Spring 2016
Monday, April 4, 5 p.m.: Spring 2016 Robert M. Pockrass Memorial Lecture: “The Awakenings of the Filtered: Algorithmic Personalization in Social Media and Beyond,” presented by Christian Sandvig, associate professor of communication studies and information, University of Michigan,Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library, and MediaSite Live. Sandvig’s research investigates the consequences of algorithmic systems that curate and organize information and culture.
Tuesday, April 5, 10:00 a.m.: Dean’s Forum, details online, Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library, and MediaSite Live.
Wednesday, April 6, noon: Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use in the Yucatan Peninsula, presented by Lindsay Butler-Trump, Foster Auditorium and MediaSite Live.
Wednesday, April 6, 2:00 p.m.: “Own Your Money, Own Your Life,” presented by Adi Redzic, entrepreneur, financial literacy expert, CEO and success coach, Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library. If you are able to attend in person, please register at http://tinyurl.com/psuadi; If you are planning to watch via MediaSite Live, please let Lauren Reiter know. It also will be available to view later.
Wednesday, April 6, 7:00-9:00 p.m.: South Asian (Hindi) Film Series, “Dum Laga Ke Haisha,” Foster Auditorium. Organized by the Center for Global Studies.
Thursday, April 7, 7:30-8:30 p.m.: Mary E. Rolling Reading Series: Tom Williams, public talk co-sponsored by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book, Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library.
Sunday-Saturday, April 10-16: National Library Week.
Monday, April 11,11:00 a.m.-noon: Collections Forum on Floating Collection Data Analysis, presented by Aaron Dennis, Access Services Research Assistant. Floating Collection has been active at 19 campus libraries since 2013. A Floating Collection is a group of books that are not housed permanently at one specific library, but instead are shelved in the library where they were most recently discharged. Approximately one million books fall under Floating Collection. Our Access Services research assistant, Aaron Dennis, has been analyzing data derived from SirsiDynix Symphony on floating books from a collections perspective and will present his findings. Members of the Collections Mobility Task Force will be on hand to answer questions. Foster Auditorium and Media Site Live.
Monday, April 11, 6:30 p.m.: Penn State University Press / Trafika Europe Essential New European Literature, Vol. I book launch and University Libraries open access journal affiliation concert and poetry performance celebration, featuring French-Algerian jazz-pop singer-musician Alima Hamel and Latvian poet Juris Kronbergs, Webster’s Bookstore Café, 133 E. Beaver Ave., downtown State College.
Tuesday, April 12, 1:30 p.m.: Tech Update, Foster Auditorium
Preliminary Agenda:
— Karen Estlund – Product Owners
— Dace Freivalds – 2FA
— WIMT Team – Drupal Update
Tuesday, April 12, 2:30–3:30 p.m.: Speak Up for Civility workshop, Mann Assembly Room. More information to come.
Thursday, April 14, 4:00-5:00 p.m.: Exceptional and Unconformable Phenomena: Maternal Effects and the Epistemologies of the Life Sciences, presented by Sarah Richardson, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University. Boundaries of the Human in the Age of the Life Sciences Series, public talk co-sponsored by ICIK and Penn State’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library.
Wednesday, April 20, noon: Indigenous, Natural, Esoteric: The Presence of Indigenous Knowledge in Urban Colombia, presented by Richard Stoller, Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library.
Wednesday, April 20, 2:00 p.m.: Dean’s Forum: #blacklivesmatter and #weneeddiversebooks: Libraries at the Center of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion,” presented by Courtney Young, head librarian and professor of women’s studies, J. Clarence Kelly Library, Penn State Greater Allegheny; Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library, and MediaSite Live.
Wednesday, April 20, 5:30-6:30 p.m.: MoneyCounts: What is Financial Literacy? seminar, Mann Assembly Room, Paterno Library.
Thursday, April 21, 7:30-8:30 p.m.: 2016 Public Poetry Contest winners public reading, Pennsylvania Center for the Book, Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library.
Friday, April 22: Earth Day, University Libraries Green Committee handing out marigolds potted in folded newspaper flower pots, University Park.
Monday, April 25, 11:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m.: Penn State Shenango Undergraduate Research Fair, Lartz Memorial Library.
Thursday, April 28, 3:30-5:00 p.m.: “Maestra” Cuba film showing film screening and public talk, post-screening Q&A and reception with Director Catherine Murphy and Dr. Luisa Campos, visiting Cuban scholar, educator, and director of Cuba’s National Literacy Campaign Museum; co-sponsors include the University Libraries and the Penn State Adult Education Program, College of Education; Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library.
Friday, April 29: last day of spring classes.
Sunday-Tuesday, May 1-3: Destress Fest, open house, Mann Assembly Room, Pattee/Paterno lobby areas, 4 branch libraries, University Park.
Monday-Thursday, May 2-5: Penn State Shenango De-stress Fest, open house, Lartz Memorial Library.
Friday-Sunday, May 6-8: Spring commencement weekend, most campuses. University Park commencement schedule is online.
Maymester / Summer 2016
Monday, May 9: first day of Maymester classes, University Park. Academic calendar information for all campuses is available online.
Monday, May 16: first day of classes, first six weeks summer session, University Park.
Monday, May 23, 2:00–3:30 p.m.; Libraries’ annual Diversity Research and Programming Colloquium, Foster Auditorium and MediaSite Live.
Monday, May 30: Memorial Day, no classes.
Thursday, June 2: Discovery Day, University Park library locations.
Wednesday, June 22, 5:30-6:30 p.m.: MoneyCounts: Debt Management program, Mann Assembly Room, Paterno Library.
Wednesday, June 29: first day, second six weeks summer session, University Park.
Monday, July 4: Independence Day, no classes.
Wednesday-Sunday, July 13-17, Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts 50th anniversary, Children’s Day July 13, BookFest July 16, State College and University Park campus.
Thursday, July 21, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.: PA Forward Information Literacy Summit, Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library.
Wednesday, August 10: last day of summer classes, University Park.
Saturday, August 13: Summer commencement, University Park.
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