Weinberg Memorial Library Newsletter, Fall 2012

THE HARRY & JEANETTE WEINBERG MEMORIAL LIBRARY

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SPRING 2012 • Vol.1 Issue 1

A newsletter from The Weinberg Memorial Library Fall 2012

Weinberg Memorial Library Hosts 20th Anniversary Celebrations The celebration of the Weinberg Memorial Library’s 20th Anniversary begins on Saturday, September 29, with the Friends of the Library Distinguished Author Award Event honoring Jay Parini, Axinn professor of English and cre­ ative writing, Middlebury College. The sched­ ule for the event is: • 12:30 – 2:00 p.m.: Lunch with Jay Parini, the Distinguished Author Planning Com­­ mittee and $500 level sponsors in the Scranton Heritage Room of the Wein­ berg Memorial Library • 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.: A book signing with Jay Parini, outside of The DeNaples Center Ballroom (attendance at the ticketed dinner reception is not required to meet Dr. Parini at the book signing) • 5:00 – 8:30 p.m.: Dinner and Presen­ tation, Patrick & Margaret DeNaples Center Ballroom An article about Jay Parini and the Royden B. Davis Distinguished Author Award appeared in the spring 2012 issue of Information Update and is available online. Go to scranton.edu/

library and click on Library Newsletter in the right navigation.

Library “Vendor” days will feature rep­ resentatives from among the Library’s most popular and heavily used databases and resources. Invited presenters include Pro­ Quest, ebrary, Springer, Gale, EBSCO, JSTOR, Project MUSE, Oxford University Press, SAGE Publications, and Alexander Street Press. Representatives will demonstrate the databases and answer student and faculty questions about how to get the most out of these resources. Dates and times are 10 a.m.– noon, and 1 – 3 p.m. on Thursday, September 13 and Friday, September 14. License agree­ ments with vendors restrict access to data­ bases to currently enrolled students and affili­ ated employees of The University of Scranton. (continued on page 2)

An Interview with Jean Lenville, New Assistant Dean of the Library A collage of archival photos celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Weinberg Memorial Library.

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ton! Could you tell us something about your background and the work you do here at the Library?

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: I grew up the eldest of three children in Cinnaminson, N.J., which is in the garden part of the Garden State, and just over the bridge from Philadelphia. I went to Emerson College in Boston, and studied theatre and music. The library bug bit me the summer between junior and senior year, when I got a work study job working at the Athenaeum in Philadelphia, where I still visit old colleagues, and where my first boss is now the director!

Here at the University four departments report to me: Circulation, Interlibrary Loan, Media, and Technical Services.

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: Where did you work before coming to

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The University of Scranton?

: After I graduated from Emerson the Athenaeum offered me a “real job,” so my library career got a jump start pretty quickly. I worked there for eight years, and then moved to Los Angeles. I worked at the Loyola Mary­ mount Law School Library for three years before returning to Boston, where I worked days at the Boston College Law School Library while attending Simmons College at night. In 1991 I got my first professional job at George Mason University in Northern Virginia, and then after two years moved a little further south to the University of Richmond. After another eight years I moved back to Boston to take a position in Widener University at Harvard, and now 10 years later here I am in Scranton! I like to say “be a librarian and see the world”! And for those

Q

: So, you’re head of four departments in

our Library. What special projects did your departments work on this summer?

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: Well almost everyone worked on our two big summer projects: the switch to Sierra, the next generation integrated library system for acquisitions, cataloging and circu­ lation; and the collections shifts. Staff in mul­ tiple departments have been planning and performing prep work for both projects since I arrived in January. I really love projects, and it is even more exciting when so many of the staff can participate. I think the students will be amazed by the changes in space when they return in the fall—the second floor group study rooms are sure to be popular. And staff will benefit from having one journal alphabet in the basement, and hopefully from the new Sierra staff interface too.

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: Are there any other interesting proj­

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ects coming up after this?

: Right now I am working with “Circa,” the new inventory program we pur­ chased. We now have handheld devices that work with the library catalog over the wire­ less network and allow you to scan barcodes in the stacks. Then the system compares what you scanned to what should be on the shelf, and the device tells you if anything is missing, out of place, etc. It is a great way to clean up the database, and I am writing up a workflow procedure that can be used in the future by any library department wanting to move in this direction. We purchased three devices: one for Media, one for cataloging, and one for Circulation. This should allow us to work on multiple projects at the same time, or to have multiple people all working (continued on page 4) 3

Jean Lenville

“ I really love

projects, and

it is even more

exciting when so many of the staff can participate. I

think the students will be amazed

by the changes in space when

they return in the fall—the second

floor group study

rooms are sure to be popular.”

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(top to bottom) Carolyn Brown, Stephen Karam, Paul Holdengraber, Daniel Serwer and Martin Palous

The Schemel Forum and Friends of the Weinberg Memorial Library author lecture series. Free and open to the public.

• Libraries and the Moral Life. On Thurs­ day, October 25, Carolyn Brown, direc­ tor of the Library of Congress’s Office of Scholarly Programs, will lecture on libraries as institutions for collecting and transmitting the human heritage of knowledge and wisdom. The event will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Brennan Hall, Room 509. The lecture will be followed by a reception.

• Native Son: Stephen Karam in Conversation with Paul Holdengraber. Karam, an award winning playwright, will talk about his life and work with Paul Holdengraber, dynamic director of Public Programs at the New York Public Library. This presentation will be held in the Center for Literary and Perform­ ing Arts, McDade Theatre, 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 30, and will be followed by a reception.

• War & Peace: Current Issues. On Tuesday, March 5, at 5:30 p.m. in the Brennan Hall Pearn Auditorium (Room 228), Daniel Serwer, scholar, Middle East Insti­ tute and professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, will discuss current war and peace issues for the United States. These conflicts include Afghanistan, Pakistan,

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: Welcome to The University of Scran­

of you who are counting, I am due to return to Boston in 2021: I go back every 10 years!

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Syria, Iran and potentially China.

• The November 8th World Affairs Lun­ cheon Seminar Václav Havel: Profile of a Hero is also in celebration of the Library’s 20th Anniversary. Martin Palous, Ph.D., former Czech ambassador to the United States and the United Nations, currently director of the Václav Havel Presidential Library in Prague, will focus on Havel’s impact as an artist and intellectual and ultimately as president of the Czech Republic in the democratization of Eastern and Central Europe.” Luncheon fees are $20 per person; $30 per couple.

