The Weinberg Library has posted terms for using the group study rooms on the window/door of each room. As exam time approaches, there is a greater demand than usual on these rooms, found on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors of the Library. We ask that you observe these posted rules at all times. Most importantly, and for your own safety and security, we ask that you do not leave your valuables in the room when you take a dinner, coffee, or restroom break. Laptop computers, purses, backpacks, and textbooks can disappear very easily when left unattended. Leaving your personal belongings in the room does not “reserve or hold” the room for you. And please remember, the group study rooms are not for single studying. The Library has plenty of carrels on every floor where you can study individually. If you have any questions, please contact the Reference Desk on the 2nd floor of the Library.
Library Research Prize Winners
Congratulations to Rosemary Shaver, a junior History/Political Science major, who was selected as the winner of the first annual Library Research Prize!
The Weinberg Memorial Library inaugurated the prize to recognize excellence in research projects that show evidence of significant knowledge in the methods of research and the information gathering process, and use of library resources, tools, and services.
Three students were selected to receive Honorable Mentions–Courtney Fluehr, Benjamin Redan, and William Woody.
Winners will be honored at a reception and awards ceremony on Thursday, May 12, 2011 in the Heritage Room of the Library.
Congratulations to our seniors!
The Weinberg Memorial Library would like to congratulate our senior work study students on their graduation! We’re so grateful for all of their hard work, and we’ll miss them all dearly.
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!).
Faculty Publications
All are invited to the 2011 Faculty Publications Exhibit, now available at the Weinberg Memorial Library Heritage Room, on the 5th floor of the library, through May 27th. Come see the wide variety of interests the University of Scranton faculty have studied and written about in the last few years. These interests have been expressed in scholarly articles, conference presentations, book reviews, essays or chapters in books and sometimes entire books. For a fun twist, see if you can find the novel in the display. Let’s celebrate Scholarship Month! See you in the Heritage Room!
Trail Clean-up
The Weinberg’s Green Team participated in a trail clean-up Saturday morning along their adopted section of the LHVA Heritage Trail. The team worked for two hours and made it through half the trail. In that short amount of time, they succeeded in filling 9 bags of garbage, several bags of recycling, a pile of metal, and a tire! Their adopted section is the CNJ portion and runs from 7th Avenue, along the South Side Sports Complex, to Elm St. The team will be planning more clean-ups in the future. Visit our Flickr page for more pictures from Saturday!
Earth Week 2011 Wrap-up and Green Team First Year in Review
This year marked the second year the library celebrated Earth Week in order to raise awareness about sustainable issues…
Even though I’m happy to report our structural engineering skills have improved from 2010; unfortunately, our sustainable use of paper did not. However, the increase paper usage is likely because all computer labs on campus have eliminated student printing. Considering almost all students (excluding personal printers) were sent to the library to do their printing, its probably safe to say our “paper awareness” and educational outreach efforts throughout the year had probably payed off.
The good news is that immediately after Earth Week we installed double sided printers throughout the building. Part of the credit for double sided printers should be given to the anonymous student who wrote on our 2010 Earth Week student suggestion page which asked “How should the library Go Green in 2010?”
For Earth Week 2012 we fully expect the paper tower to be a fraction of the size of it’s ancestors thanks to a combination of duplex printing and outreach by the Green Team.
The “wasted paper” display is a tough comparison for a number of reasons. In 2010, we didn’t have the clearly labeled WedgeCycle recycling bins throughout the building and by and large most people weren’t sorting their recyclables. So, paper that otherwise might have ended up in a trash last year is now being properly placed in a paper recycling bin this year. Also, this year we did 10 days worth of recycling whereas last year we did 7 days.
Speaking qualitatively, it would seem that this years “wasted paper” display was an improvement over last years. It was approximately the same amount of paper, but there was no trash mixed in with the paper.
Curbing the amount of wasted paper, unnecessarily duplicated prints, and print jobs left at the printers is definitely a priority for the Green Team.
New for 2011, we had a Craft Night where students, staff, and faculty had a chance to come to the library to make Origami figures out of reused book covers. Pictured above is a display of some of our masterpieces.
This year we hosted our first ever Environmental Art Show as an alternative way to educate about sustainable issues and to reach out to the community. Considering this was our first time hosting an Art Show, we think it turned out pretty good. We are looking forward to see what Environmentally themed art our Students, Staff, and Faculty will have prepared for next years Environmental Art Show! Click the following link for more pictures from the Reception for the Environmental Art Show.
In this poster we displayed all of the library Green Team’s many accomplishments. Some of which include the selling of Reusable Water bottles at the same price it cost us to make them, the installation of a Water Bottle Filling Station, the installation of double-sided printers, tri-colored recycling bins, the adoption of a section of the LHVA’s Heritage trail, collaborating with the Communications department to make Sustainability PSAs which air on our TVs, and collaborating with students for their poster board session at the University’s Sustainability Fair.
The Green Team knows it has a lot of work to do if we are going to to accomplish as much as we did in our first year, but we welcome the challenge!
Foreign Film Series Feature
The Foreign Film Series will present the Colombian drama The Wind Journeys on Friday May 6, 2011 at 7:00 P.M. in Room 305 of the Weinberg Memorial Library. Dr. Yamile Silva will lead a discussion following the film.
Film Movement describes The Wind Journeys as the story of Ignacio Carrillo a musician who travelled the villages of northern Colombia, playing traditional songs on his accordion, a legendary instrument said to have once belonged to the devil. He eventually married and settled in a small town, leaving the nomadic life behind. But after the traumatic death of his wife, he vows to never play the accursed accordion again, and embarks on one last journey to return the instrument to its rightful owner. This award-winning film is directed by Ciro Guerra and is in Spanish with English subtitles.
This event is open to faculty, staff students and the public, however 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.; the film begins at 7:00 P.M. Light refreshments will be served.
Boost Your Environmental Awareness
April 22nd is Earth Day, and the Media Resources Collection has many films that cover topics related to the global environment including No Impact Man, An Inconvenient Truth, and The 11th Hour.
An area of growing concern is the environmental aspect of agriculture and how producing the foods we eat has changed over the past fifty years. King Corn and Food, Inc. are two eye-opening documentaries that shed light on these changes and question whether or not they benefit our environment, our health and our farmers.
Check for their availability by searching our Library catalog at http://wml.scranton.edu/search.
Easter Hours
Photo courtesy of Flickr user Forty Two, under a Creative Commons license
Just a reminder that the Library will be closing early this week for Easter. Here’s when you’ll find us here:
Thursday April 21 8:00 a.m.– 4:30 p.m.
Friday–Sunday April 22-24 Closed
Monday April 25 Noon – 11:30 p.m.
Enjoy the holiday, everyone!
Saving our World with Social Awareness
From Left to Right: Allison Maury, Kelly Williams, and Jenna Caserta. (Missing from the photo Brianne Gallagher).
A group of students from Dr. Jessica Nolan’s Social Psychology class stand next to their informational poster. The poster was presented at the University’s Earth Day Fair and the group spread awareness about living sustainably. In particular, the girls concentrated on the use of disposable water bottles and the benefits of purchasing a reusable water bottle.
The students collaborated with the Library’s Green Team and used the “Save Our World” BPA-Free reusable bottles as an example of what can be done to reduce the use of disposable water bottles.
The Library Green Team thanks these students and Dr. Nolan for all their hard work!