Events: Feb. 23

February 24, 11:15 a.m.: Penn State Laureate Susan Russell presents “Thanks, Mrs. Sawyer: How My First Grade Teacher is Helping Me Translate 21st Century Education,” Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library.

February 25, noon: Forest Food Fight! Gender, Indigenous Knowledge and the Struggle for Resources at the Dwesa-Cwebe Nature Reserve in South Africa, Foster Aud. Presented by Katie Tavenner, dual-degree PhD candidate in rural sociology and women’s studies. View online.

February 26, 9:30 a.m.: Creating Accessible Word and PowerPoint Documents in Office 13
See TechSmart for location and details. In this session, you will discover best practices to create accessible Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents (updated for Office 13). Whether you create website content or just email and share documents with staff, creating accessible Office files is very important. This session will cover the basic techniques needed to optimize your content for accessibility.

March 1, 11 a.m.: Sister Joan Chittister, O.S.B, will appear on Oprah Winfrey’s “Super Soul Sunday.” Chittister is an internationally renowned writer and lecturer and one of the most articulate social analysts and influential religious leaders of this age. The Eberly Family Special Collections Library in Penn State’s University Libraries houses The Joan D. Chittister Archive in an archival collaboration to preserve her accumulated works with Mercyhurst University in Erie and the Benedictine Sisters of Erie.

March 2, 10:00–11:30 a.m., Endnote, W23 Pattee. EndNote can be used to search online bibliographic databases, organize references, images and PDFs in any language and create bibliographies and figure lists instantly. Attend one of these seminars to learn how to get the most out of EndNote. To register, go to http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/lls/classes/research_basics_seminar.html

March 2, 4 p.m.: Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves, an illustrated talk by Ann-Janine Morey, Foster Aud.

March 3, noon – 1:30p.m.: United Way Chili Cook Off. Sign up here: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0f4ba8ab28a64-university You don’t need to cook, but you can vote! Come between noon-1:30pm to buy your voting tickets $5 for 5 tickets and stay for lunch.

March 4, 5:30–6:30 p.m.: Spring Clean Financial Clutter, Mann Assembly Room, 103 Paterno Library. Additional details are online at http://bit.ly/1rzz1Jw. Registration is available online at http://bit.ly/1DXRzru.

March 5, 10:00–11:30 a.m.: Mendeley. 302 Paterno Library. Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research library, collaborate with others online and discover other relevant papers based on what you are reading. To register, go to http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/lls/classes/research_basics_seminar.html.

March 18, 3 p.m.: Women Don’t Ask. Book talk discussion session with author Sara Laschever, Foster Aud. In this talk, Laschever will look at why women are less likely than men to ask for what they want. She shows women how to recognize more opportunities to negotiate, evaluate the economic value of their work, rehearse their negotiations beforehand, and employ negotiating strategies that have been shown to work especially well for women.

March 18, noon – 1 p.m.: University Libraries Diversity Committee Potluck, Mann Assembly Room, 103 Paterno Library. https://surveys.libraries.psu.edu/TakeSurvey.aspx?PageNumber=1&SurveyID=983M3ol&Preview=true

** Also see “Training and Enrichment Opportunities” for additional staff events.