Eight months after launching its Libraries Short Stories website for all aspiring authors University-wide to submit and share their creative works, Penn State University Libraries is growing its public library partnership with Schlow Centre Region Library, enabling Centre County residents to join the online writing community.
Nikki Grimes, 2018 winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, will receive the national children’s poetry honor on July 12, in the Downsbrough Community Room at Schlow Centre Region Library, 211 S. Allen Street, State College. Following the presentation, Grimes will speak about her writing and read from her award-winning book “One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance.” The event also includes a book sale and author signing.
Penn State University Libraries launched its Penn State-exclusive creative writing platform Feb. 28, enabling anyone with an active psu.edu email address to join the site to submit, vote and comment on others’ original works. To celebrate, the Libraries’ Short Stories website is hosting its first University-wide short story competition, themed “New Beginnings.”
A new collaboration between Penn State University Libraries and Schlow Centre Region Library in downtown State College, Pennsylvania, now enables University Park students and employees and Schlow Library patrons to return checked-out materials at any on-campus or Schlow drop-off location. What started as a cost-savings inquiry has evolved into a potentially scalable model for town-gown partnerships to increase Pennsylvanians' access to library materials statewide.
Penn State has become the first educational institution in the world, and the second location in North or South America, to partner with Short Edition of Grenoble, France. The innovative agreement developed by the Penn State University Libraries will deliver short, original pieces of Penn State creative writing into the public’s hands, encouraging direct community engagement with and conversation about writing by Penn State faculty, staff and students.
Timothy W. Simpson, one of the leading experts in additive manufacturing technology and the design of 3D-printed metal parts in the country, has been appointed the Paul Morrow Professor in Engineering Design and Manufacturing in Penn State’s College of Engineering.
Two Penn State University Libraries faculty librarians have partnered with the head of adult services at Schlow Centre Region Library to earn one of just 14 Knight News Challenge grants nationwide totaling $1.4 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The grant winners’ projects aim to help shape the future of libraries, meeting 21st-century information needs as centers for digital learning, data sharing, community connection and discovery.
Juried student work will be on view in a series of exhibitions across campus and downtown State College, collectively titled “Storied Images: Marcellus Shale,” during the Marcellus Shale Gallery Crawl from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2. Each venue will also feature special activities and refreshments.
Research Unplugged, the popular Penn State conversation series that brings University researchers into the community for lively public discussions, launches its Spring season on March 15. The series will begin its eighth year in a new location -- Schlow Centre Region Library's Downsbrough Community Room -- and on a new day and time -- Thursday,12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.
A town hall meeting has been scheduled by State College Borough Council for 7 p.m. Wednesday (Jan. 21) in the Schlow Centre Region Library, 211 South Allen Street. The meeting is an opportunity for community residents, both students and non-students, to discuss issues of mutual interest with the borough council, placing special emphasis on Town/Gown issues. The meeting will be an informal exchange of information and ideas with no formal agenda. This is a chance for students to get their voices heard directly with borough officials.
