Libraries Newsletter Fall 2014 - University Libraries

The Library
The Heart of the University
Fall 2014
Number 56
The Penn
State Sports
Archives
in the Special Collections
Library—media guides; press kits;
complete game-by-game, reel-byreel inventories; and more than
4,000 football films, dating back
to 1929 (story on page 8)
The LIBRARY
The Heart of the University
In This Issue
3 The Next Phase
4 “Libraries Are Vital to Our Democracy”
4 Libraries Scholarships
5 Step Back in Time with Sanborn
Maps
6 Donor Reception Highlights
8 Cover Story: Capturing Glory Days
10Rare Artist’s Copybook Adds to
Collection on the History of Drawing
10New Project: “Library Life”
11 Knapp Carries Foster’s Legacy Forward
11 “Why I Need the Libraries”
12Thumbs Up for Open House!
13Penn State Press Picks
13Book, Exhibit Picture Man’s
Best Friend
14Barnes and Noble Suports
Penn State
14Student Brings Army
Experience
14Penn State Libraries on
the move
15News Briefs
16THANK YOU!
Cover:
Football is just one of many sports
chronicled in the Penn State Sports
Archives. Here, left to right, are
Frank Diedrich, 1928; Christian
Hackenberg, 2014; and Ray Baer,
1921. (Story on page 8)
This page:
Pattee Library peeks out behind
the Mall elms in their fall colors.
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Message from the Dean
Greetings:
With another fall semester in full swing, Penn
State students are hard at work expanding their
knowledge and exploring a myriad of subjects—in
the classroom and lab, online and in the Libraries, as
well as on the playing field—creating what in future
years they will refer to as their “glory days” at good
ole state.
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Women’s
Intercollegiate Athletics—founded a full 8 years before Title
IX required gender equality in sport programs—the Penn
State University Archives is adding another ground-breaking
chapter in women’s history with the Judy Chicago Dialogue
Portal. This new facet of the artist’s online art education
archive continues conversations from the Judy Chicago
symposium held earlier this year in honor of Chicago’s
75th birthday. You can join the dialogue that examines
some of the very precepts of education in the arts at
judychicago.arted.psu.edu.
Our services continue to grow with multiple hires and include
a new copyright officer, a geospatial services librarian, a
digital humanities research designer, a 2-year appointment
of a social sciences data curation fellow, and a new Foster
Communications Librarian. Our national search to fill three
associate dean positions is progressing well and the timing
could not be better as we launch our new strategic plan for
2014–2019 that focuses on three areas: discovery, access and
preservation; teaching and learning; and advancing university
research.
Digitization and ever expanding technologies allow us to
entertain new ideas, such as the Sanborn Map georeferencing
of State College explained on page 5. With additional funding,
we will be able to complete the project, and the viewer will
be able to literally sift through the layers of time to watch the
metamorphosis of local buildings throughout the last century.
It is an exciting time for the Libraries, and I encourage you to
engage in our initiatives.
Sincerely,
Barbara I. Dewey,
Dean of University Libraries
and Scholarly Communications
The Next Phase
Since the Knowledge Commons
opened January 2012, it has become the
go-to place for undergraduates needing
media production rooms for movie editing, the
One-Button Studio for presentation practice, help with
software and hardware issues, laptop charging lockers,
storage lockers, scanning equipment and printers, group
study rooms, comfortable seating, and more.
This preliminary architectural rendering showing the
next phases of space planning, by WTW Architects,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, includes:
• renovation of the ground floor of Pattee Library,
west and
• expansion of MacKinnon’s Café and of the
Knowledge Commons.
Head Joe Fennewald notes, “Anytime 24/7, we are always busy.
During fall semester 2013, the Knowledge Commons was open 2,384
hours and gave in-person help to 9,783 people. In the first five weeks
of classes this fall, we have seen a 3 percent increase in our gate count
and a 39 percent increase in the number of requests made at our
library desk. In these first five weeks, we’ve actually had to turn away
271 groups due lack of space in our group study rooms.”