Luncheons are free for members of the Schemel Forum and for University of Scranton faculty and staff; reservations are required. The event will take place in Brennan Hall, Room 509. Luncheon seminars meet from noon–1:30 p.m.

For more about the Schemel Forum, visit http://www.scranton.edu/academics/wml/ schemel/index.shtml.

On Friday, November 16, there will be a fundraiser and an opportunity to sample wine from Pennsylvania vineyards. This event in support of Weinberg Library’s 20th Anni­ versary Campaign and the Edward R. Leahy, Jr. Clinic for the Uninsured will take place from 6 – 9 p.m. in The Patrick and Margaret DeNaples Center Ballroom.

To read more about the 20th Anniversary events or to register to attend one, please go to http://www.scranton.edu/academics/wml/ wml201/index.shtml.

There you will also find news about the library, a photo gallery and a timeline from the construction of the Weinberg Library to current projects that make our library a 21st century facility.

—Bonnie Strohl

Kevin Norris, Editor of the Information Update, interviewed Jean Lenville, the new assistant dean of the Library. Jean joined The University of Scranton in January, 2012.

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on the same big project. It is fun trying to figure out the different problems we will run into, and how to resolve everything we might discover. I’ve already fixed several records which didn’t indicate the piece was over­ sized, even though the piece was marked as such. I’ve also discovered records for books which are missing from the shelves, and also “found” a few books which had been marked missing. It would probably take us years to inventory the entire collection, but we can certainly start by targeting high use or problem areas. I’m working with the oversize collection right now, and in the fall I’d like to start a project to inventory the Reference Collection. With all the changes being made in Reference this summer it will be great to verify that the catalog agrees with the shelves.

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: What other professional activities are

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you engaged in?

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: What are some of the things you do

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outside of work?

: Not surprisingly, I love to read! I also love to attend concerts, movies, plays, and especially musicals. I’m still trying to block out a regular time for yoga classes, which really keep me centered. And I’ve been enjoy­ ing learning more about this region by going to museums, and walking around a lot. But it seems like house hunting has sucked up all of my free time since I’ve arrived here. I’m hoping to find the perfect house soon. I’m also hoping that I will soon be placed as a Big Sister.

Q

: Well, once again, welcome to the

A

University!

: Thank you! I’m really happy to be here, and am looking forward to making some new friends, learning some new things, and working on even more interesting projects!

A Print Off the Old Block: Letterpress Printing the Library’s Christmas Card

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In order to highlight the beauty and detail of the Zaner-Bloser Collection, the Weinberg Memorial Library has partnered with Clarks Summit-based letterpress studio Hand Deliver Press (www.handdeliverpress.com) to put some of the Collection’s printing blocks back into action.

The 2012 edition of the Weinberg Memo­ rial Library Christmas card, mailed annually to members of the Library’s advisory com­ mittees, is our first completed project. Special Collections Librarian Michael Knies selected for the card a hundred-year-old printing block based on a holiday-themed pen and

I am very pleased to announce that during

Gifts during the Weinberg’s 20th Anni-

the academic year, 2012-2013, The Uni-

versary year will fund three priorities: the

20th anniversary of the Weinberg Memorial

our collaborative spaces for bringing our

versity of Scranton will be celebrating the

Library. First introduced to campus in 1992,

the 80,000-square-foot space was built from the generosity of hundreds of donors who

contributed $13.6 million to the “Gateway to the Future Campaign.” Twenty years later

expansion of the collections, the growth of

students, faculty and community together,

and the continued adoption of technology

that has made us an example of excellence in library innovation.

Just as the resources in our library were

the Weinberg Library is still a dynamic envi-

authored by many scholars, our goals for the

dents, but all of Northeastern Pennsylvania.

Contributions to our 20th Anniversary Cam-

ronment serving not only our faculty and stuA milestone anniversary is a wonderful

opportunity to reflect on the past and to set goals for the future. Knowing that the Wein-

berg Library is more than the knowledge found inside its books and journals, we want

to expand and create additional synergistic spaces for our University community. Join us

for our kickoff celebration in the Patrick and Margaret DeNaples Ballroom on September

29 featuring our Distinguished Author Award

recipient Dr. Jay Parini, Axinn professor of English & creative writing, Middlebury College.

ink drawing by master penman E. L. Brown.

The block had been used to publish Brown’s artwork in the December 1912 issue of The Business Educator, a professional penman­ ship journal.

“The Christmas design shows what effect can be obtained with a coarse pen and black ink,” Brown noted in a Business Educator column accompanying his work. “The ice effect on initial ‘C’ and the snow on bows suggest winter, and Old Santa’s face reminds us of the mid-winter holiday season, of Christmas presents and good cheer.”

Hand Deliver Press owner Samantha Urbanick made prints from the block using a Vandercook SP-20 press from the 1960s.

Samantha chose Reich cotton paper for the card and matched the ink to the deep maroon used in the Library’s logo. The back of the card explains its origin and features the ZanerBloser Collection logo, designed by Digital

future will need the support of many donors.

paign will be pivotal in funding these impor-

tant projects and keeping the Weinberg at the forefront of library learning and innovation.

I invite you to join us in charting the

future of the Weinberg, just as we laid the foundation 20 years ago.

Thank you.

Charles E. Kratz

Dean of the Library

Services student assistant April Francia.

Visit the Zaner-Bloser Collection website (www.scranton.edu/library/zanerbloser) for additional information about the Collection and the letter­ press printing process.

—Kristen Yarmey

(left) The first print off the press. (right) The cover of the December 1912 issue of The Business Educator. The E. L. Brown print appeared on page 44.

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In 2010, the Zaner-Bloser Company donated a rich collection of 19th and early 20th century penman­ ship materials to the Weinberg Memorial Library’s Special Collections. In addition to original artwork by the masters of the Golden Age of Penmanship, the col­ lection also includes a set of engraved printing blocks, used to repro­ duce and publish the artists’ engrossings.

From the Library Dean

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: I was recently chosen to be one of three professional staff members to serve on the University Committee on the Status of Women, and was also recently accepted into

Leadership Lackawanna, a program spon­ sored by the Scranton Chamber of Com­ merce. Both of these new commitments will start up in the fall.

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Two photographs from the Passionist Historical Archives. At far left is John Joseph Endler, Novena Director, at Scranton (date of photo not given).

