Information Update - Events & Exhibits

Events & Exhibits

Jay Parini to Receive Distinguished Author Award (Spring 2012

On September 29, 2012, the Friends of the Weinberg Memorial Library will present the Royden B. Davis Distinguished Author Award to Jay Parini. This event is one of several planned to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Weinberg Memorial Library. > Full story

Dean Awards Information Literacy Stipends (Spring 2012)

Dean Charles Kratz announced that four Information Literacy Stipends were granted by the Weinberg Memorial Library for the 2012 spring semester. One full-time and three part-time faculty members will receive grants of $1,000 each upon submission of their reports documenting the impact that the information literacy component had on student learning outcomes as identified in their grant proposals. > Full story

Zaner-Bloser Alphabet Exhibit (Spring 2012)

The Heritage Room will feature an eye-catching exhibit of Alphabets from the Zaner-Bloser Collection. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Zaner-Bloser was a leader in penmanship and calligraphy instruction. > Full story

Recognizing Rose Kelly Award Recipients (Spring 2012)

The Rose I. Kelly Award was established by University of Scranton Alumnus Joseph Wineburgh, Ph.D., to link the efforts of educators to the achievements of college students. > Full story

Frank O'Hara Awards Presented (Spring 2012)

Frank O'Hara Awards are presented to first-, second- and third-year undergraduate students with the highest grade point average in each of the four undergraduate colleges of the University; and to graduate students with the highest grade point average who are approximately halfway through their program of study in the areas of business, counseling, education, humanities, health administration/human resources administration, Scranton education online, science, and physical therapy. > Full story

A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs Exhibit Comes to Heritage Room (Fall 2011)

The Heritage Room will be hosting an American Library Association exhibit titled "A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs" from Friday, Sept. 9, through Sunday, Oct. 23. This traveling panel exhibit celebrates American popular song during the period 1910 to 1965. > Full story

Zaner-Bloser Penmanship Collection Grows (Fall 2011)

The Zaner-Bloser Penmanship Collection continues to grow, with the addition of a couple hundred printing blocks recently retrieved from the company warehouse in Columbus, Ohio. > Full Story

Berry Receives Distinguished Author Award (Fall 2011)

Zaner-Bloser Penmanship Exhibit (Spring 2011)

Weinberg Memorial Library's Heritage Room will feature an exhibit from the newly acquired Zaner-Bloser Penmanship Collection. The exhibit will feature an overview of the collection providing a glimpse of the different components of one of the largest penmanship history collections in the country. > Full Story

Library Gaming A Lot of Fun (Fall 2010)

Library gaming might seem like an oxymoron to some people, but here at the Weinberg Memorial Library we think the two make a perfect match. It shouldn't be a surprise to hear that libraries have evolved quite a bit over time and librarians have been quick to roll with the punches. > Full story

Helen Suzman: Fighter for Human Rights (Fall 2010)

The Heritage Room will be hosting a traveling exhibit titled "Helen Suzman: Fighter for Human Rights" from Aug. 31 to Oct. 25. Suzman, over the course of a nearly four-decade political career, was one of South Africa's most vociferous and energetic opponents of apartheid.

The exhibit, which features 29 hanging panels utilizing photographs, personal letters and political speeches, portrays Suzman's often solitary fight within the South African Parliament against apartheid, her work with anti-apartheid activists outside the government, and her friendship with Nelson Mandela, after meeting him in 1967 at the Robben Island Prison. It portrays the hostility and anti-Semitism she faced during her 36-year career in parliament (1953-1989) and while fighting apartheid. > Full story

The Weinberg Memorial Library 2010 Book and Plant Sale held last April
(Fall 2010)

Special Collections News (Spring 2010): Special Collections gratefully acknowledges the recent donation by University alumnus Leon C. Petrus of An Ecclesiastical History, Antient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ to the Beginning of the Present Century by John Lawrence Mosheim, published in London by T. Cadell, 1782. > Full story

Fall 2009 Distinguished Author Award (Spring 2010): The Royden B. Davis Distinguished Author Reception on November 14, 2009, was among this event's most entertaining. William Bernhardt discussed the influences in his life that lead to his determination to become a writer. > Full story

