New York Times Online Is Here!

In these uncertain times, we are often left wondering if the articles we read every day through social media are promoting real or fabricated news. Thankfully, some websites promise the facts alongside balanced, informed, and educated opinions on current events. Great, you are probably thinking, where can I find this place? Search no further! Say hello to the New York Times Online, a new collaboration between Marywood University and the New York Times, thanks to the Learning Commons’ own Michelle Sitko, Head of Continuing Digital Resources. You may have read articles from the New York Times before, but now you can access virtually everything NYTimes.com has to offer for free with your Marywood email. Read on to find out how!

On February 8, 2017, Sitko sent an email to the Marywood campus about New York Times Online. In the email she explained that all Marywood students, staff, and faculty could sign up at NYTimes.com/Passes with their Marywood email to receive free and complete access to the New York Times. Whereas before readers of the Times were required to pay after a certain amount of free online articles, anyone in the Marywood community is allowed to access the New York Times and its expansive archive online at no cost.

In addition to free articles and archives, New York

courtesy of NYTimes.com

Times Online allows educators on campus to access the New York Times in Education site. To utilize this feature, navigate to NYTimesinEducation.com/Register and provide your Marywood email address. According to Sitko’s email, “this site includes faculty-developed, AASCU aligned learning outcomes, [and] general instruction strategies to promote student achievement.” Included in
the website is a number of activities for learning development and all are free to Marywood users.

Other notable features include the New York Times large and diverse collection of videos, TimesTopics, and mobile apps to integrate the New York Times into your busy life. To access the apps, go to NYTimes.com/Mobile.

But wait, there’s more! With this new and exciting partnership comes the introduction of virtual reality to your mobile device. With the New York Times and your iPhone or Android device, you can activate virtual reality to experience videos and stories in 360-degree immersive video format. Try it out today by visiting the Knowledge Bar in the Learning Commons!

If you have any questions about the New York Times Online, you can contact Michelle Sitko at sitko@marywood.edu or contact the Learning Commons Circulation Desk at (570) 961-4707.

TechKnows: How to Take Out a Book

Hello again! This is Riley from the Help Desk, located at the Knowledge Bar. It’s been some time since the last TechKnows post, but this academic year is full of new additions and fun surprises. I’m here to help you understand just how the Learning Commons has changed to accommodate you!

I don’t look like a bookshelf, but I am your friend! xoxo

First on the docket: taking out a book using the new KOHA CATALOG.

1. Take out your phone, turn on your tablet, power up your laptop, or sit at a computer. You can request books from any device that connects to the Internet! That’s right, including your home computer.
2. Navigate to the Marywood University home page. This page is the gateway to so many applications and helpful tidbits of information. Know it well!
3. Click on Library at the bottom of the page. Easy enough!
4. Locate Library Catalog / My Account and click. You’ll be transported directly to the Koha catalog!
5. Once you’re in the catalog, the *first thing* to do is Log in to your account or use the quick login fields and use your MarywoodYou Portal login.  That pesky barcode number is no longer needed!
6. Search for the book you need using the search bar. Once you find the terrific tome(s) you were looking for, click Place hold (you can also put multiple books in your Cart and request them all at once).
7. Items will be ready to pick up (depending on specified location) at the Knowledge Bar, Architecture Library, or Curriculum Lab! Just ask anyone at the respective locations and have your Marywood ID ready.

In just a few simple steps, an near infinite amount of books can be in your hands. You can take out movies the same way; just search and follow the instructions above. As for books that are in the Marketplace, you can find them on the shelves located next to the computers and take them to the main desk to check out.

Really, I’m quite simple to use! Give me a try 🙂

Fun Fact: If you can’t find a book in the Koha catalog, use the PALCI/E-ZBorrow link while logged into the catalog. You will be automatically logged in, so you can immediately begin searching and request books through interlibrary loan!

As always, if you have any further questions, visit the friendly techs and clerks at the Knowledge Bar! We’re always happy to help.

