tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85996163640113587652024-03-05T01:55:01.382-05:00Penn State Special CollectionsTim Pyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08176414365268040414noreply@blogger.comBlogger169125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599616364011358765.post-23037895612564438892015-05-27T13:59:00.003-04:002015-05-27T13:59:24.890-04:00“Catching Your Attention: Decorative Book Covers and Unique Bindings”
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Special Collections Library -- Z1033.Bear and Rabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06446309438827333145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599616364011358765.post-15388260518475353182015-05-13T09:48:00.000-04:002015-05-13T09:48:07.984-04:00A Visit with Chip KiddCalling all Chip Kidd fans! If you're still looking for a graphic design fix and just couldn't get enough of our recent exhibit, the ABAA just did a fantastic article about Chip Kidd's personal collection and discusses some of the wonderful items we acquired! Check it out after the jump!
A Visit with Chip Kidd
Bear and Rabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06446309438827333145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599616364011358765.post-17458262051652355752015-04-17T13:19:00.000-04:002015-04-17T13:28:11.137-04:002015 Research Travel Award WinnersThe Eberly Family Special Collections Library is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 research travel awards program. All winners will visit the Special Collections Library between June and August.
Albert M. Petska Eighth Air Force Archives winner:
• David Cain, 2nd Air Division Memorial Library & the University of East Anglia. Mr. Cain will be researching the social interaction of Tim Pyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08176414365268040414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599616364011358765.post-37620502053925499792015-03-17T14:07:00.000-04:002015-03-17T14:07:03.414-04:00Jack Rabin Collection: 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March
Martin Luther King leads a massive march of three thousand or more
demonstrators to the Montgomery County Courthouse on March 17, 1965
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, we would like to highlight our Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists. This collection is a compact but highly complex, Bear and Rabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06446309438827333145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599616364011358765.post-16890162571970537302015-01-29T14:53:00.000-05:002015-01-29T16:04:20.896-05:00Happy Birthday!<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Bear and Rabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06446309438827333145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599616364011358765.post-84553523208725999022015-01-27T15:23:00.001-05:002015-01-27T15:23:16.136-05:00Welcome to a new (A)eon!
We're excited to announce that beginning January 26, 2015, the
Special Collections Library will begin to use a Special Collections
Management software called Aeon. Aeon will allow us to manage our
collections and our request much more efficiently by closing the typical
gap between “discovery” and “delivery” and by enabling users to place
reading room paging Bear and Rabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06446309438827333145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599616364011358765.post-10980830561944212062015-01-06T10:35:00.000-05:002015-01-06T10:37:51.325-05:00Upcoming Exhibit: Chip Kidd
Art by Chris Ware for “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” by Haruki Murakami,
first American edition, 1997, published by Alfred A. Knopf. Jacket
design by Chip Kidd.
“Everything Not Made by Nature Is Design,” an exhibition from the
Chip Kidd Archives, on display Jan. 12 through April 24 in The Eberly
Family Special Collections Library, features the archives of
award-winning graphic Bear and Rabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06446309438827333145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599616364011358765.post-28142223237861356202014-12-08T14:12:00.001-05:002014-12-08T14:12:06.871-05:00Hands-On History: Pennsylvania Forestry
Of all the Trees that ‘were’ in the Woods!
To honor the 100th anniversary of John Muir's death, December 24,
1914, Special Collections will host a hands-on activity using holdings
about Pennsylvania forestry and conservation movement. Staff and faculty are
invited to explore Pennsylvania Forest history through a hands-on,
primary source activity, on December 10,
from 12:30 Bear and Rabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06446309438827333145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599616364011358765.post-73113858113657857822014-10-27T14:47:00.002-04:002014-10-27T14:47:41.975-04:00New Exhibit Open! "Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves"
“Picturing
Dogs, Seeing Ourselves,” an exhibition in the B. and H. Henisch
Photo-History Collection Exhibition Room, 201 A Pattee Library, is on
display through March 31.
The exhibition coincides with the publication of a new book by the
Penn State Press “Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves: Vintage American
Photographs,” by Ann-Janine Morey, Volume 4, in the series Animalibus:
Special Collectionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17899827032949871128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599616364011358765.post-76929362761878955742014-08-27T16:18:00.001-04:002014-08-27T16:18:41.896-04:00Special Lecture on Cooperative Extension at PSU
Jan Scholl, associate professor
A special lecture, titled “The Impact of Cooperative Extension at
Penn State,” by Jan Scholl, associate professor of agricultural
economics and rural sociology education, is scheduled for noon to 1 p.m.