The Frank O'Hara and Rose I. Kelly Awards 2009-2010 (Spring 2010): The librarians of the Weinberg Memorial Library participated in their first departmental retreat on Wednesday, June 17, 2009. Bonnie Oldham, Coordinator of Information Literacy and Kristin Yarmey-Tylutki, Digital Services Librarian initiated the retreat to help the various departments in the library integrate their individual activities and projects with the overall strategic plan of the library and the University. > Full story
Library Celebrates Scholarship Month (Spring 2010)

Special Collection News (Fall 2009): Weinberg Library hosted a very successful run of the American Library Association traveling exhibit Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation. School groups and community groups visited the exhibit during its February 9-March 22 visit to the Heritage Room. > Full story
Leaves of Class Winners (Fall 2009)
The Weinberg Memorial Library 2009 Book and Plant Sale (Fall 2009)
Abraham Lincoln Exhibit (Spring 2009): Abraham Lincoln is the focus of a second traveling exhibit and a conference during the bicentennial anniversary of his birth. "Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation," an American Library Association exhibit, will visit the Heritage Room of the Weinberg Library from February 8 through March 20, 2009. > Full story
Leaves of Class Winners (Spring 2009)
Samuel Jackson Exhibit in the Fall (Spring 2009): The Weinberg Library is honored to host another exhibit from the Edward R. Leahy Collection. An exhibit on Samuel Johnson and his biographer James Boswell is scheduled for the Heritage Room during fall semester 2009 in honor of Johnson's 300th birthday. > Full story
Letters to Sala Exhibit a Success (Spring 2009): The New York Public Library traveling exhibit Letters to Sala received a tremendous response from the local community during its autumn run. The exhibit was brought to the Heritage Room through the efforts of Tova Weiss and the Holocaust Education Resource Center. > Full story

Letters to Sala Exhibit (Fall 2008): "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. > Full story
Abraham Lincoln Exhibit (Fall 2008): Abraham Lincoln will be the focus of a second traveling exhibit and a conference during the bicentennial anniversary of his birth. "Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation," an American Library Association exhibit, will visit the Heritage Room from February 8 through March 20, 2009. > Full story
Leaves of Class Winners (Fall 2008)
2008 Distinguished Author Award (Fall 2008)
Friends of the Weinberg Memorial Library 2008 Book and Plant Sale (Fall 2008)

Mary Gordon to Receive Distinguished Author Award (Spring 2008): Mary Gordon, author of novels, short stories and non-fiction will be honored on May 3, 2008, with the Royden B. Davis Distinguished Author Award at 5:00 p.m. in the Ballroom of the DeNaples Campus Center. She is the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College. > Full story

