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!
Category: News
Congratulations, graduating seniors!
Today at the Library we’re celebrating the graduation of our senior Library student workers. Many of them have been with us for all four years of their Scranton career. All of them have worked hard and will be dearly missed.
The students were honored today with a luncheon, where they received a certificate of appreciation. Each student also will have a book in their major added to our collection in their honor (ask them which book is theirs!).
Book sale success!
The University of Scranton Weinberg Memorial Library’s annual Book and Plant Sale, held over the weekend, was a big success! The sale raised over $6,500 for the Friends of the Library, more than last year’s sale. We enjoyed great weather and a constant stream of shoppers all weekend long.
Thanks so much to the Friends of the Library, all of our staff and faculty who helped out at the sale, and, of course, all of our book buyers for your support.
P.S. Check out more photos from the book sale on our Flickr page!
Good Reads for Earth Day
The University of Scranton and the City of Scranton are celebrating Earth Day with a week full of events, from a sustainable tour of downtown Scranton to an Earth Day Fair to hikes and mountain bike rides. If you have a quiet moment in the midst of all the green activity, be sure to check out some of the Weinberg Memorial Library’s newest books on sustainability and environmental issues:
- Thomas Friedman, Hot, Flat, and Crowded
- Rowan Jacobsen, Fruitless Fall
- Michael Schacker, Spring Without Bees
- Andrew Darby, Harpoon: Into the Heart of Whaling
- Lisa Gartland, Heat Islands
And don’t forget about today’s Earth Day Fair, which will be held from 10am – 1pm right outside the DeNaples Center. We’ll see you there!
Book Sale Promotional Rap
Hey, HEY! What’d you get your Mother for Mother’s Day?
Great question and one that is probably on a lot of our minds. Two University of Scranton students have come up with the perfect answer…
Emily Jaworski and Erica Matus, two of the Weinberg Memorial Library’s very dedicated work study students, have got a couple ideas for you.
How about a book or a plant from the Friends of the Library Book Sale being held on Saturday, April 25th (9am-9pm) and Sunday, April 26th (12pm-4pm)?
That sounds like a great idea!
Still not convinced? Listen to this streaming podcast of our two lovely ladies performing a duet…
PALCI Outage
We’ve received notification from the University of Pittsburgh that, due to a system failure, the PALCI EZ-Borrow system did not accept requests for a few hours on Thursday, April 9 and Friday, April 10. For that reason —
Any PALCI EZ-Borrow requests placed between 7:15pm on Thursday, April 9 and 9:15am on Friday, April 10, will need to be placed again.
If you have questions or need help re-placing an EZ-Borrow request, feel free to ask a librarian.
Seniors: Vote for Teacher of the Year!
Our partners in crime over at the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence (CTLE) asked us to remind graduating seniors put in their votes for this year’s Teacher of the Year award.
CTLE says…
Each year the Graduating Senior Class selects its “Teacher of the Year”. Beginning Monday, April 20th, 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.
To vote, make sure to cast your electronic ballot between 9am on Monday, April 20th and 5pm on Friday, April 24th. The award will be presented during Class Night on May 29.
Class of 2009, your vote counts – so be sure to remember and recognize a faculty member whose teaching has inspired you!
E-Z Borrow down on Friday
This Friday, April 10th, the PALCI E-ZBorrow service will be down from 9am until 12pm noon. The University of Pittsburgh University Library System, which hosts E-ZBorrow, will be conducting some required maintenance during that time period.
We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and understanding.
Countdown to the Book & Plant Sale, Part 2
Only 18 more days until the 2009 Weinberg Memorial Library Book & Plant Sale!
More study space, starting Monday!
Our students have been asking for more study space (such dedicated learners!), and here at the Weinberg, we’re doing our best to meet their needs.
During intersession, Library staff members moved some of our less-often used print periodicals down to the basement in order to free up some space on the 1st floor. The shelves that used to hold those periodicals have just been removed, so there’s a nice chunk of empty space waiting by the group study rooms.
Tables and chairs have been ordered and will arrive on Monday. Be the first to try them out, and let us know what you think!
Update: The freight company who is shipping our new furniture had to change our delivery date from today (Monday) to tomorrow (Tuesday). So we’ll have to wait one more day for our new study space. Sigh.
Update Part 2: New tables and chairs are here! Come try them out!