What's New at PACSCL

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.

PACSCL on Facebook

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Follow PACSCL on Facebook! About two-thirds of PACSCL's members have Facebook pages, and PACSCL is collecting their announcements in one… view complete listing>>

Follow PACSCL's Hidden Collections Processing Project on website, Twitter

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Project staff is in place, student processors have been to "boot camp," and processing has begun on PACSCL's $500,000 Hidden… view complete listing>>

Preserving Your Inauguration Treasures

Many Americans will be saving newspapers, magazines, posters, and other materials from the watershed Barack Obama election and inauguration. Here… view complete listing>>

Pennsylvania in the Comics Trade

State Library of Pennsylvania
The State Library has added a new webpage that features the history of comics and comic books in Pennsylvania. This… 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>>

Something New for Something Old

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

December 4-5, 2008
PACSCL

Connelly Library launches new Special Collections website

September 4, 2008
La Salle University

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>>