Sept. 3 in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library.
The presentation
complements “The Power of Agricultural Cooperative Extension: 100 Years of Penn Bear and Rabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06446309438827333145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599616364011358765.post-34853626392976901192014-08-05T16:49:00.000-04:002014-08-05T16:49:03.181-04:00New Finding Aids!
Due to a busy summer schedule, it has been awhile since we have put up a list of
updated/new finding aids. However, we are pleased to present a long list this August! Happy hunting!
CCHC 6 - Coal and Coke Museum Association of Pennsylvania records
CCHC 7 - Medlen family collection
CCHC 8 - Keister family papers
CCHC 10 - Thomas I. Agnew papers
HCLA 1443 - Harry Block papers
Bear and Rabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06446309438827333145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599616364011358765.post-62611568553038384062014-07-18T13:21:00.003-04:002014-07-18T13:21:32.756-04:001956 Time Capsule from Hibbs Hall Cornerstone Opened!
Yesterday afternoon, University Archivist Jackie Esposito attended the opening of the 1956 time capsule found in a Hibbs Hall cornerstone on June 17th. Inside were items ranging from sorority hats
to magazines, handbooks (remember those from one of the first Archive Adventure posts?), campus guides, and newspapers. Jackie was on hand to help identify the items and their organizations, such Bear and Rabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06446309438827333145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599616364011358765.post-24303982965202846232014-06-23T14:47:00.000-04:002014-06-23T14:47:26.073-04:00"Take the College of the State to the People of the State"
The
Power of Agricultural Cooperative Extension: 100 Years of Penn State
Service,” an exhibition, will be on display June 17 through Sept. 15, in
The Special Collections Library, 104 Paterno Library, Penn State
University Park. A special lecture, “The Impact of Cooperative Extension
at Penn State,” is scheduled for noon to 1 p.m. Sept. 3 in Foster
Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library.
InBear and Rabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06446309438827333145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599616364011358765.post-79663637689404185122014-06-13T12:57:00.002-04:002014-06-13T12:57:48.402-04:00Penn State Presidents: Leaders, Innovators and Visionaries
President Atherton in his study
“Penn State Presidents: Leaders, Innovators and Visionaries,” an
exhibit, is on display from June 2 through Sept. 15 in Robb Hall, Hintz
Alumni Center, University Park.
From the earliest days of Evan Pugh’s tenure as president of the
fledgling Agricultural College of Pennsylvania through the pioneering
days of the newly appointed President Eric Barron, Bear and Rabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06446309438827333145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599616364011358765.post-37663485621755473582014-06-09T15:40:00.000-04:002014-06-09T15:47:25.377-04:00New Finding Aids Published
Our archival processors had a busy spring. Here are the latest new and updated finding aids for some of our collections:
HCLA 1648 Mary Gyla McDowell 100th Volunteer Infantry Regiment papers - This collection consists of diaries, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, pamphlets, pencil sketches and photographs, memoirs and Veterans' society records of the 100th Pennsylvania Volunteer Tim Pyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08176414365268040414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599616364011358765.post-55392610788399095602014-06-04T09:29:00.004-04:002014-06-04T09:29:46.302-04:00Construction Alert!Visitors to the Special Collections Library will noticed lots of fences and construction around the Library with crosswalks and building access points changing over the summer. The Library is posting regular construction and renovation updates on the main Library blog. Please check it out before your visit.
http://sites.psu.edu/libconstruction/
Our hours of access remain the same, but road Tim Pyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08176414365268040414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599616364011358765.post-52492729262047779562014-05-02T09:49:00.001-04:002014-05-02T10:14:13.906-04:00Sister Joan Chittister Archive Dedicated at Mercyhurst<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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This past Wednesday, Jackie Esposito (University Archivist), Tim Pyatt (Head of Special Collections), Robyn Dyke (Records Management/PSUA), Nicole Hendrix (Library Development Director), and Jane Ingold (Penn State Behrend Reference Librarian/Archivist) attended the dedication of the Sister Joan Chittister Archive at Mercyhurst University. It was a Bear and Rabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06446309438827333145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599616364011358765.post-50840095406925195002014-04-30T15:15:00.004-04:002014-04-30T15:24:46.344-04:00New Finding Aids (special edition)
An announcement from our Collections Manager
Matt Francis
Welcome to a very special edition of the
"New/Updated Finding Aids" emails. While we are continuing to crank out
new finding aids, I want to take a moment to highlight six recent
finding aids that all involve "something new" for our Special
Collections Library.
