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U.S. News Media Literacy Week kicks off with on-campus event | Penn State University A special on-campus event with two presentations, one for educators and one for students, will kick off U.S. News Media Literacy Week as the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications partners with the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) on Oct. 23.

"We invite you to celebrate U.S. Media Literacy Week with us! During the week of October 23rd-27th, we'll be hosting events across our University Park campus, as well as online. Read more to find out what's happening around campus and how you can get involved!"
[The University Libraries is a partner with the Penn State News Literacy Initiative.]

News Literacy Initiative Newsletter - Media Literacy Week 2023

"Penn State University Libraries recently digitized The Lion’s Eye, Brandywine’s student newspaper. Beginning in 2018, University library staff worked to add issues from 1967 to 2013 to the Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive, a free resource developed and hosted by University Libraries.

“The digitization of The Lion's Eye student newspaper is a very exciting milestone and allows for all Penn State alumni and friends to access the history of our campus,” said Karen Theveny, assistant teaching professor of communications and Lion’s Eye adviser. “Stories include commentary on campus, statewide and even national events — all through the lens of the student. What's even more impressive is that The Lion's Eye is still in publication on campus today.” "

Nearly 50 years of Brandywine student newspapers now available online | Penn State University Penn State University Libraries recently digitized The Lion’s Eye, Brandywine’s student newspaper.

Or -- 24,000+ congregations chose to remain UMC!

"More than 6,000 United Methodist congregations — a fifth of the U.S. total — have now received permission to leave the denomination amid a schism over theology and the role of LGBTQ people in the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination.
Those figures emerge following the close of regular meetings in June for the denomination’s regional bodies, known as annual conferences. The departures began with a trickle in 2019 — when the church created a four-year window of opportunity for U.S. congregations to depart over LGBTQ-related issues — and cascaded to its highest level this year.
Church law forbids the marriage or ordination of “self-avowed, practicing homosexuals,” but many conservatives have chosen to leave amid a growing defiance of those bans in many U.S. churches and conferences.
Many of the departing congregations are joining the Global Methodist Church, a denomination created last year by conservatives breaking from the UMC, while others are going independent or joining different denominations.
Some 6,182 congregations have received approval to disaffiliate since 2019, according to an unofficial tally by United Methodist News Service, which has been tracking votes by annual conferences. That figure is 4,172 for this year alone, it reported."

The newspapers USA Today U.S. edition and USA Today International edition are now available in full digital format through the PressReader database [https://libraries.psu.edu/eresources/psu01462].
In addition to offering free access to the current issue, by providing the full format of the newspaper, PressReader gives access to photos, graphs, and other valuable visual elements published alongside article text back through the June 5, 2008 for USA Today US edition and October 24, 2003 for the USA Today International edition.
The PressReader database is available to all Penn State students and employees through the Libraries website and in the Dr. Keiko Miwa Ross Global News Center HotSpot on the University Park campus.

Libraries amplifies 'Black History and Visual Culture' with digital collection | Penn State University Penn State University Libraries’ Eberly Family Special Collections Library has launched the Black History and Visual Culture digital collection, a celebration and remembrance of Black life at Penn State campuses, broadly across the United States, and around the world.

Penn State students, faculty, and staff have access to more than 7000 full-format daily and weekly newspapers and magazines from hundreds of countries and in many languages through the Libraries PressReader database, including the newspaper The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. You will find the PressReader database through the Libraries website or by clicking in the link https://libraries.psu.edu/eresources/psu01462 (authentication as Penn Stater is required).

And if you are on the University Park campus, you will find 70 print newspapers and magazines from around the world, including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, in the Dr. Keiko Miwa Ross Global News Center on the first floor of the Paterno Library, just past the Starbucks. The Ross Global News Center is open to everyone!
[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution February 1, 2023 p.A14]

https://www.psu.edu/news/university-libraries/story/faculty-implement-first-round-oer-grants-givingtuesday-support/

Faculty implement first round of OER grants with GivingTuesday support | Penn State University This semester, with support from the Penn State University Libraries Open and Affordable Educational Resources Leads Grant Program — and gifts from alumni and friends — faculty from eight Penn State campuses collaborated with librarians to identify a combination of open and library-licensed cour...

: WPSU and the Penn State Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications debuted a new podcast focusing on an important topic: news literacy.

Episode one of News Over Noise podcast focuses on news avoidance: what it is, how it is impacting our social cohesion and politics, and what we can do about.

Listen to episode one (and subscribe on your favorite platforms!) at www.newsovernoise.org

Peppermint Stick is back in time for the holiday season! Half-gallons are available online at creamery.psu.edu or for purchase at the store.

As the elections results roll in and races are settled for the 2022 U.S. mid-term elections, you can see how these are being reported in newspapers across the U.S. and the world in the PressReader database. Available to all Penn State employees and students through the University Libraries website at https://libraries.psu.edu/eresources/psu01462