Tuesday, March 24
9:00 a.m.
210 Stabley Library
Be a part of this interesting book talk while enjoying a continental breakfast courtesy of IUP Libraries.
Admission is free and open to IUP administration, faculty, staff, and students.
]]>You can connect to the LibQUAL+ on-line survey or use the survey link on the Library home page. The survey will take less than ten minutes.
The results of this survey will help determine the kinds of resources and services the IUP Library will offer in the future. Your input is critical to our success.
As an incentive to participation, we are offering prizes. At the end of the survey, you'll have the option to enter your IUP e-mail address to be entered into a random drawing for prizes. We have two $100 and twelve $25 gift cards for the Co-op Store to give away. Entering your e-mail address is totally voluntary. It will be stored separately from your survey responses so that your input will be completely anonymous. The drawing will be held at the end of the survey period.
The LibQUAL+ survey is now open until December 4. Please let your voice be heard, and participate in this important project.
]]>These digital collections are made possible by a cooperative project between the IUP Libraries and Lyrasis.
]]>All Treasures for Children books are due by Monday, December 14, 2009, and should be dropped off or sent to Dr. Heider at the following address:
Stabley Library, Room 205
429 S. 11th Street
Indiana, PA 15705
You’re invited to the IUP Libraries’ Scholastic Book Fair on Tuesday, November 17 through Thursday, November 19, 2009, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in Room 101, Stabley Library.
You’re invited to the IUP Libraries’ Scholastic Book Fair
Tuesday, November 17 through Thursday, November 19, 2009
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Room 101, Stabley Library
Cash, checks, and credit cards accepted.
Proceeds benefit Stapleton Library’s Children’s Collection.
Visit our Scholastic Book Fair Website for more information.
]]>The Library Events Team was formed to plan social events for the purpose of creating a positive work environment. Team members include: Patti Cornman (assistant to the dean of Libraries), Sandy Janicki (reference librarian), Portia Diaz (reference and Punxsutawney branch campus librarian), Ed Zimmerman (library technology and security manager), Judy Bouton (circulation manager), Vickie Respet (library technology and security staff member), and team leader Dr. Kelly Heider (education librarian).
]]>Be a part of this interesting book talk while enjoying a continental breakfast courtesy of IUP Libraries.
(Admission is free and open to IUP administration, faculty, staff, and students.)
]]>The results of LibQUAL+ will provide important feedback to help guide future library development at IUP. All IUP students and employees are encouraged to take the survey.
As an incentive to participate, survey takers have the option to enter an IUP e-mail address for a chance to win one of several $100 or $25 gift cards to the Co-op Store. The random drawing will be held at the end of the survey. Entering an e-mail address is completely voluntary and will not be associated with your survey answers.
This survey was approved by the IUP Institutional Review Board.
For questions about the survey, contact Blaine Knupp (beknupp@iup.edu), reference librarian and IUP's LibQUAL+ coordinator.
]]>Please go to the Trials Database Page for details and login information.
Don't forget to tell us what you think. Either use the survey links on the Trial page or e-mail Joann Janosko at janosko@iup.edu with comments.
]]>Be a part of this interesting book talk while enjoying a continental breakfast courtesy of IUP Libraries.
Admission is free and open to IUP administration, faculty, staff, and students.
]]>Films Media Group is the leading source of high-quality video and multimedia for academic, vocational, and life-skills content. Films Media Group serves the education community through its four brands: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
This trial offers 5,779 academic titles. It will be in effect from now until October 31, 2009. This trial database is IP-authenticated and available on campus only or by using the VPN service. The trial can also be accessed through the Trial Database Page.
]]>Through the generosity and planning of Tim Sharbaugh, Co-op Store manager; Sara Ellenberger, textbook manager; the leadership of Phil Zorich, interium dean of libraries; Judy Bouton, Circulation Services manager; and the hard work and dedication of Reserve Supervisor Joyce Kensey and her staff of student assistants, the library now has a pilot program in place. The goal is to help students handle the ever-increasing cost of books.
Faculty members were identified, and a small selection of textbooks, each costing $100 or more, were picked to start this program. From an initial count of seventeen books, with additional books added by request, there are now twenty-two textbooks on reserve for various faculty members across the curriculum. Once the books were added to the Reserve collection, the faculty members were notified so that they could inform their students of this new partnership program.
When students come to the library’s Reserve Desk, they simply look through the reserve binders for their professor’s name. Library student assistants will retrieve the book for their use. These books are loaned for one-hour, in-library use only. Students can use the public overhead scanner, opposite the Reserve Desk, to copy currently needed material. All they need is their own USB drive.
