The University Libraries are offering a new article delivery service for Penn State faculty this semester. The service provides faculty with electronic copies of articles from the print journal collections at their local campus libraries and from other Penn State campuses. For details, see Penn State Live.

PRI associates and affiliates can still request articles from the Information Core using our document request form.

I’ll be conducting a workshop on research poster design for PRI on Feb. 20. In the workshop, I’ll go over the elements of successful posters and demonstrate some techniques in Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft PowerPoint.

Please visit our workshops page for information and to sign up.

PRI released one working paper in 2007: Gender Discord and Family Change (PDF), by Robert Schoen (07-01)

A complete list of PRI working papers dating back to 1989 is available on our web site. PRI affiliates and graduate students are encouraged to submit papers to the series - see the submission guidelines for details.

The PRI Library will be closed on Friday, November 23. Anyone who has after-hours access to Oswald Tower and the library will still be able to access the collections.

Tara will be on vacation November 16-23. Please send any requests to library@pop.psu.edu, and staff will assist you.

Information Core staff will be attending the National Symposium on Family Issues October 8-9. The PRI Library will be open but unstaffed. If you have urgent requests, please contact us by the end of the day today.

Tara Murray and Kiet Bang will be out of the office attending meetings Sept. 12-14. During that time, please send requests to library@pop.psu.edu. Some requests may have to wait until Sept. 17—if you have an urgent request, please let us know as soon as possible.

Registration is open for technology workshops offered by Penn State’s ITS Training Services. Library-related topics for this fall include EndNote; Advanced Google Searching; Information Trapping: RSS, Alerts, & More; Overview of the Thesis Process; Publishing a Book in an Academic Environment; and more. To view a complete list of seminars and register, go to http://its.psu.edu/training/.

Ruth will be on vacation July 16-20. Please send your requests to library@pop.psu.edu and we will continue to fill them.

The PRI Library will be closed for July 4, a University holiday. Anyone who has after-hours access to Oswald Tower and the library will still be able to access the library using their ID card.

This week we launched an improved version of the PRI Grants and Funding Opportunities database. New features include:

• Improved search, with the ability to search for student and faculty research grants, as well as postdoctoral opportunities and infrastructure, conference, and training grants
• Browse by government agency or private sponsor
• Browse opportunities for students, postdoctoral scholars, infrastructure, conferences, and training
• Browse new announcements and funding-related news

The database is updated weekly by PRI Information Core staff and includes funding opportunity announcements targeting researchers in population science and related fields.

New announcements are e-mailed to PRI faculty and students weekly. Other interested researchers may receive new announcements by subscribing to our Funding News feed (see help for using feeds).

Questions, comments, and suggestions can be sent to Tara Murray.