This is Riley, signing off!

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Do you have any suggestions for future TechKnows posts? Leave a comment below!

 

2016 Barbara Hoffman English 160 Award Winners

If you’ve already read librarian Annette Fisher’s post on the late Barbara Hoffman, you’ll know why winning this award is such an honor. This year, we awarded four awards (with a third-place tie) to students demonstrating writing excellence combined with library research, echoing Barbara’s perennial spirit of curiosity, inquiry, and literary pizzazz.

1st Place: Michael Smith

Michael Smith (’19), 2016 Barbara Hoffman Award Winner

Michael’s winning paper is titled: “A Different Game: How Popular News Sources Addressed Violence in Video Games After the Sandy Hook Shooting”

Congratulations to Michael and his advising English 160 Professor: Helen Bittel.

2nd Place: Kimberley Hagan

3rd Place: Hannah Docalovich and Althea Mae Fabi

3rd Place Winner: Hannah Docalovich

This Earth Day, Help Plant the Next Generation of Trees at Marywood!

by Amanda Avery, Librarian, Arboretum Committee Chair

It’s no secret that the building of the new Learning Commons required the sacrifice of a significant number of mature campus trees–trees that bore witness to many milestones in Marywood’s history.

Happily, through the efforts of the Sustainability Committee and the intrepid students of the Pugwash Environmental Club who raised nearly $4,000 and donations from community organizations and nurseries, 100 new trees will be added to campus, bringing new life to Marywood’s Arboretum and “putting the ‘wood’ back into Marywood.”

trees will be planted this Earth Day Weekend, April 22, 23, and 24. Anyone is welcome to come help plant!

• Planting will happen each day from noon until 5pm.
• Hate digging? Good news! Holes will be pre-dug by our wonderful grounds crew prior to planting. We will plant, backfill, water and fertilize.
• We’ll plant about 35 trees/day.
• President Sister Anne Munley will plant the first tree.

If you’d like to volunteer, just show up or contact:

Robin P. Ertl (Chair, Sustainability Committee; Faculty Advisor for Pugwash) | Phone: 570-961-4548 | Email: rertl@marywood.edu OR Zarlasht Abubakr (Student President of Pugwash, Marywood’s Environmental club) | Phone: 570-330-0162| Email: zabubakr@m.marywood.edu

Besides the obvious aesthetic benefits of adding trees to campus, trees offer people the opportunity to “pay it forward” to the future, by increasing the capacity for CO2 sequestration, shade and cooling, as well as enhancing well-being, health and mental outlook, offering the community at large a natural respite, not to mention the multitudinous benefits to wildlife and ecological diversity. This project is a perfect demonstration in action of Marywood’s Core Values, as well as our contribution to Earth Day 2016’s “Trees for the Earth” challenge, which aims to get 7.8 billion trees planted before its 50th anniversary.

Many of the tree varieties to be planted are Northeastern natives, or support birds and other wildlife. They will also increase the diversity of trees in our Arboretum Collection.

Gallery of new tree varieties:

Thanks to One, Two, Tree Farm of Waymart, PA and Conifer Corners of Factoryville, PA!

Acer Rubrum, ‘Red Sunset Maple’

Prunus x Yedoensis, “Yoshino Cherry”

Acer Saccharum, ‘Autumn Fest’ Sugar Maple

‘Diane’ Witch Hazel

Ulmus ‘Patriot,’ Elm

Dawn Redwood

Washington Hawthorn, flowers, berries, thorns

Quercus Pulustris, ‘Pin Oak’

American Hornbeam or ‘Musclewood’

Douglas fir

Blue Spruce

 

 

Learning Commons #haikuphoto Challenge

Article by Sue Jenkins, Clinical Assistant Professor of Art

If you love poetry, photography and instagram, you’ll love taking part in the first ever Learning Commons Haikuphoto Challenge where students, faculty, staff, and the greater Marywood Community are encouraged to share their poems and images celebrating the Marywood experience. Before I tell you how to participate, though, I want to share a little about the creative side of writing poetry and making images.

