Daily Archives: March 12, 2018

Diversity Retreat: Advancing the conversation on inclusion

By: Alia C Gant

Registration is now open for “Diversity Retreat: Advancing the Conversation on Inclusion,” which will be held on April 16, 2018. To register, go to:
https://pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3I2W28CkrtU7yvP

For information on the agenda, sessions, and travel procedures for campus participants, go to:
https://staff.libraries.psu.edu/diversity-retreat-advancing-conversation-inclusion.

The morning program will include two sessions with three concurrent training offerings. The afternoon program will include lightning talks and the LFO Colloquium, followed by a light reception and wrap-up discussion. You do not need to register if you only plan to attend or view the afternoon presentations. They are open to all and not restricted to retreat participants. (Attend in person in Foster Auditorium or view on MediaSite Live.)

We intend to have some great discussions on this day and hope that many campus participants can attend!

Space is limited, so try and sign up soon!

Cheers,
Diversity Committee and Library Faculty Organization

Instruction Room Best Practices

By: Rebecca M Peterson

Below are five quick reminders about the instruction rooms, based on questions and problems users have experienced this semester. If you have any questions or problems, you can always contact Rebecca Peterson at rmr28@psu.edu or 865-9257.

1. Always contact Rebecca Peterson to report any problems with the rooms.

2. Return all cords, cables, and remotes to the podium and lock the podium when finished.

3. Log off of the podium computer when finished with the podium.

4. If the podium computer screen won’t “wake up,” make sure the podium touchscreen panel is turned to “computer,” not “laptop.”

5. If you’re teaching in W023 Pattee and don’t have a key to W023B, contact Rebecca Peterson ahead of time about getting access to the Chromebooks.

Large-scale faculty survey opens March 13

By: Lana Munip

The University Libraries is conducting a survey of Penn State faculty on the impact of digital technologies on research, teaching, and publishing. The survey will run from Tuesday, March 13, 2018 to Tuesday, April 10, 2018, and is conducted in partnership with a national research organization, Ithaka S+R.

This is the first large scale survey of faculty conducted by the University Libraries in many years and the goal is to learn more about:

1. the ways that PSU faculty discover and access scholarly materials in their teaching and research;
2. the evolving role of the library and of library collections;
3. current research and teaching practices, with particular emphasis on how these are changing in light of opportunities created by new technology; and
4. the ways in which faculty communicate the findings of their research
through a variety of media.

Results from this survey will impact the Libraries’ plans for service and
resource improvement. A sample of faculty members from across all Penn State
campuses will receive an invitation to participate in the survey on March 13.
Note: This includes all librarians at all campuses.

For each completed survey, the Libraries will donate $2.00 to the Lion’s
Pantry, the University’s student food pantry. For more information on the
survey, please contact Steve Borrelli, head, Library Assessment,
smb96@psu.edu/814-863-1909.

University Libraries’ Information Literacy Award updates

By: Hailley Fargo

Beginning on Tuesday, April 3, our first of 17 Undergraduate Research Exhibitions will kick off. Throughout April, libraries across the Commonwealth will be awarding Information Literacy Awards to student research that display a high level of information literacy skills. This award recognizes scholarly work based on a foundation of careful background research and literature review. The award is given to entries that demonstrate excellence in information literacy through the following: showcasing your research process and strategies; selection of sources that contribute to your argument and ideas; social, ethical, or economic considerations in accessing information; and credit and proper citation for any quotes, tables, graphs, images, and other content displayed. More information on this award can be found on our public facing page (LINK TO: https://libraries.psu.edu/about/awards-scholarships/information-literacy-award). It will be an exciting month!

As the Student Engagement Librarian, part of my scope of work includes creating an aligned approach to how we give out this award. An aligned approach means we will use a common rubric across the Commonwealth, create and lead workshops to help students prepare for the exhibitions, and work towards a shared assessment model to learn more about our impact. This spring semester, I’ve been lucky to work with 28 of my colleagues across the Commonwealth as we prepare to give out this award. As a group, we’ve made some changes and created some valuable resources for our students. I wanted to give the University Libraries a big picture update and also recognize the hard work of this group.

Along with the public facing page on the award, we have created an internal, Intranet page, to help share resources in one common location (LINK TO: https://staff.libraries.psu.edu/information-literacy-award-undergradate-research-exhibition). This page contains our most exciting updates including:

Our new, shared rubric. This rubric is an iterative document, meant to be looked at each year as we continue to judge research posters and learn the needs of our students.

