August 12:  Libraries United Way Trash to Treasure sale,  Mann Assembly room: Mann Assembly room will be open from 8am–5pm on Tuesday, August 11, for you to drop off your items. Please don’t unpack your boxes/bags, the United Way committee will be sorting and setting up the room in the afternoon. (Items also accepted on the day of the sale.) The sale is open to the public: please tell your friends! Cash or check only. All proceeds benefit the Centre County United Way. Note: Whoopie pies available for sale, $1.50 each.

August 14, 2:00-3:30 p.m.: From Roman Centurions to Academic Researchers: Integrating Traditional Scientific Knowledge of Bordeaux Wines, Foster Auditorium and MediaSite Live. Learn how vintners and scientists have worked with the wine industry to maintain and improve the quality of the Bordeaux wines, in this presentation by Serge Delrot, University of Bordeaux professor of plant physiology and French National Institute for Agronomical Research director. This seminar is organized by the Interinstitutional Center for Indigenous Knowledge and the University Libraries.

August 26, noon – 1 p.m.: Travel Research Award presentation by Albert M. Petska Eighth Air Force Archives winner David Cain, of the 2nd Air Division Memorial Library and the University of East Anglia, England, Mann Assembly Room. Cain will highlight his research on the social interaction of the 8th USAAF with local people in the East of England between 1942 – 1945.

August 27, noon – 1 p.m.: Travel Research Award presentations by Helen F. Faust Women Writers award winner Amanda Stuckey, from the College of William & Mary, and Dorothy Foehr Huck award winner Bob Hodges, of the University of Washington, Mann Assembly Room. Stuckey will talk about her research on bodily behavior in the nineteenth-century boy book. Hodges will talk about his use of the library’s collection of 19th and 20th century utopian literature for his dissertation “Figurations of Modernity in Antebellum U. S. Romances.”