“The Libraries create a welcoming, supportive, and inclusive environment that connects students and scholars to the world of information and ideas.”
– Penn State University Libraries
Strategic Plan 2008/2009 – 2012/2013

“To a degree that few Americans perhaps fully appreciate, their material well-being is today a consequence of discoveries first made in the libraries and laboratories of the country’s research universities.” – Anthony T. Kronman, Education’s End

“. . . the small world is one which must be discovered – must be, in fact, enacted through at least one participant’s belief in the possibility of a connection and both participants’ mutual willingness to engage in the socialization necessary to discover it.” – Kathryn James in “Six Degrees of Information Seeking: Stanley Milgram and the Small World of the Library”

“Games make us happy because they are hard work that we choose for ourselves, and it turns out that almost nothing makes us happier than good, hard work.”
– Jane McGonigal, Reality is Broken

“Nothing is so useful as a good problem. How we are connected to each other remains an eternally fascinating mystery . . . and a researchable one.”
– Judith S. Kleinfeld, “The Small World Problem”

 

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