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Call for Artists

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February 12, 2013

5:45 pm

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The library will be hosting the 3rd Annual Environmental Art Show during the University’s Earth Week Celebration (April 18-25). The purpose of the Art Show is to showcase the artistic talents of our students, staff, and faculty while promoting sustainability and the environment.

As always the Art Show is comprised solely of University of Scranton student, staff, and faculty submissions, so the success of the show relies on the number of submissions we receive. All types of artwork are accepted for display in the Art Show, but they must be your own creation, and they must be environmentally themed. Our definition of “environmentally themed” is understood very liberally and includes: nature scenes, animals, environmental degradation, sustainability messages, recycled goods, and so on.

Please consider submitting to the show before April 12 and attending the Art Show’s Reception on Monday April 22 from 5-7 pm. All submissions will be returned to the artists before the end of the Spring semester.

The Proud Art of Beautiful Writing: Limited Edition Moleskine® Notebooks

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October 22, 2012

1:08 pm

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This holiday season, the Weinberg Memorial Library is selling a new line of limited edition Moleskine® notebooks, inspired by the calligraphic and ornamental masterworks preserved in the Library’s Zaner-Bloser Penmanship Collection.

Featured on each notebook is “The Proud Art Shall Conquer,” a peacock flourish by master penman Fielding Schofield (1845-1924). Schofield’s work references the motto of 19th century professional penmanship journal The Teacher of Penmanship:

“The Proud Art of Beautiful Writing Shall Conquer the Hearts of All Men.” 

On campus, the notebooks are available for purchase at the Weinberg Memorial Library‘s 1st floor Circulation desk for the price of $20.00 per set (cash or check). Off campus, the notebooks are available for order at $20.00 per set plus shipping and handling. You can either fill out and send in one of our order forms (to pay by check) or contact our Special Collections library at 570-941-7002 to put in a credit card order.

All proceeds benefit the care, preservation, and digitization of the Zaner-Bloser Penmanship Collection.

These Moleskine® Large Cahier notebooks are 5″ x 8.25″ with 80 acid-free pages and are packaged in sets of two — one in black with ruled paper, and one in craft with blank paper.  Graphic artist April Francia, a University of Scranton sophomore double majoring in Political Science and Philosophy, created the notebook covers and decorative paper bands (as well as the Zaner-Bloser Collection logo) by manipulating digitized images of ornamental penmanship in Adobe Illustrator.

(Updated November 15, 2012 with off-campus ordering information)

Library Game Night with New Games!

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October 16, 2012

9:20 am

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The Library will be hosting a Game Night on Monday, October 29th from 8pm till 11pm in the Heritage Room on the 5th floor. We’ll be celebrating our 20th Anniversary, playing some board games and NEW video games! We now have an X-Box with Kinect and we’ll be playing Just Dance 4! We also got the new Rock Band with keyboard! We’ll also have old favorites–Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros.

Hope you can join us and try out the new games! We’ll also have pizza, snacks, drinks, and prizes!

Library 20th Anniversary Celebration Video

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October 5, 2012

2:16 pm

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This past Saturday, the Friends of the Weinberg Memorial Library honored award winning poet, biographer, fiction writer and educator Jay Parini, Ph.D., with the 2012 Royden B. Davis, S.J., Distinguished Author Award. We also kicked off the Library’s 20th anniversary celebration with another honored guest, American Library Association President Maureen Sullivan.

The evening was a wonderful success, and we’re so grateful to our event sponsors, the event planning committee, all of our Friends, and the many Library and University faculty and staff members who have contributed to our 20th Anniversary festivities.

The celebration is far from over, though – check out our calendar of events and join us for lectures, conversations, and our first ever wine-tasting fundraiser!

“Card Catalogs, Computers, and Learning Commons”

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September 17, 2012

11:19 am

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Memorial Library is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.  All are invited to enjoy the 20th Anniversary Exhibit entitled “Card Catalogs, Computers, and Learning Commons” on the 5th floor Heritage Room of the library throughout the fall semester.  Students are encouraged to test their knowledge of the library and win fun prizes with an exhibit trivia quiz, available in both print and mobile friendly versions on the 5th floor.  Answer the short quiz using the exhibit captions as hints and place the quiz in the box provided on the 5th floor.  All correct trivia winners (students only) will be rewarded with a lovely bookmark and will be entered into random drawings to win fun giveaways every week throughout the fall semester.

 

Vendor Day

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September 14, 2012

2:52 pm

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Vendor Day, a set on Flickr.

As part of the Weinberg Memorial Library’s 20th Anniversary Celebration, several of our vendors visited to share information and new services with the students, staff and faculty. We also raffled prizes provided by our vendors.

20th Anniversary Exhibit and Fun Giveaways

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September 5, 2012

2:56 pm

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  • Did you know that the WML building is the third location for the University’s campus library?
  • Where was the first library on campus located?
  • How many years was the library located in the Alumni Memorial building?
  • How can students win fun prizes and giveaways?!?

 

 

Find out the answers to these questions and brush up on your knowledge of the library’s history by visiting the exhibit, “Card Catalogs, Computers, and Learning Commons.” As part of WML’s 20th Anniversary celebration the exhibit will be on display in the 5th floor Heritage Room throughout the fall semester.

Students are encouraged to test their knowledge of the library and win fun prizes with an exhibit trivia quiz, available in both print and mobile friendly versions on the 5th floor.  Answer the short quiz using the exhibit captions as hints and place the quiz in the box provided on the 5th floor.  All correct trivia winners (students only) will be entered into random drawings to win fun giveaways every week throughout the fall semester!

Come CELEBRATE the Library’s 20th Anniversary And Get Gifts, Prizes and Information!

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August 31, 2012

4:00 pm

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When: Thursday, September 13th  10 a.m. – 12 Noon or  1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

and Friday, September 14th 10 a.m. – 12 noon

Where: 24 Hour Room Library First Floor

What gifts, prizes and information?  Our leading database vendors will be on hand to answer your toughest questions and queries.   There will be giveaway gifts and refreshments too!

We will be holding free raffles every 15 minutes for some extra, special prizes:

Leather Portfolio cases

Stainless Steel travel mugs

T-Shirts

Rosewood, 2-GB flashdrive/pen combo

iPod Nano

Barnes & Noble gift cards

Each day there will be a special drawing for a Kindle Fire!

Don’t miss this special opportunity to hear about Library resources from the source:

ProQuest

Ebrary

Springer

SAGE

EBSCO

JSTOR

Oxford University Press

GALE / Cengage Learning

Drop by, stay and talk to the vendors as long as you like.  No reservations are necessary.

Foursquare Frenzy At the Library!

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April 11, 2012

4:59 pm

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The Foursquare Frenzy 2012 is in full effect! If you’re a Foursquare user and check-in to various venues on campus, be sure to upload a picture and you’ll be entered to win special prizes! The Frenzy runs from April 10-23rd. To learn more about the prizes, venues and rules head on over to this site.

The Library is participating in several ways. Simply by checking in to the Library, with a photo of the inside or outside of the building, after midnight you can earn the Bookworm Bender Badge!

Are you the mayor of the Library? We are giving away the “Save Our World” water bottles to anyone who earns mayor status of the Library. There will also be a special prize for the first several people to check-in during the Environmental Art Show opening night reception!

Check-in! Play! Win!

Good luck Foursquarers!