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Title: Librarian and Web Coordinator
Organization: The Pennsylvania State University
TDepartment: Hildebrandt Library

Topic: History and regulation of Canada's media industries. The role of new media technologies in Canadian society. Canadian resorts of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Phone: 814-865-7736
Email: mat1@psu.edu

Address:
222 Buckhout Laboratory
University Park PA 16802-4507

Marsha Ann Tate works as a librarian and Web coordinator at the Pennsylvania State University. She also works part time as a freelance writer, researcher, and instructor. Marsha’s Canadian research currently focuses upon the following areas: 1) the sustainabiity of Canada’s media industries in a globalized media milieu; 2) the impact of new media technologies on Canadian society; and 3) U.S. economic and social ties with Canada during the mid-to-late 1800s and early 1900s. Marsha is the author of the book Canadian Television Programming Made for the United States Market: A History with Production and Broadcast Data (McFarland, 2007). In addition to MANECCS, Marsha is a member of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, the Pennsylvania Canadian Studies Consortium, as well as several local and regional historical associations in the United States and Canada.