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The Library League of Centre County will host a free reception for all library workers in the county, from 5 to 7 p.m., on February 12, in the Mann Assembly Room, first floor, Paterno Library, University Park.

The event is open to full-time and part-time employees from any library in Centre County, and offers a great opportunity to meet, network and share experiences with local colleagues. Last year, the reception was held in Schlow Library, in downtown State College. This year, the University Libraries will host the event. Light refreshments and wine will be served. To register, please e-mail organizer Ann Snowman, ams32@psu.edu.

If you anticipate needing accommodations or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Ann Snowman, ams32@psu.edu/814-863-1362. The Library League of Centre County aims to promote networking among employees from academic, public, school, historical, museum and all other types of libraries in the area.

The Space Steering Committee has appointed six working groups to address selected areas of the Libraries that have been targeted for additional information gathering. The work of these groups will contribute to the overall plan for location of services and groups within the Pattee/Paterno facility, and will also help determine the scope of individual remodeling projects.

The six groups are:

Cataloging and Metadata Services and Acquisitions Space

• Charge: Assess service needs, project growth and decline of those services, identify key relationships (physical and personal), as well as technology support for successful services.
• Members: Grace Brooks (Chair), John Hamilton, Michelle Dzyak
• Sponsors: Karen Estlund, Anne Langley

Digital Scholarship

• Charge: Assess user needs, appropriate services and technology support necessary to create a digital scholarship space in the Libraries that takes into consideration all of the related support services we have already, and that we still need to support.
• Members: Patricia Hswe, John Russell, Nathan Piekielek, Chuck Jones, Laura Helton (CHI)
• Sponsors: Anne Langley, Karen Estlund

Learning Center

• Charge: Assess librarian and student needs for learning spaces, the space and technological needs related to professional development and professional support for pedagogical innovation, and potential partners for pedagogical services for librarians or other faculty colleagues or learning services for students.
• Members: Rebecca Miller (Chair), Julie Porterfield, Ryan Wetzel, Angela Davis, Rebecca Peterson
• Sponsors: Joe Salem, Kimlyn Patishnock, Rick Riccardo (OPP)

Music and Media Center Location

• Charge: Detail the current and future space needs of the Music and Media Center (MMC).
• Members: Amanda Maple, Derrick Beckner, Chris Holobar
• Sponsors: Henry Pisciotta, Dace Freivalds

Special Collections Consolidation

• Charge: The University Libraries Space Master Plan calls for consolidation of the many spaces currently occupied by the Special Collections Library. Part of that consolidation relates to the remote storage facilities used for Special Collections materials. The remote storage portion is currently being advanced by a group preparing the program for the new Sandy Drive building. Another aspect of consolidation is the potential relocation of some or all of the Special Collections spaces in the Pattee/Paterno building complex into a single area of the building. This second situation is the focus of this charge. Please detail the current and future space needs of the Special Collections Library that should reside in Pattee/Paterno.
• Members: Matt Francis (chair), Ali Zawoyski, Paul Dzyak , Tim Babcock, Meredith Weber
• Sponsors: Henry Pisciotta

Spaces for Inclusion and Diversity

• Charge: Identify any existing spaces that meet the principles of an environment of respect and inclusion and categorize additional space requirement that are needed in the Pattee and Paterno Libraries complex to ensure that we are providing safe and welcoming spaces and facilities for all students, faculty, staff and community members.
• Members: Dawn Amsberry (chair), Brent Stump, Rachael Dreyer, Maddy Cantu (OPP)
• Sponsors: Dace Freivalds, Rick Riccardo

Turnaround time for submitting reports and proposals to sponsors is relatively quick, with deadlines ranging from March to May 2016. Full descriptions of group charges, deliverables and timelines are available at Space Planning Working Groups Jan. 2016. Additional working groups that will address other areas of the Libraries will be appointed at a later date.

Send questions and feedback to: UL-SPACE-PLANNING@LISTS.PSU.EDU — Submitted by Dace Freivalds on behalf of the Space Steering Committee

100 Digital Discoveries, a blog highlighting the University Libraries’ digital collections and digital projects has a new blog post. Written by Andrew Gearhart, web developer in the Libraries’ Publishing and Curation Services department, the post highlights the IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework).

The latest issue of IK: Other Ways of Knowing features a new section in addition to the regular peer reviewed articles, book reviews and resources sections. The new segment, “board reviewed article” includes submissions from practitioners, preliminary field work reports, and short descriptions of programs or courses related to indigenous knowledge. This section includes articles that are less theoretical in nature, but provide a first glimpse of new research areas, programs, and initiatives related to indigenous knowledge.

IK: Other Ways of Knowing began as ICIK E-News in 2010. It initially carried news and information related to indigenous knowledge and gradually expanded to include more scholarly articles and thematic issues. It has now evolved into a scholarly peer reviewed journal. For more information, contact journal editors Amy Paster (alp4@psu.edu) or Helen Sheehy (hms2@psu.edu).

by John Attig, Cataloging and Metadata Services

During December, the Libraries successfully enhanced and reloaded our entire database of over 5 million bibliographic records and 2 million authority records. The enhancement work was done by our authority control vendor, Backstage Library Works.

One of the goals of this processing was to provide a fresh and up-to-date authority file; this should maximize the consistency of access to our data through The CAT and through LionSearch. In addition, Backstage updated our bibliographic records, correcting numerous data and encoding errors.

The other goal was to make changes associated with the new cataloging rules, RDA, in as many records as possible. We have been using RDA for several years now, and new features have been showing up in recent records, but now they will be present on almost all our records. Almost all of these changes will only be visible on the “Detailed Information” tab in The CAT; the most noticeable changes will be:

• expansion of many abbreviations to their full forms — e.g. “333 pages” instead of “333 p.”. In the example below, see “approximately” [instead of “approx.”]
• inclusion of fields that identify the type of content and the type of carrier in every record; these elements replace the General Material Designations (GMDs) that were included in the titles of many records; existing GMDs and not being deleted, but are not being added to new records; the new content/carrier fields will be used instead; the new fields are included in the keyword index. In the example below, see “Content type: two-dimensional moving image; Media type: video; Format: videodisc”
• publication, distribution, manufacture, and copyright information is being split into separate fields, with appropriate labels

In addition to these changes, some new keyword and browse indexes have been added. The most useful of the new indexes is for “Genre/Form” terms, which identify what a resource is, rather than what it is about. So you can search for a novel, as opposed to a book about novels. In the example above, see “Genre index term: Science fiction films”

In WorkFlows, you can select the new indexes from the dropdown list in the search interface; they apply to both keyword and browse indexes. In The CAT, you cannot search the new browse indexes; to search the keyword indexes, you need to add the index name following the search term, e.g. “novels {655}” will search that term in the Genre/Form index.

The indexes for LionSearch are also being rebuilt to incorporate all the revised records.
If you find problems or errors in LionSearch, please report them to ul-er-help@list.psu.edu.
If you find problems in The CAT, please report them to the Cataloging Expert Team ul-sirsi-cataloging@lists.psu.edu.