Faculty members and students can request that their books be added to the program. It is then at the discretion of the Co-op Store if they meet the criteria for the program. For more information, please contact Tim Sharbaugh at the Co-op Store or Joyce Kensey in Stapleton Library.
]]>The presentation will take place from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. on Monday, September 21, 2009, in Room 210 of Stapleton/Stabley Library. Please join us for the discussion of this very important topic. The presentation is open to the public.
]]>Attend this interesting presentation while enjoying a continental breakfast courtesy of IUP Libraries. Admission is free and open to IUP administration, faculty, staff, and students.
]]>During Fall 2009, the Orendorff Music Library will feature a display honoring Dr. Daniel DiCicco, director of Bands at IUP from 1956 until his retirement in 1989.
DiCicco, a native of Beaver Falls, Pa., graduated from IUP in 1954. He earned his master’s degree (1956) and Doctor of Musical Arts degree (1974) from the University of Michigan.
During his thirty-three years at IUP, Dr. DiCicco established himself as one of the leading music educators in the commonwealth, serving as director of high school honors band programs, guest conductor for state and regional band festivals, and a role model and mentor to hundreds of music students. He founded the IUP Wind Ensemble in 1961 and the Honors Band in 1974. In 1986 he received the IUP Distinguished Faculty Award, and in 2003 he received the Alumni Award for Service.
The Music Library display includes artifacts and photographs documenting DiCicco’s life as a student, musician, teacher, family man, and Steelers fan. He passed away at his home in Lakeland, Florida, on February 3, 2009. A special memorial concert in his honor will be presented at IUP on September 27, 2009.
The Music Department and IUP Foundation are raising funds to name the large ensemble room in Cogswell Hall the Dr. Daniel and Dorothy DiCicco Rehearsal Hall.
]]>The first, entitled “The Baltic Psalteries: Bibliographical Problems and Desiderata Revisited,” appeared in Musiikin Suunta, the Finnish Ethnomusicological Society Journal. He was also coauthor of the article “Music Librarianship,” appearing in the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, 3rd ed. (New York: Taylor & Francis).
]]>The exhibit will be open to the public from September 15 to December 5, 2009, and features mining memorabilia, mine maps, photographs, blueprints of company towns, and other historical materials. For more information, see the University Museum’s Exhibitions Page.
]]>The article was published in the April 2009 issue of Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education Journal.
]]>The book was released in July 2009 by the Association of College and Research Libraries.
]]>First Prize
The Adventures of the Interlibrary Loan Librarian
By Emilee Dolan, Melissa Clark, and Sarah Flewelling
Second Prize
Wild About Books!
By Casey Leigh, Esther Miller, Julie Carroll
Honorable Mention
What’s Cool about the IUP Library
By Lara Himmelstein and Raina Kellerman
Honorable Mention
Why the Library is Cool
By Kevin Kramer
Honorable Mention and Java City Prize Winner
What is Cool About the Library
By Rebekah Woods, Laura Liprando, David Burkett, and Joshua Leap
Please join us for “Breakfast-and-a-Book” featuring Jason Chimonides and his recently published play, The Optimist.
Attend this entertaining presentation while enjoying a continental breakfast courtesy of IUP Libraries. Admission is free and open to IUP administration, faculty, staff, and students.
]]>This National Library Week, we want to know what you think is cool about IUP Libraries. Create a video documenting what you like about IUP Libraries and enter our “What’s Cool about the Library Video Contest.”
For more information, contact Theresa McDevitt, government documents/reference librarian, at 724-357-4892 or at mcdevitt@iup.edu.
]]>On the special occasion of Abraham Lincoln’s bicentennial birthday, the IUP Libraries is hosting the Mary Jane Schafer Distinguished Speaker Series on Monday, March 16, 2009, at 7:00 p.m. in McVitty Auditorium in Sprowls Hall. Dr. Richard Striner will present on his book Father Abraham: Lincoln’s Relentless Struggle to End Slavery. According to author James M. McPherson, “the fresh and provocative insights in this book demonstrate that despite all that has been written about Lincoln, there is still something new to learn.” Father Abraham offers a new portrait of the president, the Great Emancipator, who strived during his political career to build public consensus against slavery. According to the American Historical Review, “Striner is a master of the political, military, diplomatic, and constitutional developments of the Civil War and conveys them crisply. He knows Lincoln’s collected works and public papers extremely well.” Dr. Richard Striner is a professor of History at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. He earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Maryland.
