Events: Week of April 21

April 23, 1:30 p.m.: Dean’s Forum: Life Beyond Sirsi and Summon …
What will the Library Management System of the future look like? Will it be a monolithic, but multi-faceted solution, or an ever-changing mix of interconnecting (and sometimes not interconnecting) parts? Foster Auditorium and Mediasite Live.
Members of the Library Management Systems Requirements Working Group will present their work and outline their recommendations.

  • They will address the current library management landscape, forces driving the perceived need for change, feedback from Libraries stakeholders, and the challenges of discovery and access.
  • They will also report on progress made since the submission of their final report to Libraries Administration in October 2013, and give a sneak peek at the next version of LionSearch.

LMSRWG’s report is available at: https://www.libraries.psu.edu/content/dam/psul/up/admin/intranet/documents/LMSRWG/lmsrwg%20final%20report%2010312013.pdf

April 23, 5:30 – 7 p.m.: Spring Clean Financial Clutter Foster Aud. Presented by Penn State financial literacy coordinator Daad Rizk.

April 24, 7-8:30 p.m.: No Superheroes: Creating Underground Comics, Foster Aud. Presented by Joyce Farmer, co-creator of “Tits & Clits Comix.”

April 28, 3:00-4:00 p.m.: UPLEA meeting,  Mann Assembly room .

April 29, 3-4:30 p.m.: Cultural and Economic Perspectives of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder,” Foster Aud. Presented by Kyunghwa Lee, University of Georgia.

May 1,11-4pm: Arts and Craft Sale benefiting the Centre County United Way, Mann Assembly room.

May 6, noon to 2 p.m.: Film Fest to Celebrate 100 Years of Cooperative Extension, Foster Auditorium.

May 9, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.: MediaTech Expo: This year’s Technology Expo will feature showcase what’s new for 2014, President’s Hall, Penn Stater Conference Center, University Park campus.