White Water, Black Gold?
Wednesday, Jan. 16, noon, EMS Library, 105 Deike.
A journey across Canadian watersheds in search of answers about the world’s thirstiest oil industry: the tar sands. (65 min.)
UPLEA Meeting
Wednesday, Jan. 16, 1-2 pm, 126T Paterno, Find out what UPLEA is all about!
Green Team Meeting
Wednesday, Jan. 16, 3pm-4pm, 214 Davey Lab.
Library Research Classes
Wednesday, Jan. 16: 2:30-3:30 pm, W315 Pattee: Introduction to LionSearch
Thursday Jan. 17: 2:30-3:30 pm, 302 Paterno: Library Research Basics
Thursday, Jan. 17: 10-11:30 am, 302 Paterno: Introduction to Mendeley
For more information and to register: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/lls/classes/research_basics_seminar.html
Presentation on OCLC Report and Data Gathering
Thursday, Jan. 17, 11 a.m., Mann Assembly Room. Jennifer Schaffner from OCLC Research will be visiting the Libraries on January 17 and 18, and will give a presentation here during her visit. Schaffner’s talk will focus on the data gathered by OCLC for its 2010 report, “Taking Our Pulse: The OCLC Research Survey of Special Collections and Archives.” She will be using the data from the Penn State response to the survey and comparing it with the responses from the CIC and ARL as well as talking about current trends in special collections. Schaffner designs projects and leads work with the OCLC Research Library Partnership concerning archives, rare books, manuscripts, scholarly expectations, data curation, and collaboration among libraries, archives and museums. Besides the OCLC survey, she has been active with user-driven digitization initiatives, interlibrary loan of special collections programs, and collaborative collection development. For more information about OCLC Research, see: http://www.oclc.org/research/about.html
Thursday, Jan. 17, 11 a.m., Mann Assembly Room. Jennifer Schaffner from OCLC Research will be visiting the Libraries on January 17 and 18, and will give a presentation here during her visit. Schaffner’s talk will focus on the data gathered by OCLC for its 2010 report, “Taking Our Pulse: The OCLC Research Survey of Special Collections and Archives.” She will be using the data from the Penn State response to the survey and comparing it with the responses from the CIC and ARL as well as talking about current trends in special collections. Schaffner designs projects and leads work with the OCLC Research Library Partnership concerning archives, rare books, manuscripts, scholarly expectations, data curation, and collaboration among libraries, archives and museums. Besides the OCLC survey, she has been active with user-driven digitization initiatives, interlibrary loan of special collections programs, and collaborative collection development. For more information about OCLC Research, see: http://www.oclc.org/research/about.html
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Introduction to SelectSurvey
Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013 1:30 PM, 1 Paterno
Want to learn more about the survey tool for the libraries? Everyone at the University Libraries has access to SelectSurvey. In this Introductory class, you will learn basic survey creation, management and deployment.
Available online at http://meeting.psu.edu/ultraining
Duration: 1 hour Instructor: Ryan Johnson
Want to learn more about the survey tool for the libraries? Everyone at the University Libraries has access to SelectSurvey. In this Introductory class, you will learn basic survey creation, management and deployment.
Available online at http://meeting.psu.edu/ultraining
Duration: 1 hour Instructor: Ryan Johnson