At passover and Easter, BibleMap.org is an interesting site that uses Google maps to pinpoint the location of events in the Bible.
The site’s blog updates readers on new features and updates to accuracy. So, let yourself go explore this site to quickly locate a passage or place.
Happy holidays!
Photo courtesy of amandawoodward under a Creative Commons license
Holy Week and Easter are upon us. And this means the Library’s hours will be lighter at the end of this week, in order for those of us who celebrate to give this Feast of Feasts more of our attention, that we may celebrate Christ’s Resurrection with un-distracted joy!
Here are the Library’s hours for Easter break:
Thursday, April 1st: 8AM-4:30PM
Friday-Sunday, April 2nd-4th: Closed
Monday, April 5th: 12 Noon-11:30PM
Happy Easter and Blessed Feast!
Take a second to Google the phrase “facebook privacy” and you will probably come across a few anxiety-provoking results. You might see links to articles with headlines like “Facebook’s Privacy Changes: When Will it Go Too Far (and will you even notice)?”, “Facebook’s New Privacy Changes: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”, and even “Facebook’s Zuckerberg Says the Age of Privacy is Over.”
For experienced Facebook users, these concerns might be old hat. But if you’re a relatively new Facebook user and you’re not sure how to tweak your profile to account for all of these changes, we’ve got a workshop for you.
Next Wednesday, April 7 from 12pm-1pm in WML306, Public Services librarian Donna Mazziotti will teach a Technology on Your Own Terms workshop that she’s titled “Share With Surety: Facebook Privacy Settings for the Casual Facebook User.” During the session, Donna will walk participants through customizing their own Facebook Privacy Settings and will help attendees understand what each setting means.
The workshop is open to University of Scranton faculty and staff members, so if you’re interested, please let us know by registering at www.scranton.edu/ctleregistration. The workshop will be hands-on, and we’re assuming that attendees already have a Facebook account. If you plan to participate, make sure that you’ll be able to remember your account information when you arrive at the workshop. Hope to see you there!
The computers in the Library are networked using a system called UniPrint. Sometimes UniPrint goes down. The Library now has a backup plan in place for students when this happens which uses a “crash cart” with a stand-alone computer and printer. The “crash cart” will be located in the alcove adjacent to the Reference Desk on the 2nd floor of the Library. If this happens, you’ll need to save the document you want to print to a flash/thumb drive or e-mail the document to yourself. If you need any help, you can ask one of the Reference Librarians.
Digitization of special collections is ongoing at the Weinberg Memorial Library, and as a result we’re happy to have one more digital collection available for public use this Spring.
Now online and fully searchable is the University of Scranton Course Catalogs collection, which includes 123 St. Thomas College and University of Scranton undergraduate and graduate course catalogs from 1926 through 2008. These catalogs will be useful not only for former students seeking course descriptions, but also for local historians and genealogists interested in the University’s history.
University course catalogs from 2007 and earlier were digitized in 2009 by Internet Archive as part of the Lyrasis Mass Digitization Collaborative, a group effort to digitize cultural heritage materials in which the Weinberg Memorial Library has participated since the Fall of 2008. Each catalog was digitized in full color at 400 dpi, and each image was preserved in JPEG2000 format. In order to save on server space and make the catalog images faster to download, we’ve uploaded PDF derivatives of those master JPEG2000s into our CONTENTdm collection. As a result, some of the photographs in the catalogs may appear blurred. If you’d like a higher resolution copy of a catalog, you can download the original JPEG2000s from Internet Archive by clicking on the Internet Archive URL, stored in each catalog’s “document description.” And of course, the original printed catalogs are still available in the Library’s University Archives and can be viewed by appointment.
Catalogs from after 2007 are born digital documents, which we’ve downloaded for preservation from University Catalogs web site.
If you have questions about the course catalog collection or about the digitization process, please contact the Digital Services department. And don’t forget to take a look at our other recent digital collections!
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Starting today, you can now send text messages to the UofS Library Reference Desk at:
570-687-8787
Send us your library-related questions via text message, and we’ll text you back an answer shortly, if you send the text during normal library hours.
If you text us when we’re closed, we’ll receive your text when we open up the next day, and text you back as soon as we get the question.
