Penn State University Libraries are expanding hours and services to help students with end of the semester research and finals study needs.
All of Pattee and Paterno Libraries will open at 10 a.m., Sunday, December 7, for continuous 24-hour service until closing at 5 p.m., Friday, December 19. This includes the Tombros and McWhirter Knowledge Commons on the first and ground floors of Pattee Library, west and ground floor central.
Within the two buildings a variety of group study rooms for 2 to 16 people can be reserved at www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/infosvcs/gpstudy/group_study.html
Finals week. — photo by Wilson Hutton
Monitors at the entrance to the building display real-time computer availability at www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/infosvcs/compavailpatteepaterno.html.
Coffee and snacks will be provided by the Libraries in 103 Paterno Library, 4–6 p.m., December 14–17.
For late-night hunger, MacKinnon’s Café, ground-level, west Pattee Library, will be open to 1 a.m., beginning December 10. For a full list of hours, call MacKinnon’s Café at 814-865-9380.
Additional branch library locations include the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library, Earth and Mineral Sciences Library, Engineering Library, and Physical and Mathematical Sciences Library. See www.libraries.psu.edu/hours for details. Call ahead of your visit to confirm and to obtain hours for branch libraries at 814-865-3063.
Late-night CATA bus service (on campus only) will run to approximately 2:15 a.m., December 7–20, with the last pick up at the Curtin Road transport station. The extended service is courtesy of Information Technology Services and the Libraries.
In addition, the University Police Auxiliary offer a “Safe Walk” escort service, dusk to dawn, 365 days a year, on-campus location or home within a reasonable walking distance off-campus. Call 814-865-9255 (WALK)
December 3, 10-11 a.m.: Tech Update, Foster Auditorium. Libraries Technology 2.0 – Come hear what’s new in I-Tech and how it will impact the Libraries.
December 3, noon: Analysis of Traditional and Modern Approaches to Goat Production and Management in Rwanda, Foster Aud. ICIK seminar presented by Schreyer senior Kira Hydock. Watch online: http://tinyurl.com/icikrwanda
December 3 – 1–2 p.m. So HELP Me, Part 1. Register in TechSmart.
December 3, 12:15 p.m.: Mind Your Mind (film). How subliminal messages from advertising, politicians, and mass media shape the way we think. 18 Deike. See schedule
December 3, 2–4 p.m.: Introduction to Git, 140 Pattee Library (Knowledge Commons)
Instructor: Dan Coughlin, director of SaS Development. To register, visit the Humanities Lab website.
December 3, 6 p.m.: Identity Theft: Protecting Yourself, a workshop, Mann Assembly Rm.
December 4, noon–2:00 p.m.: Digital Literary Studies Seminar Series Part III. Digital Scholarly Editing, 23 Pattee Library (News and Microforms Library). Instructors: Dawn Childress and James O’Sullivan. To register, visit the Humanities Lab website.
December 5, 1-2 p.m.: So HELP Me, Part 2. Register in TechSmart.
December 9, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Penn State Press Holiday Book Sale, 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.
December 10, 12:15 p.m.: Truth about Exercise (film). Not all exercises “work out” equally. 18 Deike. See schedule
December 10, noon-4 p.m.: Holiday Arts and Craft sale to benefit United Way, Mann Assembly room.
December 10, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.: “Of all the Trees that ‘were’ in the Woods!” Staff and faculty are invited to explore Pennsylvania Forest history through a hands-on, primary source activity, Special Collections Library.
December 11, 3-4 p.m.: So HELP Me, Part 2. Register in TechSmart.
Academics, art professionals, artists and others are invited to participate in the Judy Chicago Dialogue Portal Part 2, “Difference in Studio Art Teaching: Applying Judy Chicago’s Pedagogical Principles,” that opens on December 1.
In a 2002 interview, Chicago described her methodology as “a model where the teacher helps to first make each student feel valued. Listening to what students have to say communicates that their experience is worthy of examination and that it offers potential content for art making. If you can turn your experience into art making, then it validates your experience.”
The portal continues the discussion about the state of studio art education, and its future that was a centerpiece of the 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.” The related projects add to the artist’s online art education archive in The Eberly Family Special Collections Library.
The Dialogue Portal Part 2 explores the provocative exhibition created by the participants in Professor Karen Keifer-Boyd’s and Artist-in-Residence Nancy Youdelman’s spring 2014 course that is archived at “Out of Here Participatory Art Performances.” The participatory art and participatory performances demonstrate the utilization of Judy Chicago’s Art Education Archives and the application of her teaching methodology.
Part 2 of the portal includes other talks from the 2014 April Judy Chicago Symposium as well as interview footage by Chicago of Keifer-Boyd and of Youdelman, who was one of the original students in Chicago’s groundbreaking feminist art program in the 1970s. Among the videos are:
Vision for the Judy Chicago Art Education Collection at Penn State; “The Dinner Party” Curriculum Project as a Living Curriculum; Judy Chicago’s Art Pedagogy; and Teaching Conversations—Issues in the Use of Artistic Representations of Historical Events, Judy Chicago’s Holocaust Project; An Open Invitation: Teaching Feminism with “The Dinner Party;” Feminism and Diversity Matters in Art Education; and Judy Chicago WebQuests. The portal also includes suggested readings and additional discussion questions about the challenges and opportunities of applying Chicago’s teaching methods.
A login is available to join the conversation. http://judychicago.arted.psu.edu/dialogue/join-the-dialogue/
For more information, please contact Karen Keifer-Boyd at kk-b@psu.edu.