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Sascha Meinrath is the Palmer Chair in Telecommunications at Penn State and director of X-Lab, an innovative think tank focusing on the intersection of vanguard technologies and public policy. He is a renowned technology policy expert and is internationally recognized for his work over the past two decades as a community internet pioneer, social entrepreneur, and angel investor. Sascha will host Schlow Labs: Practical Tools for Digital Privacy February 16 at Schlow. Before then, we had a conversation with him about the issues of tech and privacy.

Schlow Labs: https://www.schlowlibrary.org/events/schlow-labs-practical-digital-tools-personal-privacy

The Schlow Library Podcast talks with local artist Marisa Eichman Kupiec, whose exhibition The Hunt for the Red Doe will be in the Schlow gallery during the month of February. Kupiec won the Images 2018 award for her painting "The Hunt for the Red Doe."

The Schlow Library Podcast talks with Mark Shirey and Jennifer Delozier, co-leaders of the Nittany Valley Writers Network, which meets each month at Schlow.

BookPage is a monthly national publication featuring book reviews, interviews, and features that is distributed for free at Schlow and public libraries across the country. We talk with BookPage editor Stephanie Koehler about how 2018 was for books and what are some of the hot titles to look forward to in 2019.

BookPage: https://bookpage.com

Maria Burchill, head of adult services at Schlow Centre Region Library, talks about Centre County Reads and this year's selection of Vulture by Katie Fallon.

Centre County Reads: https://www.centrecountyreads.org/

New Leaf Initiative and Schlow Centre Region Library are partnering to bring coworking and programming to students, entrepreneurs, and remote workers across the Centre Region. We talk with New Leaf community manager Stacey Budd and Schlow's head of adult services Maria Burchill about the partnership and what it means for both organizations.

New Leaf Initiative: https://newleafinitiative.org

We look back at 2018 with with district consultant Brady Clemens and Lisa Shaffer and Laura Sarge from Centre County Library & Historical Museum. We talk about libraries, books, movies, and more.

Centre County Library: https://www.centrecountylibrary.org

We talk with Mr. Music, Lenny Tepsich, as he prepares to make his return to Schlow Library on December 31 as part of First Night State College activities!

First Night: https://firstnightstatecollege.com

We talk with teacher/writer Anne Burgevin and four of her students who participated in the exhibition Quilts & Prints: Young People Respond to Gee's Bend Art, which is in Schlow's gallery through December.

The students on the show are Ruth Anstrom, Almila Dukel, Katie Loomis-Adams, and Faith Kinglsey.

For more on the exhibition, visit https://www.schlowlibrary.org/news/2018-11-29/quilts-and-prints?_ga=2.74643355.867939599.1544451723-1806983674.1493227878

With the popular Polar Express back at Schlow, we talk with Sara Willoughby-Herb and Steven Herb, who have been reading Polar Express at Schlow since the event began.

Polar Express at Schlow: https://www.schlowlibrary.org/events/polar-express-8?_ga=2.225370706.910084437.1543342195-1806983674.1493227878