- Civil Rights leader to commemorate 50th anniversary of Act
- Inside Access: African library project
- Queering Penn State history
- Penn State inaugurates Judy Chicago Dialogue Portal
- Constitution Day celebrations set for Wednesday
- Events: September 15
- Digital Humanities seminar series
- Exhibition highlights WWI
- Knapp appointed Foster Communications Librarian
- Faculty News
- LHR News: September 15
- New site makes training easier to find
- Lynda.com offers Box training
Daily Archives: September 15, 2014
Civil rights leader to commemorate 50th anniversary of 1964 act
Civil rights leader the Rev. Jim Lawson will be speaking on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library.
A supporter of the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent protest, Lawson was one of the Civil Rights Movement’s leading theoreticians and tacticians in the African-American struggle for freedom and equality in the 1950s and 1960s.
From right to left, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Rev. James M. Lawson Jr. and others met in 1968 during the sanitation workers strike in Memphis. Image: Submitted photo
Rev. Lawson helped coordinate the Freedom Rides in 1961 and the Meredith March in 1966, and while working as a pastor at the Centenary Methodist Church in Memphis, played a major role in the sanitation workers strike of 1968. On the eve of his assassination, Martin Luther King called Lawson “the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world.”
The event is free and open to the public. Sponsors are the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center, the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) We The People Challenge Grant, Rock Ethics Institute, Africana Research Center and Penn State’s University Libraries. For questions or requests for any type of accommodation, contact the Richards Center at 814-863-0151 or RCWEC@psu.edu by email.
Inside Access: African Library Project
By Ann Snowman
The Libraries’ Annex is collaborating with Penn State’s African Library Project to provide space for storing and sorting contributions from the collection boxes. We have the infrastructure and the capacity to accommodate the project which seems like a natural fit. We look forward to working with the organization’s president Erik Schneider and the student volunteers.
The African Library Project collects gently used books suitable for K-8 reading levels, teacher manuals and reference books. We expect to have collection boxes in the Libraries in the next few weeks.
Queering Penn State History
Archivist Doris Malkmus will be traveling to Penn State campuses this fall to present “Queering Penn State History.” Using a game setting and primary sources from The Eberly Family Special Collections Library, she will help attendees discover the tumultuous history of Penn State’s first gay student organization, circa 1968–1974. The presentation is free and open to the public.
Photo provided by LGBTA Student Resource Center
Upcoming schedule
(For more information or if you anticipate needing accessibility accommodations or have questions about the physical access provided, see contact name listed for each location.)
Penn State York
Wednesday, October 1, noon–1:00 p.m., 106 Romano Building
Dan Puccio, M.A., associate director, Student Affairs, 1031 Edgecomb Ave, York, PA 17403, ddp15@psu.edu or 717-771-4045
Penn State Schuylkill
Thursday, October 9, noon–1:00 p.m., Morgan Auditorium
Valerie Clay, assistant director, Student Affairs, cnc1@psu.edu or 570-385-6246
Penn State Hazleton
Wednesday, October 22, noon–1:00 p.m., 12 (lower level) Hazleton Library
Jerry B. Pierce, Ph.D., assistant professor of history, jbp13@psu.edu or 570-450-3157
Penn State Abington
Thursday, October 23, 12:15–1:30 p.m., Lares Banquet Room
John Nguyen, EOP and intercultural counselor, jxn20@psu.edu or 215-881-7353
Penn State University Park
Thursday, October 23, 6:00–7:00 p.m., LGBTA Student Resource Center, 101 Boucke Building
Allison Subasic, director LGBTA Student Resource Center, afs11@psu.edu or 814-863-1248
Recently Penn State’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Ally (LGBTA) Student Resource Center was featured on the Campus Pride 2014 “Top 50 LGBT-friendly Universities and Colleges” list, according to LGBTA Student Resource Center Director Allison Subasic. Campus Pride is the leading national nonprofit organization for student leaders and campus groups working to create a safer college environment for LGBT students.
For general information about the collection, please contact Doris Malkmus at djm51@psu.edu or 814-863-4338.
Penn State inaugurates Judy Chicago Dialogue Portal
Artist, author, educator, and activist Judy Chicago has one more milestone to add to her celebratory year as she turned 75 this year. Penn State, which acquired her art education archives in 2011, is pleased to announce the creation of the Judy Chicago Dialogue Portal as a new facet of the artist’s online art education archive in The Eberly Family Special Collections Library and used across disciplines. In fact, the archive is so widely used that it has never been in storage and the original archive boxes have had to be replaced.
Judy Chicago sits in front of boxes containing her art education collection while Jackie Esposito looks on. — Photo © Donald Woodman
The Judy Chicago Dialogue Portal was born from Penn State’s 2014 campus-wide, semester-long celebration of Chicago’s archive that concluded with a weekend-long symposium at which Chicago delivered a timely, call-to-action lecture based on her new book “Institutional Time: A Critique of Studio Art Education.”
“My goal was to spark a long-overdue dialogue about the state of studio art education,” says Chicago who developed the first feminist art program at California State University, Fresno in the 1970s, and has taught at Cal-Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington; Duke; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green; and Vanderbilt. “With the creation of the portal, we can now initiate an international online conversation about the current state of studio art education, particularly in relation to issues of content, gender, and diversity. I believe that art education has to be radically improved in order to meet the needs of all students and that Penn State can be a leader in effectuating this change.”
The Judy Chicago Dialogue Portal will launch on September 15, beginning with the first of four sections. The first will be “An Invitation from Judy Chicago,” which will feature the video of Chicago’s Penn State lecture, discussion questions formulated by the artist, a video compilation of her teaching, and a multimedia presentation by Dr. Karen Keifer-Boyd analyzing Chicago’s pedagogy. Subsequently academics, art professionals, and artists will have the opportunity to engage in an online dialogue “Live with Judy Chicago” about the state of studio art education and its future, which will be hosted on the portal on October 25 at 11:00 AM EST. Registration will open on the portal on September 15. Read the full story on Penn State News
Constitution Day celebrations set for Wednesday
Submitted by Mohamed Berray
The Penn State University Libraries is a proud sponsor of this year’s Constitution Day celebrations, Wednesday, September 17, 2014.
Activities include:
- A debate presented by the Penn State Speech and Debate Society on the topic “A Privacy Amendment should be added to the constitution”. 2:30pm–4:00pm. Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library.
- A poster displaying Amendments to the United States Constitution. Research Hub, Paterno 2.
- A display of books about the United States Constitution. Research Hub, Paterno 2.
- Free pocket-sized United States constitution at all library service desks.
Constitution Day Research Guide:
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/researchguides/socialsciences/usconstitution.html
If you have any questions please contact the organizer of this year’s events, Mohamed Berray, W-322 Pattee Library. Tel: 814-867-4824.