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"In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The book is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories, from a woman in Indiana whose benefits are literally cut off as she lays dying to a family in Pennsylvania in daily fear of losing their daughter because they fit a certain statistical profile."

In April, the Penn State Rock Ethics Institute is hosting Eubanks to talk about her book Automating Inequality. Prior to that, on March 26, Brady Clemens, our district library consultant, will lead a nonfiction book club in Schlow's Sun Room to discuss the book. We chat with Brady about Automating Inequality and some of the sobering and alarming information Eubanks discovered in her research and investigation.

During the month of February, Schlow's gallery is showcasing work done by middle and high school students in the Delta Program of the State College Area School District. The work is from the course "Bridging Divides: Diversity and Social Justice" that the students took last fall.

Joining us this week to talk about the course and exhibition is Delta teacher Lori McGarry, who co-taught the course with Virginia Squier, along with senior Anjelica Rubin and seventh-grader Aneaus Smith.

Delta Program: https://www.scasd.org/deltaprogram

SCORE of Central PA is an all-volunteer organization that has business mentors who help people make their business dreams a reality.

Each third Thursday of the month, SCORE visits Schlow to present workshops on various topics that are designed to help those starting a business or who currently have a small business of their own.

We chat with two SCORE volunteers and past chairs of the organization — Bob Griffin and Ken Manno. Bob worked in instructional design and taught in the Smeal College of Business Administration at Penn State for 26 years. Ken spent most of his professional career working in the forest products industry. He managed the Sustainable Forestry Initiative for 14 years.

SCORE: https://www.score.org

The local Irish and Celtic band Callanish kicks off Centre County Reads 2020 with a performance February 8 at the Green Drake Gallery and Arts Center in Millheim. We chat with Holly Foy of Callanish about the band and her experiences in Ireland!

Callanish: http://www.callanishband.com/

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

The Green Drake Art Gallery: https://www.greendrakeart.com/

Schlow is holding its 36th annual Write and Illustrate Your Own Book Contest for children in grades 1 through 6. Entries are being accepted until Tuesday, March 10, 2020. 

On February 8, local writer Anne Burgevin will lead a Young Writers Workshop for those interested in entering the contest. We chat with Anne about the workshop and working with young writers, along with two past winners of the contest — Rachel Zhang, who won last year with her book, A Jar of Words: Short Stories and Poems; and Karis John, who won in 2017 for her book, Dragon School.

Write and Illustrate Your Own Book Contest: https://www.schlowlibrary.org/news/2019-08-02/write-and-illustrate-your-own-book-contest?_ga=2.190311019.1162698250.1579629350-510261925.1540396447

Young Writers Workshop: https://www.schlowlibrary.org/events/young-writers-workshop-4?_ga=2.190311019.1162698250.1579629350-510261925.1540396447

Dragon School by Karis John: https://search.schlowlibrary.org/Record/402550

A Jar of Words: Short Stories and Poems by Rachel Zhang: https://search.schlowlibrary.org/Record/432139

Our Schlow Labs 2020 sessions begin January 25 with Genealogy for Beginners. The workshop will be led by Robbin Degeratu from the Centre County Library and Historical Museum. We chat with Robbin about genealogy and all the resources available at the Pennsylvania Room in Bellefonte.

Centre County Library Pennsylvania Room: https://www.centrecountylibrary.org/pa-room

Nicole Packard is a State College artist and art educator whose work explores the intersection of reality and fantasy. Nicole, who teaches at Park Forest Middle School, has a solo exhibition, Mindscapes, showing in Schlow's Betsy Rodgers Allen Art Gallery throughout January.

We chat with Nicole about how she got started in art, her work, and teaching art to the next generation of artists.

Nicole Packard: https://www.scasd.org/Page/25479

We'll be back with a new episode next week. Until then, we just wanted to say thanks for a great 2019 and look ahead to 2020!

Mr. Music, Lenny Tepsich, returns to Schlow for First Night with performances at 11am and 1pm on Tuesday, December 31. To mark his return, we're replaying our conversation with Mr. Music that we had prior to last year's First Night!

First Night State College: https://firstnightstatecollege.com/

We take a look back at the year in books in 2019 and look ahead to 2020 with two editors from BookPage. Joining us are Cat Acree, who is the deputy editor of BookPage and handles all coverage of adult literary fiction and audiobooks, and Christy Lynch, who is the nonfiction editor of BookPage.

BookPage: https://bookpage.com/

Best Books of 2019: https://bookpage.com/features/24672-best-books-2019#.XfkXytZKjfa