In celebration of Banned Book Week (September 25 – October 2), the library’s Access Services Department created a new display for the 4th floor Quiet Study Room featuring the Top 10 Banned Books. Do you know what they are? Stop by the Quiet Study Room and check it out! Also, take our quiz and receive a prize if you’re the winner!
Category: Exhibits
Come see the Heritage Room Exhibit
While nearly 20 million voters were electing a government which would mark the end of over 46 years of official apartheid in South Africa, genocide was occurring in Rwanda. Apartheid is institutionalized racial segregation and oppression of non-whites by the white minority. 1 For more information on genocide, see http://www.genocidewatch.org/.
Books on display in the Heritage Room on the 5th floor of the Weinberg Memorial Library are related to the South African apartheid. Take a few minutes out of your busy days to look them over. Also check out the Helen Suzman exhibit (both exhibits are available until October 25th). Suzman was a white South African anti-apartheid liberal politician who spent 36 years in Parliament, always fighting-often single handedly- government sanctioned apartheid.
- “Apartheid.” Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. 11th ed. 2003. Web. 30 Aug. 2010. <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apartheid.>
Helen Suzman Exhibit comes to the Heritage Room
Helen Suzman: Fighter for Human Rights Exhibition
The University of Scranton Weinberg Library Heritage Room
August 31 to October 25, 2010
A traveling exhibit on Suzman’s four decade political career as one of South Africa’s most vociferous and energetic opponents of apartheid.
You are invited to the Opening Reception at 5:30 PM on Wednesday September 15 in The University of Scranton Weinberg Library Heritage Room (5th Floor) featuring a lecture by George Washington University Assistant Professor of Sociology Fran Buntman. Reception to follow lecture.
Professor Buntman is the author of Robben Island and Prisoner Resistance to Apartheid. She will be speaking on “Suzman the Pioneer.” The reception is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by The University of Scranton Schemel Forum, the Office of Equity and Diversity, and the Friends of the Weinberg Memorial Library. For more information, please contact Professor Michael Knies at (570) 941- 6341.
400 Years of the Jesuit Province of Lithuania
The Heritage Room in the Weinberg Library will serve as host for the traveling exhibit “400 Years of the Jesuit Province of Lithuania” from July 16 through August 13. The panel exhibit documents the Jesuit presence in Lithuania from their arrival in 1569. By 1579 the Jesuits had founded the University of Vilnius and by its peak, the province had more than 1000 Jesuits, almost 2 dozen schools, and more than 60 Mission stations. The exhibit documents the suppression of the Jesuits in 1773, their survival through the 19th century, and the reestablishment of the Jesuit school and province in 1923. The effects of World War II and the Iron Curtain are also examined.
The exhibit is being held in conjunction with Lithuanian Heritage Day at the Anthracite Heritage Museum and is being provided by the Baltic Jesuit Advancement Board. Lithuanian authors who were formerly instructors at the University will also be featured: Sister Virginia Vytell, CSC, Dr. Antanas Kucas and Juozas Venchas S.J.
You are most cordially invited to attend the reception for the Exhibit on Saturday, July 31st from 5-7 pm, Heritage Room, 5th Floor, Weinberg Memorial Library, University of Scranton.
Quiet Study Room Summer Display
The Circulation and Access Services Team put together a display highlighting the summer season with pictures of original art and literature. Please stop by. The books are available to purchase or can be checked at the Circulation Desk on the first floor.
Faculty Scholarship Exhibit in Library’s Heritage Room
During the month of May, the Weinberg Memorial Library is hosting its annual Faculty Scholarship Exhibit through Thursday May 27 in the Library’s Heritage Room. The exhibit features books, articles, and conference presentation announcements produced by University of Scranton faculty members since 2008. The exhibit, organized by academic department, provides an overview of the diversity and quality of scholarly accomplishments by the University’s faculty. Please take a few minutes to visit the exhibit. For further information please contact Michael Knies, Special Collections Librarian, 570-941-6341.
The Ritsuko Sato Exhibit
The Weinberg Memorial Library is featuring the artwork of Ritsuko Sato of Kurashiki City Japan. Curator Kazuaki Kishimoto of the Nagi Museum of Contemporary Art stated “Sato’s work is by no means subtle or predictable. Her often deformed motifs dynamically combine chaotic and random strokes with bright vibrant colors. The effects are almost childlike in their innocence, revealing Sato’s unique impressions and interpretations of the world around her.” The exhibit will run from February 8 through April 25.
Samuel Johnson Exhibit
This Fall, the Weinberg Memorial Library is proud to host “Scarce Books and Elegant Editions,” a collection of rare books by and about Samuel Johnson and James Boswell from the Edward R. Leahy Collection, in celebration of the 300th birthday of Samuel Johnson.
Samuel Johnson, best known for his Dictionary of the English Language, is often considered the most important English prose writer of the middle and late 18th century. He was also the subject of what has been called the first truly modern biography, written by James Boswell. On display in the 5th floor Heritage Room are rare editions of Johnson and Boswell works, as well as items and autographed letters by or about both authors.
The exhibit will run until December 11. An opening reception, featuring a talk by Edward R. Leahy ’68 about the collection, will be held on October 7 at 7:30pm in the Heritage Room.
Faculty Scholarship Month
The Faculty Scholarship Exhibit is now open at the Weinberg Memorial Library Heritage Room, on the 5th floor of the library, through the end of May. If you think you had a difficult time with your recent paper, (you did finish that paper, right?!) just think about what the faculty have to go through. After a thorough review of the literature, and months of research, faculty face that blank page the same as you, but their profession is on the line. Faculty submit carefully researched and written papers to a panel of colleagues at selected academic or scholarly journals, or publishing houses. These “readers” carefully scour the articles for any errors, in research, or in grammar. They send articles back for corrections, or in some cases, totally reject the papers. After lots of hard work, it can be a very frustrating experience to have your work rejected. Faculty then make the corrections and resubmit their papers, and hopefully the paper will be published in a forthcoming edition. Sometimes the papers are again corrected and returned for more editing. It can be a time consuming experience. The successes of the past few years are on display! Come take a look and congratulate your favorite faculty author. See you in the Heritage Room!
Countdown to the Lincoln Bicentennial
Here at the Weinberg Memorial Library, we’re celebrating Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday all month long, even though the big day isn’t until Thursday (February 12th). Yesterday, we opened our display of the national traveling exhibit, “Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation,” in the 5th floor Heritage Room.
The exhibit, organized by the Huntington Library and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, will travel to 63 different libraries in 31 different states. The Weinberg will be hosting the exhibit through March 22nd – to see it, just head up to the 5th floor anytime during the Library’s regular hours.
Want even more Lincoln? There’s still time to register for this Saturday’s free Symposium and Exhibit Opening Reception. We’re excited to have three speakers share their knowledge of Lincoln and his time:
- Dr. Leonard G. Gougeon, The University of Scranton – “In the Heat of War: Lincoln, Emerson, and the Fortune of the Republic.”
- Karen James, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission – “Effects of the Abolitionist Movement on Slavery Laws in Pennsylvania.”
- Thomas E. Wooden, Sr., Center for Anti-Slavery Studies – “The Underground Railroad in Northeastern Pennsylvania.”
Best of all, we’ll be visited by Lincoln actor and historian Jim Getty, who will bring the 16th president “alive” as we celebrate his memory. To join us on Saturday, just call the Special Collections librarian Michael Knies at 941-6341 to register. (And check out Michael’s interview in yesterday’s Scranton Times-Tribune!)