On Poetry and Imagery: Haiku and Photography

As a designer and fine art photographer, I’d like to suggest that Haiku and Photography are both forms of poetry. Haiku, if you’ve forgotten exactly what it is or have never heard of it, is a type of traditional Japanese poem that consists of three lines with 5, 7, and 5 syllables each, in that order. Unlike regular poems, haiku forces the writer to condense ideas into their purest form.

Here’s an example of a famous haiku. Count the syllables as you read each line:

First autumn morning
the mirror I stare into
shows my father’s face.

– Murakami Kijo

As you read each line, a picture emerges in your mind, and as you reach the final word, the picture becomes clear, as if it were a photograph you could hold in your hands—or view on your smartphone.

With the popularity of social media sites like Instagram and Facebook, where users share images with astounding frequency, I think there has been a recent positive cultural shift in what constitutes a good photograph. In the past, the average person would take a snapshot without regard to composition, light, color, or any other formal element. Today, by contrast, these aesthetic choices are embedded directly into image making and image sharing processes. For instance, on Instagram users must only use a square format instead of portrait or landscape, which forces the image inside an even 9-slice grid. Users are also presented with options to scale, crop, apply a filter (Mayfair, LoFi, Hefe), and manually adjust image qualities like brightness, contrast, saturation, shadows, and highlights. The results—with minimal effort—can be downright stunning!

Now, I have a question for you. What happens if we combine the sense of beauty that constrains the haiku poem and marry it with the visual impact and storytelling qualities of a photograph? Well, we get the #haikuphoto

In exploring this concept on my own while pursuing my MFA in photography, I decided to create photographic poems. I called my multipart photos Quatrains (four images) and Quintains (five images) after the terms used for poems. Here are some examples of my work from a series that focuses on water, motion, and respite.

Since that time, I’ve become more intrigued by the idea of photographic storytelling that captures the poetry of a moment in a single narrative image. I’ve also been dabbling with the idea of writing haiku for each poetic image I share on social media. Here’s some examples of my recent #haikiphotos

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Now it’s your turn! I cordially invite you to take the Learning Commons #haikuphoto Challenge

Here’s how you’ll do it:

1. Capture a photo that tells a Marywood story either inside the Learning Commons or somewhere else on campus. Or, use a photo you had already taken.
2. Write a haiku for it.
3. Share your haikuphoto(s) on your Instagram feed with the hashtags #haikuphoto and #learningcommons and include your haiku poem as your photo’s description.
   NOTE: If you don’t use Instagram please submit your #haikuphoto by posting on the Learning Commons Facebook page.
4. Submit as many images as you like. The more the merrier!
   Here’s an example of how it might look on Instagram:

In honor of National Poetry Month the ‪#‎haikuphoto‬ submission period is now open for the entire month of April. Then, in May, we’ll share the best #haikuphotos here on the Learning Commons blog.

Ready, set, go!

Got questions? Write Sue Jenkins at suejenkins@marywood.edu

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Reflections on the LC’s First Semester

HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND A BRIGHT NEW YEAR FROM THE MARYWOOD LEARNING COMMONS!

As the end of its first semester wraps up, Learning Commons faculty, staff, and students reflect on the use and impact of the new space.

We asked ourselves:

What aspects are working really well or have been particularly successful? 

How do we think the LC is impacting students, faculty and Marywood in general? Surprises?

Ideas for changes or improvements in how the LC is utilized?  What would you like to see in the coming year?

Here are some thoughts:

“…Librarian offices are located in a busy hallways on the main floor, allowing students to drop-in on their way to the printing area and restrooms. This proximity makes us more accessibly to students.” -Librarian

“I do think the LC space could be used much more efficiently and effectively.”