Fennewald continues, “It’s good to know that students value our
space and services, but this information will drive our next steps to
see how we can expand our space to accommodate their needs.”
The Li b ra r y
“Libraries Are Vital to Our Democracy”
Time is a precious commodity, but it is something
that a group of dedicated Penn Staters, passionate
about advancing the Libraries’ goals, is willing to
share. The Libraries Alumni Outreach Group held its
inaugural meeting recently, where members gathered
to share their expertise and discuss ways to further
the Libraries’ mission.
Jeff Benzak, ’99, College of the Liberal Arts, a member of the
group, explains his decision to get involved.
“I became involved with the library because I’ve seen just
how important they are to communities all across the
country. Whether it’s a small town in the Rockies, midtown
Manhattan, or on Penn State’s campus, libraries are vital
to our democracy. They’re places where students use the
latest technologies to study finance, art history, mechanical
engineering, you name it. They’re places where we store our
treasures—Hemingway’s letters, presidential papers, or maps
that changed the way we view the world,” says Benzak, a
former journalist who is now a press secretary for the Natural
Resources Defense Council.
Benzak’s connection to the Libraries has its roots in his
family. His parents, Louis and Virginia, were active supporters
of the Libraries and of Penn State for many years, both in
fundraising campaigns and on the Libraries Development
Board. Today, their endowments support business-related
collections, American environmental history collections, and
The Louis and Virginia Benzak Business Librarian, held by
Diane Zabel, head of the William and Joan Schreyer Business
Library.
Left to Right, seated: Jodi Mayo Alessandri and Tanya Seyfest; standing:
Sam Loewner, Jeff Benzak, John Zang, Sara Holden, and Matthew Poff
make Penn State a better place, but they all had a lot of fun
while doing it. It’s a never-ending effort to keep the library
competitive with other institutions, and that’s why alumni
involvement in any capacity—whether it’s donating time or
sending in a check—is so important.”
Despite technological advances and the growth of remote
library services, Benzak is firm in his belief that the physical
presence of the Libraries will remain vital. “Sure, we all spend
a lot of time on our phones and our computers, but the world
will always need inspiring, well-managed physical spaces
where people congregate, share ideas, and focus on their work.
For me, that space is now my office. For Penn State students,
that place has always been the library.”
“My parents were involved with the library both out of a love
of Penn State and because they really just enjoyed the time
they spent with other alumni and with the Libraries’ staff,”
says Benzak. “They all worked very hard to
Matthew Barnish, a sophomore majoring in security
and risk analysis with a specialization in information
and cyber security at Penn State University Park,
states, “I appreciate the Irene Cheng Memorial Award
for its help in paying for my education, and I am
honored to receive it as I enjoy every day in my job at
Media Technology Support Services.”
Libraries
Shelbie McCurdy, a senior majoring in English at
Penn State Greater Allegheny, is the recipient of
the Martha Conner Memorial Award and the Adma
Hamman Shibley Memorial Scholarship in Library
Science. She says, “Earning these awards relieve
the financial burden of my last semester as an
undergraduate, and it helps me to focus on saving
for my masters degree. I am very appreciative of
receiving these awards.”
Emily Holland, a senior majoring in English with a concentration in
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literary and cultural studies in the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn
State University Park, notes, “Preservation library science is my dream
career field as it perfectly blends my love of books and history. Thanks
to the Ava Faltz-Miller Memorial Scholarship, I will be able to finish my
undergraduate studies in English this December. Then it is onward
to library school! I couldn’t be more excited. I am so grateful for and
honored by this gift.”
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Step Back in Time with Sanborn Maps
At first mention, the Sanborn Maps are unlikely to engender much
excitement: fire insurance maps dating back to 1867, while important
documentation, don’t seem especially newsworthy.
