Opportunity for Arts and Crafts Vendors at Annual Book Sale

Call for Student and University Community Arts and Crafts Vendors  2013 Weinberg Memorial Library Book Sale Sponsored by the Friends of the Weinberg Library & the Library Staff Friday- Sunday, April 26th – 28th, 2013  Important Dates:  Vendor applications are … Continue reading

Volunteers and Donations for the Library’s Annual Book Sale

The Library will host its Annual Book Sale the weekend of April 27th.  As always, proceeds will benefit the Friends of the Library endowment fund in support of WML’s collections and services.  If you are a student and would like … Continue reading

University of Scranton Basketball Collection

Here’s something we’ve been working on for a while as part of our ongoing digitization of materials from the University Archives: The University of Scranton Basketball Collection. We haven’t yet digitized the whole archival collection, but we thought we’d go … Continue reading

American Hands Exhibit and Schemel Forum Event

The Library’s Heritage Room is currently hosting American Hands: A Visual Celebration of Traditional Tradespeople, a traveling exhibit of work by photographer Sally Wiener Grotta. American Hands is Sally Wiener Grotta’s ongoing narrative visual celebration of those individuals who are keeping … Continue reading

The Proud Art of Beautiful Writing: Limited Edition Moleskine® Notebooks

This holiday season, the Weinberg Memorial Library is selling a new line of limited edition Moleskine® notebooks, inspired by the calligraphic and ornamental masterworks preserved in the Library’s Zaner-Bloser Penmanship Collection. Featured on each notebook is “The Proud Art Shall … Continue reading

Library 20th Anniversary Celebration Video

This past Saturday, the Friends of the Weinberg Memorial Library honored award winning poet, biographer, fiction writer and educator Jay Parini, Ph.D., with the 2012 Royden B. Davis, S.J., Distinguished Author Award. We also kicked off the Library’s 20th anniversary … Continue reading

Letterpress Library Christmas Card

It may be 90 degrees outside today, but we’re too excited to wait until December to share our latest project – letterpress printing our Library Christmas card! Back in 2010, the Zaner-Bloser Company donated a rich collection of 19th and … Continue reading

Reception and Book Signing for Nell Regan, Irish Poet and Fulbright Scholar

Nell Regan, Irish Poet and Fulbright Scholar at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and Berkeley, CA will read from her new book, Bound for Home *Book Signing and Reception to Follow Nell Regan has won numerous … Continue reading

Schemel Forum Spring 2012 Schedule

What’s the best way to beat the post-holiday blues? How about thinking Spring by thinking Schemel? Our Schemel Forum Spring 2012 schedule is out, and it’s packed with captivating speakers and sessions to steal your attention away from the winter … Continue reading