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Jackson named among 17 Library Senior Fellows at UCLA 2018 residential program

5/31/18

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.

Penn State activism in 1968 is focus of student-curated exhibit

3/28/18

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.

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2018 Mann Lecture considers relationship between humans, wolves in literature

3/1/18

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.

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University Libraries exhibit highlights the African experience in Americas

2/15/18

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.

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Kirschner brothers donate Holocaust-era, immigration correspondence to Libraries

1/24/18

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.

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Fairy tale wolf is focus of new Libraries Special Collections exhibition

1/9/18

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.

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Five scholars selected for 2017 summer research travel awards

6/19/17

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.

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Unique abecedarium showcased in University Libraries’ new exhibit

6/18/17

From elaborately designed book chapter initials to paper constructions that show the alphabet in its entirety, a new exhibit, “ABC: An Abecedarium from the 15th to the 21st Century” is open through Sept. 10 in the Eberly Family Special Collections Library in 104 Paterno Library, University Park.

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Libraries’ ‘Painted Photograph’ exhibit reveals unique treatment of images

5/15/17

A new exhibit showing the rich variety and range of techniques and materials used in overpainted photographs from the 19th and early 20th centuries is on display through July 30. “The Painted Photograph: Selections from the B. & H. Henisch Photo-History Collection” is located in the Henisch Room, 201A Pattee Library, at University Park.

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2017 Mann Lecture focuses on the art and information of dance notation

3/8/17

“Books, Bodies, and Circulations of Dancing in Early 18th-Century France and England” is the title of the talk by Linda Tomko, historian, performer, and embodier of dances past, for the 2017 Charles W. Mann Jr. Lecture in the Book Arts. The event is set for 4:30 p.m. March 30 in Foster Auditorium with a reception following the lecture.

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Libraries presents exhibit 'From the Trenches: The Great War in Sepia'

1/13/17

The Eberly Family Special Collections Library recognizes the centennial anniversary of America’s entry into the “Great War” with its new exhibit “From the Trenches: The Great War in Sepia,” through May 5. Capturing the perspective of the common foot soldier, the exhibit presents 55 prints from more than 350 archived stereographic images in its collections. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

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