Near left, Ernest Welch, Bishop William Hafey, and Hubert Arliss, Feast of St. Ann, 1952.

Passionist Historical Archives Move to Weinberg Library

the Passionist work with Black Catholics in the 1920s to 1950s; and missionary ventures to Argentina and Mexico in the last decades of the 19th century and the Philippines and Jamaica and the West Indies since the mid1950s. Included as well is a collection of books on Passionist history and spirituality.

About 20 percent of the collection will not immediately be coming to Scranton. The Passionist China Collection portion has been sent to the Ricci Institute at the University of San Francisco, where it will be digitized and cataloged under the direction of Ricci Insti­ tute Director WU Xiaoxin and Father Rob Carbonneau. After the digitization project has been completed, the plan is for the China Collection to be transferred to Weinberg Library to join the rest of the collection.

Access to the collection will be available during regular Special Collections hours, as well as by appointment. The Passionist

Historical Archives website will be transferred to Weinberg Library. Additional information and resources will be added to the website in the future. Father Carbonneau will provide training and advice on providing research access to the collection for Special Collec­ tions staff as we endeavor to understand the depths of the historical material for which we will be serving as custodian.

In the future, we expect that there will be public programming based around the Pas­ sionist Historical Archives in conjunction with Scranton’s History Department. For instance, exhibits will be mounted in the Heritage Room concerning various aspects of Passionist history and missionary work.

For further information please contact Michael Knies 570-941-6341 or Michael.

Knies@Scranton.edu.

—Michael Knies and Father Rob Carbonneau, C. P.

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ministries from the

past 160 years. This includes archival sources that

offer insight into the prayer life

and culture of

the Passionists.

In January 2012, the Weinberg Memorial

desktop. Ebrary also offers a free iPad/iPhone/

more than 75,000 titles without having to

tablet or smartphone to enable downloading

add any shelf space. This was possible with the addition of ebrary’s Academic Complete eBook collection to the Library’s list of online resources. The eBooks are available

24/7 both on and off-campus through the Library’s A to Z List of Databases web page under “ebrary : Academic Complete eBook

Collection,” as well as through links to the individual book titles through the Library’s online catalog.

Android app that you can install on your of eBooks. “Loans” of downloaded eBooks are available for 14 days. Up to 10 books can be

downloaded at any time. However, multiple users can use and read books online through the Library’s online catalog or ebrary website

without having to download them. An ebrary

account also enables users to create URLs

that can link directly to chapters or specific spots in the text.

The eBooks in the Library’s ebrary subscrip-

Flexible searching allows faculty and stu-

tion are from leading publishers including:

specific authors as well as topics. Creating an

Publishers, MIT Press, National Academies

dents to pinpoint specific titles or works by ebrary account, which is free, enables users to

have the ability to create notes, highlight and

save portions of text for future research. Up to one chapter of a book (approximately 30

pages) can be printed or saved as a PDF file.

Entire books can be downloaded for remote reading by installing the free Adobe Digital

Editions software onto a laptop computer or 7

Amsterdam University Press, Brill Academic

Press, Oxford University Press, University of

Minnesota Press, World Scientific, among others. Ebrary plans to continue to “grow” the

Academic Complete collection by adding approximately 10% new titles every year.

Ebrary is proving to be an important facet of the Library’s growing eBook collection.

—Narda Tafuri

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sources on Passionist

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the first band of Passionists arrived in Pitts­ burgh. In 1902 the Passionists arrived in Scranton and built St. Ann’s Monastery.

Since 1924, the monastery has been home to St. Ann’s Novena every July.

The collection contains diversified sources on Passionist ministries from the past 160 years.

This includes archival sources that offer insight into the prayer life and culture of the Passionist priests and brothers, as well as documentation pertaining to past and existing monasteries in the eastern United States. Other sources reveal the dynamic and diverse ministry of the Pas­ sionists. Topics open to researchers include the study of domestic parish missions and Catholic devotions, the spirituality of the 20th century retreat movement for men and women, the work of the media as seen via the Passionist publication of The Sign Magazine (a Catholic monthly from 1921 to 1982), and ministry in Catholic radio and TV in the post-World War II era. Notable as well are resources on

contains diversified

Expanding our Library Resources Virtually with Ebrary Library was able to expand its holdings by

In July, Special Collections became the cus­ todian of the Passionist Historical Archives.

The Passionists were planning to close their research facility in Union City, N.J., and were looking for a home for the collection where it would be open to the public research.

History department faculty Roy Domenico, Ph.D., and Sean Brennan, Ph.D., were aware of the closing of the facility and brought the availability of the collection to the attention Weinberg Library Dean Charles Kratz and Special Collection Librarian Michael Knies.

After negotiations with Passionist leader­ ship, in collaboration with Passionist Prov­ ince Historian Father Rob Carbonneau C. P., an agreement was reached for the Weinberg Library to serve as the new home for the Pas­ sionist Historical Archives.

The Passionist Congregation was founded by the Italian St. Paul of the Cross (16941775). Pope Clement XIV gave solemn approval to the Passionists in 1769. In 1852

The collection

Library Research Prize Competition a Success in its Second Year The Weinberg

Memorial Library

will run this

competition

again during

the 2012-2013

academic year.

Undergraduate and graduate research

projects completed

during the summer 2012, fall 2012,

intersession 2013 or spring 2013

semesters will be

competition, we received a solid group of submissions in each category, but a clear winner emerged in each pool of submissions.

In the undergraduate category, a submis­ sion by Stephanie A. Pisko ’12 was selected as the 2011-2012 prize winner. A double major in History and Women’s Studies, her research project was titled, “Murder and Turmoil: Honor and Crimes of Passion in Two Nine­ teenth-Century Murder Trials.” Her support­ ing faculty member was Dr. Susan L. Poulson in the History Department.

Colleen Achatz’s submission was selected to receive the first ever prize awarded in the graduate category. A student in our Gradu­ ate Program in Occupational Therapy, her research project, which had two parts, was titled, Part I: “Evolution of Sensory Integra­ tion with Children” and Part II: “Jean Ayres’ Impact on the Past, Present, and Future of Sensory Integration.” Her supporting faculty member was Dr. Rita Fleming-Castaldy in the Occupational Therapy Department.

In addition to our winners for the 20112012 academic year, two students were selected

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Library Renovates Second Floor The last issue of the Weinberg Library’s Information Update reported on several changes that were to take place on the second floor of the Library during the spring and summer of 2012.

