Ten group study rooms in the Knowledge Commons in Pattee Library can now be reserved in person at the Help Desk or by phone 814-863-4547. The rooms include rooms W122-W129, first floor Pattee Library, west, and rooms W101A and 101B in the Leisure Reading Room, near the mall entrance of Pattee Library.
The University Libraries are now circulating some new and frequently asked for items, including USB wall adapters, iPhone connector cables and more, for short term use in Pattee and Paterno libraries. Purchased with funds from the University Park Undergraduate Association, the items are available from the Commons Services Desk on the first floor of Pattee Library and circulate for four hours. Three USB wall adapters, 11 iPod/iPhone dock connector cables and 10 micro USB keychains are available. The connector cables and micro USB keychains can be used with any computer in the library, or checked out to use with a wall adapter. (more)
Content, learning and knowledge will meet technology and assistance to transform scholarship and education with the opening of the new Tombros and McWhirter Knowledge Commons in Pattee Library on the first day of classes for the spring semester, Jan. 9, 2012.
Books in Pattee Library are in the process of being rearranged. Currently, most of the movement of books and journals is occurring on the second floor of Pattee's central stacks. (more)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote, "The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books." As fall classes begin at Penn State, University Libraries welcomes students and others into a new Reading Room on the first floor of Pattee Library that includes the Leisure Reading Collection. The collection highlights popular fiction and nonfiction titles by authors ranging from Stephanie Meyer to Malcolm Gladwell. (more)
Penn State is one year into its current five-year strategic plan, and much progress has been made in implementing the strategies associated with the plan's seven goals. About half of the plan's roughly 40 implementation strategies were addressed in this first year; the remainder are scheduled to be addressed starting in the second or third year of the plan. (more)
This past week, workers used a giant crane to place a support beam for the expansion of the Larry and Ellen Foster Auditorium, set to open in August, in its new location in the Paterno Library at Penn State's University Park campus. The easily accessible and prominent location will be a bonus for the already popular auditorium, made possible, originally and now again, by generous gifts from Ellen and Larry Foster. In operation since 2000, the auditorium has hosted graphic novel presentations, poetry readings, movies, inauguration ceremonies and even former Nittany Lion mascots. To see pictures of the beam's placement, visit http://live.psu.edu/stilllife/2283 online. (more)
Most Penn State graduates have memories of days spent in the University Libraries, but only the most recent can imagine libraries as they are today. A new video, "The Library: the Heart of the University," shows the intellectual energy, outstanding resources and the redefined spaces in Pattee and Paterno Libraries. (more)
Barbara Hackman Franklin of Washington, D.C., former U.S. Secretary of Commerce and a member of Penn State's class of 1962, has directed $500,000 to name the Barbara Hackman Franklin Atrium in central Pattee Library on the University Park campus as part of the new and transformational Knowledge Commons project. This space, currently identified as the lending service lobby, will be renovated into additional service space. The gift is a continuation of Franklin's long-standing support for the University Libraries. (more)
