Penfield Library

SUNY Oswego’s library faculty and professional staff recently welcomed nearly 30 librarians from around central and northern New York to Penfield Library for a joint professional development day on March 9. The day was jointly planned by SUNY Oswego librarians...

During the weeks when Winter Session courses are being held online and most students have left campus, Penfield Library remains open as a beacon of learning, community, and warmth on the SUNY Oswego campus.

In spring 2025, Penfield Library’s Archives and Special Collections finished digitizing and providing basic metadata for their entire collection of former U.S. President Millard Fillmore’s papers. This marks the culmination of nearly seven years of effort on the part of...

Penfield Library is pleased to announce their new Harmony Room is now open.

The campus community is invited to a free screening of the 60-minute film "Searching For Timbuctoo" at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 7, at 6:30pm in 122 Shineman Center. Director Paul A. Miller will join afterwards to hold a talkback...

Penfield Library, the Office of Sustainability and the Oswego Public Library came together to celebrate National Seed Swap Day on Saturday, Jan. 27. They hosted a lively seed swap at the public library, with 24 local gardeners coming together to...

The first floor of Penfield Library now hosts the "Hidden Women" art exhibit featuring student work.

Rochelle Burke, a Penfield Library Peer Reference Assistant (PRA), has earned SUNY Oswego’s 2022 Northern New York Library Network Outstanding Student Employee award,

SUNY Oswego’s Penfield Library is hosting its second Research Party of the semester from 6 to 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 10.

"Stopping Time: A Photographic Collection of Moments in Nature," a photography show by senior studio art major Bailey Maier is now on display on the third floor of Penfield Library.

Awa Dembele, a Peer Reference Assistant at Penfield Library, has been selected to receive SUNY Oswego’s 2021 Northern New York Library Network Outstanding Student Employee award.

SUNY Oswego will continue its emphasis on diversity and equality through the month of March, while providing opportunities for creativity, with Penfield Library’s annual Maker Madness event.

Penfield Library began hiring and training students as Peer Reference Assistants at the Research Help Desk, beginning in September 2019. The PRAs provide a welcoming and knowledgeable student face to the often complex process of conducting library research.

SUNY Oswego’s 2018 Northern New York Library Network Outstanding Student Employee award honored makerspace assistant Tenaja Smith-Butler, a three-year Penfield Library employee.

SUNY Oswego's Penfield Library will host its last-ever book sale from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 26, and Saturday, Oct. 27, during the college's Family and Friends Weekend.

SUNY Oswego student veterans are at the forefront of a special collaborative project that will share their stories in an exhibition for the campus and community.

Penfield Library Maker Services will partner with the Zonta Club of Oswego and celebrate International Women’s Day with Maker Madness, an interactive and hands-on event on the library’s second floor from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 3.

Building buttons and playing with plastic might not be what you think of when you picture a college library, but the Penfield Library Makerspace has just that. SUNY Oswego News student reporter Krystal Cole had to check it out.

Going "above and beyond" for those looking to use the college's Maker Services offerings has earned Abhishek Rauniyar SUNY Oswego’s 2017 Northern New York Library Network Outstanding Student Employee award.