Daily Archives: January 6, 2015

Library News: January 6

Get a listing of files within a folder quickly

Submitted by Joshua Wilkins, EMSL web author

If you are working with folders and need a list of the contents within, it can be a nightmare to transcribe them one at a time. There is a better way to do this within Windows, and I will show you two ways- one automatic but less configurable, and a manual, command line version that is more customizable.

The automatic version is pretty simple. Just download this file from Box and place it in the folder with the files you want a list of. Run the file by double-clicking on it and it will create a new file called “directoryListResults.txt” which contains the plaintext list of all the file names. Tada!

The manual method is almost as easy, but has some more options if you need more info. Open the folder containing the files you want to list, hold shift and right-click in the folder.
Click on “Open Command Window Here”.
In the black window that appears, type “dir > output.txt”. This will create a complete listing of files and folders in the folder you selected and will send that information to a file called “output.txt”

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Events: Jan. 6

January 14, 10:00 a.m.: Office 13 – What’s New! See TechSmart for location and details.
Office 13 will soon be available on Public and Staff machines at the University libraries. This session will cover what has changed in the main interface from Office 10 and what’s new in including the bookmark feature, inserting video from online sources and the ability to edit PDF documents.

January 19, 11 a.m.: Audio broadcast of Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic 1965 address at Rec Hall, Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library. The event, which is organized by the University Libraries Diversity Committee, is open to all, and students and the public are encouraged to attend. A related slide show will be presented along with the audio.

January 19, 1 p.m., Musical selections from Penn State’s Essence of Joy, Franklin Atrium, 106 Pattee Library. Essence of Joy is one of 10 choral ensembles in the Penn State School of Music, and performs sacred and secular music from the African and African American traditions under the direction of music professor Anthony Leach.

January 21, noon: “Food Processing with Malawian Village Women,” Foster Auditorium, first floor, Paterno Library. Presented by Dorothy Blair. The event is free and open to the public and can also be viewed online.

January 21: 2:00–3:00 p.m.: Library Research Basics. W315 Pattee Library. Learn how to find books, articles and other materials in your research area or major by using the Libraries’ online databases. You will also discover library services that can help streamline your research process. Individuals not affiliated with Penn State can register by calling 814-865-9257. To register, go to http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/lls/classes/research_basics_seminar.html.

January 21, 1:00–4:00 p.m.: Renovations showcase at the Engineering Library, 325 Hammond Building, and the Fletcher L. Byrom Earth and Mineral Sciences Library, 105 Deike Building.

January 26, 1:30–3:00 p.m.: Mendeley. 302 Paterno Library. Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research library, collaborate with others online and discover other relevant papers based on what you are reading. To register, go to http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/lls/classes/research_basics_seminar.html.

January 28, noon: “What do Sherpas Think About Climate Change on Mount Everest?” Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library. The event is free and open to the public and can be viewed online.

January 29, 3:00 p.m.: Box at Penn State. See TechSmart for location and details. This session will provide an overview of Box, the new cloud based file storage at Penn State. We will discuss how you can sync files easily across various devices and how Box can be used to share files and collaborate with departments and committees at the Libraries.

February 4, noon to 1 p.m.: “The Swans came to Penn State too,” a talk by Charles S. Prebish, Foster Auditorium. Held in conjunction with the current exhibition, “The Way is in the Heart,” an exhibition of publications from the Charles Prebish Buddhism Collection, on display in the Franklin Atrium. Prebish is professor emeritus of Religious Studies at Penn State, where he served on the faculty from 1971 until 2006.

February 8, 2 p.m.: Gallery talk by Chip Kidd Collection Archivist, Alyssa Carver. Carver will discuss Chip Kidd Archive exhibit highlights and some of the challenges involved with organizing and preserving the hybrid (analog and digital) archive.

