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

I am pleased to announce that sabbatical leaves for the following University Libraries faculty have been approved:

Anne C. Behler, associate librarian, information literacy librarian
To teach an online course and conduct research into online students’ informational skills and needs as well as developing methodology for building effective collaboration with online learning stakeholders.

Bill Brockman, librarian, Paterno Family Librarian for Literature
To compile and edit The Uncollected Correspondence of James Joyce, to be published by Oxford University Press in three volumes.

Dawn Childress, associate librarian, Kalin Librarian for Technological Innovation, humanities librarian for German and Slavic languages and literature, French, and Francophone studies
To explore research/pedagogical use cases of travel diaries and how digital humanities approaches can facilitate advanced scholarship/teaching in this context.

Gregory A. Crawford, librarian, director of Capital College Library, Penn State Harrisburg
To compile materials for a book on resources related to atheism, agnosticism, and non-belief

Russell A. Hall, associate librarian, reference librarian, Penn State Erie
To research information literacy in the workplace by conducting research interviews with recent graduates to determine what information literacy sources and tools they used and if the skills transferred from their undergraduate experience to the workplace.

Richard L. Hart, librarian, head librarian, Penn State Erie
To research the history of the residence known as Glenhill Farm, which has been the core building of Penn State Erie since 1948, centering on the dealing of the owners of Glenhill Farm, Ernst and Mary Behrend and the prominent Philadelphia architect, R. Brognard Okie.

Steven L. Herb, librarian, head of the Education and Behavioral Sciences Library
To travel to four of the world’s premiere children’s literature archives gathering research for an encyclopedic Miscellany to be published in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the first children’s literature imprint in America.

Alexia I. Hudson-Ward, associate librarian, reference librarian, Penn State Abington
To research events, individuals, and locations involving Philadelphia’s free Black community from 1790 to 1865.

Glenn S. McGuigan, librarian, business/public administration librarian, Penn State Harrisburg
To explore social structure of the scholarly publishing system to better understand the networks between academic journals, scholars, and libraries.