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3/6/08

"Still with Us: No Farewell to Hemingway," Tobias Wolff on Thursday, March 6, at 4:30 p.m., in the Foster Auditorium, 101 Pattee Library

3/6-5/30/08 "Hemingway Writing Home," is on display in Special Collections Exhibits Hall, 104 Paterno Library, March 6 through May 30, 2008.

3/17-8/22/08 "Anyone Would Have Done That: The Rescue of the 13 Jews from Ergoldsbach, Germany" is on display in the Diversity Studies Room, 109 Pattee Library. Discussion 3/19, 6 p.m., in Foster Auditorium, 101 Pattee Library.

3/17-4/20/08

"The National Pan-Hellenic Council: The Divine Nine" is on display in Pattee Library main exhibit hall. Joint reception, 4/18, 4:30 p.m., begins third floor Pattee Library, west and then Mann Assembly Room, 103 Paterno Library

3/20/08

"Poetry Reading," in Foster Auditorium, 101 Pattee Library, by award winners selected by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book in the Public Poetry project.
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A Letter from Nancy L. Eaton and Roger Williams

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The Pennsylvania Center for the Book

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Penn State's University Libraries became the home of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Book (PACFTB) in 2000, following the approval of the Library of Congress. Pennsylvania’s first Center for the Book was located at the state library from .... (read more)

Poetry from the Pennsylvania Center for the Book

Two poetry events of the PACFTB that come to fruition each spring are the Public Poetry Project and the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award for Children. Since its inception the PACFTB has a rich tradition of highlighting the importance of poetry in the lives of people at all ages.... (read more)

LEAP Gives Students a Head Start at Penn State

LEAP, the Learning Edge Academic Program, introduces new Penn State students to an individualized, "small college" atmosphere during the summers. Each student enrolls in a "pride" of her or his choice. ... (read more)

Years Ago... in the Historical Digital Collegian

A string of poets' names sprinkled through the pages of the Daily Collegian (from 1887-1987)—Fred Lewis Pattee, Edgar A. Guest, Edwin Markham, James Stephens, W. H. Auden, Theodore Roethke, Carl Sandburg, Dylan Thomas, Richard Eberhart, Robert Frost, e.e. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, Stephen Spender, John Brunner, John Balaban, Nikki Giovanni, Donald Justice, Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder, Stanley Kunitz, Gwendolyn Brooks, Maxine Kumin, W.S. Merwin, Carolyn Kizer, Lucille Clifton, Russell Edson... (read more)

Libraries Today: Google

I am relatively new to Penn State Libraries, but my library career stretches back over 35 years. My first library job was in second grade, when for some reason I was allowed to skip parts of my classes to go work in the school library. I got to read a lot, but my main job was stamping the due date on the cards in the back of the books. I loved doing that—so much that my mother took me to the office supply to store to buy my own date stamp... (read more)

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