The IUP Libraries and the IUP Department of Theater and Dance will host two performances of Time and Time Again: Abraham Through the Ages by Don Orwald on Monday, March 16, and Tuesday, March 17, at 6:00 p.m. in Waller Hall Studio Theater (lower level). The play celebrates two American presidents: Abraham Lincoln, the nation's sixteenth leader, and newly elected President Barack Obama. Written by playwright Don Orwald, Time and Time Again is set in April 1865 and December 2008. Originally from Butler, Pennsylvania, Don Orwald received his master’s degree in English from IUP. He is a retired faculty member from the English department at Knoch High School in Saxonburg, where he directed the high school’s plays and musicals.
The Schafer Speaker Series presentation by Dr. Richard Striner and the performances of Time and Time Again are free and open to the public. In celebration of Lincoln’s birthday, there is a special exhibit of Abraham Lincoln featuring memorabilia and artifacts collected by Dr. Earl Hunt on the first floor of the Stapleton Library during the months of February and March.
]]>Tuesday, March 24
9:00 a.m.
210 Stabley Library
Be a part of this interesting book talk while enjoying a continental breakfast courtesy of IUP Libraries.
Admission is free and open to IUP administration, faculty, staff, and students.
]]>For more information on the 2009 SITE conference, see the Society for Information technology and Teacher Education’s website.
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The Orendorff Music Library has a new display of vintage Civil War band instruments and music.
The display is compliments of Indiana’s own Wildcat Regiment Band, an ensemble that has performed authentic Civil War band music at civic and historical events around the eastern United States including Gettysburg, Antietam, Sharpsburg, and Harper’s Ferry.
The display will be in the music library for the remainder of the Spring Semester. Please visit and take a look at these historic pieces!
]]>The IUP Libraries and the IUP Department of Theater and Dance will host two performances of Time and Time Again: Abraham Through the Ages by Don Orwald on Monday, March 16, and Tuesday, March 17, at 6:00 p.m. in Waller Hall Studio Theater (lower level). The play celebrates two American presidents: Abraham Lincoln, the nation’s sixteenth leader, and newly elected President Barack Obama. Written by playwright Don Orwald, Time and Time Again is set in April 1865 and December 2008. Originally from Butler, Pennsylvania, Don Orwald received his master’s degree in English from IUP. He is a retired faculty member from the English department at Knoch High School in Saxonburg, where he directed the high school's plays and musicals.
The Schafer Speaker Series presentation by Dr. Richard Striner and the performances of Time and Time Again are free and open to the public. In celebration of Lincoln’s birthday, there is a special exhibit of Abraham Lincoln featuring memorabilia and artifacts collected by Dr. Earl Hunt on the first floor of the Stapleton Library during the months of February and March.
]]>Wednesday, February 25
9:00 a.m.
210 Stabley Library
Be a part of this interesting book talk while enjoying a continental breakfast courtesy of IUP Libraries.
Admission is free and open to IUP administration, faculty, staff, and students.
]]>IUP Libraries and The Salvation Army are working together to gather “Treasures for Children” this holiday season.
If you are interested in purchasing a new book for a disadvantaged child, please contact Dr. Kelly Heider via e-mail at kheider@iup.edu. She will give you the age and sex of a local child and take care of delivering your “treasure” to The Salvation Army.
IUP Libraries thank you, in advance, for your support and wish you and yours a wonderful holiday season!
]]>Tuesday, Nov. 18 through Thursday, Nov. 20
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Room 101, Stabley Library
Cash, check, and credit cards accepted.
Proceeds benefit Stapleton Library’s Children's Collection.
The display area also has Pennsylvania voter-registration applications and absentee ballot materials for those interested.
This is your opportunity to make make your voice count and vote!
]]>They will discuss their recent publication, Unpacking the Loaded Teacher Matrix: Negotiating Space and Time Between University and Secondary English Classrooms.
Be a part of this interesting book talk while enjoying a continental breakfast courtesy of IUP Libraries. Admission is free and open to IUP administration, faculty, staff, and students.
]]>Please join us for Breakfast-and-a-Book featuring Dr. John Benhart and his recent publication Appalachian Aspirations: The Geography of Urbanization and Development in the Upper Tennessee River Valley, 1864–1900, on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. in Stabley Library room 210.
Be a part of this interesting book talk while enjoying a continental breakfast courtesy of IUP Libraries. Admission is free and open to IUP administration, faculty, staff, and students.
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