University Libraries News

The Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant to the University Libraries’ Eberly Family Special Collections Library to support a two-year national study examining how environmental and climate-related archival materials are collected, used and understood across academic institutions and community organizations.

As part of our regular “We Are!” feature, we recognize 19 Penn Staters who have gone above and beyond what’s asked of them in their work at the University.

Employees of Penn State University Libraries’ Conservation Centre will lead hands-on papermaking sessions — from fiber to finish, from petals to paper — from 10 a.m. to noon June 26 and July 24 at the Childhood’s Gate Children’s Garden in the Arboretum at Penn State.

Juneteenth National Independence Day will be celebrated with public events on Friday and Saturday, June 19-20, in downtown State College. This year's theme is "Roots, Rhythm, and Resilience: Celebrating Our Legacy." 

Penn State University Libraries has announced the recipients of its 2026-27 research grants, which support scholars, students and independent researchers whose work draws on Special Collections’ distinctive collections.

Penn State University Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Communications and Copyright will offer two online workshops on copyright and fair use topics in summer 2026 for students, faculty, staff and the public.

The Pennsylvania Center for the Book has selected Cordelia Jensen’s “Lilac and the Switchback,” and Stewart O’Nan’s “Evensong,” to represent Pennsylvania in the Library of Congress Center for the Book’s 2026 Great Reads program.  

13 children's books were chosen by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book to form the 23rd annual "A Baker’s Dozen: Thirteen Best Children’s Books for Family Literacy," for 2026. 

2026 University Libraries Awards recently recognized 16 outstanding employees and their contributions.

Playing a card game can support empathy development in college classrooms, according to a new study led by researchers in Penn State University Libraries' Teaching and Learning with Technology. 

The Pennsylvania Center for the Book announced the premiere of the Pennsylvania episode of the new PBS series, "American Stories: A Reading Road Trip."

Penn State has announced academic promotions for tenured and tenure-line faculty members, effective July 1, 2026.

Penn State has announced non-tenure-line faculty promotions, effective July 1, 2026.

Penn State University Libraries Open Publishing has relaunched Educational Media Reviews Online, bringing a long-running, open-access media review resource into a new home as an open access journal for contributors and readership from the library, documentary film, and education sectors.

Penn State University Libraries presented its ninth annual Undergraduate Research Award: Excellence in Information Literacy honors at the end of the spring 2026 semester to more than 100 students at 19 Penn State campuses.

Penn State University Libraries presented its ninth annual Undergraduate Research Award: Excellence in Information Literacy honors at the end of the spring 2026 semester to 95 students at 19 Penn State campuses.

An exhibition titled “Paper Paradise: Three Centuries of Pennsylvania German 'Fraktur' and 'Scherenschnitte,'” features distinctive paper arts from the cultures known as Pennsylvania German or Pennsylvania Dutch, on display May 28 through Oct. 30 in the Eberly Family Special Collections Library.

Joshua Reiff, an anthropology major with minors in history, in classics and ancient Mediterranean studies and in Jewish studies, spent a semester overseeing the archival processing of the Kehillat Israel Synagogue records donated by Janice and Jerry Malett.

Internships and undergraduate work opportunities across University Libraries offer students meaningful work that benefits both student personal growth and the University Libraries as a whole.

Penn State University Press has announced the appointment of Megan E. Murton and Leah Schwebel as the new editors of The Chaucer Review: A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism.