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November 19, 2007
Alumni Library features Waring's America
University Park, PA— The latest "edition" of Penn State's Alumni Library at http://alumni.libraries.psu.edu, features the Fred Waring Collection, formally known as Fred Waring's America: A Collection of Memories, part of Penn State University Archives, in The Eberly Family Special Collections Library. Visitor to the site will be able to hear Waring's music, watch film clips of performances, and see some of his cartoons and other collections. Waring is credited with bringing choral music into the popular realm as well as with helping to make the popular song a classic American art form.
The site also features The Paterno Retrospective Bookmark Series and includes how to obtain a full, uncut collector's sheet of the series that can be framed as a memorable holiday gift.
This and more can be found at Penn State's Alumni Library, a joint project of the University Libraries and the Penn State Alumni Association. The Penn State Alumni Association strives to connect alumni to the University and to each other, provide valuable benefits to members and support the University’s mission of teaching, research, and service. For more information on the Alumni Association, go to www.alumni.psu.edu.
Penn State University Libraries, with more than 5 million volumes, 5 million microforms, 68,000 serial subscriptions, 420 online databases and 13,700 e-journals, most of which have full-text articles, constitute a major resource for students, faculty and staff, as well as residents of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The largest research library in Pennsylvania, it is one of four resource libraries that provide service and collections to all other libraries and citizens of the commonwealth. For more information, go to www.libraries.psu.edu