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Limited Reading Room Hours, July 2 through July 31, 2018

To better serve our researchers and to ensure the preservation of our materials, the Eberly Family Special Collections Library will be conducting extensive collections maintenance and a large-scale collections move. From July 2, 2018 through July 31, 2018, the Special Collections Reading Room will be closed on Mondays and Fridays and will offer limited hours for research with onsite collections on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. However, collections stored...

This alert is scheduled to be in effect from to July 31, 2018 - 5:00pm.

-- Originally posted on Monday, June 4, 2018 - 9:30am --

-- Last updated on Wednesday, June 6, 2018 - 8:10am --

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The Eberly Family Special Collections Library at Penn State - University Park is home to more than 200,000 printed volumes, more than 25 million archival records and manuscripts, and another million photographs, maps, prints, and audio-visual items. We offer primary source materials for a diverse community of researchers, who range from K-12 and Penn State students, as well as scholars around the world. We collect in a variety of subject disciplines, a sampling of which includes Utopian literature, science fiction, labor organization and representation, local Centre County history, and we are also home to the Penn State University Archives.