Finding Aid for a Hybrid Collection (analog and Bear and Rabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06446309438827333145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599616364011358765.post-21773984315816940892014-04-17T16:18:00.002-04:002014-04-17T16:18:27.372-04:002014 Research Travel Awards Winners<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Bear and Rabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06446309438827333145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599616364011358765.post-35370875987512592072014-04-08T16:21:00.002-04:002014-04-08T16:21:23.344-04:00Archive Adventures: What's a Bucket Bowl?...and happy accidentsThough the library is usually dedicated to quiet study zones, you can't escape the highly contagious Blue-White buzz that has been spread around the whole building. So, in celebration, I've been wandering the aisles looking for history on the infamous "Bucket Bowl."
According to Lou Prato's article
on the history of the Blue-White game, the "Bucket Bowl", as it was known, started in 1951 and Bear and Rabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06446309438827333145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599616364011358765.post-12010284993361689372014-04-05T11:40:00.000-04:002014-04-05T12:05:59.495-04:00What's "Special" about the Special Collections Library?
Below are some previews to the items we will showcase on April 11th from 2:30 to 4:00 pm. Please drop by and get an inside look at some of our collections and special projects.
Rare book curator Sandy Stelts will show you some rare and unique
children’s “flap books” also known as “metamorphoses” or “harlequinades” and
also demonstrate how Penn State faculty are studying and digitizing them.&Tim Pyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08176414365268040414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599616364011358765.post-23561328181015117282014-03-26T09:28:00.002-04:002014-03-26T09:28:48.524-04:00Challenge Yourself: Judy Chicago's Studio Art Pedagogy
“Challenge Yourself: Judy Chicago’s Studio Art Pedagogy,” an
exhibition, is on display from March 24 to June 13 in The Eberly Family
Special Collections Library, 104 Paterno Library. The exhibit is one of
many activities at Penn State, during spring 2014, to celebrate Chicago
and her work and can be viewed online.
In 2011, artist, author and educator Judy Chicago gave Penn State Bear and Rabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06446309438827333145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599616364011358765.post-4191499281145522292014-03-24T17:02:00.000-04:002014-03-24T17:02:28.929-04:00Behind-the-scenes look at the Special Collections Library
Chip Kidd with sketch of his iconic image for
Jurassic Park book cover.
Image credit: Wilson Hitton for the Eberly Family Special
Collections Library
Discover what's so special!
The public is invited to discover What’s “special” in the Special Collections Library, from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Friday, April 11, in The Eberly Family Special Collections Library, 104 Paterno Library, Penn Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05371519004589849793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599616364011358765.post-34206213372865817022014-03-03T11:27:00.002-05:002014-03-05T20:00:14.542-05:002014 Mann Lecture -- April 4th
On April 4th
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum will deliver the Mann Lecture at 4:30 in the Foster
Auditorium of the Paterno Library. His talk is titled “Invalid Keystroke: Recovering a Literary History of Word
Processing.” A reception
follows in the Mann Assembly Room. The Charles W.
Mann Jr. Lecture in the Book Arts is supported by the Mary Louise Krumrine
Endowment.
Kirschenbaum is
an associateTim Pyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08176414365268040414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599616364011358765.post-25191802667287815382014-02-25T16:37:00.000-05:002014-02-25T16:38:09.621-05:00Sports Archives 25th Anniversary Open House
Women run in the Field Day track race
We are pleased to invite everyone to our celebration of the 25th
anniversary of the Penn State Sports Archives, a collection in The
Eberly Family Special Collections Library. Established in 1988, the
collection consists of athlete files, audio-visual materials, media
guides, press kits and memorabilia.
Activities will include:
Noon to 1:30 Bear and Rabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06446309438827333145noreply@blogger.com0