Today at the Library we’re celebrating the graduation of our senior Library student workers. Many of them have been with us for all four years of their Scranton career. All of them have worked hard and will be dearly missed.
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!).
The University of Scranton Weinberg Memorial Library’s annual Book and Plant Sale, held over the weekend, was a big success! The sale raised over $6,500 for the Friends of the Library, more than last year’s sale. We enjoyed great weather and a constant stream of shoppers all weekend long.
Thanks so much to the Friends of the Library, all of our staff and faculty who helped out at the sale, and, of course, all of our book buyers for your support.
P.S. Check out more photos from the book sale on our Flickr page!
Only 18 more days until the 2009 Weinberg Memorial Library Book & Plant Sale!
Mark your calendars for April 25th and 26th! We’re just 63 days away from the Weinberg Memorial Library’s annual Book and Plant Sale, and the Library’s already buzzing with plans for this year’s event, which will be held in the 5th floor Heritage Room. As always, the Book and Plant Sale benefits the Friends of Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Memorial Library Endowment Fund.
Right now, we’re collecting donations of books, plants, and tag sale items. If you’d like to donate, you can drop off your books or other contributions at the Library, in the boxes just inside the Monroe Avenue entrance.
We’re also looking for volunteers. If you’d be willing to help us sort books and set up/take down the sale, please let us know! Give Barb E. a call at 941-4078, and she’ll add you to the volunteer list.
This year’s sale starts on Friday, April 24th with a special “Preview Sale” for current Friends of the Library and Schemel Forum members (and current University of Scranton students – bring your Royal Card!) from 4pm – 9pm. The sale is open to the public on Saturday, April 25th from 9am – 9pm and on Sunday, April 26th from 12pm – 4pm. We’ll see you there!
Here at the Weinberg Memorial Library, we’re celebrating Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday all month long, even though the big day isn’t until Thursday (February 12th). Yesterday, we opened our display of the national traveling exhibit, “Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation,” in the 5th floor Heritage Room.
The exhibit, organized by the Huntington Library and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, will travel to 63 different libraries in 31 different states. The Weinberg will be hosting the exhibit through March 22nd – to see it, just head up to the 5th floor anytime during the Library’s regular hours.
Want even more Lincoln? There’s still time to register for this Saturday’s free Symposium and Exhibit Opening Reception. We’re excited to have three speakers share their knowledge of Lincoln and his time:
Best of all, we’ll be visited by Lincoln actor and historian Jim Getty, who will bring the 16th president “alive” as we celebrate his memory. To join us on Saturday, just call the Special Collections librarian Michael Knies at 941-6341 to register. (And check out Michael’s interview in yesterday’s Scranton Times-Tribune!)
December is a stressful month – our students have final exams to study for, not to mention holiday shopping to do and travel to plan. So what better than an excuse to take a break? Come to the Library for an early celebration of Christmas!
On December 2nd, come to the Weinberg Memorial Library for Pictures with Santa. Yes, the jolly old man himself will be in the Heritage Room on the 5th floor for a limited engagement – 12pm – 5pm. You can get a *framed* photo of yourself with the man in red for just $7.00. Your donation will help bring the magic of Christmas to a family in our area.
Then, between December 3rd – 19th, check out our Christmas Tag Sale. Christmas decorations, CDs, books, toys, collectibles, baskets, mugs — all will be on sale at affordable prices. Find that unusual gift that you’ve been looking for, on the 1st floor of the Weinberg.
An Update from Michael Knies, Special Collections Librarian:
Letters to Sala: A Young Woman’s Life in Nazi Labor Camps is a striking exhibition reproducing the letters, postcards, photographs, and personal documents that Sala Garncarz managed to save during five brutal years in Nazi work camps during World War II. Curated by Jill Vexler and co-sponsored by the Weinberg Memorial Library and the Holocaust Education Resource Center, this unique exhibition will be on view in the Heritage Room at The University of Scranton from September 1 through October 28, 2008. Charles Kratz, Dean of the Library & Information Fluency noted, “This traveling exhibition continues our commitment to commemorating the Holocaust through special programming in conjunction with the Holocaust Education Resource Center.”
A reception, featuring a talk by Sala’s daughter, Ann Kirschner, will be held on Sunday, September 14 from 1-4 p.m. Kirschner is the author of Sala’s Gift: My Mother’s Holocaust Story, which tells the story of her mother’s World War II experience.
This traveling exhibition was inspired by Letters to Sala: A Young Woman’s Life in Nazi Labor Camps, presented at The New York Public Library from March 7 to June 17, 2006. Support for this exhibition has been provided by the Righteous Persons Foundation, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the Berg Foundation, Trudy and Robert Gottesman, the French Children of the Holocaust Foundation and Nancy Schwartz Sternoff, Dobkin Family Foundation. Unless otherwise indicated, the letters, photographs, and documents in the exhibition are drawn from the Sala Garncarz Kirschner Collection, donated by the Kirschner family in April 2005, to the Dorot Jewish Division of The New York Public Library.
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/sala/index.html
Traveling Exhibition Curator: Jill Vexler, Ph.D.
Traveling Exhibition Design: Monk Design, New York
Check out the Alumni Exhibit on the 5th floor Heritage Room of the Weinberg Memorial Library, available through July 2008. Students who have graduated from the University of Scranton and published have one or more of their books on display.
Did you see…
The book about the election process?
The book about Toponyms? What is a toponym?
The book about the local immigrant’s story?
The book describing Edith Stein among others as Catholic converts?
The Kashuba book about Scranton?
The book that was a Newbery Honor Book?
Our very own librarian’s book?
The Pulitzer Prize winning playwright?
Come to the display and see what your alumni have accomplished. Imagine what you could accomplish!
