December 2, 10:30 a.m. – noon: Introduction to Mendeley, 211 Davey Register online.
December 3, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.: United Way Craft Sale, Mann Assembly Room.
December 3, 4 p.m.: Making Sense of the Budget Crisis, presentation by Jared Bernstein, senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policies Priorities and former economic adviser to U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, Foster Auditorium. More details
December 4, 12:15 p.m.: Film: Flip Flotsam, EMS Library, 105 Deike. This film examines the journey of the humble flip flop in a small corner of Africa. 27 minutes.
December 4, noon: Using indigenous foodways to encourage the consumption and continued use of soybeans as a rotational crop in Uganda (seminar), Foster Auditorium.
Save the Date:
December 10, 3-4 p.m.: Tech Update, Foster Aud. and MediaSite Live.
December 10, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Penn State Press Holiday Book Sale, Kern Building Lobby
January 23, 2 p.m.: Visiting Scholar Ellen Garvey to present in Foster Aud. on 19th century American scrapbooks. Garvey is the author of the recent book “Writing With Scissors” which breaks new ground analyzing and discussing scrap-booking as an historical and cultural practice. Her talk is being jointly sponsored by the Penn State Libraries and the Richards Civil War Center and is being held in conjunction with a research grant funded by the Penn State Africana Research Center which is supporting a condition assessment of the monumental William Dorsey Scrapbook collection which is currently on loan from Cheyney University.
Penn State Press invites the University community to our annual Holiday Book Sale. This year’s one-day-only sale will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, December 10, in the Kern Building lobby. Penn State faculty, staff, and students will receive a 25 percent discount on their purchases at the sale and through the Press’s website (using the code HS2013). (We offer free shipping to on-campus addresses; regular shipping charges apply everywhere else.) And don’t forget to check out the $5 book table! For information on any of Penn State Press’s titles, visit http://www.psupress.org or call 865-1327.
Please join us in welcoming the following new hires:
Full-time:
11/25/13 Katherine Gorrell – Information Resources and Services Support Specialist, Penn State Harrisburg Library
Wishing the following employees well as they leave us:
11/27/13 Matthew Burns, Collection Maintenance
Anthony Deminico, Penn State Berks Thun Library
The Discovery Day 2014 Programming Committee is seeking ideas, suggestions, and volunteers for presentations and poster sessions for Discovery Day , which will be held on March 7, 2014 .
The survey contains four relevant areas:
1. Indicate your interest in these proposed classes
2. Choose just one of five classes
3. Will you teach/present a class?
4. Will you prepare or do you have a prepared poster to contribute?
To submit suggestions or volunteer for a class, a poster, or other session, please go to:
https://surveys.libraries.psu.edu/TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=8lMJnp8
Everyone is welcome to send in suggestions and we look forward to receiving them.
Remember that the deadline for responding to the survey is Wednesday, November 27, 2013!
You can also send your ideas and suggestions to UL-Discovery_Day_Cmtw@lists.psu.edu
By Ryan Johnson, technology training coordinator
ITS has recently added a video tutorial on a topic I’ve been showing in my UCS Tips and Tricks class, using the signature preferences tab to create an email template. Email templates allow you to increase efficiency by not having to type the same content over and over again.
Watch the tutorial linked below to see how its done!
http://its.psu.edu/training/resources/UCS-Creating-Templates-Using-Signatures/
Nominations for the University’s annual Faculty and Staff Achievement Awards, which recognize outstanding employees, are now being sought. The deadline is January 8, 2014. The awards are:
The Barash Award for Human Service
The McKay Donkin Award
The Award for Administrative Excellence
The Staff Excellence Award
The Support Staff Award
The Dr. James Robinson Equal Opportunity Award
The on-line nomination form and a description of each award are available on the OHR website at http://ohr.psu.edu/employee-and-family-resources/fsaa/. Nominations must be for a specific award, and supporting documentation should support the criteria of that award.
Please take this opportunity to think about the extraordinary contributions of our colleagues, both to the Libraries and to the University, and honor them with a nomination.
Nutritional sciences expert Dorothy Blair will present “Using indigenous foodways to encourage the consumption and continued use of soybeans as a rotational crop for maize in Uganda,” on Wednesday, December 4, from noon to 1 p.m., in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library. Blair is a former assistant professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at Penn State who was recently assigned to the CNFA Farmer to Farmer volunteer program. This initiative enables the transfer of knowledge from U.S. experts to farmers and small agribusinesses around the globe. Continue reading
Acknowledging the importance of the topic, the University Libraries will host “MOOCs and Copyright Management for Online Courses,” a Webcast, on December 6, 1–2:30 p.m., Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library. As the popularity of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) grow, their integration into curricula necessitates careful consideration of copyright issues, such as ownership of content, fair use of third-party materials, and the TEACH Act (Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2002).
