The Eberly Family Special Collections Library recently announced the winners of the 2019 research travel awards program, which offers awards to researchers whose work would benefit from accessing the collections at the Penn State University Libraries. All seven winners will visit the Special Collections Library at University Park and give an informal one-hour lunchtime presentation about their research projects.
Join us in Special Collections for an overview of the library's family history and genealogy resources, as well as a lively discussion between researchers who use our collections and those who are just getting started on genealogy research. Share your research challenges and gain ideas from others at an interactive gathering at 10-11 a.m. on Wednesday, May 29 in 103 Paterno Library.
Penn State University Press and the Eberly Family Special Collections Library will host "From Draft to Design: The Making of a Book," in the Paterno Library’s Mann Assembly Room on March 14. The event will feature a pop-up exhibit of the Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show and a panel of publishing professionals from Penn State University Press.
Jennifer Meehan, Penn State University Libraries’ new head of Special Collections, believes the stories found within its rare and unique collections have the potential to be a force for transformational change within the Libraries and the University.
A new exhibition, “The Secret Lives of Girls and Women,” examines the spectrum of such “secrets” as found in the archival materials from Penn State University Libraries’ Eberly Family Special Collections Library. Located in the Special Collections Exhibition Gallery, 104 Paterno Library, on Penn State’s University Park campus, the exhibition is on display now through Sept. 1.
Through the Flower, a nonprofit art organization, invites artists, scholars and educators to apply for the 2019 Judy Chicago Art Education Award. The award, named in honor of one of the Feminist Art Movement’s key founders, is awarded annually and is accompanied by a $1,500 prize along with a certificate signed by Chicago. The application deadline is June 1, 2019.
Penn State’s University Museum Consortium is hosting a public reception to celebrate Eclectic Collections, a collaborative exhibit between University museums and galleries. The exhibit, which began in September, runs through Jan. 5, 2019, in the HUB-Robeson Center’s Art Alley.
Athena Jackson, Penn State University Libraries’ Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair and head of the Eberly Family Special Collections Library, has been named to an international cohort of 17 top managers of academic libraries as Library Senior Fellows at UCLA in 2018. The three-week residential program combines management perspectives, strategic thinking, and practical and theoretical approaches to the issues confronting academic institutions and their libraries.
A University Libraries exhibit, “1968: Student Activism at Penn State and Beyond,” open through July 31 in Pattee Library’s Franklin Atrium, takes a closer look at student activism in the late 1960s. The exhibit showcases various items from The Eberly Family Special Collections Library, including photographs, books and student publications.
Debra Mitts-Smith, author, professor and expert on children’s and young adult literature, will serve as the distinguished speaker for the 2018 Charles W. Mann Jr. Lecture in the Book Arts at 4:30 p.m. March 22 in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library, on Penn State’s University Park campus. The Mann Lecture also will be available for remote viewing via Mediasite Live.
In recognition of Black History Month, Penn State University Libraries is hosting a multidisciplinary exhibit featuring a sampling of materials from the Charles L. Blockson Collection of African-Americana and the African Diaspora, through March 4 in the Central Pattee Library Entrance display cases. The exhibit is part of a larger collection highlighting the African experience in the U.S., Latin America, Caribbean, and Africa, dating from 1632 to the present.
During the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, the Eberly Family Special Collections Library will offer a pop-up exhibit titled, “Faster, Higher, Stronger: Winter Olympics in the Special Collections Library,” on Feb. 15, and Feb. 21.
The Kirschner Family Holocaust-Era Letter Collection, a recent gift to Penn State University Libraries’ Eberly Family Special Collections Library, is a rare and important primary source collection documenting several aspects of early 20th-century life. Its multiple sets of correspondence include a multi-generational account of Russian childhood friends’ immigration to and lives across the Western Hemisphere, as well as several appeals for European Jews’ assistance for asylum.
A new Penn State University Libraries exhibition, “What Big Eyes You Have! Looking at the Wolf in Fairy Tales,” opening Jan. 16, takes a close look at historical depictions of the wolf in well-known and lesser-known fairy tales, drawing from several sources among Special Collections Library materials.
Five scholars have won research travel awards to visit the Eberly Family Special Collections Library at University Park during the summer of 2017. As part of their visit, the scholars will each present their research projects during hourlong “learn at lunch” sessions throughout July and August in Paterno Library.
