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News about PACSCL and its member libraries. Click the "events and exhibitions" tab for news on lectures, symposia, and exhibition. For listings of even more member news, including library blogs, click the "News feeds from members" link to the left.

Something New for Something Old

Something New for Something Old: Innovative Approaches to Managing Archives and Special Collections

December 4-5, 2008
PACSCL
To celebrate the conclusion of its Mellon Foundation-funded Consortial Survey Initiative, PACSCL is hosting a two-day event exploring creative methods… view complete listing>>

State Library of Pennsylvania Begins Hosting Informal Directory to Digitized Historical Pennsylvania Newspapers

November 4, 2008-February 28, 2009
State Library of Pennsylvania
The State Library will begin hosting an informal guide to historical Pennsylvania newspapers that have been digitized. See the directory… view complete listing>>

Connelly Library launches new Special Collections website

September 4, 2008
La Salle University
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Philadelphia Museum of Art Library Announces Saturday Hours

Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Library at the Philadelphia Museum of Art will be open on Saturdays between Labor Day and Memorial Day, with… view complete listing>>

Seamen's Church Institute's hotel in proximity to the Delaware River in 1925

Records of Philadelphia-based social welfare organization and nautical instrument manufacturer now available

July 1, 2008
Independence Seaport Museum
The archives of the Seamen’s Church Institute of Philadelphia were made publicly available by Independence Seaport Museum’s J. Welles Henderson… view complete listing>>

State Library of Pennsylvania's Rare Collections Library Temporarily Closed

July 3, 2008
State Library of Pennsylvania
The Rare Collections Library of the State Library of Pennsylvania began its move into a state-of-the-art preservation environment in Spring… view complete listing>>

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H.O.M.E. Page Cafe Grand Opening

April 16, 2008
Free Library of Philadelphia
The H.O.M.E. Page Cafe celebrates its Grand Opening at the Parkway Central Library. The Cafe is the result of a… view complete listing>>