Events: November 25

December 2, 10:30 a.m. – noon: Introduction to Mendeley, 211 Davey Register online.

December 3, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.: United Way Craft Sale, Mann Assembly Room.

December 3, 4 p.m.: Making Sense of the Budget Crisis, presentation by Jared Bernstein, senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policies Priorities and former economic adviser to U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, Foster Auditorium. More details

December 4, 12:15 p.m.: Film: Flip Flotsam, EMS Library, 105 Deike. This film examines the journey of the humble flip flop in a small corner of Africa. 27 minutes.

December 4, noon: Using indigenous foodways to encourage the consumption and continued use of soybeans as a rotational crop in Uganda (seminar), Foster Auditorium.

Save the Date:

December 10, 3-4 p.m.: Tech Update,  Foster Aud. and MediaSite Live.

December 10, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Penn State Press Holiday Book Sale, Kern Building Lobby

January 23, 2 p.m.:  Visiting Scholar Ellen Garvey to present in Foster Aud. on 19th century American scrapbooks. Garvey is the author of the recent book “Writing With Scissors” which breaks new ground analyzing and discussing scrap-booking as an historical and cultural practice. Her talk is being jointly sponsored by the Penn State Libraries and the Richards Civil War Center and is being held in conjunction with a research grant funded by the Penn State Africana Research Center which is supporting a condition assessment of the monumental William Dorsey Scrapbook collection which is currently on loan from Cheyney University.