The University of Scranton Celebrates Excellence: The Frank O'Hara and Rose Kelly Awards (Spring 2008): On December 6, 2007, The University of Scranton celebrated excellence during an award dinner sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence. This celebration showcased the achievements of individuals who were receiving this year's Frank O'Hara and Rose Kelly Awards.
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Library Celebrates Scholarship Month (Spring 2008)
Leaves of Class Winners (Spring 2008)
Friends of the Weinberg Memorial Library 2007 Book and Plant Sale (Fall 2007)
Leaves of Class Winners (Fall 2007)
Frank O'Hara and Rose Kelly Awards for 2006-07 Presented (Spring 2007): On December 6, 2006 The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence hosted an awards dinner for the Frank O'Hara and Rose Kelly Awards. > Full story
J. J. Quinn Lecture Held (Spring 2007)
Exhibit Examines Literary Hoaxes (Spring 2007): The Weinberg Library is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibit Harmless to Homicidal: A Collection of Hoaxes and Literary Forgeries from the Library of Stephen R. Pastore. > Full story
New Rare Book Acquisitions: The Hill-Davis Jesuit Rare Book Collection has grown recently with the acquisition of Martin du Cygen, S.J., Fons eloquentiae studiosae juventuti patens: sive Explanatio rhetoricae, which is a study of Cicero's Rhetoric and Oratory. > Full story
Leaves of Class VIII Winners (Spring 2007)
Best Selling Author Phillip M. Margolin To Receive Distinguished Author Award (Fall 2006)
J. J. Quinn, S.J. Lecture and Dedication Held (Fall 2006): The second annual lecture honoring the Catholic Intellectual tradition and the late Rev. J.J. Quinn, S.J., faculty member in the English Department at the University, was held on April 27 in the Heritage Room of the Weinberg Library. > Full story
Annual Spring Library Workshop Held at U of S (Fall 2006)
Special Collections News (Fall 2006)
Upcoming Exhibits (Spring 2006)
The Frank O'Hara Award and the Rose Kelly Award (Spring 2006): On December 12, 2005 fourteen outstanding students were awarded the Frank O'Hara Award and four outstanding students and their teachers received the Rose Kelly Awards > Full story
Library Celebrates Scholarship Month (Spring 2006)
2005 Distinguished Author Award Presented (Spring 2006): The Friends of the Weinberg Memorial Library presented best-selling legal thriller author James Grippando with the 2005 Royden B. Davis, S.J., Distinguished Author Award on Sept. 17. > Full story
James Grippando to Receive Distinguished Author Award (Fall 2005): Reserve September 17, 2005, for the Royden B. Davis Distinguished Author Award Ceremony. This year's recipient, James Grippando, best selling author of nine novels, provided us with additional information to supplement the flavor of his writing and personality readers can obtain from his website http://www.jamesgrippando.com/. > Full story
Information Literacy Grants Awarded (Fall 2005)
Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence 2005-2006 Opportunities for Faculty and Students (Fall 2005)
Special Collections Events (Fall 2005): Weinberg Library recently expanded its Jesuit Rare Book Collection with an attractive 18th-century Italian book, Excursus Litterii Per Italiam Ab Anno MDCCXLII. > Full story
Royden D. Davis, S.J. Distinguished Author (Spring 2005): The Royden D. Davis, S.J. Distinguished Author Award for 2005 will be presented to best-selling author James Grippando on September 17, 2005. > Full story
Flannery O'Connor Exhibit (Spring 2005)
Mulberry Poets Launch Anthology (Spring 2005): Members of the Mulberry Poets & Writers Association gathered in the Heritage Room of the Weinberg Memorial Library on Thursday, December 9, 2004, to launch the publication of an anthology of their poetry, Palpable Clock: 25 Years of Mulberry > Full story
Upcoming Exhibits at the Library (Spring 2005)
Leaves of Class VI Winners (Spring 2005)
Upcoming Exhibits at the Library (Spring 2005)
Muscular Dystrophy Association Art Exhibit (Fall 2004): A special exhibit of artworks created by individuals suffering from muscular dystrophy is scheduled for September 24 through October 4, in the Heritage Room. > Full story
Horror Fiction Exhibit (Fall 2004): Weinberg Library is honored to host an exhibit of Arkham House books from the Edward Leahy collection. > Full story
Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence (Fall 2004): The Center for Teaching & Learning Excellence (CTLE) will be hosting several events for faculty during the fall 2005 semester. > Full story
Current and Upcoming Special Collections Exhibits (Spring 2004): The exhibit "The University of Scranton: A Century of Impressions" will continue in the Heritage Room through April 18. The exhibit, which has been featured on Television Channel WYOU and in a Scranton Record article, looks at what a Catholic University does and provides images and documents to show how Scranton has fulfilled those functions. > Full story
