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Special Announcements

Gallery talk -- on Celebrating Our Roots: 100 Years of Home Economics at Penn State -- First Thursday, June 7, 2007, 7–8 p.m.  --  First Thursday openings of the Special Collections exhibit area will end with this program and resume in September.

Archival Workshop “MARC according to DACS: Archival Cataloging to the New Descriptive Standard,” June 18 – 19, 2007

Special hours - Special Collections closed Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Summer hours (8:00 am to 5:00 pm, M –F) for Special Collections start May 21, 2007

Exhibitions and Events

Hemingway Writing Home: Letters to His Family, 1917–1957

  --   March 6 through May 30, 2008

The Photographed Pet: Selections from the B. & H. Henisch Photo-History Collection   --   through January 31, 2008

Celebrating Our Roots: 100 Years of Home Economics at Penn State  --   April 25 through July 25, 2007

Collegian Chronicles --  through June 2007, on display in Robb Hall, Hintz Alumni Center

Rails to Penn State: the Bellefonte Central Railroad Story  - through August 24, 2007, Pattee Library Main Exhibit Area
Online Exhibit

Imaginary Cities  – July 1 – September 14, 2007

Collections and Finding Aids

New finding aids available:

Harmony Society Collection, 1838-1935

Jacob Nofsker Account Ledger and Civil War Letter, 1833-1873

Rayfield Mooty Oral History Interview by James B. Stewart, circa 1990

Don Taylor Movie Scripts and Photos, 1967-1988

T.C.H. Jacobs literary papers, 1907-1974

A.P. Jacobs carpentry and sawmill account book (Bradford County, Pa.), 1839-1855

Jorge Amado Papers, 1970-1987 (bulk 1970-1971)

Fiona Pitt-Kethley Literary Papers, 1982-1993

Christopher Logue Papers, 1939-1993 (bulk 1950-1993)

Jacques-B. Brunius Papers, 1929-1967

What's New Archive

June 2007

May 2007

January 2007

2006

2005

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