Following are highlights of those changes and an invitation to visit the building to see how we have retrofitted the space to accommodate the needs of our students and take advantage of the technological changes that have allowed us to create much-needed group study space.

• All formats of periodicals are now housed on the 2nd floor. Current as well as bound journals can now be found in the former index abstract area immediately off the elevator lobby. Microfilm and fiche cabi­ nets have been condensed and moved to the former newspaper shelving area.

• The reference collection has been weeded. Materials have been reclassified and moved to the circulating collection, updated with newer additions, or dis­ carded in an environmentally-friendly

manner. Four complete ranges of shelv­ ing have been removed.

• The entire floor has been re-carpeted.

• New furnishings, including two modern banquettes with booth-like seating, have been installed in the former microfilm area, thanks to a generous gift from the Friends of the Library in honor of the 20th anniversary of the building.

• Two additional group study rooms, enclosed in sliding glass with wood and fabric panels, have been added to the area which formerly housed the micro­ film machines.

• Additional carrels have moved to this floor from the third and fourth floors, making those areas less crowded.

• A fresh coat of paint and new plants have completed the renovated area.

Please stop on the second floor of the library to see our newly improved space!

—Betsey Moylan 9

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Colleen Achatz (third from left) receives the Graduate Student Library Research Prize from Charles Kratz, Dean of the Library and Information Fluency (left). Looking on are: Donna Witek, Public Services Librarian; Jeffrey Welsh, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Graduate and Continuing Education; Debra Pellegrino, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Professional Studies; and Harold Baillie, Ph.D., Provost.

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Stephanie A. Pisko (third from left) receives the Undergraduate Student Library Research Prize from Charles Kratz, Dean of the Library and Information Fluency (left). Looking on are: Donna Witek, Public Services Librarian; Susan Poulson, Ph.D., Professor of History; Brian Conniff, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; and Harold Baillie, Ph.D., Provost.

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eligible to enter.

During the 2011-2012 academic year, the Weinberg Memorial Library hosted the 2nd Annual Library Research Prize Competition.

Based on feedback from faculty during our successful first run of the competition, the library expanded the prize to include two sep­ arate prizes: one on the undergraduate level and one on the graduate level. With multiple, high-quality submissions in both categories, it was clear that the success of the program has been sustained in its second year.

As the web page for the competition states, the Library Research Prize is “designed to attract outstanding research projects from courses taught in departments across The University of Scranton campus. It rec­ ognizes excellence in research projects that show evidence of significant knowledge in the methods of research and the informa­ tion gathering process, and use of library resources, tools and services” (www.scranton. edu/libraryresearchprize).

The prize is in the amount of $500 for the winning submission in each category: under­ graduate and graduate. For the 2011-2012

to receive Honorable Mentions in the under­ graduate category: Allison Carey ’12 for her submission, “Dynamics of Recent Trade Rela­ tionships with China,” and Ryan P. Pipan ’12 for his submission, “Much Ado about the Archer-Shee’s: Shakespearean Signatures in Terence Rattigan’s The Winslow Boy.” The winners were honored at a reception and awards ceremony held on May 10, in the Library’s Scranton Heritage Room. The Provost and Deans were present to see these accomplished students receive their prizes.

The Weinberg Memorial Library will run this competition again during the 20122013 academic year. Undergraduate and graduate research projects completed during the summer 2012, fall 2012, intersession 2013 or spring 2013 semesters will be eli­ gible to enter. Please visit www.scranton. edu/libraryresearchprize for details about this library program.

—Donna Witek

Academic Integrity Tutorial Implemented for Graduate Students In 2011,

in addition to the

generic tutorial, customized tutorials for students in

the Education

and Health

Administration and Human Resources Programs were added. These

subject-specific

versions use

examples reflecting the language of

their disciplines.

Ideally, all

graduate students take a unique

tutorial specific to their major.

Two Join Library Staff Please join us in welcoming two new staff members. Joel Krisanda Kevin Kocur joined us in May 2012 as cataloging clerk.

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In an increasingly digital age, one discov­ ers anew the pleasure of a tactile experience.

As computer screens and virtual keyboards encroach ever further upon day-to-day life, we may find ourselves, at times, savoring the inefficient but delightful process of writing by hand, on creamy paper, with a favorite pen.

This fall, the Special Collections and Digital Services departments will celebrate the Weinberg Memorial Library’s 20th anni­ versary with a limited run of custom Mole­ skine® notebooks, inspired by the calligraphic and ornamental masterworks preserved in the Library’s Zaner-Bloser Penmanship Collec­ tion (www.scranton.edu/library/zanerbloser).

Featured on each notebook is “The Proud Art Shall Conquer,” a peacock flourish by master penman Fielding Schofield (18451924). Schofield’s work references a 19th century professional penmanship journal, more specifically its motto, “The Proud Art of

Beautiful Writing Shall Conquer the Hearts of All Men,” and epitomizes the matchless beauty of pen on paper.

In true modern fashion, however, the Mole­ skine® notebooks blend traditional, tactile art with digital design. Digital Services graphic artist April Francia, a University of Scran­ ton sophomore double majoring in Political Science and Philosophy, created the notebook covers and decorative paper bands (as well as the Zaner-Bloser Collection logo) by manipu­ lating digitized images of ornamental pen­ manship in Adobe Illustrator.

Packaged in sets of two (one ruled and one blank), the Zaner-Bloser Penmanship Col­ lection Moleskines® will soon be available for purchase on the Weinberg Memorial Library website for the price of $20 per set. All proceeds benefit the care, preservation, and digitization of the Zaner-Bloser Penmanship Collection.

—Kristen Yarmey

Custom Moleskine notebooks, designed by University of Scranton sophomore April Francia.

Heritage Room Exhibits In celebration of the Library’s 20th Anni­ versary, an exhibit of the Library’s history will be on display in the 5th floor Heritage Room throughout the fall semester. Enjoy highlights of the construction of the Wein­ berg Memorial Library and the move from Alumni Memorial Library to the current building, which was completed in 1992.

Learn how the Library has transformed over the past 20 years to better serve the needs of students, faculty, staff, and the public. While exploring the exhibit, students will have the opportunity to answer library trivia questions for the chance to win fun prizes.

An upcoming display, Pennsylvania Hands, will be exhibited in the 5th Floor Heritage Room during the month of February 2013.