“…The Cafe’s cold brew and late nite menu.” -Student

“The building is GORGEOUS and being inside is like sitting in a glass atrium. All the windows and natural light make for the perfect meeting spot whether its to hang out with friends, browse for books, grab something to eat, study alone or with a group, or meet for a class, being in this building FEELS GOOD. I think it gives students, faculty, and staff a sense of pride while also providing a sense of history, being a part of history, because the building is so new and high tech.” -Faculty

“I’m amazed that everything is working as well as it is and how relatively smooth transition was…as well as there being minimal complaints about the retrieval system and browsing.” -Librarian

“I like the idea of a scavenger hunt, [it] is fun and interactive-also have a book reading (not club) but [with] rewards for reading and reviewing books.” -Student

“The students love working in the space. I also think the lobby space for tables has been a nice surprise. It gets more students in the building.” -Librarian

“I … don’t know where to go to search the catalog to even request a book. Do we need to make a kiosk and video? –Faculty

“The cafe, I’ve heard, has taken traffic away from Nazareth which is both a blessing and sometimes a curse when the noise can sometimes make it hard to hear in that vicinity.” -Staff

“A Learning Commons is for the students and the students should be able to have some ability to manage the space and develop the culture in the building. Furniture is used and is moved. Rooms shouldn’t be on “lock down” if they don’t need to be.” -Librarian

” [I’d like to see] adding a 1-credit information literacy course, or adding an official info literacy component to Univ 100.” -Faculty

“…the LC has definitely become a central area for students to congregate, meet, rest, and convene before and after class–they literally can pass through it on their way to anywhere on campus and in doing so, grab lunch or pick up a book, print something, or even make an appointment with one of us. So I think it is already the student social heart of campus and I also look forward to the outside spaces being expanded next year.” -Librarian

OUR SUCCESSES:

Students are making use of the space in ways that suit them best. Without a doubt, the LC is the new hub of activity on campus (and we suspect there’s more to it than the novelty). We’re delighted how quickly our students and community members have adopted the LC. The volume of foot-traffic and use of the space has grown steadily, especially during finals, where we saw upwards of 250 students studying, especially after 10pm.

Students are taking advantage of the ubiquitous technology and connectivity. Every other student (and probably more)are using their own personal technology; phones, laptops, tablets–when in the LC, using the provided charging stations and network individually in carrels and study rooms and in groups at large tables and cafe areas.

People are really USING the features of LC, and not just for study. They are rearranging the furniture and kicking back, they are creating and developing projects in the media rooms, hosting events and promoting club fundraisers and initiatives. Classes are taking place in the computer lab and alcoves, Socrates Cafe has migrated to the 2nd floor wingback chairs, and faculty are meeting with students here over coffee instead of their offices.  Remnants of studying and gathering are on the writable surfaces–sometimes a whole wall will be filled with notes or equations–it is really impressive! And then other times there will be the random quote or messages, which we like to collect on Instagram. Check out the hashtags: #marywoodlearningcommons and #whiteboardart and our student bloggers who are documenting the use of the LC space.

The Book Retrieval System is working remarkably well. These are the early days of a huge shift in information access and technology. Despite the steep learning curve and some outages early on, the retrieval system has been quiet reliably zipping to and fro, delivering requests in a timely, accurate, and safe fashion. We basically brought the system online with the start of the semester, so we are particularly proud of our circulation and OIT staff for making this transition in such a short amount of time. In terms of online browsing, there are exciting changes afoot in terms of what we have planned for our catalog interface and virtual research experience in 2016…

Online Engagement. The new space has also inspired an uptick in our pageviews and “Likes” just this past semester (+150! since last semester), and people are interacting with us online more as well. Students are “checking in” at the Learning Commons on Facebook to tell others that they are there and continue to look for answers to building, as well as research questions online–which is great because we are working towards a more social catalog, research platforms, and outreach.

We’re even making an impact in the larger library world! Marywood Librarians had a chance to talk with Library Journal columnist, Stephen Bell, who in a recent post, mentioned Marywood as an innovator in ASRS and library architecture.

