“Libraries of the Future: Digitized Collections,” is on display through September 4, in Sidewater Commons, 102 Pattee Library. Penn State University Libraries’ Digitized Collections, numbering nearly 100, cover a wide range of subject areas, including agriculture, the Civil War era, geology and geography of Pennsylvania, labor history, Pennsylvania history, Penn State history, and political protest. The collection includes thousands of fascinating images and documents, from blueprints to bookplates, and from diaries to published academic research, many of which were digitized from holdings in The Eberly Family Special Collections Library.

Images from the Art History Department Visual Resource Collection include Sallie Gardner at a Gallop; also known as The Horse in Motion, the pioneering work of English photographer Eadweard Muybridge that forever changed the perception of artists rendering motion.

The exhibition is divided into thirteen categories—Books, Correspondence, Exhibits, Image Collections, Indexes, Journals, Manuscripts, Maps, Multimedia, Newspapers, Student Scholarships, Thematic Collections, and Yearbooks.  It is open during normal operating hours for Pattee and Paterno Library, available on the web at www.libraries.psu.edu/hours or 814-865-3063. For more information about the Digitized Collections, go to www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/digital.html

Questions about the exhibition can be addressed to Jenna Gill, exhibit coordinator, 814-865-9406. If you anticipate needing accessibility accommodations or have questions about the physical access provided, please call Public Relations and Marketing at 814-863-4240, during normal business hours.