This week in Library News:
- Expanded hours and services for finals
- Penn State Press Book Sale
- Events
- Tech Tip: Polycom training
- LMC minutes
- LHR news
- Young to present LFO forensic: all invited
Daily Archives: December 2, 2013
Expanded hours and services for finals
Penn State University Libraries are expanding hours and services to help students with end of the semester research and finals study needs.
Pattee and Paterno Libraries will open Sunday, December 8, 10 a.m. for continuous 24-hour service until closing Friday, December 20, 7 p.m. This includes the Tombros and McWhirter Knowledge Commons on the first and ground floors of Pattee Library, west and ground floor central.
Penn State Press Book Sale next week
One of the titles available from the Press
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.
Events: Week of Dec. 2
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.
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
December 11, 1 p.m.: LFO Forensic presented by Courtney Young, Foster Aud.
December 11, 12:15 p.m.: Polar Bear Fever (film), EMS Library, 105 Deike. Looks at the plight of polar bears. (44 min)
Save the Date:
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.
Polycom training and documentation
By Ryan Johnson, technology training coordinator
Want to know more about the Polycom systems here at the libraries? On December 4, at 1:30 p.m., in Paterno 403, there will be a new training session that will show you the basics of the Polycom system. Continue reading
LMC meeting minutes
Library Management Council Meeting Minutes:
https://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/groups/library_management/intranet/2013minutes.html#111213
LHR News: Dec. 2
Please join us in welcoming the following new hires:
Part-time:
Katelyn West – Penn State Worthington Scranton Campus Library
Upcoming Holiday Reminder
December/January Holidays
This year, December 25 will fall on a Wednesday, as will January 1, 2014. The official University holiday period begins Monday, December 23 and ends Wednesday, January 1. Weekdays during that period are official University holidays – with the notable exception, however, of Tuesday, December 31, which is not a University holiday. Continue reading
All invited to LFO forensic presented by Young
All faculty and staff are invited to participate in the LFO Forensic which will be held in Foster Auditorium on Wed. 12/11, at 1:00 p.m. It will also be broadcast via Media Site Live.
Young
Courtney L. Young, head librarian at Penn State Greater Allegheny, was recently elected as President-elect of the American Library Association, the first librarian from the Penn State University Libraries to be elected to this high-profile position. The Library Faculty Organization has asked Courtney to present a forensic on December 11, 2013, to discuss her presidential initiatives for ALA and how they relate to the work and mission of the University Libraries. Please join Courtney as she covers the themes of diversity, professional development, and engagement/outreach and how these reflect the mission of the Penn State University Libraries and will inform and shape her presidential year.