But then consider the rich information contained within this collection—details
of building use, company names, construction materials, property boundaries,
street names—and you can soon see why it is among the most heavily requested
collections in the Donald W. Hamer Maps Library, used by researchers, writers,
Detail of a Sanborn map showing
Penn State classes, and city planners. Even homeowners consult the maps for
downtown State College.
historical building information.
While the library has a near complete set of fire insurance
map software,” explains O’Donnell, who graduated in August
maps for the entire state, Penn Staters will be particularly
with a bachelor of science degree in geography with an
interested in the set of maps of State College and the
emphasis in geographic information systems (GIS). While
University environs. Dating back to 1906, these maps tell
her painstaking work has laid the foundation for the project,
the story of how the town and the University evolved over
many more steps still need to be taken and the Libraries are
the 20th century, block by block, building by building.
seeking funding for software, server space, IT support, and
While these maps have been digitally scanned in sections
staff to continue georeferencing other campus maps and add
and can be viewed online by the public, the Libraries have
information like historical markers, building photographs,
a more ambitious goal for this collection—to create an
and history.
online environment where this rich historical data is layered
Penn State’s map collection is impressive. It is the third largest
over present day maps in Google Earth. This will allow the
academic collection in the Eastern part of the United States
information to be used more fully and in more exciting ways
and the 10th largest in the nation. Digitizing materials in the
by anyone with an interest, whether academic or personal, in
collection and enhancing them with geospatial information
Penn State. When completed, alumni will be able to see how
will make them far more useful than they would be sitting
the campus has changed over time and explore its history.
in a drawer. For more information on the project or about
Graduate Riley O’Donnell recently completed the
groundwork for what is the first step in this project. Over the
past year, O’Donnell has been piecing together approximately
40 Sanborn maps of the downtown and University area
and georeferencing them in ArcGIS, a mapping software.
“Georeferencing is where you line up an image of a map with
the correct geo location in another
maps in general, please contact Heather Ross, Maps Library,
814-863-1349/[email protected]. To explore how downtown
used to look a century ago, go to tinyurl.com/sanborn2maps and
select State College from the list of locations. The maps can be
enlarged, downloaded,
and printed.
Morgan Wald, a senior
Scholarships
Each year the
Libraries award scholarships to
undergraduates. This year’s winners include:
Lisa Miller, a
sophomore majoring
in biochemistry and
molecular biology at
Penn State University
Park, is the recipient of
the James E. Wright, Jr.
Memorial Endowment
in the Life Sciences
Library Grant-in-Aid.
She states, “My goal
is to get students
engaged with science
with the use of digital
signage and social
media.”
Mary Pillot, a sophomore
majoring in sports broadcast
journalism at Penn State
DuBois, notes, “To be recognized
and receive this Irene Cheng
Memorial Award is a tremendous
honor. I wish to thank all of
those who were responsible for
selecting me.”
majoring in labor and
employment relations and
psychology in the College
of the Liberal Arts at Penn
State University Park,
shares, “I am honored
and grateful to have been
chosen for the Cynthia
Joyce Trustee Scholarship.
This award will not only
assist financially, but
it is also a source of
encouragement in my
academics and toward
achieving my career
goals.”
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The Li b ra r y
2014 Donor Reception Highlights
Standing with Dean
Barbara I. Dewey,
Sue Paterno, and
Development
Board chair Scott
Steinhauer to be
recognized as
Library Leaders are
(from top): Bill and
Michelle Shipley,
Liz and Mark Lewis,
and Perkins Foss.
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New
Library
Leaders
T h e Hear t of the Univer sity
Carlton and
Dania Langley
Clockwise from top left: Jack
and Jeanette McWhirter, David
Paterno, Scott and Sarah
Steinhauer, Sue Paterno.
“Why
I Give
to the
Libraries”
Richard Kalin (top),
Sally Kalin (left),
Dean Emerita
Nancy L. Eaton
(far left)
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The Li b ra r y
Capturing Glory Days
While university sports museums offering a glimpse of
memorabilia abound, few, if any, collections exist that
offer historical materials to document the growth
of athletic policies and achievements of sports teams.
