The production upgrade to Encore 4.0 is complete. There are some new features in place and other customizations that are upcoming. Please take it for a test drive, kick the tires and let us know what you think.
Game Night!
When you return from Fall Break come join us for a fun game night! Next Wednesday from 8-11PM we’ll be hosting the game night in the New 24 Hour Room of the Weinberg Memorial Library! We’ll be playing Rock Band, MarioKart, Wii Fit & more! We’ll also have traditional board games, puzzles & SNACKS!
You can just stop on by Wednesday the 13th at 8PM! You can also RSVP on our Facebook Event and share it with your friends. All students, faculty and staff are welcome to attend! We’ll see you then!
Health Care Reform Discussion
The Schemel Forum is collaborating with the Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce to host a discussion of how health care reform will affect businesses.
This Health Care Reform Panel Discussion will be held on Monday, October 18 from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the DeNaples Center on the campus of The University of Scranton. The discussion will feature nationally known speakers Douglas Hastings, Mark Lutes, and Adam Solander, who will look at the issue from four perspectives: the employer, the consumer, the medical professional and the underwriter.
Douglas Hastings is the Chair of the Board of Directors for Epstein Becker & Green P.C. and is a member of the firm’s Health Care and Life Sciences practice in Washington D.C. Mr. Hastings provides a wide range of health care organizations with legal guidance in responding to the challenges and opportunities in the rapidly changing U.S. health care system.
Mark Lutes is a senior member of EpsteinBeckerGreen’s health law practice. He counsels health insurers on reform and compliance issues, and a variety of health care businesses about reimbursement issues and regulatory trends. He has led multidisciplinary teams developing and implementing regulatory and public policy strategies for health care companies.
Adam Solander recently joined EpsteinBeckerGreen from the ERISA Industry Committee where he was Health Policy Counsel. He worked on behalf of Fortune 500 employers concerned with legislative and regulatory developments affecting their employees’ welfare benefit plans. He counseled employers on the impact of health reform legislation and emerging regulation.
The cost for the event is $10 for Chamber members and Schemel Forum members and $15 for all other attendees. A continental breakfast will be served. Please RSVP to Karen Durkin by October 13 at 570-342-7711 or kdurkin@scrantonchamber.com, or visit the Secure Registration page of www.scrantonchamber.com.
Academic Integrity… Still an Issue
Academic Integrity is the main ethical question when doing research, having a class assignment, and publishing. This issue, which is certainly not a new one, has recently gone through a resurgence in the media with articles and editorials in the New York Times and discussions occurring in many scholarly circles, as well.
It’s been assumed that the resurgence of this issue is likely due to the internet, the ease at which information is acquired, and the way people process information today.
Those who do infringe could probably fit into a few different categories, ranging from those that know they are cheating and do it anyway to those who don’t know they are doing something wrong because they don’t know the rules to those who use other’s ideas by accident.
There are lots of ways to combat wrongful practices in scholarship, traditionally this has included harsh penalties for those caught cheating.
It is probably true that these penalties are still needed as a deterrent to those individuals who will cheat even though they know it is unethical. However, another way to combat these ethical issues are to educate students of the issues.
Personally, I like the latter solution the best because it is proactive. Educating students of the issues of Academic Integrity, what is considered a violation, and what is allowed is an excellent way of curbing cheating and an excellent way to put these issues in the forefront of a student’s mind when they are doing their assignments.
A good education on Scholarly Ethics and Academic Integrity would involve more than a paragraph on a syllabus or an explanation of the penalties that are given for each violation. Rather, the better approach is the integrate the ethics of research and the issues into the classroom.
For example when discussing a term paper, explain the importance of original ideas, explain why you would use TurnItIn.com in order to check a paper for accidental plagiarism, and why using correct citations helps to facilitate scholarly communication.
There are an unlimited number of ways Academic Integrity could be integrated into the classroom. With each new creative way to teach Academic Integrity we will see more and more students who are conscious of the issues; until eventually Academic Integrity will hardly be an issue at all.
Happy Fall Break!
We’re already halfway through the semester, which means Fall Break is here. Even the Library takes a break at this point in the semester, which means we’ll have limited hours this weekend:
Friday, October 8th:
8:00 am–4:30 pm
Saturday–Monday, October 9th-11th: Closed
We reopen at 8:00 am on Tuesday, October 12th. Also, the Pro Deo Room as well as the New 24 Hour Space will be open all weekend, and are accessible by swiping your Royal Card. You can also get help from a librarian while we’re closed via our 24/7 Chat Reference service.
Enjoy the time off everyone!
Image of Fall Foliage with Train in Scranton, PA, courtesy of Flickr user patwalsh_2000 via a CC license.
Information Update – Fall 2010
The electronic copy of the Weinberg Memorial Library newsletter “Information Update” is now available online.
Can’t Find It Here?
If you can’t find what you are looking for in the Weinberg Memorial Library, why not try the Lackawanna County Library System? It offers a large selection of children’s books, novels, CDs and DVDs. The closest location is the Albright Memorial Library which is located a few blocks away at 500 Vine Street. The Lackawanna County Children’s Library is right next door.
University of Scranton student applications for a Lackawanna County Library card are available at the Circulation Desk and Media Resources Center of the Weinberg Memorial Library. For more information about what these libraries have to offer go to http://www.lclshome.org.
GLBT History Month
October is GLBT History Month, and the Scranton Inclusion student group will be celebrating the achievements of GLBT icons throughout history. If your interest is piqued by the flyers you’ll be seeing around campus, why not stop by the Library to learn a little more about GLBT history?
We have some relevant books, like…
- Vicki Eaklor’s Queer America: A GLBT History of the 20th Century
- David Carter’s Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
- Sonya Jones’s Gay and Lesbian Literature Since World War II: History and Memory
- Reed Woodhouse’s Unlimited Embrace: A Canon of Gay Fiction
- Lillian Faderman’s Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
You can also read the works and biographies of GLBT icons including…
And don’t forget that you can take a look at our GLBTQ Inclusion Research Guide for additional resources on GLBTQ issues.
Vote for Your Favorite Chair!
The Library has gotten in 4 (four) sample chairs, called: Hush, Huddle, Reveal and Stonehedge as possible acquisitions for the new 24 Hour Room. Large sheets of paper have been posted at the end of the stacks in the Bound Periodicals area with a picture of each chair and the request for students to: “Vote for your favorite chair” . The chairs will be here through next Friday (Oct. 8th) at which time we will see which chair(s) is/are the “winner(s)”
Feminist First Friday Display
In conjunction with Feminist First Friday hosted by the Women’s Studies Program and the Jane Kopas Women’s Center you can find a display of recommended Women’s Studies books in the lobby on the first floor of the Library. There are also books supporting this theme for sale at the Circulation Desk.