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• Hswe appointed to Digital Library Federation Advisory Committee
• National Library Workers Day is April 15
• National Library Week: April 13-19
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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.

April 7, 10:30 a.m.: Introduction to Mendeley, 211 Davey. Register online

April 8, 3 p.m.: Tech Update, Foster Aud. and MediaSite Live. Read the full agenda.

April 9, 12:15 p.m.: Geologic Journey–Western Pacific Rim (film). The Asia-Pacific side of the Pacific Ring of Fire, EMS Museum, Deike Bldg.

April 9, 2-5 p.m.: Open house celebration, “The Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of Marian Anderson’s Historic 1939 Lincoln Memorial Concert,” in the Charles Blockson Collection Room, floor 3, Pattee Library, west.

April 9,  noon to 1 p.m.: “Wild Onion Nurse: Women as Healers in Traditional and Contemporary Societies” will be held  in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library. The presentation, which is sponsored by the Interinstitutional Consortium for Indigenous Knowledge, the Department of Women’s Studies, the College of Nursing and the University Libraries, is free and open to the public, and can also be viewed online at http://tinyurl.com/wildonionnurse. The event will be followed by a reception in Mann Assembly Room, 103 Paterno Library, sponsored by the College of Nursing. All are invited and light refreshments will be available.

April 10, 1:30 p.m.: Introduction to EndNote, 001 Sparks. Register online.

April 10, 7:30 p.m.- 9 p.m: Poet Elizabeth Bradfield reads as part of the Mary E. Rolling Reading Series, Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library

Hswe…will serve a three-year term

Librarian Patricia Hswe, digital content strategist and head of ScholarSphere User Services at Penn State, as well as co-director of the department of Publishing and Curation Services, has been appointed to the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Advisory Committee, within the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) in Washington, DC. The committee advises the DLF director on matters relating to program activities, initiatives, partnerships and strategies.

CLIR is an independent, nonprofit organization that forges strategies to enhance research, teaching and learning environments in collaboration with libraries, cultural institutions and communities of higher learning. It aims to promote forward-looking collaborative solutions that transcend disciplinary, institutional, professional and geographic boundaries in support of the public good.

Dean of Penn State Libraries Barbara I. Dewey notes, “Hswe’s participation in the DLF committee will bring Penn State to the forefront in a program that aims to build and support a robust, engaged community whose members share an interest in advancing research, teaching and learning through the application of digital library research, technology and services.”

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National Library Workers Day is scheduled for Tuesday, April 15, and is an opportunity for everyone to thank librarians and staff for their good work and contributions to library services throughout the year. “Libraries work because we do” is a celebration that falls during for the American Library Association National Library Week, April 13–19. For more information, contact Public Relations and Marketing, Penn State University Libraries at 814-863-4240 or cqg3@psu.edu.

“Lives Change @ your library,” this year’s theme for the American Library Association National Library Week, April 13–19, is demonstrated daily in all of Penn State’s University Libraries. Students, faculty, staff as well as community members benefit from the Libraries’ traditional and online collections and superior service of the entire staff.

“Our Libraries seek to empower those that we serve with the skills and knowledge needed to succeed as citizens, parents, students, employees, and consumers through basic literacy, information literacy, civic and social literacy, health literacy, and financial literacy,” notes Barbara I. Dewey, dean of University Libraries and Scholarly Communications. “In our role as an academic as well as a state resources library, we change the lives of those we serve, whether they are in need of assistance with researching a paper, using data sets, or searching for medical information, job information, an author or more.”