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April 22, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA. The end of the spring semester and the start of final exams is quickly approaching. Fortunately, Penn State University Libraries will once again offer a virtual De-Stress Fest, with activities to help students relax, take a break from studying and even learn a new hobby all while preparing for finals.
This spring, the Libraries will again offer virtual options to help students decompress and unwind while completing end-of-semester reports and studying for final exams. From Monday, April 26, through Friday, May 7, visit Virtual De-Stress Fest online for a curated list of links, tutorials and homegrown videos, including some that showcase the talents of University Libraries’ faculty and staff.
Moving from openness to belonging in libraries and archives
ACRL 2021 Virtual Conference Invited Speaker Kaetrena Davis Kendrick
On April 14, the second day of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 2021 Virtual Conference, Kaetrena Davis Kendrick invited attendees to think beyond the idea of openness in library and archival spaces a concept that generally involves open access to resources to imagine the idea of
welcome for both library users and library workers. Kendrick, dean of the Ida Jane Dacus Library and Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, said that her theory of welcome has been proven through her own experience and research, as well as through national and international perspectives on the practice.
Rush Tuberculosis Hospital and Sanatorium Construction, 1911
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Libraries virtual exhibit explores how pandemics affect architecture
March 23, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Penn State University Libraries’Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library has launched a virtual display, Pandemic Spaces (1918 Edition), to explore how architecture related to the devastating influenza epidemic of 1918. The exhibit was introduced early this month for public viewing, notably for individuals interested in the intersection between architecture and history.
As current global quarantines have shown, a pandemic requires expanded hospital space and restrictions on gathering spaces, and prompts reconsiderations of future building needs. The exhibit includes buildings from hospitals to housing, showing how approaches to space during the 1918 flu made use of existing structures and reinforced changes already afoot in architecture. The website explores challenges uni
Creative writing entries and voting open March 1 through April 2
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March 01, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Come one, Come all! Step right up for your ticket to a night at the circus, where wonder and spectacle await you beneath the big top.
Penn State University Libraries invites creative Penn State students, faculty and staff to submit their best circus-themed creative writing to the short stories “A Night at the Circus”-themed writing contest.
For this contest, You’re the ringmaster, and the editorial board wants to be transported into a world of amusement, of slights of hand, and shadow play. The possibilities are truly endless with this theme. Stories of secret romance, thoughts of never fitting in, magic unfolding before one’s eyes, and what happens when the show’s over and everyone goes home for the night. You can write about all of that and more. We’ll be here with our popcorn and cotton candy, waiting for your entries on the edges of our s