Pennsylvania Hands features artist Sally Wiener Grotta’s narrative photographic portraits of local artisans such as tinsmiths, bookbinders, and glassblowers who keep traditional Ameri­ can crafts alive.

—Elizabeth Teets and Kay Lopez

Welcome to the Newest Friends of the Library We would like to thank the newest members of the Friends of the Weinberg Memorial Library for their contributions.

Janet Crowther

James Pidgeon

Gerald Matatics

Marie Robson

Jean Lenville

Kevin & Denise Nordberg

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James Roberts James Vipond

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joined our staff as weekend library attendant in January 2012.

Some graduate faculty require completion of the academic integrity tutorial as a course requirement. An assessment component, an optional anonymous online survey consisting of three open-ended questions, was included at the end of the tutorial beginning in 2009, and 14.74% of the graduate students who took the tutorial also completed the survey.

The first question in the survey was “Has your understanding of academic integrity changed after taking the tutorial?” Almost half of the graduate student (49%) replied that the tutorial made a difference. Although some students answered this question with only “yes” or “no,” many included comments indicating that taking an academic integrity tutorial either reinforced what they already knew or gave them a better understanding of the issue. There were also some graduate students who said that although their under­ standing had not changed as a result of taking the tutorial, the tutorial provided either a “review” or a “refresher” on the subject of aca­ demic integrity, particularly since they were returning to school a number of years after receiving their bachelor’s degree. Several also commented that the tutorial clarified their understanding of collusion.

Students were also asked what they liked about the tutorial. In response to this ques­ tion, several students said that what they liked about the tutorial was “the individual profes­ sor’s thoughts regarding academic integrity.”

The final question asked if anything should be changed in the tutorial. Feedback from this question will be used to improve the tutorial.

Graduate faculty interested in developing a customized tutorial should contact Bonnie Oldham, Information Literacy coordinator, at 941-4000 or bonnie.oldham@scranton. edu. To access the graduate Academic Integ­ rity Tutorial in guest mode, go to http:// academic.scranton.edu/department/atcdev/ graduateintegrity.

—Bonnie Oldham

Library Offers Limited Edition Moleskine® Notebooks

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The successful implementation of an Aca­ demic Integrity Tutorial for undergraduates (See Information Update, Spring 2012) led to a request by members of the faculty for a gradu­ ate tutorial. Librarians, instructional technolo­ gists and Techcons in the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence (CTLE) collaborated to develop an Academic Integrity Tutorial for graduate students. This tutorial was then implemented beginning in the fall of 2008.

The graduate rendition follows a differ­ ent model than the undergraduate tutorial.

Rather than following the Academic Code of Honesty, it asks students to assess various examples of student papers to determine if they have been plagiarized. To underscore the value of academic integrity in their dis­ ciplines, faculty who teach in the Graduate Program wrote testimonials on academic integrity and submitted excerpts from their articles that were presented as the “original material” that the example student papers cite. Several questions about collaboration and collusion were also included. In 2011, in addition to the generic tutorial, custom­ ized tutorials for students in the Education and Health Administration and Human Resources Programs were added. These sub­ ject-specific versions use examples reflect­ ing the language of their disciplines. Ideally, all graduate students will eventually take a unique tutorial specific to their major.

There are no statistics for 2008, but from 2009-2011, 943 graduate students took the graduate tutorial for a 21.38% comple­ tion rate. This rate is much lower than the completion rate for undergraduates (95.7%), and it reflects the nature of adult learners.

The Proud Art of Beautiful Writing

The University’s Facebook Timeline (www.facebook.com/ universityofscranton) features digitized images from the University Archives

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Internet Archive. In contrast, the physical book is generally viewed only a handful of times per year. Likewise, a set of historic photographs of Nay Aug Park, contributed by Associate Dean Bonnie Strohl and previously accessible only to her immediate family, has been viewed over 50,000 times since their digitization in 2009.

University of Scranton students have benefitted from digital access to unique primary resources as well. One of our students recently wrote a research paper using digitized letters from the Abe L. Plotkin Personal Papers Collection, for example, and last year, Dr. Kathryn Shively Meier’s history students studied the Civil War by digitizing, describing, and transcribing letters and newspaper articles from the 1860s (and even a receipt from a surgical amputation) that they found in the Lackawanna Historical Society’s genealogical files.

The rationale for building digital collec­ tions extends beyond simply providing access, however. Releasing archival content from phys­ ical constraints also allows us to look at it and understand it in new ways. We can create time­ lines to establish a historical context. We can put our content into geographical context, cre­ ating maps that help us understand how physi­ cal places change over time. We can organize or filter our content by different topics or factors,

In a move to enhance the resources faculty and

librarians have available for developing the Library’s

book collection at The University of Scranton, and to offer a “greener” solution for this activity, the

Library has added Choice Reviews Online to its list

of databases. Choice Reviews Online is a selection tool for academic books, electronic media, and

Internet resources that allows faculty, students, and librarians to locate the leading academic books in

their fields of learning from 1987 to the present. It

takes the place of its paper counterparts: Choice

magazine and Choice reviews on cards which

will be going away at the end of December 2012.

Choice Reviews Online was developed by the

Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.

Choice Reviews Online is able to help faculty

select leading scholarly resources for the Library’s

collection across disciplines using its wide ranging

search capabilities and is a premier source for reviews. Choice publishes more than 7,000 reviews

per year. Unlike its paper counterparts, Choice

Reviews Online can be customized by subject area,

keywords, readership level and Choice recom-

mendation to pinpoint those resources that best meet your research needs. Choice Reviews Online

also contains four months of the internet version

of the monthly print magazine Choice including all

of the “Feature” articles and bibliographic essays contained in the print version.

“Registered” users of Choice Reviews Online

(registration is free) can set up “Saved” searches that can easily be repeated and “Profiles” that

bring the latest reviewed materials matching their selection criteria directly to their email box each

month. In addition, users can create lists of their search results which can be added to at any time

and then either printed or emailed. Additional fea-

tures for using this database can be found by clicking on its handy “Help” tab and then clicking on the link to “Top Ten Tips for Using the New Choice

Reviews Online” as well as in the “FAQ” section.

—Narda Tafuri

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Since the creation of the Digital Services department in 2008, the Weinberg Memorial Library’s digital collections (www.scranton. edu/library/digitalcollections) have grown into an invaluable set of resources for The University of Scranton community.

