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Schreyer Honors College senior Kira Hydock will present “Analysis of Traditional and Modern Approaches to Goat Production and Management in Rwanda” on Dec. 3, from noon to 1:00 p.m., in Foster Auditorium, first floor, Paterno Library. Hydock, who is majoring in veterinary and biomedical sciences and African Studies, with a minor in international agriculture, is a recipient of the 2014 M.G. Whiting Student Indigenous Knowledge Research Award and the first undergraduate to be selected. She will be introduced by her advisor, Clemente Abrokwaa, senior lecturer in African Studies. The seminar is free and open to the public and can be viewed live online

Hydock (pictured here, center) says that after visiting Rwanda during the summer of 2012, she left the country with many questions, one being, “Why are there so many goats in a country with a ‘one cow per poor family’ program?” Her interest in traditional goat production and management in Rwanda’s Muhanga district became the impetus for her honors thesis. She compiled a literature review of traditional goat production methods and combined the review with personal accounts and opinions from Rwandan goat herders. Access to this information allowed Hydock to generate several conclusions about goat herding in Rwanda and enabled her to formulate recommendations for the preservation of traditional practices that simultaneously increased the productive capacity of the goat herds. These observations will be presented in her seminar. Hydock will attend the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine in fall 2015.

This presentation is the latest in a series of seminars on indigenous knowledge co-sponsored by the Penn State University Libraries and ICIK, the Interinstitutional Consortium for Indigenous Knowledge. For more information, or if you anticipate needing accommodations or have questions about the physical access provided, contact Helen Sheehy, 814-863-1347 and hms2@psu.edu in advance of your visit. For more on ICIK, including a link to past seminars, go to http://icik.psu.edu/.

“Identity Theft: Protecting Yourself,” a workshop, will be presented on Wednesday, December 3, 6:00–7:30 p.m., in Mann Assembly Room, 103 Paterno Library.

Identity theft can compromise your personal and financial records and disrupt your life, and it can take years to restore your good name. Dr. Daad Rizk, Penn State’s financial literacy coordinator, and Amy Shuey, Penn State Federal Credit Union’s marketing and member education coordinator, will help you learn how to protect yourself and what to do if identity theft happens to you.

Refreshments will be provided.

The presentation is part of the Money Counts: a Financial Literacy Series, a collaborative effort of the Penn State Commission for Adult Learners and the University Libraries.

Additional details are online at http://bit.ly/1rzz1Jw.

The presentations are available in the MoneyCounts: A Financial Literacy Series, see the left-hand column listing, at tinyurl.com/FinLitMCSeries.

For more information or if you anticipate needing accessibility accommodations or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Lauren Reiter at lmr29@psu.edu or 814-865-4414.

Please contact the Public Relations and Marketing Office if you need business-size cards to distribute to parents of unattended children. These cards reference Policy UL-AD28, “Safety and Well-Being of Children in the University Libraries.” They are printed in hot pink to attract attention. For more information on the policy, please go to: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/policies/ulad28.html

Claudia C. Peterson, reference and instruction librarian at Penn State Fayette Campus Library, was ACRL member of the week recently. Check out her profile on their website: http://www.acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/archives/9466

I’m pleased to announce Jessa Darwin has begun as the part-time reference librarian at Greater Allegheny. Darwin is a graduate of of the University of Pittsburgh LIS program and currently works part-time as a reference librarian at Chatham University. She also holds a BA in philosophy and English from Eastern University and during her junior year of college attending the Best Semester’s Scholars’ Semester (SCIO) program at the University of Oxford. She can be reached at jcd18@psu.edu. Please join me in welcoming Jessa to the University Libraries! — Courtney Young

Penn State Press invites the University community and the public to our annual Holiday Book Sale. This year’s one-day-only sale will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, December 9, in the Kern Building lobby. Shop the sale in person and receive a 30% discount! (Or purchase books through the Press’s website, using the code HS2014, for 25% off.) Visitors to the sale at noon can get their copies of Field Guide to Wild Mushrooms of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic signed by the author, Bill Russell. And don’t forget to check out the $5 book table! We offer free shipping to on-campus addresses; regular shipping charges apply everywhere else. For information on any of Penn State Press’s titles, visit http://www.psupress.org or call 865-1327.