PSU Special Collections Reference Desk

A blog for the PSU Special Collections reference desk for notices and messages.

Lion's Paw Members

Trevor Tom and several members of Lion's Paw will be here Thursday, 8/31 to review Lion's Paw Archive.  There are boxes for them on a cart in the hallway.

Jackie

 

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materials ready

Thursday Patron

Jim Tamman will be returning on Thursday to look at more PVFs for his project.  The cart is in the hallway with his name on it.

Thanks, Paul D.

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Tuesday Morning Patron

Jim Tammen will be coming in Tuesday morning to look at photos of Plant Pathology faculty members.  There is a cart with many PorVF boxes in the hallway for him, along with the list of faculty members that he provided.  I pulled the boxes up to J.W. Oswald, so when he has gone through the first few boxes, the remaining boxes can be pulled for him.

Thanks, Paul D.

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Audio/Visual room

I've made up a list of A/V formats that our machines can handle in the A/V room. I put the list on the Reference Desk, near the printer. If you have any questions, etc., please let me know.  Thanks.

Paul K.

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Sherwin Barton Collection

Dear All,

Leslie Hammons, a graduate assistant affiliated with the Palmer Art Musuem, will be visiting Special Collection after Labor Day to  photograph (with her own digital camera) and photocopy items contained within the Sherwin Barton World War II Collection.  Her supervisor, Robin Seymour, Coordinator of Membership and Public Relations, Palmer Art Musue, will be coordinating her use of the collection.   They are permitted full access to the Barton Collection and can photograph using their own digital camera.  Regarding the photocopying of fragile collection materials (including any original drawings, art work and Barton's P.O.W. war diary), they have been instructed to consult with a HCLA staff member to make arrangements for staff-assistant copying if necessary--especially pages from the P.O.W. war diary.   If items being photocopied require use of the hinged photocopy machine please consult with Sandy and Rare Books to make arrangements for use of the copier. 

The Barton Collection, consisting of two document cases and one scrapbook case, have been placed on the small table near the back of the hold room for retrieval when Leslie arrives in Special Collections.

 

Jim Quigel, HCLA

 

 

 

 

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Another HCLA finding aid online

I posted the EAD finding aid on the SpC Web site for

Philadelphia (Pa.). Overseers of the Poor Assessment Ledger - Chestnut Ward, 1772

Sue

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Book on Hold for Fall Semester

Dr. Suchismita Sen has placed both Rare Book copies of Thomas Mann's "The Tables of the Law" on hold for her Religious Studies 1 class for fall semester.

Both books are in the "On Hold" Room.

Jackie Esposito

 

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More finding aids up

I've completed and posted on the Web site the following EAD finding aids for HCLA:

Pennsylvania Cartes-de-visite Collection, circa 1860

John Black Memorial Service Video Recording, 2006


Sue

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Copies Ready

I have three sets of copies ready for Shannon Walters to pick up probably at the beginning of next week. There is no cost for her as she has already paid for them.
They are in Rare Books' blue copy box behind the Ref. Desk. Thanks, Lee--

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photocopies ready

UMWA Patron

Dear All,

Dr. James Lebda will be visiting Special Collections this week to use three boxes of United Mine Workers of America material from the Secretary-Treasurer's Office Record Subgroup.  The boxes (AXHCLA 00967,00969, 00971) have been placed on a cart with Dr. Lebda's patron registration form in the holding area behind the entrance doors to the reference room.  Dr. Lebda is permitted to make photocopies of the materials which consist of district dues and financial ledger sheets.  Staff, please advise Dr. Lebda to be careful to maintain the original order of the sheets when removing individual sheets for photocopying.  

Thanks,

Jim Quigel

HCLA

 

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One more EAD now up

I polished off the last backlogged finding aid in my folder for HCLA, and it is now in EAD and up on the Web site:

John Black Memorial Service Video Recording, 2006

Sue

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books on hold for scanning

It's 5:00 on Friday, and I am putting into the on-hold room a small book truck of materials that Ed was going to give to Paul Karwacki for scanning for a patron, Mr. Robert Frank. Paul was expecting to scan the books on Monday, but many of them are rare books that can't be scanned on the flatbed scanner. I'm putting all of the books (including some HCLA items) on hold with this note and my business card for Mr. Frank, who will be returning next week:

"Mr. Frank: If you would like to have scans made from any Rare Books materials, we can talk about having that done in our Preservation Department. (We generally don’t allow rare-book materials to be flipped over on a flatbed scanner.) It’s more expensive to have scans made with the overhead camera in Preservation, and I wanted you to be aware of that before we actually placed any orders for you. If you would like to take your own overhead photos of rare books, that would be fine."

Please remember that all scanning requests from Rare Books and Manuscripts materials must go through a Rare Books staff member. Many times it's fine for us to make scans on ouir flatbed scanner, but we want to make those decisions based on the condition of the book, on a case-by-case basis.

Sandy

 

 

 

 

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New finding aids on Web site

This week I completed and posted the following new finding aids on the Web site for HCLA:

Sherwin L. Barton World War II Papers, 1942-1996 (bulk 1943-1946)

Civil War Draft Exemption Records from Rockland County, New York, 1862

Robert E. Dengler Map Collection, 1847-1947

Henry H. Gelbach Diaries, 1869-1878

Jean Lipman-Blumen Collection on Jesse Bernard, 1939-2001 (bulk 1979-2001)

James Nelson Papers, 1915-1984 (bulk 1934-1955)

Sue

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Pittsburgh Club

Erin Spanier-Evers, from the Alumni Association
may be stopping by sometime to investigate the
Pittsburgh Club which later becameThe Allegheny
Chapter. She believes it was the first club started.

http://www.alumni.psu.edu/about_us/History/Default.htm

      First Penn State alumni chapter established, in Pittsburgh

 
I wasn’t able to locate any directly relevant information. 
I tried through Oliver. Paul found a CSI Section called
“Alumni Association Clubs,” with an article about smokers
with a later date. He noted that a Collegian or Froth article
might yield some information

Erin is going to look in their own archives and may
have leads when she comes.

 Jenna

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DJ Dozier folder

An employee from the State College Spikes (Greg Parassio) may be in to look through DJ Dozier's folder. I left it behind the Reference Desk-on the first shelf. He (they) can go through the folder but cannot borrow any photo's. If he has any questions or needs help in any way, please get either Paul K. or Paul D. Thanks, Paul K.

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Loan Book in Hold Room

John Attig, from Cataloging, will be in sometime this week (Aug. 14-18) to resume his review of an Inter-Library Loan book, (Richard Lower's Vindicatio). John filled out a registration form on Monday (the 14th). His book is in the Hold room. 

Paul K.

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Hold room book

Samantha Guss is finished using Professor Joukovsky's
book held in the hold room.

She reclaimed her own manuscript she had stored with it.

Professor Joukovsky's book will be in the hold room.

Jenna

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