WHAT TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2016:

• No more “Study Room Roulette.” For those that might have been frustrated with the  first-come-first-serve availability of study rooms, the launch of the room reservation system 25Live, in January 2016, will provide time-limited access to groups of students of two or more.
• A new and improved catalog and virtual shelf browse. 🙂 We are happy to be working with Koha, an open-source (woot!) catalog platform which we’ll launch mid-2016.
• Storage Lockers. Did you know they are located on every floor, including terrace, and have outlets to power stashed devices? You will be able to program the lock with your own code–no keys to lose!
  

  The Bayleaf will kick off our first Archives reading and exhibit with artwork and excerpts from the 2015 Cenntennial issue: Wed 1/20 at 9pm, 2nd Floor LC.

• Events, exhibits, and happenings! Starting in January 2016, we hope to offer many more activities, speakers, curated displays, book reviews, contests and lectures in the future.
• A “Menu of Ideas:” interactive faculty, student, and visitor pathfinders. We hope to offer some personalized ideas for utilizing LC spaces, resources, and partners in the coming semesters. Gaming, resource apps, scavenger-hunt type tours, faculty displays and browsing kiosks are ideas on the horizon. We want to inspire faculty to model the best use of the LC for their students–and to see more of them explore the building.

AND A WISHLIST:

• Climate Control. There seems to be two settings: savanna hot or arctic cold. Hopefully, as we learn the “personality” and quirks of our new building, we hope to find a happy medium in terms of temperature and comfort. Brrrrrr!
• Expanded 24-hour access and additional security is directly determined by staffing, though we would love to see increases in both.
• Faculty engagement and collaboration. There are many ways to get involved and partipicate in shaping the direction of the LC. Whether it’s joining the Learning Commons Committee, hosting a lecture, or curating a themed resource display for a course, we want to help facilitate ideas!
• A permanent home for our fledgling Seed Library. Though relatively new, our Seed Library is one of the few in the area–not only a University, but community resource. We’d like to see the Library (and its vintage card catalog home) integrated into the Learning Commons proper, so that everyone can conveniently take advantage of this great and unique “library.”

EXPANDING ON OUR SUCCESSES

How do you like your Knowledge served?

We hope now that many students, faculty and staff have had the opportunity to use the LC that we’ll continue to proactively develop its direction from the ground-up.

In sum, for those of us that reside in and facilitate the LC, there are already clear signs that the LC is on its way to being a great academic resource and the “intellectual and social heart of the university”–which will really just depends on the desire, creativity and collaboration amongst our community.

SO WHAT DO YOU THINK? WHAT HAVE YOU OBSERVED DURING THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE LC? WHAT IS GOOD AND WHAT CAN WE DO BETTER?

We invite you to share your thoughts here on the Learning Commons Blog, where librarians, faculty, staff, and students write about a variety of topics we hope will be interesting to everyone in our community, including LC technology, libraries, research, book reviews, or whatever comes to mind!

Join us on Facebook, Twitter @MarywoodLC, and Instagram @marywoodlearningcommons.

 

Course Capture with Panopto

By Kathy Lewis, Assistant Director of User Support

If you’re using Moodle for your Marywood courses you might also want to consider using Panopto, our course-capture system. Panopto is a platform that will record audio, video and your computer screen. Faculty can record class lectures and students can view them at any time. Panopto is web-based so all you need is a computer (both Mac and PC), a mic or webcam, and an Internet connection to get started.

Panopto is integrated with our Moodle site so you can add the Panopto block to your course. Once you click “provision course” a folder is created on the Panopto server to store your videos. You can also download the recorder from the Panopto block—and there’s not limit—you can download it to your office computer, your home computer and there are apps for the iPhone/iPad and Droids as well.

