This issue of the Alumni Library highlights a special online exhibit highlighting the life and career of Julia L. Maietta, a political activist for labor and women’s rights.
The News and Microforms Library, ground floor, Pattee Library, has a print newspaper collection of more than 60 titles. Online databases provide access to additional titles. To search for a newspaper, try NewsCAT.
The Kneebone Collection, in the Life Sciences Library, 4th floor, Paterno Library includes books, journals and other material on the mushroom industry, mushroom cultivation, culinary uses, and the history and mythology of mushrooms.
Penn State Libraries have a growing collection of graphic novels. This online Research Guide will help you find materials in our collections. Above: Librarian John Meier in the Leisure Reading Collection in Pattee Library.
The Libraries' Diversity Committee works to encourage a climate of respect, cooperation, and kindness. Learn more about our diversity committee's charge, and programs, from its website.
Graphic novelist Anders Nilsen visited the Libraries recently to talk about his book, "Big Questions," which won the Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year. For more information, see the Pennsylvania Center for the Book website.
On display in Robb Hall, Hintz Alumni Center, through January 15, 2013. Featuring research innovations by Penn State faculty.
On display in the Special Collections Library, first floor, Paterno Library. The exhibition explores the work of Hoffmann, a German psychiatrist whose popular book "Struwwelpeter" has delighted children since its first publication in 1845.
Ongoing: Free seminars in library research skills.
Visit the Library Learning Services website for more details.
Ongoing: Free films in the Earth and Mineral Sciences Library every Wednesday, at noon. Last show this semester is Dec. 12. The series starts back in spring semester on Jan. 16. More details available online.
Empowering Women in a Changing World
ICIK Seminar Series on Indigenous Knowledge
'A Matter of Simple Justice' Presented by The Honorable Barbara Hackman Franklin
This online exhibit re-creates a fall 2004 exhibit showcased by the Centre County Historical Society, featuring the architecture of A. William Hajjar. Hajjar, a Penn State faculty member in the 1950s and 60s, challenged the conservative look of the State College community with his contemporary-style homes.
