University Park, Pa.--Open to the public during library operating hours, unless noted. Call 814-865-3063 for hours information.

Gender and Sexuality Studies Exhibit
"To Make You Feel Proud: Gender and Sexuality Studies at Penn State" is on display August 24 through October 31, 2001, in the Candace and Patrick E. Malloy III Diversity Studies Room, 109 Pattee Library. The materials in the exhibit demonstrate the growing scholarship within the emerging field of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies. The exhibit presents a variety of perspectives, including politics and law; literature and art; higher education, behavioral sciences, and curriculum studies; and biology. As with women's studies, African and African American Studies, global studies, and other interdisciplinary disciplines, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies cuts across many disciplines. Items in the exhibit have been collected from several of the subject libraries within the Paterno Library and Pattee Library. Additional materials from the Libraries collection can be found through The CAT, the Libraries online catalog. Inquiries can be made at any of the Libraries' subject-service desks. This exhibit coincides with two other University events, including the Commission on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies tenth anniversary in October, with the theme "A Decade of Pride: A Milestone on the Road to Equity." The second event is a lecture series sponsored by Penn State's Department of English titled "Millennium, Approached: Queer Literary Studies in the 21st Century." For more information, contact the Social Sciences Library service desk, 814-865-4861.

Riding the Keystone Rails Exhibit
"Riding the Keystone Rails-Selections from the Railroad Collections of the Special Collections Library," an exhibition by Historical Collections and Labor Archives, is on display August 15 through October 20, 2001, in The Eberly Family Special Collections Library, 104 Paterno Library. Imagine the majesty of a steaming locomotive climbing steep mountain grades, smoke plumes billowing in the summer horizon, a lonely train whistle on a cold winter's night, freight trains snaking along the iron arteries of commerce, a vast network of roundhouses and rail switchyards, ornate urban railroad stations, small town railway depots, and iron trestles of a railroad bridge. These are enduring images of railway Americana. Perhaps no industry and mode of passenger transportation has engaged our spirit and captured our imagination as has America's romance and fascination with railroads. The exhibition includes records of the Pennsylvania Railroad and Bellefonte Central Railroad; photographic, cartographic, and postcard images; gift railroad book collections; and rare manuscript materials to document the Keystone State's central place in American railway history. Pennsylvania's railroads spurred the nation's industrial revolution and developed in conjunction with core industries such as iron and steel, and the extractive coal, coke, and limestone industries. Railroads linked isolated rural communities and brought them into the mainstream of American life. Spur lines transformed "walking cities" into suburban communities. The railroad transportation revolution was not without concomitant growing pains, however, as evidenced by safety concerns, labor-management conflict, community battles waged over right-of-way issues, and railroad development at the expense of public interest. As a special feature, Hassell Meyer, a retired Bellefonte Central Railroad locomotive engineer, has kindly loaned select pieces from his Bellefonte Central model railroad collection for display. Organized by Historical Collections and Labor Archives' staff the exhibit is open to the public Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. For additional information, contact James Quigel at 814-863-3181.

Penn States's Waring Cartoon Collection Travels to Shippensburg University
"The Fred Waring Collection of Cartoons: At the Crossroads of High and Low Art" will be on display August 26 through September 26, in the Kauffman Gallery, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. Organized by Professor Stephen Hirshon, '96 Ph.D. Penn State, Shippensburg Art Department, the exhibit consists of items from Penn State University Libraries' Fred Waring's America collection. It includes historical memorabilia reflecting Waring's nearly seventy-year career as a choral conductor and showman; music from his library of 10,000 recordings; a documentary film about his television programs; personal letters and books from the cartoonists; and a selection of original cartoon art from the collection. For almost thirty years, members of the National Cartoonist society gathered at the Waring owned Shawnee Inn, in the "Cartoon Room," amid walls and tabletops decorated with original cartoon art. Artists' work in the current exhibit include Chic Young (Blondie), O. Soglow (The Little King), Ham Fisher (Joe Palooka), Milton Caniff (Steve Canyon), Bill Keene (Family Circus), Walt Kelly (Pogo), Charles Schultz (Peanuts), Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey), Walt Disney and Paul Terry (movie animators), and Rube Goldberg. Peter Kiefer, coordinator of Fred Waring's America Archives, Penn State's Special Collections Library, University Park, will present a public lecture in the gallery on August 26, at 2:00 p.m. For directions and gallery hours, call 717-477-1530. For more information about the Waring collection, visit: www.libraries.psu.edu/crsweb/speccol/waring/

Arts and Music from the Civil War Era Exhibit
"Beauty within the War Torn Shadows: Visual Arts and Music of the Civil War Era" is on display August 30 through October 28, 2001 in the Pattee Library Exhibit area. Although the Civil War was one of the most destructive wars in American history, visual and literary artists continued to create and comment upon the changing world around them, and musicians composed musical scores to uplift the many weary spirits. Their stories told through written records and art and music survive as a spiritual and visual reminder of the men and women who lived during this time. The exhibit displays reproductions of paintings, photographs, prints, and musical scores from the Civil War era. Included are many items are from the Arts and Humanities Library, Penn State's largest library collection and located on the second and third floors of Pattee Library. Special acknowledgements go to Penn State's Civil War Era Center, 314 Weaver Building. The exhibit is open during library operating hours listed at 814-865-3063. Source books for this exhibit can be found in The CAT, the Libraries online catalog. Questions can be directed to the Arts and Humanities Library service desk, 814-865-6481.

Contact:
Catherine Grigor, Manager of Public Relations and Marketing, University Libraries
(814) 865-0401 or cqg3@psu.edu