To make a recording, plug in a mic or webcam. If you don’t have your own you can make arrangements with Academic Computing to sign one out, or you can reserve a Recording Room in the Learning Commons and meet with one of our staff members to get you started. Choose your course folder, check your mic levels and/or video and then click the red Record button. You are now recording! You can bring up your PowerPoint presentation or a Word doc or go to a website. Panopto will record whatever is on your screen. When you are finished, click “stop” and the recording will finish and begin the upload process. Finished recordings appear in the Panopto block in your Moodle course.

So the recording process seems simple, but why should you use it? You can record your class lectures so that you students have access to review at their own pace at a time that is convenient for them. They can skip forward or backwards to view short clips or even do a keyword search to find topics that weren’t clear to them during the class lecture. Or you can record a short tutorial to review for an exam. Students who are absent due to illness can view the full lecture from home and won’t get behind in their coursework. Student athletes can benefit for the same reason as well—when they are away from the classroom for a game they can view the recording to stay on track. And with winter arriving quickly, imagine recording your course lecture from the comfort and safety of your home so that students don’t miss out on class time when the University closes for a snow day.

Another great feature of Panopto is the ability to have a student “drop-box.” Faculty can give students access to record a class project in Panopto. They can download the recorder or the phone app. If they need assistance they can reserve a Recording room in the Learning Commons and our Academic Computing staff will help with the recording setup.

So, when do you want to make your first recording? Let’s get started! Contact the Help Desk at helpdesk@marywood.edu or 570-340-6070 to set up an appointment with Academic Computing.

Recording with SoundCloud

By Sue Jenkins, Clinical Assistant Professor of Art

At the start of the fall 2015 semester, I found myself in need of having to record some audio files for a special facilities tour project I’m working on for the Art Department. After consulting a few people and researching tools on Google, I quickly determined that the best tool for the job would be a free account with SoundCloud. If you haven’t heard of SoundCloud before, it’s “An audio platform that enables sound creators to upload, record, promote and share their originally-created sounds.” Perfect!

Though I’d never used SoundCloud before I was confident I could figure it out on the fly, so all I really needed next to get started was a place to record. After a quick email to Kathy Lewis, Assistant Director of Marywood User Support, I discovered that I could schedule solo time in one of OIT’s three new Recording Rooms, located on the 3^rd Floor of the Learning Commons. Each of the rooms are equipped with standard PC’s and internet service along with specialized software for course content development and presentation assignments including webcams and microphones for content development using Panopto or Audacity. In addition, one of the rooms is also equipped with a VCR/DVD combo unit that may be used to view videos that are on reserve in the LC.

Before my scheduled recording date in the Learning Commons, I signed up for a free SoundCloud account for the Marywood Art Department. Then I spent about an hour poking around to see how it all worked. Turns out it was pretty easy to learn, and any questions I had were easily searchable in SoundCloud’s help center. I also created a test recording and uploaded some graphics to customize the account profile.

When I arrived in OIT, Kathy showed me my recording room and I jumped right in. First, I logged into my SoundCloud account. Then I tried out the microphone set up to see how loud I should talk into it to create a crisp and clear recording. After a quick test track (hello, hello, abc, 123, testing, testing…) I was ready to start recording my audio tracks. Some tracks went smoothly while others needed to be rerecorded, but overall the experience went smoothly, and within a little under two hours I had recorded 20 tracks! At the end of the process I spent a few minutes labeling the tracks, making them public, and adding tags (keywords) to help make them easier for people to find.

To listen to my recordings, visit the Marywood Art Department SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/marywoodart

To reserve a Recording Room for one of your own projects, simply submit a request to the Help Desk located at the Knowledge Bar at the entrance to the Learning Commons.

TechKnows: Printing

Hello, and welcome to the very first “Tech Knows” post! My name is Riley from the Help Desk, located at the Knowledge Bar. These posts will essentially be mini-guides on how to get the most out of your Learning Commons experience. The Help Desk has received a lot of questions on how to print, so I’m here to provide a quick-and-easy answer.