February 12, 2015 10:00 a.m.: Introduction to SelectSurvey. See TechSmart for location and details. Want to learn more about the survey tool for the libraries? Everyone at the University Libraries has access to SelectSurvey. In this Introductory class, you will learn basic survey creation, management and deployment.

February 19, 10:00–11:00 a.m.: Library Research Basics. W315 Pattee Library. Learn how to find books, articles and other materials in your research area or major by using the Libraries’ online databases. You will also discover library services that can help streamline your research process. Individuals not affiliated with Penn State can register by calling 814-865-9257. To register, go to http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/lls/classes/research_basics_seminar.html.

February 26, 9:30 a.m.: Creating Accessible Word and PowerPoint Documents in Office 13
See TechSmart for location and details. In this session, you will discover best practices to create accessible Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents (updated for Office 13). Whether you create website content or just email and share documents with staff, creating accessible Office files is very important. This session will cover the basic techniques needed to optimize your content for accessibility.

March 5: 10:00–11:30 a.m.: Mendeley. 302 Paterno Library. Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research library, collaborate with others online and discover other relevant papers based on what you are reading. To register, go to http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/lls/classes/research_basics_seminar.html.

March 2, 10:00–11:30 a.m., Endnote, W23 Pattee. EndNote can be used to search online bibliographic databases, organize references, images and PDFs in any language and create bibliographies and figure lists instantly. Attend one of these seminars to learn how to get the most out of EndNote. To register, go to http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/lls/classes/research_basics_seminar.html.

Student Indigenous Knowledge Research Awards—Call for proposals

Penn State University Libraries and the Interinstitutional Consortium for Indigenous Knowledge (ICIK) announce a call for proposals for the 3rd annual Student Indigenous Knowledge Research Awards on topics that focus on aspects of indigenous knowledge. Application deadline is February 15, 2015. A maximum amount of $2,000 per project will be awarded.

All full-time Penn State students, undergraduate and graduate, at any Penn State campus, including Penn State World Campus, are eligible to apply. Research, to be conducted between April 2015 and January 2016, must be related to an approved topic for an undergraduate capstone course or approved honors, masters or doctoral thesis topics. This is a competitive award process and proposal requirements are available at icik.psu.edu/psul/icik/IKGrants.html. If proposal is funded, recipient is required to present research findings or project results at a fall 2015 or spring 2016 ICIK seminar.

The awards are funded by the University Libraries’ Marjorie Grant Whiting Endowment for the Advancement of Indigenous Knowledge. The endowment was created in 2008 with a gift from the California-based Marjorie Grant Whiting Center for Humanity, Arts and the Environment, established after Whiting’s death in 1995 as a way of preserving the scientific and humanistic legacy of a woman whose long and successful career as a nutritional anthropologist contributed to an understanding of the cultural interface between diet and health among people around the world.

For more information, please contact Helen Sheehy, head of the Social Sciences and Maps Libraries, at hms2@psu.edu or 814-863-1347 or Amy Paster, head of the Life Sciences Library, at alp4@psu.edu or 814-865-3708.

Researcher examines sherpas’ views of climate change on Mount Everest

Pasang Yangjee Sherpa will present “What do Sherpas Think About Climate Change on Mount Everest?” at noon on Wednesday, January 28, in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library. The event is free and open to the public and can be viewed online.

Sherpa is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Penn State. She earned her doctorate at Washington State University in Anthropology and is the recipient of 2014 Senior Fellowship Award from the Association of Nepal and Himalayan Studies. Her research areas include international development, climate change, indigenous peoples, sherpas and South Asia.

The trail to Mount Everest — photo provided by Pasang Yangjee Sherpa

This presentation is based on Sherpa’s 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork in the Everest region and in Kathmandu between 2010 and 2012. It focuses on the sherpas of the Mount Everest region in Nepal and discusses their concerns with climate change. It will also look at what is next for the sherpas and future research in this area.