Librarians Receive Awards (Spring 2004)
Lecture to Look at History of Jazz (Spring 2004)
Library to Celebrate Scholarship Month (Spring 2004): Once again, the Weinberg Memorial Library will celebrate Scholarship Month at The University of Scranton during May 2004 with an exhibition of faculty publications in the Scranton Heritage Room. The Library is seeking scholarly works produced since 1 June 2003 and prior works not already donated to the Faculty Publications Collections. > Full story
Leaves of Class IV Winners (Spring 2004)
Northeastern Pennsylvania Library Network Fall Workshop (Spring 2004)
2003 Royden B. Davis, S.J. Distinguished Author Award (Spring 2004)
Elements of Design (Spring 2004)
Author Linda Fairstein to Receive Distinguished Author Award (Fall 2003): Best-selling crime novelist Linda Fairstein has been named as the recipient of the 2003 Royden B. Davis, S.J. Distinguished Author Award. > Full story
Upcoming Friends Lectures (Fall 2003)
Gadgets and Gizmos (Spring 2003): Braving the aftermath of one snowstorm and the threat of another, close to 40 people attended a conference at the University of Scranton on "technogadgets" and their impact on libraries, held Friday, December 13, in Brennan Hall. > Full story
Library Celebrates Scholarship Month (Spring 2003)
Library Exhibits This Spring (Spring 2003)
Leaves of Class IV Winners (Spring 2003)
Shakespeare's Women Presented (Spring 2003): On 16 October, 2002, Dr. Joyce E. Henry, Emerita Professor of Theater, Ursinus College, presented a Pennsylvania Humanities Council program titled "Shakespeare's Women: At Every Stage." > Full story
Digital Record of Scranton's History Receives Local Media Attention (Fall 2002): The Scranton Digital Postcard Collection, mounted on the Special Collections Web site, has received a fair amount of publicity thanks to the efforts of Stan Zygmunt, Manager of Media Relations at The University of Scranton. > Full story
Library Display Commemorates Centennial of 1902 Anthracite Miners' Strike (Fall 2002)
Commonwealth Speaker Joyce Henry will present "Shakespeare's Women: At Every Stage (Fall 2002): Commonwealth Speaker Dr. Joyce E. Henry, Emerita Professor of Theater, Ursinus College, will present a Pennsylvania Humanities Council (PHC) program titled "Shakespeare's Women: At Every Stage." > Full story
Book Lovers Road Show A Success (Fall 2002)
Leaves of Class IV Winners (Fall 2002)
Book & Plant Sale a Rousing Success (Fall 2002)
Book Reading and Luncheon with Novelist Tim Junkins (Fall 2002)
Book Lovers Roadshow (Spring 2002): Check through the attic and through that box of old books and bring your treasures to be appraised by Jack Walsdorf, author, book collector, lecturer, and appraiser from Portland, Oregon, who will be here at the University of Scranton on April 14 from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m., Brennan Hall, Room 516, to his famed "Book Lovers Road Show." > Full story
Library to Celebrate Scholarship Month (Spring 2002): The Weinberg Memorial Library will celebrate Scholarship Month at The University of Scranton during May 2002 with an exhibition of faculty publications in the Scranton Heritage Room. > Full story
Latest Leaves of Class Winners (Spring 2002)
Recent Events at the Library (Spring 2002)
The University of Scranton to Honor Best-Selling Author (Fall 2001): Best-selling author Lisa Scottoline will receive the 2001 Distinguished Author Award from the Friends of the Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Memorial Library at The University of Scranton on Saturday, September 15. > Full story
Library Book Sale a Success (Fall 2001): Proceeds from the "Friends of the Weinberg Memorial Library Book, Plant and Tag Sale" broke the previous high of $5000 by an additional $2000. The most sought after books included hundreds of complete works in theology, philosophy and religion. > Full story
Special Collections News (Fall 2001)
Leaves of Class Winners (Fall 2001)
Upcoming Exhibits (Spring 2001)
Library to Celebrate Scholarship Month (Spring 2001): The Weinberg Memorial Library will celebrate Scholarship Month at The University of Scranton during May 2001 with an exhibition of faculty publications in the Scranton Heritage Room. > Full story
Latest Leaves of Class Winners (Spring 2001)
Library and Gallery to Present Second Part of Leahy Rare Book Exhibit (Fall 2000): Weinberg Memorial Library and the University Art Gallery are pleased to announce a joint exhibit of rare books from the Edward R. Leahy collection. The exhibit will run from 4 November 2000 until 2 February 2001. > Full story
Friends Booksale a Great Success (Fall 2000)
Leahy Rare Book Exhibit (Spring 2000): The Weinberg Memorial Library is extremely pleased to be the host of two rare book exhibits drawn from the collection of Edward R. Leahy, chairman of the University Board of Trustees. > Full story
The University of Scranton To Honor Mary Higgings Clark & Carol Higgins Clark (Spring 2000): Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark, authors of many best-selling hooks, will receive the Distinguished Author Award from The University of Scranton's Friends of the Weinberg Memorial Library on Saturday, 23 September on the University campus. > Full story