STOP! BEFORE YOU PRINT, MAKE SURE OF THE FOLLOWING:

• The GO Print symbol is in the bottom right task bar. If not, restart the computer.
• You have enough Pacer Points to print. Check by double-clicking on the GO Print symbol and signing in with your MarywoodYOU Portal username and password. On the right you should see your funds. If you don’t have enough, see below.
• The printer selected for the job is “gplrcrefb” (black and white) or “gplrcrefc” (color). If not, select it in the drop-down box.

If you don’t have Pacer Points:

1. Sign in to the MarywoodYOU Portal.
2. Click on “Manage your Pacer Points” in the left column.
3. Sign in with your MarywoodYOU Portal username and password.
4. If you do not have a credit card logged in to the system, click on “Add Credit Card” and have your card ready to fill in the fields.
5. Click on “Add Funds” on the home page.
6. Fill in the fields and click “Continue.” Tip: minimum is $10. You get a 10% bonus when you add $20 or more.
7.  Click “Add Funds” and your transaction will process.
8. You should see your new balance on the home page.

Tip: these are not the same as meal plan points. You can use these Pacer Points for anything on campus, printing and food included.

Now that you have Pacer Points, print away!

Keep in mind that printing in black and white is six (6) cents a page and printing in color is twenty-five (25) cents a page. You can print to any GO Print printer on campus, but the library printers are gplrcrefb (black and white) and gplrcrefc (color).

As always, if you have any further questions, visit us at the Knowledge Bar! We’re always happy to help.

This is Riley, signing off!

Do you have any suggestions for other Tips & Tricks? Leave a comment below!

Faculty Books On View

Inside the Learning Commons:
Faculty Books On View

In addition to teaching, many faculty at Marywood work on scholarship to further their knowledge and understanding of information in their respective fields. Faculty scholarship comes in many flavors including, among many other endeavors, writing scholarly papers and articles, attending and presenting at conferences, exhibiting works, teaching or developing courses for other companies, maintaining a private practice, and writing books.

To celebrate Marywood faculty’s the achievements in writing, an entire display case at the top of the stairs on the 2^nd floor of the Learning Commons is devoted to showcasing recent books by members of the Marywood University Academic Community (exhibit now closed). Among the books you’ll find:

• Administrative Studies
  Alexander R. Dawoody: Public Administration and Policy in the Middle East
• English
  Erin A. Sadlack: The French Queen’s Letters
• Graphic Design
  Steven Brower:  Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong
  
• History
  Adam D. Shprintzen: The Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement 1817-1921
• Graphic Design
  Sue Jenkins: Web Design All-In-One for Dummies, 2nd Edition
  
• Sociology
  Brian A. Monahan: The Shock of the News: Media Coverage and the Making of 9/11
  
• Psychology
  John J. Lemoncelli: Healing From Childhood Abuse
• History
  Samantha Christiansen (co-editor), The Third World in the Global 1960s
• Mathematics
  Craig M. Johnson: Exploring Mathematics; Investigations with Functions
• Academic Advisor for International Students
  Erkan Acar: Educating Globally: Case Study of a Gulen-Inspired School in the United States

Join the Learning Commons in celebrating these writing achievements by visiting the 2^nd floor to view all the works on display. Then, if you happen to see those authors on campus or in the classroom, be sure to congratulate them on their scholarship!

Brian A. Monahan: The Shock of the News: Media Coverage and the Making of 9/11

Sue Jenkins: Web Design All-In-One for Dummies, 2nd Edition

Adam D. Shprintzen: The Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement 1817-1921

Erin A. Sadlack: The French Queen’s Letters

Steven Brower: Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong

Erkan Acar: Educating Globally: Case Study of a Gulen-Inspired School in the United States

Alexander R. Dawoody: Public Administration and Policy in the Middle East

John J. Lemoncelli: Healing From Childhood Abuse

Craig M. Johnson: Exploring Mathematics; Investigations with Functions

Samantha Christiansen (co-editor), The Third World in the Global 1960s