• WIMT Update: Development news and notes
• March 24 is Maker Commons grand opening
• Reminder: OER Summit March 23
• Countdown to 2FA — student employees
• Libraries to survey undergraduate students in April
• Diversity in Hiring workshop recording available
• Events: March 21
• Jackson begins tenure as head of Special Collections
• Reiter named Mover and Shaker
• Tech Tip: Setting up UCS in email app on iPhone, iPad
• LHR News
• American Indian powwow to return
• Smarter library alerts
• Library Awards reminder — deadline April 15

The 3-D printing lab in the Knowledge Commons’ new Maker Commons will enable students and faculty University-wide and from all disciplines to send 3-D print files from their location. Successfully printed items will be mailed for pickup to the main desk at the requestor’s campus library.

The new 3-D printing lab in the Libraries’ Knowledge Commons began operations with a soft opening earlier this semester. On Thursday afternoon, March 24, an open house and 3 p.m. ribbon cutting event with Provost Nick Jones will officially recognize it as open for University-wide innovation.

The lab, called the Maker Commons, gives Penn State students and faculty at all campuses the opportunity to dream up, design and print almost anything. It houses a MakerBot Innovation Center that features 32 MakerBot 3-D printers, and its consultants are available to answer questions and help with projects.

Although the lab housing the printers is in Pattee Library’s Knowledge Commons, students and faculty at all Penn State campus locations can access the printers. They can upload their designs remotely at makercommons.psu.edu, and each will be added to the queue of projects waiting to be printed. When a print request is complete, it will be sent via the same delivery system used for interlibrary loan requests, and can be picked up at the appropriate campus library’s main desk, such as Pattee Library’s Commons Services desk at University Park.

Also included in the Maker Commons is the new Invention Studio, which offers littleBits, easy-to-use electronic building blocks, for prototyping devices.

The Maker Commons is the latest partnership between the University Libraries and Penn State’s Education Technology Services, which also developed and brought the Media Commons and One Button Studio to the Knowledge Commons. 

Even though registration has closed, Penn State faculty and instructional designers are welcome to attend the first University-wide Open Educational Resources Summit this Wednesday, March 23, in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library, and simulcast at multiple campuses on MediaSite Live.

The event, which supports Penn State’s OER Task Force chaired by Dean Dewey, aims to educate and encourage faculty to incorporate low-cost, high-quality open course materials into their classes, and help students avoid the high cost of textbooks. Offering the keynote is Nicole Allen, director of Open Education for SPARC.

More information about the OER Summit is available in a Penn State News release online.

For OER Summit schedule details and locations, click  on the PDF of the 2016 OER Summit agenda.

Submitted by Dace Freivalds, I-Tech

Do Students Need to Enroll in 2FA?

Penn State students are not required to enroll in Two Factor Authentication (2FA). “Student” is defined as an individual whose primary affiliation with Penn State is “student”. Students who work at the Libraries typically have a primary affiliation of “student” with a secondary affiliation of “staff.” Therefore, Libraries’ student employees do not need to enroll in 2FA.
Exception: Students who require access to secure sites, systems or services protected by 2FA for their colleges, departments, research or classes may be required to enroll.

What About Staff or Faculty Who Are Taking Courses?

Libraries’ staff or faculty who are taking one or two courses have a primary affiliation of “staff” or “faculty”, respectively, and do need to enroll in 2FA by May 10, 2016.

What if I’m Not Sure if Someone is a Student or Staff/Faculty?

If in doubt about whether a Libraries’ employee is considered a “student” by Penn State Identity Services, contact Ryan Johnson (rxj15) or Dace Freivalds (dif1) — we can verify the status for you.

Can a Student Un-Enroll from 2FA?

Penn State students – unless they are required to use 2FA-protected sites, systems, and services – are able to un-enroll from the service if they choose. To un-enroll, send an email to 2FAsupport@psu.edu.

Where Can I get Help?

I-Tech has scheduled one hour drop-in sessions for every Friday through May 6. The sessions are at 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. in the I-Tech Training Room; registration is not required. Bring your Penn State ID with you (or jot down the last four digits of your nine-digit Penn State ID) – you will need this information to enroll.

For instructions, enrollment tips, and answers to frequently asked questions, visit Get2FA.psu.edu. You can also refer to I-Tech’s 2FA FAQ for answers to your questions. And if you bump into a problem, submit a Service Desk request and we’ll provide assistance.

Barbara Dewey, dean of University Libraries and Scholarly Communications, sent out this email announcement last week:

From April 4 to 24, the University Libraries will be conducting an online survey of our undergraduate students across Penn State. Ithaka S+R, an organization that has conducted numerous national faculty surveys and related strategic assessment activities, will administer the survey. It will examine students’ work habits; their use of library resources, services, and spaces; and the role of the library in their academic life. It differs from past surveys such as LibQual in that it will focus on work practices rather than perceptions of service. We hope to gain valuable insight into how our undergraduates use the Libraries, and the results will be used to inform our strategic planning process.

The sample for this survey will include students from all Penn State campuses with undergraduate populations, including World Campus. At some campuses with smaller student populations, the entire undergraduate population will be invited to participate. I encourage you to support our effort in getting students to respond by creating awareness among students, and their instructors and professors at your location. Their views are important, and will help us improve our services. As an incentive to participate, students who complete the survey will have the chance to enter a drawing for Penn State Bookstore gift cards.