This is the latest presentation in a series of seminars on indigenous research, co-sponsored by the Interinstitutional Consortium for Indigenous Knowledge and the Penn State University Libraries. For more information on the series, and to view past presentations on indigenous knowledge, go to icik.psu.edu. If you need more information on accommodations or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Helen Sheehy hms2@psu.edu/ 814-863-1347 in advance of your participation.

Free library research, citation management classes available

Learn how to get the most out of available library resources with this series of free classes offered by the University Libraries. To register for the classes, go to http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/lls/classes/research_basics_seminar.html.

Library Research Basics
Learn how to find books, articles and other materials in your research area or major by using the Libraries’ online databases. You will also discover library services that can help streamline your research process. Individuals not affiliated with Penn State can register by calling 814-865-9257. Both classes will be held in W315 Pattee Library.
Class dates:
Wednesday, January 21: 2:00–3:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 19: 10:00–11:00 a.m.

Mendeley
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research library, collaborate with others online and discover other relevant papers based on what you are reading. Both classes will be held in 302 Paterno Library.
Class dates:
Monday, January 26: 1:30–3:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 5: 10:00–11:30 a.m.

Endnote
EndNote can be used to search online bibliographic databases, organize references, images and PDFs in any language and create bibliographies and figure lists instantly. Attend one of these seminars to learn how to get the most out of EndNote. One class will be held, on Monday, March 2, from 10:00–11:30 a.m., in W23 Pattee.

If you need help with Mendeley or EndNote and cannot attend a class, schedule a one-on-one consultation by emailing ul-cit-tools-help@lists.psu.edu.

Penn State encourages qualified persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, contact Rebecca Peterson, 814-865-9257, in advance of your participation.

Exhibit displays Martin Luther King Jr. student posters

“Celebrating Martin Luther King (MLK) Jr. Day and Black History Month,” an exhibit featuring posters designed by Penn State students in the University’s 30th annual MLK poster competition, is on display in the entry lobby of Pattee Library, January 15 through February 28, 2015. This year’s theme is “Now, More than Ever.”

The student posters were created in Graphic Design 400, Time and Sequence, a course that exposes students to real-world design with a fixed deadline and client and prescribed project specifications. It also gets the students involved in a public service project.

The display illustrates a variety of approaches to this year’s theme and demonstrates the abilities of Penn State design students.

Judges from the commemorations planning committee selected as the winning poster, the design by Meaghan Lee Cafferty, a junior graphic design major at Penn State. Her design has been duplicated on buttons and posters to be distributed for Penn State’s 2015 MLK celebration.

In November 1983, former President Ronald Reagan signed into law a national holiday to celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1986, Penn State began its official recognition of the holiday on the third Monday in January, celebrating the life of this civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who was assassinated in 1968, at the age of 39.

Libraries to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with audio broadcast, music, displays

The University Libraries will present an audio broadcast of Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic 1965 address at Rec Hall, on Monday, January 19, at 11 a.m., in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library. The event, which is organized by the University Libraries Diversity Committee, is open to all, and students and the public are encouraged to attend. A related slide show will be presented along with the audio.

King spoke to an estimated 9,000 people in Rec Hall.

King’s speech, which drew an estimated crowd of 9,000 people to the newly expanded Recreation Hall building on January 21, 1965, was a significant moment in Penn State’s history. “Dr. King spoke of the future of integration and while he acknowledged that we have come a long way in the struggle for racial justice, he also often spoke of how we have a long way to go before the problems are solved,” says librarian Rachel Smith, head of programming for the Diversity Committee. “Today, this message is still relevant. We encourage you to attend the events we have planned for this day and take in not only the power of Dr. King’s speech but also the significance of his visit to Penn State 50 years ago.”
A related exhibit in the display area of the second floor of Paterno Library, will feature photographs from King’s memorable visit to Penn State. This display, organized by social sciences librarian Sylvia Owiny, will also show selected highlights from his speech. A “Civil Rights Timeline” and another exhibit, “I Have a Dream,” featuring books by and about King, will also be on display in this area.