The primary goal of our digital collec­ tions is to provide access to unique, primary sources, the raw material of scholarship. By digitizing items from the Library’s University Archives and Special Collections, we remove an important barrier to access: a researcher no longer has to be physically present in the Library to view and study a document or photograph. While a digitized image cannot and does not replicate the intrinsic value of an archival document, it can act as a surrogate, giving the user enough information to under­ stand what the original item is like without having to come into physical contact with it.

Furthermore, via either optical character rec­ ognition software or manual transcription, we can also increase access by making our digitized images full-text searchable.

As a result, we have observed enormous increases in use of archival material after digi­ tization. For example, a rare book on local history that we digitized in 2008 has since been downloaded almost 5,000 times from

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to reveal relationships and trends. Most impor­ tantly, we can digitally combine our archives and special collections with those of other libraries and repositories, creating new, robust virtual collections for researchers to examine.

Already, the Weinberg Memorial Library con­ tributes our digital content to a state reposi­ tory, the Pennsylvania Digital Library, and we eagerly await the chance to contribute to a nationwide repository in development, the Digital Public Library of America.

The idea of context is crucial because, as scholars in the emerging field of digital humanities have proven, putting old infor­ mation into new contexts leads to new argu­ ments and new scholarship. On an even more fundamental level, it leads to new under­ standing, particularly for our students. When we put primary resources into a new context, we can help students relate their present to the past; we can help them see themselves as a single character in a much larger story, walking, inevitably, in unseen footprints.

New, complex challenges are ahead, particu­ larly in preserving the University’s own history.

While Library faculty and staff members are continually digitizing materials from the Uni­ versity Archives, we are also conscious that the University community increasingly conducts its work and tells its story in a digital envi­ ronment. At present, we collect and preserve a small selection of born digital documents, including masters theses, honors projects, and recent issues of The Aquinas student newspa­ per, and we aim to preserve other born digital University publications in the near future. In partnership with the Division of Planning and Information Resources and the Division of External Relations, we are also exploring ways in which we can preserve the University website and other related web content. As a pilot project, we recently “harvested” for long term digital preservation web pages created for the inauguration of Kevin P. Quinn, S. J. as President of The University of Scranton. While the path forward is not yet entirely clear, we trust that, with the continued development of the Library’s digital collections, the “old infor­ mation” we create and preserve today will bring meaning into some new, future context.

—Kristen Yarmey

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Near Field Communication: A New Technology What is it?

Should NFC

become ubiquitous, libraries could use NFC to create a

more cohesive collection by

connecting physical library resources

to relevant digital information.

Near Field Communication (NFC) is an emerging technology that allows objects, such as mobile phones, computers, tags and the like to exchange information wirelessly at very close range. How close? Just a few centimeters.

It is often referred to as “tap ‘n go” technology, where users can tap their NFC enabled mobile phone to an NFC tag and instantly receive a coupon, pay for their train ticket, or see the trailer for a new movie. Primarily used for mobile payment, NFC can be used in a wide variety of applications ranging from marketing to nutrition to health care and transportation.

NFC serves as a way to connect the physical with the digital, potentially enhancing the way people interact with information.

How does it work?

Nearfield Communication is often referred to as “tap ‘n go” technology, where users can tap their NFC enabled mobile phone to an NFC tag and instantly receive a coupon, pay for their train ticket, or see the trailer for a new movie.

In addition to mobile payment, NFC tags can be embedded into posters to advertise events for users to tap and download to their personal cal­ endar, RSVP, or share with their friends. NFC tags can be used for social networking. You can tap an NFC tag and “like” a particular busi­ ness on Facebook or check-in to a location on Foursquare. Two users might tap their mobile phones together and become connected on LinkedIn, Facebook, or Twitter. NFC can be used to purchase and store mass transit tickets, scan your phone to board the train, scan a tag at the bus stop and see the current schedule, even parking meters can be NFC enabled to accept payments. Colleges and universities are utilizing NFC for access and identification.

Students can program their NFC enabled phones to act as their key to enter their dorm or other restricted campus buildings. Students can also use their mobile phones to pay for meals in dining halls, buy tickets to campus events, and pay for laundry. Over time, these universities expect to replace student ID cards with NFC-enabled mobile phones.

services for patrons. They can pay for printing, access a computer, and check items out with their mobile device. In the future, we might have self-check-out capabilities through our mobile devices. One library automation system already has a prototype that allows users to scan an NFC tagged book with their phone, to check the item out to themselves.

If you’d like additional information on NFC, its technical specifications, capabili­ ties, security and privacy concerns, and more on its impact on libraries, look for our article in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Web Librarianship.

— Sheli McHugh & Kristen Yarmey

Information Literacy Stipends Announced A goal in support of the mission of the Weinberg Memorial is to “teach literacies in a variety of forms and formats.” A sub­ committee of the Library Advisory reviews applications from faculty who propose proj­ ects to imbed information literacy into their courses through consultation with a librarian to develop learning outcomes. For fall 2012, five stipends of $1000.00 each were awarded.

Dr. Satya P. Chattopadhyay, working with Prof. Betsey Moylan, will bridge programlevel outcomes for undergraduate students to programmatic objectives mandated by AACSB, the accrediting body for schools of management.

Prof. Rebecca Haggerty will collaborate with Prof. George Aulisio to develop criti­ cal thinking skills for students in the Busi­ ness Ethics course. This project will cultivate awareness of the ethical and legal implica­ tions of research materials and intellectual property right.

For Undergraduate Research in Biology, Dr. Gary Kwiecinski will work with Prof. Kristen Yarmey to develop students’ proficiency at

searching primary research materials to test a hypothesis.

In the Introduction to Marketing Course, Prof. Maria Montenegro will work with Prof.

Betsey Moylan to develop students’ research skills on demographics, lifestyle and compet­ itive information to develop marketing plans for a specific industry.

Dr. Declan Mulhall with collaborate with Prof. Kristen Yarmey for the course entitled Physics First Year Seminar. The learning outcome is to develop students’ ability to discern among types of information to find reliable sources and to properly attribute their use of these resources.

At the conclusion of the semester, faculty members report the impact the information literacy objective(s) had on their students’ work. To read more about this program or about previous years’ projects, go to http:// matrix.scranton.edu/academics/wml/infolit/ stipends/index.shtml The deadline for application for spring 2013 is November 2, 2012.