Announcing The Second Annual Leaves of Class Drawing (Spring 2000)
Library to Celebrate Scholarship Month (Spring 2000)
Latest Leaves of Class Winners (Spring 2000)
2000 Book & Plant Sale (Spring 2000)
Football on the Web (Spring 2000)
Football at the Library (Fall 1999)
Workshop Conducted for NRCI Staff (Fall 1999)
Board of Trustees Chair to Exhibit Rare Book Collection (Fall 1999)
Pennsylvania's Underground Railroad (Fall 1999)
2000 Book & Plant Sale (Fall 1999)
Latest Leaves of Class Winners (Fall 1999)
The University of Scranton Honors Malachy McCourt (Spring 1999): Malachy McCourt, author of the best-selling memoir A Monk Swimming, received the Distinguished Author Award from The University of Scranton's Friends of the Weinberg Memorial Library on Wednesday April 7, on the University's campus.> Full story
Lewis and Clark Exhibit Open (Spring 1999): The Lewis and Clark Memorabilia and Photography Exhibitions are now open to the public. > Full story
Cirque Fantastique Delights the Senses (Spring 1999): The air was filled with excitement. The senses were treated to a feast of color and liveliness as guests shared pleasantries amid kaleidoscope decor. With the circus-like atmosphere, you'd never know you were on the top floor of the Weinberg Memorial Library. > Full story
Lewis and Clark Exhibit at Library (Fall 1998): Library Collection Development seeks to provide users with the materials they need to support the curriculum at the University of Scranton. > Full story
Leaves of Class Drawing (Fall 1998)
Friends Booksale a Great Success (Fall 1998)
Library Host Watercolor Exhibit (Spring 1998)
Women Come to the Front Exhibit Opens (Spring 1998): The Weinberg Memorial Library has recently become a subscriber to Project Muse, a full-text, full-image database of over 40 journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press. > Full story
Library to Celebrate Scholarship Month (Spring 1998): The Weinberg Memorial Library will celebrate Scholarship Month at the University of Scranton during May 1998 with an exhibition of faculty publication in the Scranton Heritage Room. > Full story
Story Magic at Library (Spring 1998): On December 14, that ill-tempered Grinch who stole Christmas, the magical train that whisks children off to the North Pole, and of course the sacred dramas of Chanukah and of Christ's birth in Bethlehem came to life once more for some forty children in the Heritage Room of the Weinberg Memorial Library. > Full story
Heritage Room Exhibit Calendar (Fall 1997)
Women Come to the Front (Fall 1997): Weinberg Memorial Library and the University Art Gallery are co-sponsoring a Library of Congress traveling exhibit titled Women Come to the Front during spring semester. > Full story
Lecture and Event Recpetion Mark Donation of Book of Kells (Spring 1997): Melissa Conway, Ph.D., will present a lecture/slide presentation on the Book of Kegs (circa 800 AD), one of the world's most famous illuminated manuscripts, on Sunday, March 9, 2-3 p.m., in the Trophy Room of the Gunster Student Center. University President Rev. J. A. Panuska S.J., will also present a 'Reflection on Charles J. Buckley." > Full story
Library to Celebrate Scholarship Month (Spring 1997)
Textile Exhibit At Library (Winter 1996): Through March 22, the Weinberg Memorial Library is hosting an exhibition of Guatemalan textiles from the collection of Linda Ledford-Miller, Ph.D., of the University's Foreign Languages Department. > Full story
Ergonomics Workshop Held (Winter 1996): Ergonomics is the science that explores the optImum relationship between people, their tasks and their environment. On Dec. 13^th the library support staff invited library faculty and staff to attend a workshop on "Office Ergonomics" sponsored by the Procurement Department and presented by CBI & Steelcase. > Full story
Calling All Alumni Authors (Fall 1995)
Booksale A Success (Fall 1995)
William Morris And The Kelmscott Press Exhibition (Fall 1994): The Friends of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Memorial Library, the Department of Art and Music, and the University Art Gallery will host an exhibition on William Morris and the Kelmscott Press from Oct. 23 to Dec. 9. 1991. > Full story
Staff Events (Fall 1994): The Northeast Chapter of the Pennsylvania Library Association and the Northeast Pennsylvania Bibliographic Center jointly sponsored a one-day workshop on May 18 at King's College. > Full story
Our Thanks To Faculty Authors (Winter 1992-93): Our thanks goes out to over 40 University of Scranton faculty and staff members who participated in the Dedication Program of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Memorial Library by serving as part of the Honor Guard of University Authors and donating copies of their publications to the Library's Special Collections housed in the University Archives. > Full story