THE HARRY & JEANETTE WEINBERG MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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SPRING 2012 • Vol.1 Issue 1
A newsletter from The Weinberg Memorial Library FALL 2014
Our Thanks to the Man Behind the Camera: Caring for the Terry and Paula Connors Collection If you’ve attended an event on The University of Scranton campus lately – say, anytime in the past four decades – there’s a good chance you’ve crossed paths with local photographer Terry Connors. You may not have noticed him (he prides himself on unobtrusiveness), but while you were greeting that former classmate, listening to that faculty lecture, or watching that graduate receive a hard-earned diploma, Connors and his camera were hard at work, capturing moments and memories.
It is now the Weinberg Memorial Library’s privilege – and challenge – to preserve those memories for future generations. In October 2008, Terry and Paula Connors donated to our McHugh Special Collections their entire collection of negatives and slides, representing approximately 300,000 photographs from freelance assignments between 1966 and 2005. This year, the Connors expanded their gift to the Library, donating hundreds of CDs holding born digital photographs taken between 2005 and 2013.
A Pictorial Witness to University History Terry Connors opened his freelance photography business (Photography by Terry Connors) in 1976 and worked in partnership with his wife Paula (who, as Terry puts it, did “everything but take a photo”). From the very beginning, The University of Scranton was one of Terry’s major clients. Indeed, the
Connors Collection includes negatives from several fall 1976 assignments at the University, including a handful of club football shoots, the track club’s 24-hour Relay Marathon and a visit by Brigadier General James F. Cochran to the University’s ROTC cadets. Please See Behind the Camera on Page 10