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A subcommittee of the Library

Advisory reviews applications

from faculty who

propose projects to imbed information literacy into their courses through consultation

with a librarian to develop learning

outcomes. For fall

2012, five stipends of $1000.00 each were awarded.

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What can it do?

Should NFC become ubiquitous, libraries could use NFC to create a more cohesive collection by connecting physical library resources to relevant digital information.

NFC tags could link physical books to eBooks with similar topics, databases for further research, or recommendations for additional materials. NFC could also provide users with instant access to library contact information, virtual reference, or library hours. We might also utilize NFC on our advertisements for events, programs, awards and collections.

NFC enabled mobile phones might replace library cards which would streamline library

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NFC is an advanced form of RFID technol­ ogy which uses the modulation of radio fre­ quency fields to transfer and receive informa­ tion. NFC requires two objects: an initiator or “reader” and a target. The target can be an NFC tag, sticker, credit card machine, or a

mobile phone. NFC can perform as passive or active communication. This might sound very similar to a QR code tag that can be read with a mobile phone. However, with NFC, both the tag and the reader can be active, to create a two way peer-to-peer data exchange.

For example, with mobile payment, you would not only be able to pay at the credit card machine with your mobile phone, you would also be able to apply coupons stored in your device to your purchase, receive in-store rewards and frequent shopper points, and receive electronic receipts on their mobile device, all in one transaction. Also, mobile phones can act as the reader and the target to exchange information both ways. So two friends can tap phones together and exchange data like contact information, payment, or even rewards within certain video games.

What does it mean for libraries?

The Open Access Movement: What Is It and Where Is It Going?

Various universities and faculty bodies have publicly

announced their

support for Open

Access publishing.

Some universities go as far as to

mandate that their faculty always

submit a copyright addendum in

the ability to self archive

their article.

Journal Archives Expanded with the Addition of JSTOR Arts & Sciences Collections The Library has continued its expansion of its online journal archival collections with the recent

additions of the JSTOR Arts & Sciences VIII, X, and XI Collections of journals. The collections will

contain a minimum of 390 journal titles when

completed by the end of 2014. The addition of these collections has enabled the Weinberg Library to consolidate its print journal collection

while at the same time freeing up the entire space

on the Library’s first floor, thus paving the way for the creation of its future Learning Commons.

At the same time, the collections have added

depth and breadth to a number of disciplines including history, language & literature, art & art

history, philosophy, sociology, business, history

of science, and education to name just a few. The JSTOR Arts & Sciences Collection VIII contains a

group of rare 19th and early 20th century American Art periodicals digitized as a special project with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick

Collection and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. A complete list of the titles in these collections can

be found at the following URL: http://about.jstor. org/content-collections/journals.

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models such as bundling a few popular jour­ nals with a lot of unpopular journals have given publishing companies a bad reputa­ tion. Publishers do have operational costs, such as advertising for their journals, software licensing fees, salaries and such.. Many argue, however, that the cost to run a journal should not be as high as it once was, as journals see a fraction of the printing that they once did, and there are no longer shipping and handling fees since the large majority of libraries subscribe to academic journals electronically.

There are a few proposed options for making scholarship more equitable. The first route, Gold Open Access, is the preferred method of publishing from Open Access advocates. The Gold route suggests only pub­ lishing in journals that choose to make all of their content free on the internet. Depending on the chosen business model, these journals are funded in various ways. Very few are able to be supported by a professional organiza­ tion or have their operational costs absorbed by a library or university. If a journal has no external financial support, then they will try to offset their operational costs in different ways.

Some choose to sell advertising space or insti­ tute an unpopular publishing fee. Usually this is a turn off for most scholars since few have money budgeted to pay for publishing fees.

Another difficulty with the Gold route is that junior faculty need to publish in journals in order to earn tenure. By limiting themselves to the small number of Open Access journals in their field they are severely limiting their ability to publish and in turn earn tenure.

The other route is referred to as Green Open Access and it encourages publishing in any journal, so long as the author attaches a copyright addendum to the publishing agree­ ment. Usually publishers ask for all of the copyright holder’s rights to their article, but will license some privileges back to the author, such as the ability to use classroom copies with their students. A copyright addendum allows

research is behind a pay wall, unless the author chose to take one of the Open Access routes we covered.

Various universities and faculty bodies have publicly announced their support for Open Access publishing. Some universities go as far as to mandate that their faculty always submit a copyright addendum in order to retain the ability to self archive their article. At The University of Scranton we too are exploring ways to support the Open Access movement without comprising the excellent scholarship being performed by our faculty.

—George Aulisio

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order to retain

Open Access is an internet movement with the main objective of making scholarship easier and more open to the public by allow­ ing free access to scholarly publications. In order to better understand why Open Access is gaining mass attention, it is first necessary to understand the academic journal publish­ ing industry. Scholars need to publish schol­ arly articles in order to earn tenure and pro­ motion. Also, performing written scholarship is one of the reasons they chose their career.

Publishers make it possible for schol­ ars to publish by funding academic jour­ nals. However, these journals are not run by employees of the publishing company, but by volunteer scholars who work without compen­ sation as peer reviewers and editors. Because scholars need to build upon the work of their colleagues, they need access to various schol­ arly journals. It’s not uncommon for there to be 10–20 journals in a single field that publish papers of substantial quality. Subscription fees to these journals are not the same as a maga­ zine or newspaper fees; instead they are often thousands of dollars a year for four issues.

Because it is part of the library’s mission to support scholarship, the library is compelled to subscribe to many different journals. These journal subscriptions now usually come in the form of giant bundles of titles with significant price tags attached to them.

In essence, the problem behind scholarly publishing is that it is a vicious cycle: scholars need to publish and they need to have access to other researchers’ scholarly works. This puts pressure on libraries to provide a wide range of journals to its university community regardless of the price of the subscriptions. Librarians have little negotiating power with publishing companies who know libraries need to provide access to their journals in order for the univer­ sity faculty to continue their scholarship.

Subscription fees for academic journals continue to rise yearly at a rate well above the consumer price index. In addition, business

the author to retain their copyright and in turn grants the publisher certain privileges to their article such as the right of first publica­ tion. Depending on what you want from the agreement, terms of the copyright transfer can usually be negotiated. One particular clause imperative to Open Access is that the adden­ dum allow for self archiving of the forthcom­ ing article on a personal website, a scholarly repository, or within a university’s institutional repository. Self archiving essentially makes your article free on the internet for anyone to find, but this route is still not ideal because a personal website and even an institutional repository has far less exposure than a journal indexed in a database. In addition, not every­ one has a personal website, every field does not have their own scholarly repository, and every university does not have an institutional repository.