None equal the Penn State Sports Archive that began
in 1988 and created an archive for serious research
into the world of sports, undoubtedly our country’s
national pastime and a fabric of our psyche.
Recently Penn State University Archivist Jackie Esposito and
Sports Archivist Paul Dzyak shared anecdotes and images from
the collection. “Requests can include anything: the weather
report on a specific game day three decades ago; my grandson
doesn’t believe I played soccer for Penn State and I want to
show him my name in the roster; NBC needs football footage
of a specific game; ESPN Films 30 for 30 want photos and
details surrounding the 1948 Cotton Bowl; and the set of CBS
filming “Cold Case” asks for an image of a Penn State baseball
cap,” notes Esposito, although chuckling, she adds with the last
request, CBS confused us with the University of Pennsylvania
and in the final edit of the show had to fix the cap to read only
“P.”
The collection is a deliberately structured research collection
heavily used by faculty, graduate students, visiting researchers,
and even undergraduates. Esposito says, “Unlike many other
special collections units, at Penn State even our freshmen
are encouraged to learn how to do research using primary
sources. This focus on education produces outstanding results
and combines a student’s zeal for a sport with academic
substance—a beginning English 15 student does a paper on
the history of fencing, a graduate student charts the influence
of advertisements for alcohol or cigarettes in printed football
programs—in an endless list of research ideas.
When asked what items the Sports Archives would like to have
donated, Dzyak indicates, “Older away football game programs
to fill holes in the collection, and we remain on the lookout for
the missing footage from the 1973 football game with North
Carolina, featuring John Cappelletti’s performance that resulted
in his award of the Heisman Trophy.”
“Representing 31 men’s and women’s sports programs, we boast
approximately 100,000 sports photos, 30,000 sports films,
and 11,000 biographical files, newspaper clippings, and other
materials on personal stories of individual athletes and coaches,”
adds Dzyak.
For more memories of glory days at Penn State, see
tinyurl.com/glory2days and for a photo gallery of sports, see
tinyurl.com/SportsGallery.
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Speed skater
Allison Baver, ’03, a remarkable student
athlete, is included in the John Lucas Olympic History Collection,
the largest of its kind in the world.
Dennie Hoggard, ’49,
and Wally Triplett, ’49, broke
the color line in the 1948
Cotton Bowl.
Right: F
Below: Women
T h e Hear t of the Univer sity
Football, 1887.
n’s gymnastics,
1960s.
Ida Turner crosses the finish line at a 1919
women’s track and field
meet.
Lisa Posch goes up
for the spike in 1977—for more
than a century, Penn State has
been empowering women on
and off the court.
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The Libra r y
Rare Artist’s Copybook Adds to
Collection on the History of Drawing
The recent gift of a 17th-century artist’s copybook to the Special
Collections Library offers a special look into the history of a very rare
book. The donor, Perkins Foss, visiting associate professor in Penn State’s
Department of Art History, decided in November of 2013 that the time was
right to give the volume, which had belonged to his family, to a library
where it could be studied in the context of other important books in the
history of drawing and painting.
The Special Collections Library has a long history of
collecting early and rare books relating to the history of
art and architecture from the 16th century, including
biographies, city guides, treatises, and artists’ manuals. Such
materials support the teaching and research interests of art
historians.
When Foss handed the book (which features two series of
anatomical and figural studies demonstrating how to draw the
features of the head and body) to Sandra Stelts, curator of rare
books and manuscripts, she immediately called Robin Thomas,
associate professor of art history. Thomas is a frequent visitor
to the Special Collections Library, both as a researcher and as a
professor who knows the value of teaching with primary-source
materials. “Robin Thomas is not just an art historian but also
a book person,” said Stelts. “He frequently holds his classes
in Special Collections and asks his students a very important
question: Who was this book made for?”