A “workshop-in-a-box” for campuses who would like to host a Poster Creation 101 workshop. In the Box folder, you will find learning outcomes, an outline for an hour workshop, shared assessment plans, and a PowerPoint you can download and edit to find your campus needs.

A calendar with the 17 exhibitions across the Commonwealth, along with the contact people for each exhibition

A big shout out goes to the following colleagues who helped with creating the rubric — Joel Burkholder, Jen Jarson, Amy Rustic, Andrew Marshall, Beth Seyala, Erin Burns, Jen Hunter, Jo DePolt, and members of Library Learning Services. Additionally, the Poster Creation 101 workshop was created by Amy Deuink, Megan Mac Gregor, Christina Riehman-Murphy, Emily Mross, and John Siegel. Thank you for all your hard work in preparing for this year’s awards.

Finally, I am also looking for people interested in helping judge for the Information Literacy Award at University Park. The 2018 UP Undergraduate Exhibition will take place on Wednesday, April 18, 2018 in the HUB. This year, UP will run the exhibition a bit differently. Posters will be displayed and judging will occur later in the day, from 5-8 PM. Students will be expected to be at their poster from either 5-7 PM or 6-8 PM. Winners will not be announced on the 18th and instead, winners will be notified the following day and a more formal awards ceremony will happen on Sunday, April 22nd. If you are willing and able to serve as a judge for the partial or full evening, please email me at hmf14@psu.edu.

Thanks for reading about these updates and if you have any questions, comments, or want to get involved, get in touch!

Tech Tip: How to recover an unsaved Word document

Have you ever clicked Don’t Save on a new document only to realize you should have clicked Save?

The good news you can still retrieve that file. First, open Microsoft Word and go to File->Info->Manage Document and select Recover Unsaved Documents

This will open a window with any files available to recover. Simply select the file to recover it.

To make sure you have this setting enabled in Word, open Word Options and select Save. In the Save Documents section, make sure Keep the last autosaved version if I close without saving is checked.

Events: March 12

Spring 2018
Academic calendar information for all campuses is available online.

Jan. 16–May 13, “What Big Eyes You Have! Looking at the Wolf in Fairy Tales”exhibition, Eberly Family Special Collections Library Exhibition Room, 104 Paterno Library.

Feb. 18-Aug. 13, “Depth of Field” exhibit, Diversity Studies Room, 203 Pattee Library, seeks to highlight the intersections of war in the Middle East with the history of war photography.

Wednesday, Mar. 7: Software in the Humanities and Social Sciences Workshop – PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), a popular program for encryption and authentication of digital messages like email, with Andrew Singer. Bring a bag lunch; noon-1 p.m., 403 Paterno Library and via Zoom at https://psu.zoom.us/j/914950827.

Wednesday, Mar. 14: Software in the Humanities and Social Sciences Workshop – ggplot2, makes pretty, easily reproducible and modifiable graphs for publication, with Nathan Piekielek. Bring a bag lunch; noon-1 p.m., 403 Paterno Library and via Zoom at https://psu.zoom.us/j/914950827.

Wednesday, Mar. 21: Software in the Humanities and Social Sciences Workshop – Pandoc, convert documents from one file type to another and back again, all from the command line, with Grant Wythoff. Bring a bag lunch; noon-1 p.m., 403 Paterno Library and via Zoom at https://psu.zoom.us/j/914950827.

Wednesday, Mar. 21: Poetry Without Borders – A multicultural night of poetry hosted by the Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literature; 6-7 p.m., Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library. Reception following in Mann Assembly Room, 103 Paterno Library.

Tuesday, Apr. 3: Grant Writing Workshop , Mann Assembly Room, 103 Paterno Library, 1-2:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 3: Jillian Cantor to read as part of the Mary E Rolling Reading Series, Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library, 7:30-9 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 4: Software in the Humanities and Social Sciences Workshop – IIIF, with Karen Estlund. Bring a bag lunch; noon-1 p.m. 403 Paterno Library and via Zoom at https://psu.zoom.us/j/914950827.

Thursday, Apr. 5: Lecture by Professor Leo Bersani, “Force in Progress”, 5-7 p.m., Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library.

Wednesday, Apr. 11: Software in the Humanities and Social Sciences Workshop – OpenRefine, a free and open-source resource for cleaning, regularizing, and organizing complex data, with Jose Guerrero. Bring a bag lunch; noon-1 p.m. 403 Paterno Library and via Zoom at https://psu.zoom.us/j/914950827.

Sunday, Apr. 22: International Write-In. Two sessions, 3:30-7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.-midnight. Mann Assembly Room, 103 Paterno Library. Interested writers can sign up today at: http://tinyurl.com/psuwritein

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