A third route referred to as Hybrid publish­ ing has been recently proposed by publish­ ers. The hybrid model allows your work to be Open Access while still being published in a journal that is traditionally not Open Access.

Though this model would solve all the prob­ lems previously mentioned, it is very unpopu­ lar because publishers require an upfront fee that often ranges from $1,000 to $3,000 per article. This far exceeds the fees that Open Access journals often ask of authors.

The Open Access movement is continu­ ally gaining momentum. Just recently, there were two Open Access bills in congress. The Federal Research Works Act, lobbied by the publishing industry, sought to remove the mandatory Open Access requirement for all National Institute of Health (NIH) funded research. On the other side was The Federal Research Public Access Act which sought to extend the NIH’s Open Access policy to all government bodies funding research such as the National Endowment of the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. For­ tunately for those who do scholarship in the health sciences, the Research Works Act was dropped, meaning all NIH funded work will remain Open Access through the government database PubMed. Unfortunately, the Federal Research Public Access Act was dropped as well. This means that all other tax payer funded

The Library, Now at Your Fingertips University of Scranton students, faculty, and staff now have two easy ways to access the Weinberg Memorial Library’s resources from their mobile devices.

Anyone with an internet-capable mobile device can visit the Library’s mobile website at m.scranton.edu/library, while owners of Android and iOS devices also have the option of downloading the University of Scranton

app, which features a Library module.

Whichever way you go, you’ll find a mobile-friendly version of our Library catalog, a listing of the Library’s hours, and quick links to our “Ask a Librarian” reference services. Additional features, such as mobilefriendly access to Library databases, are in development.

—Kristen Yarmey

This archival photo shows construction of the library prior to its opening in 1992. Concurrent with the 20th Anniversary of the Weinberg Memorial Library, we are launching a redesign of our newsletter, Information Update. Like the Library, Kevin Norris is celebrating a 20th anniversary— in his case 20 years as editor of Information Update.

Choice Reviews Online: Sustainability Meets Versatility University of Scranton students, faculty, and staff Memorial Library’s resources from their mobile devices.

Anyone with an internet-capable mobile device

can visit the Library’s mobile website at m.scranton. edu/library, while owners of Android and iOS

devices also have the option of downloading the

University of Scranton app, which features a Library module.

Whichever way you go, you’ll find a mobile-

friendly version of our Library catalog, a listing of

the Library’s hours, and quick links to our “Ask a Librarian” reference services. Additional features, such as mobile-friendly access to Library databases, are in development.

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Thank you!

Kevin Norris kevin.norris@scranton.edu

NANCY DOLAN of OLYPHANT won a $25 gift certificate from the Waffle House of Clarks Summit & Scranton, memberships to the Everhart Museum and Lacawac Sanctuary, 2 certificates for 2 tickets each (4 total) for Puccini’s opera: La Boheme (Feb. 3) courtesy of the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts, 2 tickets to two Broadway Theatre League of NEPA productions for the 2011/12 season: South Pacific (Mar. 24) and Young Frankenstein (May 19), 2 tickets to a Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center concert (Feb. 23) courtesy of Community Concerts at Lackawanna College and 4 movies passes to Cinemark Theatres, a $50 gift certificate toward performances at the Scranton Cultural Center, 2 tickets to an Actors Circle production, a gift basket of fabulous lotions and more from LAVISH Body+Home, a wonderful meal at Saen Thai Cuisine ($40 gift certificate), a 3-month membership to Planet Fitness, and a studio sitting and package #6, with a master photog­ rapher at Guy Cali Associates, Inc.

February

DIANE GAVERN of SCRANTON won a PNC Bank suite, which includes 14 game tickets, plus food and beverages, at the Mohegan Sun Arena when the Wilkes Barre/Scranton Penguins play the Bridgeport Sound Tigers (Apr. 14), 2 tickets each to Yesterday and Today (Mar. 23) and The Kingston Trio (Apr. 20) courtesy of Community Concerts at Lackawanna College, and 2 tickets to an Actor’s Circle production.

March

ANN HOFFMAN of ROARING BROOK TWP. won an overnight stay package for 2 adults at Woodlock Pines

Resorts: includes 3 meals, use of resort’s facili­ ties, amenities, and activities & nightly enter­ tainment (not valid during July and August), 6 flex tickets for one regular concert at the Wildflower Music Festival, and 2 tickets to an Actors Circle production.

April

GERRY NOVAK of SCRANTON won a 1 year membership to The Michael J. Aronica Wellness Center from Allied Services, a gift certificate ($25) from the Waffle House of Clarks Summit & Scranton, an Express Stress Breaker from Sanderson Place Salon & Spa Scranton, a gift certificate from the Windsor Inn ($15), a discount on a Birthday Party Package at Adventure Zone at The Ice Box Sports Complex ($100 off), a gift card from Live With It ($100), a meal at Amici restaurant ($50 gift certificate), and 30 free coffee or café beverage certificates cour­ tesy of Aramark.

May

MARIE ROBSON of SCRANTON won a diamond bracelet, a gift certificate from N.B. Levy’s Jewelers ($50), 6 tickets to the 2012 season at the Ritz Company Playhouse, 2 one year memberships to The Schemel Forum, and a gift certificate from Terry Hurst Golf Shop ($50).

June

WAYNE ELVIDGE of PECKVILLE won 2 tickets to the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, 6 tickets to the Ritz Company Playhouse, a one year mem­ bership to The Michael J. Aronica Wellness Center from Allied services, and a gift certifi­ cate for Sibio’s Restaurant ($50).

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—Kristen Yarmey

With this issue, we are pleased to present the Weinberg Memorial Library’s newly rede­ signed Information Update. As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Weinberg Library, we felt it was befitting to launch our newly revamped newsletter as part of the celebrations. We hope you like our new look and that you will find time in your busy schedule to attend some of our anni­ versary events. Comments, opinions, or, of course, compliments you might have about our redesigned newsletter are welcome and may be sent to me, your editor for the last 20 years.

January

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From the Editor:

Leaves of Class XIV Winners

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A Newsletter from the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Memorial Library

Editor: Kevin Norris

Scranton, Pa 18510-4634

Phone: (570) 941-7816 20

Dean Of The Library: Charles Kratz