Dean’s News

By Barbara I. Dewey, dean of University Libraries and Scholarly Communications

I am pleased to announce three new advisory groups for the University Libraries. DSAC, the University Libraries Graduate Student Advisory Group and the University Libraries Undergraduate Student Advisory Group will provide additional avenues for ideas, consultation, and communication.

Dean’s Staff Advisory Council (DSAC). DSAC will meet with me periodically to discuss issues of importance to our staff. I will be relying on DSAC to bring forward topics and provide feedback on various initiatives. Anyone can bring issues to the attention of Council members. DSAC will meet quarterly. Many thanks to all who indicated an interest in serving.

Nadine Deitrich – Access Services
Courtney Dillon – Business Office
Jeff Edmunds – Cataloging & Metadata Services
Eloise Ingram – Education and Behavioral Sciences Library
Ben Hoover – Penn State Hershey
Lisa Moyer – Penn State Erie-The Behrend Campus
Kathleen Scholz-Jaffe – Penn State Press
Alissa Zawoyski – Special Collections
Jackie Peagler – Affiliate member and liaison to University Staff Council

Lisa German has initiated two student advisory groups — the University Libraries Graduate Student Advisory Group and the University Libraries Undergraduate Student Advisory Group. Both groups met for the first time over the past two weeks.

Tim Pyatt and I had the opportunity to celebrate President and Mrs. Erickson’s recent gift of the historic map of Centre County at a recent lunch. Their map previously hung in the Provost’s Office. Please take some time to see it hanging in the Eberly Family Special Collections Library.

Congratulations to recipients of the 25th anniversary “chair. Tracy Deitrich, Elaine Horner, Earl Houser, Steven Kress, and Bernice Whitehill were honored at a reception on Friday, November 8, 2013. We appreciate their dedicated service to Penn State!