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The launch of the 2024 Penn State ID2ID program targets instructional designers and learning design graduate students by offering a platform to enhance their skills and expand their professional networks. 

Marissa Gutiérrez-Vicario, founder and executive director of Art and Resistance Through Education, has been named the 2024 recipient of the Linda Stein Upstander Award administered by Penn State University Libraries. Justice activists from around the world whose artistic or scholarly work promotes upstander activities are encouraged to apply for the annual award.

Penn State Lehigh Valley will hold the 3rd Annual Open Affordable Showcase on May 9. This event is open to any faculty or staff member within the Penn State network interested in making students’ Penn State experience more affordable; exploring best practices around open educational resources; discovering new ways to use materials in classes, assignments or activities; or how open pedagogy can help advance teaching and learning goals. 

Grant Loose has been named the new library services associate at Penn State Scranton.

Penn State University Libraries and the Schreyer Honors College recognized three finalists and named Schreyer Scholar Brandon Bixler the grand prize winner of the 13th annual Robert F. Guentter Jr. Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis on May 2, immediately following the finalists’ presentations. A recording of the event is available.

Penn State University Libraries’ Walter and Doris Goldstein Music and Media Center, on the second floor of West Pattee Library at the University Park campus, offers access to a vast collection of music and video resources for teaching, research and personal enjoyment. Items can be requested at any University Libraries location, and the collection's catalog can be browsed online.

Summer hours at Penn State University Libraries’ locations University-wide begin Sunday, May 5, and continue through Sunday, Aug. 25. Hours vary across University Park and Commonwealth Campus Libraries’ locations and are listed on the University Libraries website on the Hours and Locations page. 

Penn State University Libraries recognized 12 outstanding faculty and staff April 11, from among its more than 500 employees. Faye Chadwell, dean of University Libraries and Scholarly Communications, presided over an awards ceremony to continue a tradition of recognizing employees that spans at least 50 years.

The week leading up to finals week can be a stressful time for students at any higher education campus. To help students at Penn State, University Libraries across many of Penn State’s campuses, including Penn State DuBois, offered many stress-reducing activities to help students relax as they prepared for final exams and end-of-semester projects.

Mihoko Hosoi, Penn State University Libraries associate dean for collections, research and scholarly communications, has been selected to participate in the 2024 UCLA Library Senior Fellows program.

Penn State Wilkes-Barre recently held its annual student research fair, "Celebration of Scholarship," showcasing the outstanding research and scholarly work of campus students and faculty. This year's event featured 41 posters and 71 student participants, with 23 faculty and staff judges evaluating the submissions.

Penn State University Libraries’ 2024 William D. Minter Lectureship in Conservation will feature guest lecturer Diane Maurer, an internationally recognized paper marbler from Spring Mills, Pennsylvania. Maurer will speak on April 25, in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library, and online via Zoom.   

Penn State University Libraries’ Teaching and Learning with Technology Learning Design Team will host its three-day Digital Education Exchange Retreat in May for Penn State faculty interested in creating Technology-Enhanced Experiences. The goal is to leverage community technology platforms to provide students rich, instant and dynamic connections that support engaged learning.

During finals week, De-stress Fest takes place at five branch libraries across the University Park campus and at ten Penn State campuses across the commonwealth, offering free snacks, games, activities, art therapy and other stress-management options, which vary with location.

Book artist and educator IBe’ Crawley will deliver the Penn State University Libraries’ 2024 Charles W. Mann Jr. Lecture in the Book Arts, titled "Black Beauty in the Artist’s Book 11033."  The free lecture takes place on Thursday, April 25, at 1-2 p.m. via Zoom.

Book artist and educator IBe’ Crawley will deliver the Penn State University Libraries’ 2024 Charles W. Mann Jr. Lecture in the Book Arts, titled "Black Beauty in the Artist’s Book 11033."  The free lecture takes place on Thursday, April 25, at 1-2 p.m. via Zoom.

Penn State University Libraries, through its LibWell Initiative and sensory rooms pilot program, has received national recognition from the American Library Association (ALA) in its State of America’s Libraries 2024 report. Issued annually by ALA during National Library Week, the report informs the public about important trends and prominent issues facing American libraries today.

Thavolia Glymph will present three Brose Distinguished Lectures April 18-20 in Paterno Library's Foster Auditorium on the Penn State University Park campus. All three presentations are free and open to the public.

Penn State Libraries’ Open Publishing program has launched the online “Bibliography of Library History, 1990–2022.” Published semi-annually since 1990, the bibliography is a long-running effort to help library historians identify the latest books, articles, chapters and dissertations in the field of library history, with an emphasis on North American and European scholarship.

Applications are now open for the next Blended Learning Transformation workshop series, open to faculty, instructors and lecturers from all Penn State campuses who are interested in learning how to incorporate remote and online teaching experiences and various technology tools into face-to-face courses.