“When I saw the book,” says Thomas, “I knew we had
something special because the vellum cover had splotches of
paint on it. You could tell it was well-used and well-loved, and
that in itself speaks of a remarkable history,” said Thomas.
“This type of book was made for artists. Princes and libraries
didn’t collect them. It’s a miracle that it survived, and we are so
fortunate that Perk donated it to the collection,” said Thomas.
What happens to old
books like this in all
too many cases is
that dealers will cut
them up and frame
the illustrations
individually to sell
them for more money
as prints.
Robin Thomas
examined the book,
Foss examines the 17th century book.
and when he saw a
drawing of a head
turned in three-quarters length with a great coif of hair, he
immediately knew it was from Guercino’s Samson Captured
by the Philistines from the Met. The copybook is composed
of two series of portraits, both very rare, engraved after
Guercino.
Stelts regularly fills the Special Collections classroom with
items that support course-related instruction in many
disciplines, but she notes that the story she can tell students
about this book will be special. “This is one of those
experiences that you can only have at a research university
where people with different specializations come together to
share their expertise,” says Thomas.
Library Life—A New Project
Inspired by Brandon Stanton’s “Humans of New York” project, this past summer, the Libraries
began their own version titled “Library Life.” Students, faculty, and staff are interviewed,
photographed, and shared on the Libraries’ social media outlets. Nothing fancy or formal, the
project is just a look at everyday people using the library, in an attempt to connect with them.
Recently Stanton spoke at Penn State University Park as part of the Center for the Performing
Arts series, with comments that illustrate why he is such an inspiration. He shared, “I’m not a
journalist. I’m just a guy with a camera having conversations with people. My goal four years ago
was to take pictures of 10,000 people in New York City, and initially I planned to plot the photos
onto a map of the city. This idea shifted when I began to talk with the people, and I created a
blog and posted it to Facebook. It took off—from 100 Facebook friends in 2010, it has grown to
10.1 million. Thanks to social media, specifically Facebook, I’m able to accomplish something
that would absolutely not have been possible 10 years ago.”
Continuing Stanton said, “Today, the focus is on the extreme. If there’s anything I try to show
in my work, it’s normalcy. We share opinions and philosophies, but our stories are our own.
Everyone has a different story that needs to be told.”
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T h e Hear t of the Univer sity
Knapp Carries Foster’s Legacy Forward
Jeffrey A. Knapp, associate librarian, recently began his appointment as the Foster Communications Librarian
in the Libraries. Prior to this appointment, he was the coordinator of instruction at the Robert E. Eiche
Library, Penn State Altoona, with collections responsibilities for communications, business and the social
sciences.
In 1997 with a generous contribution, Penn
Dean Barbara I. Dewey notes, “As the Foster Librarian,
State graduates Lawrence Foster, ’48, and
Jeff will assess the informational needs of the College of
his wife, Ellen Foster, ’49, created endowed
Communications, coordinate the acquisition of additional
positions in the University Libraries—the
information resources and provide instruction and reference
Larry and Ellen Foster Communications
services to students. He will provide strong leadership and
Librarian—and also in the College of Communications—the
support in building collaboration between the College of
Foster Professor of Communications.
Communications and our Libraries.”
“Already in my first weeks as Foster Librarian, I have had
numerous interactions with engaging and talented Penn
State communications majors. I look forward to applying my
outreach and engagement experience in forging a strong bond
between the Libraries and the College of Communications.”
Dean Marie Hardin, College of Communications, is
also pleased that her faculty and students will have the
opportunity to work with Knapp, and she emphatically notes.
“The Foster Librarian is a key resource for our students. He
will get an enthusiastic reception, and we’re excited about the
expertise and energy he’ll bring to our work.”
Larry Foster was a Penn State Distinguished Alumnus and
served as the first chair of the Libraries Development Board.
He helped to change the University’s approach to philanthropy.
