Using ProQuest to make your Holidays More Distinctive
Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or any other holiday, the Penn State Alumni Library can help you find high quality sources of information to help you celebrate. We'll guide you through the process... (read more)
University Libraries Promotion and Tenure Recognition Program
For the past four years, the University Libraries and Penn State's Office of the Provost have jointly sponsored a recognition of recently tenured and promoted Penn State faculty. Through the program, each newly tenured or promoted faculty is asked to select a book for the University Libraries’ collection that receives a bookplate commemorating the achievement.
Books selected and personal statements about the significance of the books are featured in an exhibit, “Honoring Recently Promoted and Tenured Penn State Faculty,” on display in the Candace and Patrick E. Malloy III Diversity Studies Room, 109 Pattee Library, through January 7, 2007.
The wide range of books, topics, and reasons for the selection reveal lesser-seen glimpses of Penn State faculty.
About Three Cups of Tea, Ricky Bates writes "When asked to select a title that has special meaning to me, my mind settled not on subjects related to my chosen field of horticulture but on contemporaries I admire for their contributions to humanity."
Selecting short stories by Marjorie Williams, Debora Cheney writes, "I read until I cried."
About the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes, Kevin Boon writes, "The title was also great for charades!"
Richard Kubina shares a quote from the Handbook of standard celeration chart, “We are not trying to be absolutely perfect. We are trying to race up a steep mountain of learning information, which we have only just started to collect. Stand on my shoulders as I stood on Fred Skinner's shoulders. You see more big things from up here and you see further.”
Robert Alan's book selection describes, "a small Welsh village on the Wales/Britain border with only 1,500 residents but 40 antiquarian bookstores."
More about the program and a full list of past year’s honorees and submissions can be seen at http://apps.libraries.psu.edu/ptrecog/
Unlimited Vision: a barrier-free, tactile art exhibition
Parrot still life--Photo caption: Courtesy of Art Education for the Blind, Inc., (AEB) and American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., (APH), co publishers and co distributors of this book series. Inquiries 212-334-3700
"Unlimited Vision: a barrier-free, tactile art exhibition," is on display in the main exhibit area of Pattee Library, September 5 through October 31, 2006. Images in the exhibit have been selected from "The Art History through Touch and Sound" series, from Art Education for the Blind, Inc. (AEB) and American Printing House for the Blind, Inc. (APH). Spanning prehistoric through contemporary art, the images present a multi-sensory learning system for people who are blind and visually impaired, juxtaposed with images for the sighted.
AEB, founded in 1987 as a nonprofit organization, believes that people who are blind and visually impaired should and can be provided with the perceptual information necessary to have full intellectual access to the world's history and culture. AEB consults with national and international cultural and educational institutions to make visual art accessible to a range of audiences.
Two public presentations are scheduled to accompany the exhibit. The exhibit and presentations are sponsored by Library Services for Persons with Disabilities, Penn State University Libraries, and made possible through a grant from the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, a federal-state partner for the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Penn State's Equal Opportunity Planning Committee (EOPC).... (read more)
History of Women at Penn State
Since 1981, the Penn State Commission for Women has promoted and supported women and women's issues at the University. As part of the celebration of its 25th anniversary in 2006, the Commission and Penn State Press has published We Are a Strong, Articulate Voice: A History of Women at Penn State.
Photos and excerpts from the book are on display in the main exhibit area of Pattee Library, through August 11, 2006. The majority of the images used in the book and on display are from the collection of the Penn State University Archives. The exhibit traces the history of women at the University, from the admission of the first female in 1871 through Penn State's 150th anniversary in 2005. The images reflect challenges and accomplishments, from the early days when women yearned for independence from their dormitory housemothers, to the turbulent 1960s, when women lent their voices to wartime rallies, to the 1980s, when efforts to improve the campus climate led to the creation of the Commission for Women.
We Are a Strong, Articulate Voice, written by local author Carol Sonenklar, is available in local bookstores or can be ordered by visiting www.psupress.org or by calling 800-326-9180.
For more information, on the Commission for Women at Penn State, go to http://www.equity.psu.edu/cfw/.