Daily Archives: April 11, 2016

Countdown to 2FA: Four Weeks

graphic of 2fa thermometer denoting Libraries employee enrollment levelWe’re getting there — 360 or 69% of the Libraries’ 519 employees have enrolled in 2FA as of April 8. If 40 Libraries’ faculty and staff enroll in 2FA during each of the remaining four weeks, we will hit 100% on May 10.

What’s Next?

Identity Services will start sending weekly email reminders to all individuals in the May 10 target group beginning this week (the week of April 11). If you don’t want to receive those emails, enroll now.

If you are tempted to wait until May 10th to enroll, please reconsider. You will not be able to access anything protected by WebAccess until you enroll. This includes services such as UCS, ESSIC, the Libraries’ Intranet, My Library Account, Angel, and Canvas. If you run into a glitch while enrolling, you may experience slow response to your issue by service desk personnel who may be dealing with lots of last-minute enrollment issues.

How Do I Enroll in 2FA?

Go to Get2FA.psu.edu to enroll and for answers to frequently asked questions.

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.

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.

– Dace Freivalds, I-Tech

Diversity Committee presents “Stand Up for Civility”

Have you ever felt bullied at work and were unsure with whom you could talk about it?

Have you witnessed hostile behavior and not known what to do?

Was that argument you had with a coworker really an act of incivility?

The Libraries’ Diversity Committee is here to help.

We are pleased to present “Stand Up for Civility,” an interactive presentation designed to help us all respond to disrespectful behavior in the workplace.

Please join us from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 12, in Mann Assembly Room, 103 Paterno Library, University Park, to learn how to recognize incivility and the best way to respond to it.

– Brent Stump, chair, Diversity Committee

Workshop: Text Analysis using R: An Introduction

Text analysis refers to the process of extracting information from text using a blend of statistical, computational, and linguistic techniques, and can be useful for qualitative research.

In this hands-on workshop we will explore the basics of text analysis using R, free-open source software for statistical computing and graphics.  Participants may bring content of their own, but we also will provide sample files to explore.

There are no prerequisites, though a general familiarity with R is useful and encouraged. Note that this session is designed for beginners with little to no experience performing text/qualitative analysis. This workshop is exploratory and introductory in nature.

Session 1 (on-site): 1:30-3:00 p.m. April 21, room 302 Paterno Library.
Session 2 (remote): 10:00-11:30 a.m. April 26, https://meeting.psu.edu/ul-dlc

Register via the Learning Resource Network, http://lrn.psu.edu/.

Events: April 11

Spring 2016

Sunday-Saturday, April 10-16: National Library Week.

Monday, April 11,11:00 a.m.-noon: Collections Forum on Floating Collection Data Analysis, presented 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 MediaSite Live.

Monday, April 11, 6:30 p.m.: Penn State University Press / Trafika Europe Essential New European Literature, Vol. I book launch and University Libraries open access journal affiliation concert and poetry performance celebration, featuring French-Algerian jazz-pop singer-musician Alima Hamel and Latvian poet Juris Kronbergs, Webster’s Bookstore Café,  133 E. Beaver Ave., downtown State College.

Tuesday, April 12, 1:30 p.m.: Tech Update, Foster Auditorium
Preliminary Agenda:
– Karen Estlund – Product Owners
– Dace Freivalds – 2FA
– WIMT Team – Drupal Update

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

Thursday, April 14, 4:00-5:00 p.m.: Exceptional and Unconformable Phenomena: Maternal Effects and the Epistemologies of the Life Sciences, presented by Sarah Richardson, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University. Boundaries of the Human in the Age of the Life Sciences Series, public talk co-sponsored by ICIK and Penn State’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library.

Wednesday, April 20, noon: Indigenous, Natural, Esoteric: The Presence of Indigenous Knowledge in Urban Colombia, presented by Richard Stoller, Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library.

Wednesday, April 20, 2:00 p.m.: Dean’s Forum: #blacklivesmatter and #weneeddiversebooks: Libraries at the Center of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion,” presented by Courtney Young, head librarian and professor of women’s studies, J. Clarence Kelly Library, Penn State Greater Allegheny; Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library, and MediaSite Live.

Wednesday, April 20, 5:30-6:30 p.m.: MoneyCounts: What is Financial Literacy? seminar, Mann Assembly Room, Paterno Library.

Thursday, April 21, 7:30-8:30 p.m.: 2016 Public Poetry Contest winners public reading, Pennsylvania Center for the Book, Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library.

Friday, April 22: Earth Day, University Libraries Green Committee handing out marigolds potted in folded newspaper flower pots, University Park.

Monday, April 25, 11:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m.: Penn State Shenango Undergraduate Research Fair, Lartz Memorial Library.

Thursday, April 28, 3:30-5:00 p.m.: “Maestra” Cuba film showing film screening and public talk, post-screening Q&A and reception with Director Catherine Murphy and Dr. Luisa Campos, visiting Cuban scholar, educator, and director of Cuba’s National Literacy Campaign Museum; co-sponsors include the University Libraries and the Penn State Adult Education Program, College of Education; Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library.

Friday, April 29: last day of spring classes.      

Sunday-Tuesday, May 1-3: Destress Fest, open house, Mann Assembly Room, Pattee/Paterno lobby areas, 4 branch libraries, University Park.

Monday-Thursday, May 2-5: Penn State Shenango De-stress Fest, open house, Lartz Memorial Library.

Friday-Sunday, May 6-8: Spring commencement weekend, most campuses. University Park commencement schedule is online.

Maymester / Summer 2016

Monday, May 9: first day of Maymester classes, University Park. Academic calendar information for all campuses is available online.

Monday, May 16: first day of classes, first six weeks summer session, University Park.

Monday, May 23, 2:00–3:30 p.m.; Libraries’ annual Diversity Research and Programming Colloquium, Foster Auditorium and MediaSite Live.

Monday, May 30: Memorial Day, no classes.

Thursday, June 2: Discovery Day, University Park library locations.

Wednesday, June 22, 5:30-6:30 p.m.: MoneyCounts: Debt Management program, Mann Assembly Room, Paterno Library.

Wednesday, June 29: first day, second six weeks summer session, University Park.

Monday, July 4: Independence Day, no classes.

Wednesday-Sunday, July 13-17, Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts 50th anniversary, Children’s Day July 13, BookFest July 16, State College and University Park campus.

Thursday, July 21, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.: PA Forward Information Literacy Summit, Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library.

Wednesday, August 10: last day of summer classes, University Park.

Saturday, August 13: Summer commencement, University Park.

Please submit event information to Public Relations and Marketing via email.