He was named one of the top-public relations professionals of
the 20th century, and he is noteworthy in the annals of public
relations for his role at Johnson & Johnson in handling the
Tylenol scare of 1982, following the death of seven people in
Chicago area after they ingested Tylenol laced with cyanide.
Larry Foster passed away in October 2013. Ellen Foster
continues to be very strong supporter and friend of the
Libraries.
“Why I Need the Libraries”
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The Li b ra r y
Thumbs Up for Open House
More than 3,000 students participated in the Libraries’ fall open house,
now in its 14th year and one of the largest and most successful libraryorientation programs of kind. According to the exit survey, the educational
impact of the event was strong:
• 97 percent of students agreed that the Open House helped them to learn
more about the Libraries' resources and physical spaces.
• 46 percent of students attended because they wanted to learn more about
the Libraries
• 81 percent of attendees were first-year students
• 11 percent of attendees heard through a friend
Libraries Development Board Member Mark Lewis joins the fun.
Overheard at the Open House:
• 53 percent of attendees
participated in an
optional activity
“I liked all the adventures that they sent us on. It really
brought the library to life by sending everyone on adventures
around each section of the library (along with the prizes).”
“[It] was easy to complete but still offered ways to learn
about the things I was most interested in instead of forced
activities of no interest to me.”
“This helped me become familiar with the library, so keep
doing it!”
“I didn’t know there were libraries inside of libraries!”
Strike a pose! A photo
booth was a new
feature this year.
Bednar Intern Gives Shout-Out
Sara Rae Holden gives her shout-out for the event,“I had a blast! As a
senior, this fall was my last chance to experience the Open House, and
as a recipient of the Bednar Internship with University Libraries’ Office
of Development, I decided to document the event. So with camera
in hand, I set out and returned to my desk with pictures, prizes, and
numerous chances for giveaways.
“Along the way I met other students holding the same sheet of paper
as myself. We were venturing to receive stamps from different stations
throughout the library and gaining useful information along the
way. The staff at each station were so helpful and happily answered
questions we all asked. I learned so much about the library.
“On any ordinary day, there are staff at the library happy to assist, but
the Open House was exceptional because of its fun-filled and exciting
atmosphere. I felt so connected—just what’s needed at a university this
size.”
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T h e Hear t of the Univer sity
Penn State
Press Picks
www.psupress.org
Picturing Dogs,
Seeing Ourselves
by Ann-Janine Morey
See story at right.
Religion Around Emily
Dickinson
by W. Clark Gilpin
Through her poetry, Dickinson imaginatively
reshaped the richly textured religious
inheritance around her to create her own
personal perspective on what it might
mean to be religious in the nineteenth
century. The artistry of her poetry and the
profundity of her thought have meant that
this personal perspective proved to be far
more than “merely” personal and instead
stimulated and challenged successive
generations of readers in the United States
and around the world.
Nothing But Love in God’s Water
by Robert F. Darden
The first of two volumes
chronicling the history and
role of music in the African
American experience,
this book explores
how songs and singers
helped African Americans
challenge and overcome
slavery, subjugation, and
suppression. Hundreds of
interviews, one-of-a-kind
sources, and rare or lost
recordings are used to
examine how sacred song
has stood center stage
in the African American
drama and helps us
understand how music
enabled the civil rights
movement to challenge
the most powerful nation
on the planet.
Book, Exhibit Picture
Man’s Best Friend
“Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves,” an exhibition
in the Henisch Photo-History Collection
Exhibition Room, 201A Pattee Library, coincides
with the publication of a new book by the Penn
State Press, Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves:
Vintage American Photographs, by Ann-Janine
Morey, Volume 4 in the series Animalibus: Of
Animals and Culture. Books in the Animalibus
series share a fascination with the status and
the role of animals in human life. Crossing the
humanities and the social sciences, these books
ask us what thinking about nonhuman animals can teach us
about human cultures, about what it means to be human, and
about how that meaning might shift across times and places.
