Article from the Fall 2014 edition of IT Matters. The article describes the construction and opening of the new Reilly Learning Commons in the Weinberg Memorial Library.
Students in the early 1920s bemoaned the status of the College Library. An editorial in The Aquinas noted, “the lack of books and the dearth of references are a considerable drawback to the work we want to do.” Later that year, Bishop Hoban presented the College Library with 300 books out of his own personal collection.
Crawford House (or the Lackawanna County Juvenile Center), the current site of the McDade Literary and Performing Arts Center. The parking lot would later be turned into Galvin Terrace, and then the Weinberg Memorial Library
Corner of Linden Street and Monroe Avenue with remnants of a Scranton family home. The Arts Building would be constructed here in 1947, followed by Galvin Terrace in the 1960s, and finally by the Weinberg Memorial Library in 1992.
