The Reception for the Environmental Art Show will be held tonight (Monday April 18) from 7 to 9pm. Please come by the Heritage Room (5th floor of the library) for a chance to meet and greet the artists. The Reception is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served at this event.
Dr. Zych’s Capstone Marketing class forces students to learn beyond the classroom (hence the clever name for the program). For their final project the “Chrysler 300 team” does work in the library late into the night.
The deadline is fast approaching to submit your application for the first annual Library Research Prize which will be awarded by the Weinberg Memorial Library! Completed application packages must be submitted by 4:00 pm on Wednesday, April 27, 2011.
This prize is designed to attract the outstanding research projects from courses taught in departments across The University of Scranton campus. It recognizes 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.
$500.00 will be awarded to the winning student or group. (If won by a group, then the award will be split equally among the group members.)
Only undergraduate students are eligible. For more information, go to the Library Research Prize web page. If you still have questions, contact Bonnie Oldham, Information Literacy Coordinator, by phone (570-941-4000) or e-mail (bonnie.oldham@scranton.edu)
We’re in the Scranton Times-Tribune today! Many thanks to reporter Josh McAuliffe and photographer Michael Mullen for sharing the story of our exciting Civil War project. Here’s what it’s all about:
This semester, students from Dr. Kathryn Shively Meier‘s Civil War and Reconstruction class (HIST314) partnered up with the Weinberg Memorial Library, the Lackawanna Historical Society, and the Everhart Museum to get a hands-on feel for local Civil War history. Dr. Meier designed the class project in collaboration with Digital Services Librarian Kristen Yarmey to give the students a taste of what life as a historian, curator, or archivist is like while they simultaneously learned about the experience of the common man during the Civil War.
The class project kicked off with a visit to the Everhart’s exhibit “With bullets singing all around me”: Regional Stories of the Civil War, where the students got to chat with curator Nezka Pfeifer about how the exhibit came together. The class of 33 students, most of whom are history majors, then split up into five groups, each with a specific task. The first group worked at the Historical Society with executive director Mary Ann Moran-Savakinus and Pennsylvania Conservation Corps member Sara Strain, going through genealogical files to search for original, Civil-War era correspondence. A second group of students focused on preserving those found letters in appropriate archival storage and prepared them to be lent to the Weinberg Library.
A third group of students spent time here at the Weinberg, digitizing the found letters and describing them. The fourth group of students got a primer in 19th century handwriting from Dr. Meier and is currently working on transcribing the documents. A final, fifth group of students will design a web page layout to interpret the digitized letters for the public.
The end result of the project will be a set of fully searchable, digitized, Scranton-related Civil War documents. These documents will all be made freely available to the public as part of a local collaborative digital history collection called “Out of the Wilderness,” hosted by the Albright Memorial Library.
In celebration of Earth Week and in conjunction with the Environmental Art Show, the Library will be hosting a Recycled Craft Night on April 14th at 7PM in the Heritage Room. Come join us as we learn how to make origami swans and jumping frogs out of unused book covers! This event has been organized by the Weinberg Memorial Library Green Team. All Students, Faculty and Staff are welcome to attend!
The deadline to submit your Environmental or Sustainability related art is quickly approaching!
Please have your artwork delivered to the library (either the Circulation or the Reference Desk) before Monday April 11!
All types of artwork are invited to be submitted to the Environmental Art Show. The exhibit will run from April 14th to the 21st in the Heritage Room. On Monday April 18th at 7pm there will be a Grand Opening event for a chance to meet the Artists and discuss their work. Refreshments will be served.
For more information about the Environmental Art Show please visit the original blog post: Calling All Artists
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 11th, 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 11th and 5pm on Friday, April 15th. The award will be presented during Class Night on May 27th.
Class of 2011, your vote counts – so be sure to remember and recognize a faculty member whose teaching has inspired you!
On Wednesday, April 6, our Spring 2011 Technology on Your Own Terms series will wrap up with E-Readers and Tablets: The Hype and the Facts from 11am-3pm in WML305.
Nook, Sony, Kindle, iPad, Galaxy… There are so many e-readers and tablet computers available that it’s getting harder to know which product to choose to fill a certain need. Want some answers? Drop in any time during our four hour showcase of e-readers and tablet computers at the Weinberg Memorial Library. Best Buy will have many products on display and provide knowledgeable staff to answer your questions. You will learn about the Weinberg Memorial Library e-books available for download as well as where you can find free e-books and how to convert regular documents to ereader formats. Light refreshments will be served. (With representatives from Best Buy, the Weinberg Memorial Library, and the CTLE)
Photo courtesy of Film Movement
Please join us for the Foreign Film Series showing of the Canadian comedy 1981 on Friday April 8, 2011 at 7:00 P.M. in Room 305 of The Weinberg Memorial Library. Dr. Marzia Caporale will lead a discussion following the film.
Film Movement describes 1981 as a cheeky, semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale that tells the comedic story of eleven year-old Ricardo, who, struggling with his family’s move and a new school, decides to become a liar. With a flair for inventiveness and a desperate desire to impress his classmates who are all from wealthier backgrounds, Ricardo dismisses his family and weaves an elaborate web of untruths, inventing a new family history, which he must vigilantly maintain to keep up appearances for his new friends. The film is directed by Ricardo Trogi and is in French with English subtitles.
This event is open to faculty, staff students and the public, but 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.
Steve Berry was presented with the Royden B. Davis, S.J. Distinguished Author Award at a gala dinner with an oriental theme on Saturday, March 19 in the DeNaples Center Ballroom. Steve Berry spoke to the audience about how he became a writer. He stated that he did not begin writing until he was 35 years old. He said that “every writer has a little voice in their head” that keeps nagging at them to write and is not satisfied until they start. He started writing and kept at it for a number of years, going to a weekly writers’ criticism group, to improve his work. And then he got lucky. He got an agent which can actually be more difficult than getting a publisher. He got 88 rejections and then he got a break. In spring 2002, Doubleday bought a book from an unknown author. The book turned out to be The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. It turned out to be a blockbuster hit. Because of the genre that he writes, mystery thrillers, the next thing he knew Berry was signed by a publisher. The main character of many of his books, detective Cotton Malone, is featured in his most recent work, The Emperor’s Tomb. Berry’s books have been translated into multiple languages and are now in 51 countries. Along with his successful writing career, Berry’s love of history has led him and his wife Elizabeth, to create a foundation: History Matters (http://www.steveberry.org/berry-history.htm) to help raise funds for the preservation and restoration of historical treasures. His advice for anyone who is writing or wanting to write is to: “stick in there.”
