On Sunday December 18, there will be a planned outage of the PALCI/EZ Borrow system. The outage will last from noon until 2pm to allow for server maintenance to take place. All aspects of the PALCI/EZ Borrow system will be unavailable at this time.
Lackawanna Valley Digital Archives
There’s a great new resource available for anyone interested in local history. The Lackawanna Valley Digital Archives, hosted by the Scranton Public Library and funded by a grant from the Willary Foundation, contains digitized photographs, manuscripts, maps, paintings, letters, and videos related to the history of the Valley and its surrounding areas.
While the Digital Archives will continue to grow, there are already three great collections available to the public:
- Out of the Wilderness: The Industrialization and Development of the Scranton Area 1850-1865,
- The History of the Scranton Public Library, and the timely
- Scranton Christmas Windows
We’re partial to the Out of the Wilderness collection since it contains Civil War era materials found, described, digitized, and transcribed last spring by University of Scranton history students in Dr. Kathryn Shively Meier’s Civil War class.
The Lackawanna Valley Digital Archives is a collaborative effort involving many of our local cultural heritage institutions, including the Scranton Public Library, the Lackawanna Historical Society, the Steamtown National Historic Site, the Scranton Times-Tribune newspaper library, the Anthracite Heritage Museum, and our own Weinberg Memorial Library. In addition to the Willary Foundation, other funding partners include the Lackawanna Heritage Valley Authority and the Scranton Area Foundation. We’re looking forward to working together with all of our colleagues on more digital projects in the future!
For more information, see About LVDA or take a look at Go Lackawanna‘s 500 Vine column from November 20th, “New Digital Service Preserves History.” You can also subscribe to the Digital Archives’ Facebook page for updates.
Iggy’s for sustainability… are you?
Iggy stopped by the library today to get a drink of water. As you can see, Iggy practices a sustainable lifestyle, using his Save Our World BPA-Free water bottle to fill up at the library’s purified water station. If only we were all more like Iggy.
Extended Hours begin today December 7, 2011
The Weinberg Library is open until midnight Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 7-8. Friday hours are 8 a.m.-10 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m.-9 p.m. and Sunday noon to midnight. Next Monday through Thursday, Dec. 12-15, we will be open from 7 a.m. to 2 a.m. Friday’s (Dec. 16) hours are 8 a.m.- midnight and on Saturday, Dec. 17 we are open from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. We will be closed on Dec. 18th (Sunday).
After 10 P.M. please enter and leave through the Pro Deo Room doors, as the Library will close to the public after 10 p.m.
Save Our World Water Bottles on Sale!
In collaboration with SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise), the library will be selling the “Save Our World” water bottles for $5 all week (Monday December 5th through Friday December 9th).
Stop by the Circulation Desk and pick-up the cheapest, most environmentally friendly bottle on campus! You can even pay with your Royal Card!
Happy Holidays…Zaner-Bloser Style!
It’s December 1st, temperatures are dropping, and the holiday season is in full swing! Take a (brief) break from working on those final projects and browse a few images of festive holiday themed penmanship from our Zaner-Bloser Penmanship Collection.
Thanksgiving Hours 2011
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!
The Colors of the Mountain
Photo courtesy of Film Movement.
The Foreign Film Series will present the Colombian drama The Colors of the Mountain at 7 p.m. Friday December 2, 2011 in Room 305 of the Weinberg Memorial Library. Dr. Yamile Silva will lead a discussion following the film.
As described by Film Movement The Colors of the Mountain is about a boy’s desire to play soccer in an area surrounded by war. The boy, Manuel, lives with his parents who are hard-working farmers in a mountainous and remote region of the Colombian countryside. As military forces square off against rebels in a civil war, Manuel and his friend Julian try to hold onto their everyday lives. When the soccer ball Manuel received for his birthday is kicked into a minefield, Manuel and his friends are determined to retrieve the precious gift.
This award-winning film is directed by Carlos Cesar Arbelaez and is in Spanish with English subtitles.
This event is open to faculty, staff, students and the public. Seating is limited so please contact Sharon Finnerty at (570) 941-6330 or finnertys2@scranton.edu for reservations.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the film will begin at 7 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.
Schemel Forum Director appointed by President Obama to Commission on Presidential Scholars
The Weinberg Memorial Library would like to congratulate Schemel Forum director Sondra Myers on her appointment by President Obama to the Commission on Presidential Scholars.
According to the U.S. Department of Education, the Commission on Presidential Scholars is a “group of eminent private citizens appointed by the President to select and honor the Presidential Scholars.” The Scholars are selected from a pool of candidates who “demonstrate exceptional accomplishments in academics, the arts, and an outstanding commitment to public service.” We can’t think of a better way to describe Sondra and her contributions to the Schemel Forum, the University, the Scranton community, and the global, public good.
Congratulations!
Tools for Tablets: Apps, Sites, and Widgets for Tablet Computers
The Library has been getting a lot of good feedback from students on our new circulating iPads – and we’ve also heard from our friends at the Center for Teaching & Learning Excellence that there’s a long list of faculty borrowing their iPads as well. So it seems like a good time for a Technology on Your Own Terms workshop!
On Wednesday, November 16, from 12pm-1pm, cataloging & metadata librarian Sheli McHugh will present Tools for Tablets: Apps, Sites, and Widgets for Tablet Computers. Sheli’s workshop will discuss programs that will enhance your use of personal tablets, like the iPad, so that you can get the most out of these devices. We will look at file storage options, word processing programs, as well as social networks and e-reader applications.
All faculty and staff members are welcome, but seats are limited, so if you’d like to come please register at www.scranton.edu/ctleregistration (under Technology On Your Own Terms). We’ll meet in WML305, and a light lunch will be provided. See you there!