March 24, 3:30-4:30 p.m.: “The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Disappearing Collective Past.” Presenter: Gail Hershatter, Distinguished Professor of History and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This event is sponsored by the Asian Studies Department, and co-sponsored by the History Department, the Women’s Studies Department, the Center for Global Studies, and the Penn State University Libraries. Foster Auditorium.

March 25, 2-3 p.m.: Dan Cohen will give the 2014 Kaplan Institute talk “Inside the Digital Public Library of America”. Foster Auditorium and MediaSite.

March 25, 1-4 p.m.: Engineering Library Open House for mechanical and nuclear engineering students, 3rd floor, Hammond Bldg.

March 26, noon: “Using Indigenous Knowledge-Based Narratives to Facilitate Ukrainian Immigrants’ Adaptation to Life in the United States” will be presented by Svitlana Iarmolenko, Foster Auditorium. This is the latest seminar in a series on indigenous knowledge that examines ways of knowing passed down orally from generation to generation. Following the presentation, a small reception will be held in the Mann Assembly Room, 103 Paterno Library, sponsored by the Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management. The event is free and open to the public and can also be viewed live online.

March 26, 12:15 p.m.: Geologic Journey–Along the African Rift (film). How the Earth’s crust is ripping apart as molten rock from deep within its recesses pushes upwards. 50 min. EMS museum, Deike Bldg.

March 26, 7:30 p.m. 14 Annual Public Poetry Project reading, Foster Auditorium. This popular event is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book. Poets featured in the 2014 Public Poetry Project poster series will read from their work. This year’s posters were designed by Wilson Hutton and will be available at no charge at the presentation. The 2014 Poetry Poster series includes poets Stephen Berg, W. S. Di Piero, Le Hinton and Shara McCallum.

March 28, 2014, 11 a.m. – noon: Research Hub Session: A Survey of Pennsylvania Spatial Data. This session provides an introduction to spatial data resources from the Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (PASDA) site, the Pennsylvania Imagery Navigator, Penn Pilot, and Pennsylvania Atlas. Also on Adobe Connect: https://meeting.psu.edu/ssltraining/. 302 Paterno Library.

April 2, 12: 15 p.m.: Geologic Journey: Pacific Rim: Americas (film). The Eastern Pacific Rim, from the glaciers of Alaska to the Andes of Chile. 50 min. EMS Museum, Deike Bldg.

April 2, 2:30 – 4 p.m.: Introduction to Zotero, W315 Pattee. Register online.

April 4, 4:30 p.m.: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum will give The 2014 Charles W. Mann Jr. Lecture in the Book Arts, “Invalid Keystroke: Recovering a Literary History of Word Processing.”  Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library. A reception will follow in the Mann Assembly Room, 103 Paterno Library.