A new album released in November, “Dearest Home,” recreates traditional American music from the U.S. Civil War era with three songs from the unpublished Samuel Bayard Folk Song Collection in the Penn State University Archives, the University Libraries, and a pair of tunes from Bayard’s book “Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife.” Continue reading
This exhibition is display Nov. 15 through Jan. 6, 2014, in Sidewater Commons, 102 Pattee Library on the University Park campus of Penn State.
What’s in your personal library? This is a question that intrigues Penn State Librarian Ellysa Cahoy, and it led to the 2012–13 Scholarly Workflow research project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and directed by Cahoy. The project analyzed the information workflow practices of Penn State faculty in the sciences, the social sciences and the liberal arts. Participating faculty were surveyed about their technology habits and information collection management practices and were interviewed in their offices to gain a greater sense of their needs with regard to information retrieval, storage and self-archiving of personal information collections. Continue reading
November 18, 5:30 p.m.: Presentation by Dr. Brooke Erin Duffy, “The Romance of Work: Gender and Aspirational Labor in Contemporary Culture Industries, Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library.
November 19, 4-5 p.m.: Presentation by Chris Ware, winner of multiple Eisner Awards and the National Cartoonists Society Award, Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library. More
November 20, 12:15 p.m.: Film: Physics of Light, EMS Library, 105 Deike. The nature of light and how it is harnessed in our lives. 29 minutes.
December 2, 10:30 a.m. – noon: Introduction to Mendeley, 211 Davey Register online.
December 3, 4 p.m.: Making Sense of the Budget Crisis, presentation by Jared Bernstein, senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policies Priorities and former economic adviser to U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, Foster Auditorium. More details
December 4, 12:15 p.m.: Film: Flip Flotsam, EMS Library, 105 Deike. This film examines the journey of the humble flip flop in a small corner of Africa. 27 minutes.
December 4, noon: Using indigenous foodways to encourage the consumption and continued use of soybeans as a rotational crop in Uganda (seminar), Foster Auditorium. More details soon.
The United Way Fall Arts and Craft Sale is only a few weeks away, Please mark your calendars for Tuesday December 3, from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m., in the Mann Assembly Room.
Once again we are pleased to announce that some of our wonderful library staff have made a quilt (see below, or view it in person on 2 Paterno).
The finished product…many library employees collaborated on this beautiful quilt, and you can buy chances to win it from any United Way committee member. Photo by Laura Ax-Fultz.
The Discovery Day 2014 Programming Committee is seeking ideas, suggestions, and volunteers for presentations and poster sessions for Discovery Day , which will be held on Friday March 7, 2014.
Tour of Palmer Art Museum during Discovery Day 2012. Photo by Wilson Hutton
The survey contains four relevant areas:
To submit suggestions or volunteer for a class, a poster, or other session , please go to:
https://surveys.libraries.psu.edu/TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=8lMJnp8
Everyone is welcome to send in suggestions and we look forward to receiving them.
The deadline for responding to the survey is Wednesday November 27 , 2013!
The Rock Ethics Institute is seeking nominations for its “2014 Stand Up Awards” honoring undergraduate students at Penn State who have demonstrated ethical leadership in taking a stand for a person, cause, or belief. The goal of the award is to recognize courageous individuals and to inform the entire Penn State community of how often the extraordinary act is possible in ordinary circumstances.
Any faculty, staff, student, or community member at any Penn State campus may nominate undergraduate students who are ethical leaders and have accomplished much during their time at Penn State. Selected honorees will receive an award of $1,000 each, be recognized at a spring 2014 ceremony and in a short video, and highlighted in traditional & digital publicity throughout the University. The deadline for nominations is January 31, 2014. Nomination information and forms are available online.
In 2013, The Rock honored seniors Taryn Noll and Gizelle Studevent. Taryn created a support group at the University Park campus to help students cope with family illnesses or crises. Gizelle organized a group to help young people learn about and address the problem of bullying.
Military personnel, their families, and their friends face specific challenges when trying to save, document, and record their family’s military experience. Taking even one small step like moving boxes from an attic to a bedroom closet can have a significant impact. This information sheet provides some useful tips from the ALA on how to go about collecting and saving precious documents: Quick Preservation Tips for Military Families — submitted by Sue Kellerman, Judith O. Sieg Chair for Preservation and head, Digitization and Preservation
Please join us in welcoming the following new hires:
Part-time:
Alexandra Cavacino – Penn State Great Valley Library
Andrew Gottesman – Penn State Great Valley Library and Abington College Library
Full-time:
11/18/13 Michael Ward – Financial Assistant, Business Office
Wishing the following employees well as they leave us:
11/15/13 Margo Chiston, Media and Technology Support Services Continue reading