At 1 p.m., in Franklin Atrium, 106 Pattee Library, visitors can enjoy musical selections from Penn State’s Essence of Joy. Essence of Joy is one of 10 choral ensembles in the Penn State School of Music, and performs sacred and secular music from the African and African American traditions under the direction of music professor Anthony Leach.

In addition, the poster exhibit “University Libraries Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Black History Month” will be on display in the lobby of central Pattee Library through February 28. This annual exhibit features posters designed by Penn State graphic design majors in the Time and Sequence course.

To view a complete list of events held on campus to celebrate the 30th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration at Penn State, go to http://mlk.psu.edu/schedule-of-events/. For more information on the events being held in the Libraries, or if you have questions about accommodations or the physical access provided, please contact Rachel Smith 814-867-4827/ras75@psu.edu in advance of your visit.

Engineering, EMS Libraries to showcase new facilities

The Engineering Library, 325 Hammond Building, and the Fletcher L. Byrom Earth and Mineral Sciences Library, 105 Deike Building, will showcase recent renovations to their facilities on Wednesday, January 21, 1:00–4:00 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. Staff shuttle stops, located near both buildings, will operate every 15 minutes. See http://www.transportation.psu.edu/transportation/campus-transit/shuttle.cfm for a Campus Shuttle Map.

Nutrition expert examines ways to improve food processing in rural Malawi

Human nutrition expert and researcher Dorothy Blair will present “Food Processing with Malawian Village Women: Steps out of Servitude” at noon, on January 21, in Foster Auditorium, first floor, Paterno Library. The event is free and open to the public and can also be viewed online.

Blair… was in Malawi with USAID

Blair was a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines before receiving advanced degrees in human nutrition from Cornell University. She recently retired from Penn State University after 32 years as a faculty in the Nutritional Sciences Department, where she focused on food security and food processing. This presentation will highlight her third trip to Southern and East Africa to work on local food security issues.

“As a volunteer for USAID’s Farmer to Farmer Program, I recently worked with Malawian village women—members of a 15-village community based organization called Kurya Ndiko Uku. My job was to nutritionally improve and add value to their agricultural crop food processing,” says Blair. Continue reading →

Salem appointed new associate dean in Libraries

Joseph A. Salem, Jr. has been appointed the new associate dean for Learning, Undergraduate Services and Commonwealth Campus Libraries for the University Libraries at Penn State. He will begin his appointment March 1, 2015. Barbara I. Dewey, dean of University Libraries and Scholarly Communications, explains “Dr. Salem will be a key part of the Libraries’ administration collective leadership team, where he will lead Library Learning Services, the Knowledge Commons, the Commonwealth Campus Libraries, Penn State World Campus support, and other initiatives related especially to undergraduate students.”

Salem notes, “I am looking forward to working with library and university faculty to create, expand, and promote partnerships for learning and scholarship focusing on course-integrated information literacy, eLearning, and new models of information delivery, use, and creation at the undergraduate level in general and within the general education curriculum in particular.”

Since 2011 Salem has been the head of Research and Learning Services at the University of Akron Libraries, where he led the revival of the instruction program and the integration of information literacy into the general education curriculum. Previously he was head of Reference Services at Kent State University Libraries and held an adjunct professor appointment at Kent State’s School of Library in Information Science. He also served as head of the Map Library, was the coordinator of government documents and was a data analyst and test developer for Project SAILS that began in 2001, at Kent State with the goal of developing a standardized test of information literacy skills that would allow libraries to document skill levels for groups of students and to pinpoint areas for improvement. Continue reading →

Tombros Librarian Charles E. Jones lauded for open access work in archaeology

Charles E. Jones, the Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities in the University Libraries at Penn State, has received the 2015 Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology Award from the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). He was honored at an award ceremony during the organization’s annual meeting in early January in New Orleans.

