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On Friday, June 5, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., Penn State University Libraries will offer tours for the public, beginning in the Mann Assembly Room, 103 Paterno Library.  Highlights include a hands-on demonstration of the La Vie Online, 1879 to 2000, Penn State's yearbook; The Charles L. Blockson Collection of African-Americana and the African Diaspora; the career corner and more in the Schreyer Business Library; the Kneebone Mushroom Reference Library in the Life Sciences Library; the Digital Historical Collegian and Library News Room in the News and Microforms Library; and Fred Waring's America. Plus an opportunity to win a copy of "Ice Cream U," the illustrated history of Penn State's Creamery.

For more information, contact Catherine Grigor, manager, Public Relations and Marketing, 814-863-4240/cqg3@psu.edu.

Above right: Penn Staters Kerry and Janice Kissinger trying out the new La Vie Online, 1890-2000, at a recent demonstration in the Libraries. La Vie Online is now available here: http://resources.libraries.psu.edu/coll/lavie; Left: From the Blockson Collection, "Miles: The Autobiography."