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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!
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!
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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!
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:
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.
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!
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!
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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Holy Week and Easter are upon us. And this means the Library’s hours will be lighter at the end of this week, in order for those of us who celebrate to give this Feast of Feasts more of our attention, that we may celebrate Christ’s Resurrection with un-distracted joy!
Here are the Library’s hours for Easter break:
Thursday, April 1st: 8AM-4:30PM
Friday-Sunday, April 2nd-4th: Closed
Monday, April 5th: 12 Noon-11:30PM
Happy Easter and Blessed Feast!