Since its inception in 2009, The Ancient World Online (AWOL), a project by Jones, has offered open access material related to the ancient world, serving archaeological information to more than 1.1 million visitors. The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but it also includes other kinds of networked information as it is available. It regularly lists emerging and existing born digital projects, and it publicizes repositories of digitized scholarship relating to antiquity with a cumulative content of thousands of volumes.

Jones explains, “The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique/early Islamic period.”

AIA is North America’s oldest and largest organization devoted to the world of archaeology. Founded in 1879 and chartered by the United States Congress in 1906, it has nearly 210,000 members and 100 local societies in the United States, Canada and overseas. “Penn State is honored that one of our Libraries faculty members has received this noteworthy award for his scholarship in the digital humanities,” notes Barbara I. Dewey, dean of University Libraries and Scholarly Communications at Penn State,

Publications from Prebish Buddhism Collection on display

“The Way is in the Heart,” an exhibition of publications from the Charles S. Prebish Buddhism Collection, is on display January 6 to March 6, 2015, in the Franklin Atrium, first floor Pattee Library, Penn State University Park. Charles S. Prebish will discuss his collection, “The Swans came to Penn State too,” on Wednesday, February 4, noon to 1 p.m., in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library.

Prebish is professor emeritus of Religious Studies at Penn State, where he served on the faculty from 1971 until 2006. He is also Charles Redd Chair in Religious Studies Emeritus at Utah State University, where he served from January 2007 until December 2010.

His formal training in Buddhist Studies initially centered on early Indian Buddhism, with special attention to the disciplinary literature known as “Vinaya” and the development of the monastic system. At Penn State he became interested in Buddhism’s development on the North American continent. He has published over twenty books and nearly one hundred articles and chapters on Buddhism.

In addition to his research at Penn State, he has been extremely active in a number of professional societies and was one of the initial officers in the International Association of Buddhist Studies. He is the co-founder of the Buddhism section of the American Academy of Religion and is considered a pioneer in the study of western forms of Buddhism.

With colleague Damien Keown, Prebish co-founded the “Journal of Buddhist Ethics.” He and Keown also created a project that focused on creating affordable eTextbooks for courses in Religious Studies. Known as the “Journal of Buddhist Ethics eBook Project,” it has made a major impact on textbook publishing in religious studies.

For more information on the exhibition and talk or if you anticipate needing accessibility accommodations or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Jackie Esposito at jxe2@psu.edu or 814-863-3791.

Exhibition highlights Chip Kidd Archives

“Everything Not Made by Nature Is Design,” an exhibition from the Chip Kidd Archives, on display January 12 through April 24, in The Eberly Family Special Collections Library, features the archives of award-winning graphic designer and Penn State Distinguished Alumnus Charles “Chip” Kidd (’86). Hours are Monday to Thursday: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday: 1 to 5 p.m..

With praise like “the world’s greatest book-jacket designer” (from author James Ellroy) and “design demigod” (from “New York” magazine), it is easy to forget that Chip Kidd is still in the prime of his career. The Pennsylvania native was born in 1964 in Lincoln Park, a suburb of Reading. After studying graphic design at Penn State with Distinguished Professor Emeritus Lanny Sommese, Kidd went to work at publishing house Alfred A. Knopf in 1986. Twenty-eight years later, Kidd has designed over a thousand book covers for Knopf and other freelance clients, for authors such as John Updike, Cormac McCarthy, Donna Tartt, Haruki Murakami and Michael Crichton—including the iconic cover of “Jurassic Park.” Kidd is the recipient of numerous awards, notably the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Museum National Design Award, in 2007, and the American Institute of Graphic Arts Medal for lifetime achievement in 2014.

Art by Chris Ware for “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,” by Haruki Murakami, 1st American Edition, 1997, published by Alfred A. Knopf, NY; jacket design by Chip Kidd

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