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“Healthy Plants for a Healthy World: 50 Years of Plant Pathology at Penn State,” an exhibit, will be on display June 5–September 17, 2013, in The Eberly Family Special Collections Library, 104 Paterno Library, Penn State University Park. General exhibit hours are Monday–Thursday, 8 a.m.–6 p.m., and Friday, 8 a.m.–5 p.m. The exhibit will also be open during the special events times. Call 814-865-1793 to confirm times.
The public is invited to the exhibit grand opening and a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the beginnings of the Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology on June 7, 3:30–6 p.m., in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library, followed by a reception in Mann Assembly Room, 103 Paterno Library. Presentations will be featured by Dr. George Abawi, Cornell University professor and president-elect of the American Phytopathological Society; Dr. Barbara Christ, interim dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences and faculty member and former head of the department; and Dr. Frederick Gildow, current department head. (See end of post for additional special events to be held throughout summer.)
Submitted by Ann Snowman, head of Access Services
The Libraries’ Assessment and Metrics Council is sponsoring a discussion of the Ithaka S + R US Faculty Survey 2012, on June 4, from 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., in Mann Assembly Room or via Adobe Connect. Nancy Adams, Harrell Health Sciences Library, and Ann Snowman, head of Access Services, will facilitate the discussion.
How to connect: Remote viewers should log on to https://meeting.psu.edu/ithaka and use the chat box feature to participate. Recording will be made available shortly after the event. I-Tech recommends Firefox as the first choice when using Adobe Connect; IE will work too, but fewer issues are seen with Firefox.
Overview of Ithaka S+R discussion: How would the faculty you liaise with respond to the following statement? “Assuming that electronic collections of journals are proven to work well, I would be happy to see hard copy collections discarded and replaced entirely by electronic collections.” Would they agree or disagree? Is the answer the same for all disciplines? Has it changed over time? How much has it changed?
Would they answer “often” or “never” to the following question, or pick a mid-point? “You may have the opportunity to read scholarly monographs in electronic format, either through a library subscription database or as standalone e-books. How often have you used scholarly monographs in digital form in the past six months…?”
By Ryan Johnson, technology training coordinator
Compatibility View in Internet Explorer was designed to allow older websites to display properly in Internet Explorer. Microsoft created compatibility view for Internet Explorer 8 to give web designers time to convert their pages over from the non-standard techniques used in IE 7 and IE 6, to a more web standard compliant version. It tells the browser to render the page as if it were IE version 7 rather than IE version 8 or 9.
Previously compatibility view was also used by CMS authors to author their pages in the CMS. With the new responsive design features recently released and the new CMS Version 5.6 set to release in the upcoming weeks, compatibility mode NO longer needs to be enabled. In fact, if you currently turn this feature on in IE, the libraries pages will NOT display properly.
Above is a screen shot of the Compatibility Mode icon circled in red. It is located on the right side of the address bar. The icon looks like a piece of paper ripped in half. You can toggle Compatibility Mode by just clicking on this icon. If the icon is blue, it is activated. If the icon is gray, it is deactivated.
If you have copies of the Guide to the Libraries that you will not need before the updated copies arrive in August, please:
— label with your name or unit’s name and
— send to:
Penn State University
Lending and Reserve Services
attn: Wertney Cox
107 Pattee Library
University Park, Pa 16802
Submitted by Verne Neff and Cathy O’Connell
Last month, the Annex began their last step of having a zero waste area when Jeffery Marker volunteered to coordinate Terracycle recycling through existing campus Terracycle efforts.
What is Terracycle?
Terracycle is a company with a goal of eliminating waste. It collects hard to recycle items from people, such as granola bar and candy wrappers, and recycles those items into useful products. Many areas around the University Park campus participate in Terracycle “Brigades” that collect specific items for recycling. You can learn more about the company at www.terracycle.com.
How does Terracycle work?
Some Penn State Green Teams have signed up to collect certain materials, such as chip bags, yogurt containers, etc. You can either contact Terracycle and apply for your own brigade, or you can collect items for the Green Teams that have already been awarded brigades. A list of the participating Green Teams and their contact information can be found at http://sustainability.psu.edu/terracycle. Terracycle pays for the shipping and also makes a donation for each brigade collection submitted, funding a variety of needs such as Educational Equity scholarships, Thon, United Way and international clean water projects.
Tuesday, June 4, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m., Foster Auditorium and Mediasite Live
Topics include:
Please join us in welcoming the following new hires:
Part-time:
Ryan Donovan – Collection Maintenance
Wishing the following employees well as they leave us:
5/31/13 – Ron Gruici, Digitization and Preservation
Martha Sachs, Penn State Harrisburg
By Dawn Amsberry
Who says beach reads have to be your typical romance novel or blockbuster mystery? Plenty of quirky new fiction for the beach, cabin, or living room couch is yours for the taking this summer. The Leisure Reading list of 2013 summer picks features a hard-boiled Irish cop, a pair of performance artists whose outrageous work often borders on criminal, and a movie critic whose life is changed by a literary ghost. Readers who crave suspense and romance will find both in a quiet English country village, a Boston artist’s studio, and a valley in rural Tennessee that holds an extraordinary secret. If you’re heading out of town, or just to your backyard hammock, don’t forget the sun screen and a good book from the Leisure Reading collection.
Chris Bourg of Stanford University Libraries will present “Beyond Measure: Valuing Libraries” in Foster Auditorium on Thursday, June 13 at 11 a.m. The presentation will also be on MediaSite Live. Bourg has served as associate university librarian at Stanford since 2009, and during that time has introduced a number of service innovations. Her talk will address the challenge of expressing the importance of libraries at a time when we are being called to document our impact more fully.
On Friday, June 14, at 9:30 a.m., Bourg will discuss “What resources are important to faculty research: Results from a Stanford survey,” at a coffee and conversation event in Mann Assembly Room.
Bourg blogs about librarianship, leadership, gender, and other topics at the Feral Librarian. Her visit is made possible by the Richard and Sally Kalin University Libraries Professional Development Endowment.
For more information or if you anticipate needing accessibility accommodations or have questions about physical access provided, please contact Associate Dean Mike Furlough at mfurlough@psu.edu or 814-863-5447.
Summary of upcoming events:
June 4: 10 a.m., Mann Assembly Room: Assessment and Metrics Council-sponsored discussion on Ithaka S + R US Faculty Survey 2012, on June 4, from 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., in Mann Assembly Room or via Adobe Connect. Remote viewers log on to https://meeting.psu.edu/ithaka
June 4: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m., Tech Update, Foster Auditorium and Mediasite Live
June 7: 3:30–6 p.m., Grand opening of “Healthy Plants for a Healthy World: 50 Years of Plant Pathology at Penn State,” and a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the beginnings of the Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology in Foster Auditorium, followed by a reception in Mann Assembly Room.
June 13: 11 a.m., Chris Bourg of Stanford University Libraries to present “Beyond Measure: Valuing Libraries” in Foster Auditorium.
June 13: UPLEA (University Park Libraries Employees Association) and Safety Committee picnic, more details to come. Please sign up to help set up, clean up, or bring a dish!
June 13: 3–4:30 p.m., Sir John Daniel to present “Making sense of MOOCs and other emerging models in higher education,” Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library