Animals have been a subject in photography since its
invention in 1839. Early photography coincided with the
beginning of the dog’s position as a household pet in
Victorian society, and dogs were for the first time pampered
and shown as members of the family in studio portrait art.
But daguerreotypes, the earliest of
the photographic processes, required
subjects to remain motionless
for several minutes, which meant
that wagging tails often resembled
fans when the plates registered the
exposure.
Later in the century, faster lenses
solved such technical problems. By
the 1850s, with the introduction of
the small carte-de-visite image, it
became a popular custom to have
the likeness of the family pet (most
often dogs) made along with other
family members. Meant to look proper and often posed on
ornate chairs, every sort of friendly mutt appears. These
charming studio poses were displayed with all of the other
family portraits in albums made especially for preserving
them. Near the end of the 19th-century, amateurs also took
up photography, and thousands of photos produced an
intimate view of daily life, immortalizing family groups where
dogs show up with regularity.
The exhibition draws from 19th-century photographs
representing many photographic processes found in the
B. & H. Henisch Photo-History Collection and the William
C. Darrah Collection of Cartes-de-visite, 1860-1900, both
among the holdings of The Eberly Family Special Collections
Library. The exhibition runs through March 31, 2015. For
more information, contact Sandra Stelts at [email protected] or
814-863-5388.
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The Li b ra r y
Barnes and Noble
Supports Penn State
In 1993, Steve Falke and his family accepted the
opportunity to move to Happy Valley, as the regional
director for Barnes & Noble to oversee the transition of
the Penn State Bookstores. Today along with Regional
Manager Nancy
Thompson, they manage
7 campus locations at
University Park and all
of the Commonwealth
Campus bookstores.
Barnes & Noble
currently manages 7 of
the 14 Big Ten campus
bookstores.
At Penn State, Barnes &
Noble has forged unique
relationships through a
variety of partnerships.
One of the most significant partnerships has been with
the University Libraries. Through the philanthropy
they have provided to the library, Falke has been a
member of the Libraries Development Board for the
past 15 years. This has given him a unique perspective
on how the University works to raise funds to provide
the best possible experience for the students and
faculty.
The Penn State Bookstores sponsor the Libraries’
annual Open House event with donations of multiple
prizes ranging from gift cards to NOOKs. In
conjunction with Finance and Business, the Penn State
Bookstores were one of the first donors for the Trustee
Scholarship program, providing these scholarships
to every college and campus at Penn State. Falke is
a member of the Penn State Forum Speaker Series
committee that brings to University Park a variety of
speakers on a broad range of current topics; a program
underwritten a significant annual grant from the
Penn State Bookstores. Falke also has built working
relationships with the HUB and Penn State Athletics,
providing game day sales for football, basketball, and
hockey.
Falke notes that he has been fortunate to work for two
great organizations—Barnes & Noble and Penn State.
“In the end it is not simply about the business, but is
about how the experience of a Penn State education is
impacting students that makes the relationship special.
I know, since one of my daughters is a Penn State
graduate.”
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Bednar Intern Brings Army
Experience
Just after high school, Bednar Intern Sean DeLouise enlisted in the
army and was a signal support systems specialist, doing everything
and anything involving radio systems. Later he visited a friend at Penn
State, sat in on a class, was captured by the beauty of the campus, and
he decided, “It was a good fit.”
Now in his senior year, DeLouise is studying telecommunications,
specifically television production, with a minor in horticulture. He
notes, “When I was growing up, I watched PBS’s Bill Nye the Science
Guy and Reading Rainbow and was entertained while learning.
I really want to be able to do that sort of production that makes
knowledge accessible and fun for kids.”
“As a Reading Rainbow fan, I was a proud card-carrying library user
and can think of no better way to return the inspiration than helping
to promote Penn State’s Libraries in my role as a Bednar Intern.”
Penn State Libraries On the Move
A new initiative connecting alumni with
the Libraries is underway.
