• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps display
• Tech Tip: View and edit Office files in Google Chrome
• Data Learning Center overview and brown bag
• LHR News: Feb. 9
• FAFSA and scholarships presentation
• Researcher examines resource struggle in South African nature reserve
• Drupal migration update
• Events: Feb. 9

February 11, 2015, noon–1:00 p.m., Mann Assembly Room

Learn how the University Libraries Data Learning Center assist students, staff, and faculty in transforming data into information! This session will introduce you to the services and staff of the Data Learning Center. We will provide you with insight into how our service interactions work and our relationship to other units both within and external to the library.

Presenters: Stefanie Austin, Tara LaLonde, Nathan Piekielek, and Stephen Woods

All library employees are welcome to attend. This session will be offered via Adobe Connect for
those who would like to participate virtually.

Adobe Connect Session: https://meeting.psu.edu/ssltraining/

“FAFSA and Scholarships” will be presented Wednesday, February 18, 5:30–6:30 p.m., in Mann Assembly Room, 103 Paterno Library.

Get help unraveling the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) in this workshop, part of the Money Counts: a Financial Literacy Series, a collaborative effort of the Penn State Commission for Adult Learners and the University Libraries.

Each year, students and parents complete the FAFSA to be considered for financial aid from the federal government, and in most instances, additional money from the state in which they reside and the college they want to attend. That’s why the Free Application for Federal Student Aid is so important—it is the gateway to three potentially big sources of financial aid from federal, state, and college entities. If you don’t complete a FAFSA, you could be missing out on a lot of financial aid, including potential scholarships. In this workshop, Penn State Financial Literacy Manager, Dr. Daad Rizk will help students review the Financial Aid Process, understand the FAFSA application and explore options to find scholarships to finance education.

Refreshments will be provided. Additional details are online at http://bit.ly/1rzz1Jw. Registration is available online at http://bit.ly/16yTesX.

“Forest Food Fight! Gender, Indigenous Knowledge and the Struggle for Resources at the Dwesa-Cwebe Nature Reserve in South Africa” will be presented on February 25, at noon, in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library. Katie Tavenneris, a dual-degree PhD candidate in rural sociology and women’s studies, will present the seminar, which will focus on the gender-differentiated knowledge and valuation associated with forest foods, the politics of everyday resistance and the possibility for resource co-management at the Dwesa-Cwebe Nature Reserve. It is free and open to the public and can be viewed online.

Tavenneris… awarded a U.S. Borlaug Fellowship in Global Food Security in 2013

For over 100 years, the communities adjacent to the Dwesa and Cwebe Forests have been caught in a conflict over natural resources. Residents were forcibly removed from the area for decades by colonial and apartheid-era governments. After being declared a nature reserve in 1978, locals lost all access to natural resources. Although the communities won a land-claim battle in 2001, local people are prohibited from harvesting natural resources, including a variety of forest foods. Remarkably, the indigenous knowledge associated with these foods endures through the stories, actions and resistance of local women.

In 2013, Tavenneris was awarded a U.S. Borlaug Fellowship in Global Food Security and was a visiting researcher at Bioversity International in Rome. Her research interests include international development, natural resource management, biodiversity conservation, feminist theory, and rural social and agrarian change.

This seminar is co-sponsored by the University Libraries and the Interinstitutional Consortium for Indigenous Knowledge. For more information, see icik.psu.edu. If you have question about access accommodations, please contact Helen Sheehy at hms2@psu.edu or 814-863-1347.