone in the University of Scranton Community!

Ask a Librarian via IM Unavailable 6/5 and 6/6

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June 5, 2011

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Our Ask a Librarian via IM service will be down on Sunday, June 5 and Monday, June 6 due to upgrades to the system.

If you need assistance from a librarian during the outage, please feel free to email, chat 24/7, or call the Reference Desk at 570-941-4000 during business hours.

Thank you for your patience!

Spring Break 2011

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March 18, 2011

4:04 pm

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Image courtesy of Flickr user amortize under a CC license

Spring has finally arrived in Scranton, and with it, Spring Break!

The Library’s hours over Spring Break are as follows:

Friday, March 18          8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Saturday- Sunday, March 19-20          Closed
Monday-Thursday, March 21-24          8:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Friday, March 25          8:00 a.m. –   4:30 p.m.
Saturday March 26          Closed
Sunday, March 27          Noon-11:30 p.m.

Have a great break everyone–enjoy the sunshine!

Happy Fall Break!

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October 6, 2010

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We’re already halfway through the semester, which means Fall Break is here. Even the Library takes a break at this point in the semester, which means we’ll have limited hours this weekend:

Friday, October 8th:
8:00 am–4:30 pm

Saturday–Monday, October 9th-11th: Closed

We reopen at 8:00 am on Tuesday, October 12th. Also, the Pro Deo Room as well as the New 24 Hour Space will be open all weekend, and are accessible by swiping your Royal Card. You can also get help from a librarian while we’re closed via our 24/7 Chat Reference service.

Enjoy the time off everyone!

Image of Fall Foliage with Train in Scranton, PA, courtesy of Flickr user patwalsh_2000 via a CC license.

New Library Website

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August 19, 2010

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Exciting news for our Library website users (which, considering our online catalog and databases, must be all of you):

The Library’s entire website has undergone a redesign, with an official launch date of Monday, August 23rd.

It has been a busy summer here in the Library, spent revising and redesigning how we offer our services via the Library website. We believe the new website meets all of our goals for functionality and service. All of the functionality you are used to is still available and clearly named, it just may be in a new location. The new website should also be easier to navigate, so we expect this transition to be a helpful one for the entire University community.

In the meantime, it is possible that when you visit our website this weekend, you will begin to see our new web pages as we roll them out.

A sneak peak of what to expect when you visit our Library home page on the first day of Fall classes. Click to enlarge.

For those of you more accustomed to accessing our resources via the Library tab in My.Scranton.edu, the layout of that page remains the same.

If you have any questions, or wish to provide feedback or suggestions about the new Library website (And please do–we welcome it!), please email us at askalibrarian@scranton.edu or leave us a comment here.

Thank you for your cooperation and support during this important transition!

End of Summer Library Hours

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August 9, 2010

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Image courtesy of Flickr user patwalsh_2000 under a Creative Commons license.

Summer classes have ended, which means just two weeks until the first day of Fall classes. Here are the Library’s hours over the next three weeks:

August 7 – August 20:

Monday – Friday                          8:00 AM – 4:30 PM

Saturday – Sunday                      Closed

Royal Welcome Weekend:

Saturday, August 21                   12 Noon – 6:00 pm

Sunday, August 22                     12 Noon – 11:30 pm

Enjoy the last days of Summer break!

Hours for July 4th Weekend

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July 1, 2010

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The 4th of July is upon us, and this means limited hours in the Library for the holiday weekend:

Saturday-Monday, July 3rd-5th the Library will be Closed.

We will reopen at 8 am on Tuesday, July 6th, and resume our regular hours.

Enjoy the festive weekend! Happy Independence Day!

(Photo courtesy of Flickr user Why Tuesday? under a Creative Commons license.)

Internet Outage on Campus Early Next Week

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June 11, 2010

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Just a quick heads up to our students taking summer classes. Next Monday, June 14th at 11 pm there will be a planned Internet outage on campus while network maintenance occurs. It will last until the following morning, June 15th, at 6 am. From the campus IT Department:

During the service outage, on-campus users will not have access to Internet sites and services and users outside of the campus will be unable to reach University of Scranton sites and services. The University of Scranton maintains an alternate Web site to ensure that external users can continue to get some essential content.

This could affect access to the Library’s databases during that window of time, so please plan accordingly!

Wonderful Gmail Labs, pt. 1: Nested Labels

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April 15, 2010

7:55 pm

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Here is Part 1 of a series of posts I plan to do, in which I share about the latest and (in my opinion) greatest features available in Gmail through Gmail Labs.

(Image borrowed from the Gmail blog post about Nested Labels, linked in the body of this post)

To all the Gmail users on campus…

Ever wish you could organize your thousands of archived emails into folders, like most other email clients allow? Well, now you can. Or, at least, you can do the equivalent, with a new Gmail Lab called Nested Labels.

Nested Labels allows you to create custom labels and sub-labels (which can even be color-coded), where the parent label, as viewed by default to the left of your inbox, can be expanded and collapsed to reveal (or hide) the sub-labels within that parent label.

I find this incredibly useful, since it allows me to categorize my huge archive, thus making older emails easier to find. It takes a little bit of time to set up, since you’ll need to go back and categorize all of your old emails from the past, assigning custom labels to the emails you want easy access to. But, if this is something you’ve wished Gmail had (or if you’ve been using the folders4gmail browser extension as a work-around, like I was), check out the Gmail blog post, linked above, for instructions on how to get started with Nested Labels.