In October, with the help of North Texas alumni chapter members
Jeff Zawadzki and Rick Gover, University Archivist Jackie Esposito
(right) brought the Penn State Libraries to Dallas. Highlights of her
talk, titled “Success is Where Preparation and Opportunity Meet,”
included rare footage of the 1929 season, but also footage from early
women’s sports at the University. Many chapter members and
friends attended the talk and the Flyers/Stars game afterward.
Upcoming events
Virginia • December 13, 2014
Penn State VA Williamsburg Winter Weekend—Learn about The
Peoples Contest, a Civil War Era Digital Archive that promotes
research into the lived experience of Pennsylvanians between 1851
and 1874, with Matt Isham, director of the George and Ann Richards
Civil War Era Center and editor of “The Journal of the Civil War Era,”
and Tim Pyatt, the Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair and head of the Eberly
Family Special Collections Library.
For more information about:
• the presentation and the weekend—
see www.psuwilliamsburgweekend.myevent.com
• The Peoples Contest—
see www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/peoplescontest.html
or contact Chris Brida at [email protected] or 814-863-5478
Florida • January 5, 2015
Join the Naples Chapter of the Penn State Alumni Association for
lunch with Barbara I. Dewey, dean of the University Libraries at Penn
State. For more information, contact Bruce Miller at [email protected].
DeLouise
❧ Exhibits
The Eberly Family Special
Collections Library,
104 Paterno Library
“Over There . . . And Here,” an
expeditionary exhibition on
World War I, through January 9
DeLouise is a heavy user of the Knowledge Commons’
editing technology for his classes as well as its quiet
study spaces. Beyond his studies and internship duties,
he finds time to be the president of the State College
Area Roller Derby Student Group and for PSNTV, the
student television network, he is co-host of A Taste of
State College and production member of What’s That
Fact and Reel TV.
Sidewater Commons,
102 Pattee Library
“A ‘Marked’ Tradition: Historic
Innovations in Science and
Technology at Penn State,”
through February 19
Franklin Atrium, first floor Pattee Library
“Highlights from the Civil War Collection at Penn State,” through January 4
Diversity Studies Room, 203 Pattee Library
“Jazz Riffs: Breaking Boundaries and Crossing
Borders,” through April 12
Robb Hall, Hintz Alumni Center
“When I was at Penn State…,” through January 13,
Robb Hall, Hintz Alumni Center
Henisch Photo-History Collection Exhibition Room,
201A Pattee Library
“Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves,” through March
31, Henisch Photo-History Collection Exhibition Room,
201A Pattee Library (See page 13 for story.)
Libraries Development Board
Chair
Scott H. Steinhauer
Image from The
Peoples Contest,
a Civil War Era
Digital Archive
Molly Barron
Richard DeFluri
Joseph DiGiacomo
Eric V. Gearhart
Cindy Joyce
Sally W. Kalin
Cynthia M. King
Kerry W. Kissinger
Carol H. Klaus
Robert C. Klaus
Carlton Langley, Jr.
Mark S. Lewis
Albert L. Lord
Douglas C. McBrearty
Jeanette D. McWhirter
George M. Middlemas
Suzanne P. Paterno
Bonnie S. Prystowsky
Robin Ward Savage
Sally L. Schaadt
Jeffrey Shanahan
William S. Shipley, III
Sandra W. Spanier
Raymond A. Tiley
Ann C. Tombros
Allen J. Weltmann
Emeritus
Stephen J. Falke
Ronald Filippelli
Michael S. Kirschner
Barbara I. Dewey,
ex officio
Nicki Hendrix,
ex officio
University Libraries Staff
Questions or comments: 814-865-2258
Nicki Hendrix, director of development
Marcus Fowler, associate director of development
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Karen McCulley, development assistant
Jennifer Charney, administrative support coordinator
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Thank YOU
When the For the Future: the
Campaign for Penn State Students
ended this June, it had raised more
than $2 billion University wide,
with the Libraries raising more
than $42 million. Of this amount,
Libraries’ faculty and staff gave
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University.
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