March 17, 7 p.m.: An Evening with Jess Walter, John Bill Freeman Auditorium, first floor, HUB. The author of “Beautiful Ruins” will discuss his book and the many intertwined themes within its pages. Q&A session will follow. A Centre County Reads event. The Libraries Colloquium Committee and the Pennsylvania Center for the Book are among the co-sponsors.
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
March 19, 3-4 p.m.: Privacy and confidentiality workshop, Mann Assembly Room. Presented by Ann Snowman, head of Access Services and User Services Training Program. Also available on Adobe Connect (https://meeting.psu.edu/ust). Register in TechSmart.
March 19, 7:30 p.m.: Mary Rolling Reader series presents Jess Walter, Foster Aud. Read the press release online: http://news.psu.edu/story/347387/2015/03/05/academics/award-winning-author-jess-walter-visit-penn-state
March 22, 1 p.m.: Pins, Spins, Cross-checks and Spikes: A Sampling of Penn State Winter Sports Films,” Foster Aud. See full story for details.
March 23,5:30-6:30 p.m.: Spring Clean Financial Clutter, a workshop presented by Dr. Daad Rizk. Mann Assembly Room, 103 Paterno Library. (This event was rescheduled from March 4.) For more information and to register, go to http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/researchguides/business/financialliteracy.html#moneycounts
March 26, 4:30 p.m.: The 2015 Charles W. Mann Jr. Lecture in the Book Arts, “Why Flashlights? Because Batman! A Bookseller’s Adventures in the Archive” by Lorne Bair, proprietor of Lorne Bair Rare Books, with a special introduction by graphic designer and author, Chip Kidd, Foster Aud.
March 26, 5:30 p.m.: “Telling the Story of a Few Good Women,” a talk by Lee Stout, Downsbrough Community Room, Schlow Centre Region Library, 21 S. Allen Street. Light supper followed by presentation. RSVP by March 23 to Christine Bishop, cbishop@ccysb.com.
March 26, 7:30 p.m.: The fifteenth annual “An Evening of Pennsylvania Poets: Readings in Celebration of the Public Poetry Project,” Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library, followed by a book sale and poster signing.
Save the date:
April 6, from 1– 3pm: “Digital Aesthetics, Art, Life and Museums,” a conversation with Metropolitan Museum of Art digital asset specialist Neal Stimler and some of Penn State’s most progressive thinkers in this field, Foster Auditorium, first floor, Paterno Library. Registration is required. To register, go to http://wp.me/P3b4X9-1C2.
April 23: “Mapping Matters: Space and Place in the Humanities,” a one-day symposium on the intersection of mapping, digital humanities, and pedagogy, Pattee and Paterno Libraries. See details in this week’s blog post.
** Also see “Training and Enrichment Opportunities” for additional staff events.