I am excited to see the results of this survey and I hope it will provide valuable information for our Strategic Plan as it relates to Penn State’s undergraduate student population.

If you have any questions about the survey, please contact Joe Salem, jas1218@psu.edu.

Monday, March 21, 2:00–3:00 p.m.: GIS Interest Group meeting, 126 A Paterno Library. Discussion topics include updates from the last Penn State GIS users group, library geospatial activities, and current geospatial events and news.

Wednesday, March 23, 8:30 a.m.: Open Educational Resources (OER) Summit, hosted by University Libraries and the OER Task Force. Early adopters of OER share their experiences. Foster and MediaSite Live. Keynote address by Nicole Allen of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).

Thursday, March 24, 7:30 p.m.: Award-winning poet and professor Kate Daniels to hold free public reading, 7:30 p.m., Foster Aud.

Thursday, March 31, 1:00-2:00 p.m.: A world of census data, 211A Pattee Library, University Park. This session, conducted by Stephen Woods, will explore the wealth of census data from around the world that are available to Penn State researchers as well as from free sources outside of the library’s collection. The presentation will discuss limitations such as language, format and reporting. Available for remote participation at https://meeting.psu.edu/ul-dlc.

Saturday & Sunday, April 2-3: Native American Powwow, Mount Nittany Middle School (see blog post for full details).

Monday, April 4, 5 p.m.: Spring 2016 Robert M. Pockrass Memorial Lecture presented by
Christian Sandvig, titled “The Awakenings of the Filtered: Algorithmic Personalization in Social Media and Beyond.” Sandvig is associate professor of communication studies and information at the University of Michigan. His research investigates the consequences of algorithmic systems that curate and organize information and culture.

Tuesday, April 5, 10:00 a.m.: Dean’s Forum, Foster Auditorium and Media Site Live. More information to come.

Wednesday, April 6, noon: Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use in the Yucatan Peninsula, Foster Auditorium and MediaSite Live. Presented by Lindsay Butler-Trump.

Monday, April 11,11:00 a.m. – noon: Collections Forum on Floating Collection Data Analysis by Aaron Dennis, Access Services Research Assistant. Floating Collection has been active at 19 campus libraries since 2013. A Floating Collection is a group of books that are not housed permanently at one specific library, but instead are shelved in the library where they were most recently discharged. Approximately one million books fall under Floating Collection. Our Access Services research assistant, Aaron Dennis, has been analyzing data derived from SirsiDynix Symphony on floating books from a collections perspective and will present his findings. Members of the Collections Mobility Task Force will be on hand to answer questions. Foster Auditorium and Media Site Live.

Tuesday, April 12, 2;30–3:30 p.m.: Speak Up for Civility workshop, Mann Assembly Room. More information to come.

Wednesday, April 20, noon: Indigenous, Natural, Esoteric: The Presence of Indigenous Knowledge in Urban Colombia. Presented by Richard Stoller, Foster Aud.

Monday, May 23, 2:00–3:30 p.m.; Annual Diversity Colloquium, Foster Aud. and MediaSite Live.

Penn State University Libraries has named Athena Jackson the Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair and head of the Eberly Family Special Collections Library. Jackson comes to Penn State from the University of Michigan Special Collections Library, where she served as associate director.

Athena Jackson

“Athena will be a tremendous asset for the University Libraries,” Anne Langley, associate dean for Research, Collections and Scholarly Communications, said. “Her experience in project management, exhibitions, collections and digitization, and her strong national presence among faculty librarians and professional library leaders, are advantageous strengths for leading our complex and highly regarded Special Collections Library.”

While at the University of Michigan Library, Jackson managed Reader Services and Collection Services and participated in the planning, policy development and priority setting for the library.

Previously she served as special collections librarian at the University of Miami, education and outreach librarian and project manager/librarian for Digitizing Louisiana Newspapers Project at Louisiana State University, and North Carolina Newspaper Digitization Project coordinator and archivist at the North Carolina State Archives.

Jackson holds a master of science degree in library and information science from the University of North Texas and a bachelor of arts degree in English from the University of Houston. She will start at the University Libraries on March 21.

Lauren Reiter, the Sally W. Kalin Librarian for Learning Innovations and business liaison librarian at Penn State’s University Libraries, has been named a 2016 “Mover and Shaker” in the library industry by the national publication Library Journal.

For the 15th year, Library Journal named Movers and Shakers — 54 outstanding professionals — committed to providing excellent service and shaping the future of libraries. Reiter was selected because of her commitment to the profession and for championing financial literacy efforts at Penn State. Read the full story on Penn State News

After a one-year hiatus, Penn State’s signature diversity event, featuring American Indian dancers and drum groups from communities and reservations across North America, is returning to central Pennsylvania. The event which will be held April 2-3 at Mount Nittany Middle School in Boalsburg and the University Libraries is one of the co-sponsors. Read the full story here: http://news.psu.edu/story/398637/2016/03/18/arts-and-entertainment/american-indian-powwow-return-april-2-3.

Please recognize your colleague by nominating her/him for one of the five Libraries Awards.

Submission process is available on the Awards website: https://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/awards.html.

Deadline is April 15, 2016

2016 Awards Committee:

Joe Fennewald, chair
Dawn Amsberry
Linda Friend
Megan MacGregor
Glenn Masuchika
Manuel Ostos
Lauren Reiter