Please remember that your cell phone carrier may charge you for each text message sent and received. The library is not responsible for these charges.
More to come on this, but in the meantime, tell your friends! Happy texting!
Almost spring in Scranton – looking west along the Lackawanna Railroad towards the Radisson Lackawanna Station. Photo courtesy of our Twitter friend (and UofS alumnus) Frank Dutton.
The snow is starting to melt, the grass is starting to grow, downtown pedestrians are shedding their heavy coats… everywhere you look, the city of Scranton is getting ready for spring. And on campus, students and faculty are getting ready for spring break!
Here at the Weinberg, the Library faculty and staff, not unlike our students, are looking forward to taking a spring rest. We’ll be working reduced hours during break, starting this Friday. Here’s when you’ll find us open:
Friday, March 12: 8:00am – 4:30pm
Saturday, March 13: CLOSED
Sunday, March 14: CLOSED
Monday, March 15: 8:00am – 10:00pm
Tuesday, March 16: 8:00am – 10:00pm
Wednesday, March 17: 8:00am – 10:00pm
Thursday, March 18: 8:00am – 10:00pm
Friday, March 19: 8:00am – 4:30pm
Saturday, March 20: CLOSED
Sunday, March 21: 12pm – 11:30pm
Also, this year, we’ll be closing down the Pro Deo room (which is normally open to students 24/7) on Friday, March 12 at 8:00pm. The Pro Deo room will be CLOSED all day on Parade Day (Saturday, March 13) but will reopen on Sunday, March 14 at 8:00am.
What’s more fun than playing a game?
Playing a game that matters…
http://www.freerice.com/ is a multiple choice website which quizzes your general knowledge.
People spend hours wasting their time on games similar to this one, but the difference here is…
When you answer correctly on FreeRice.com a Sponsor pays for a donation of Rice to the UN World Food Programme.
The more you play, the more you get correct, the more rice gets donated.
According to FreeRice’s FAQ section, FreeRice has:
The website defaults to English Vocabulary words, but you can click on Subjects at the top of the page to change it to something more to your liking, such as: Famous Paintings, Chemistry, Geography, Mathematics, German, French, Italian, and Spanish.
If you are going to burn time on the internet doing something similar, why not do it here? I guarantee if you spend an hour at this website you’ll feel a lot better than you would if you spent an hour at another website.
Sondra Myers, director of the University of Scranton’s Schemel Forum, with CNN foreign affairs correspondent Jill Dougherty
CNN foreign affairs correspondent (and Dunmore native!) Jill Dougherty came to campus today to speak to University and local community members on the topic “Who Runs Russia? Deciphering Moscow’s Centers of Power.”
Formerly CNN’s Moscow bureau chief, Dougherty described her experiences as a journalist in Russia, providing character sketches of former President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin, former President and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and current President Dmitry Medvedev. She also discussed the evolving nature of Russian democracy and provided insight on demographic changes, Russia’s relationship to China, the reliance on an oil and gas economy, and the importance of civic society.
Dougherty’s talk was the second of this Spring’s Schemel Forum Insights Luncheons, a series focused on discussions of world affairs. Next in the series will be Alex Thier of the United States Institute of Peace, who will present on “Enigma and Dilemma: Our Fraught Relationship with Afghanistan and Pakistan” on March 19th at 12pm in the Weinberg Memorial Library’s Heritage Room.
Jill Dougherty speaks in Brennan Hall
One of my favorite websites to kill some time on is Issuu.
Issuu is a website which allows you to “Publish yourself.”
I think it’s pretty cool that you can publish your own work on this website, but that is not the reason why I enjoy it so much.
Issuu has a large collection of magazines which are all free for you to peruse. The only difference is that these magazines are not the ones that you usually see at the grocery store.
Because Issuu is free to publish on, a lot of magazines which are not mass-produced and are uber-popular in America use it to increase their readership.
The magazines are mostly Independent, Student run, or from outside the U.S.A. The content of these magazines ranges from Poetry, Photography, Art, Graphic Design, Film Reviews, Popular Culture, just about everything…
Issuu is a great way to get your daily dose of culture and to read something a little different for a change.
Check it out at http://issuu.com.
