Penn State University Libraries - Projects

Chang Gift of Chinese Monographs
Gift of ~350+ Chinese monographs published in the '70's and '80's from China on politics (communist). Priority: medium. Contacts: Jade Atwill, Fannie Mui. Status as of 11/21/11: 90% completed.

Goldschmidt Gift Books
529 Arabic books and pamphlets in the field of 19th- and 20th-century Egyptian history, politics, and culture donated by Dr. Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr. Contacts: Eric Novotny, Susan Lane. Status as of 10/10/12: 76 titles cataloged

PA Geological Survey Publications
~183 titles available online needing either link corrections or links added to existing CAT records, or CAT records created. See spreadsheet provided; Requested completion date is end of Spring semester 2011. Contacts: Bob Tolliver and Jacqueline Peagler. Status as of 11/21/11: Alicia has completed 69 of the items that required only corrected or added links to existing records.

United States Geological Survey series. Bulletins (QE75.B9)
~1924 items; Serial recat to be classed together; most are bound-withs; Since items do not need re-marked, cataloging can be done from title list. Contacts: Linda Musser, Fannie Mui.

PTI Library Gift
Upon the closing of the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute Library, the contents of the PTI Library were donated to the Engineering Library. To date, over 1,000 items from the PTI collection have been added to the Engineering Library collection. Contacts: Bonnie Osif, Anna Letowski. Status as of 11/21/11: 48 boxes of PTI Library materials remaining; they must be reviewed by Engineering Library selectors prior to being sent to Cataloging.

Cataloging and Binding 2000 Census

1. C3.223/23:2000 PHC-2 Census of population and housing: Summary social, economic, and housing characteristics 66 pieces; bind Gray (97)
   
2. C3.223/18:2000 PHC-1 Summary of population and housing characteristics 56 pieces; Bind Teal
   
3. C3.223/5:2000 PHC-3 Population and housing unit counts 54 pieces; Bind Orange (63)
   
4. C3.223/23-2-2000-PHC-4-AS Social, economic, and housing characteristics (U.S.Territories) 4 pieces; Black (99) C3.223/28:2000 PHC-5
   Pt. 1 C3.223/28:2000 PHC-5
   Pt.2 Characteristics of American Indians and Alaska natives 2 pieces; Black

Contacts: Mary Derstein, Carol Holt

Upgrading Chinese Bib Records
~900 monographs; Minimum level bib records in The CAT are either being overlayed with fuller records from OCLC or being enhanced in OCLC, in some cases original records need to be created; Chinese vernacular is being added. ContactS: Jade Atwill, Fannie Mui. Status as of 10/23/12: 70% completed

Confucius Institute Gift
Gift from Penn State Confucius Institute; Total number uncertain, ~200 hundred items; Many items are instructional/juvenile materials for EBSL, others will go to A&H. Contacts: Jade Atwill, Karla Schmit. Status as of 10/22/12: Rush items have been completed

Map and chart series Geol. Soc. of America
74 items for serial recat: QE1.M27 Q; Contacts: Linda Musser and Jackie Peagler. Priority 2.

Online USGS publications not in CAT
Online USGS publications missing from our catalog. These are items that normally would have arrived as part of the U.S. government documents depository program.
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/emsl/usgs/addrecords.html. The first priority in this group would be the Bulletins (QE75.B9), Circulars, (QE75.C5), and Professional Papers (QE75.P9). Many of these items are now only available on-line and will never be available in a print format. Contacts: Linda Musser, Jacqueline Peagler

Serial Recat - those of highest priority categories are listed below.
For remaining/specific titles, see EMS Reclass Projects document (575 kb). Some titles will periodically be moved from the database to the list below. EMS Contact: Linda Musser. Cataloging contacts will be listed following individual titles.

• United States Geological Survey series
  1. Water supply papers (TC801.U2) - 2350 items
• United States Bureau of Mines pubs.
  1. Information circulars (TN295.U4) - approx. 3200 items
  2. Report of investigations (TN23.U43) - approx. 7000 items
• Delaware Geological Survey pubs.
• Ohio Geological Survey pubs.
• Maryland Geological Survey pubs.
• West Virginia Geological Survey pubs.
• Geological Survey of Canada series - papers, bulletins, misc. reports

English Drama of 19th Century - Microprint E55e
Approximately 1500 titles (cards) left to catalog. Contacts: Carol Holt, Ashoo Kumar. Priority 4

Spanish and Portuguese Bibliographies - Microprint SP 24
There is a total of 7 boxes (7 countries/regions) and each box has about 200-240 microprints in. Records available in OCLC. Contacts: Carol Holt, Ashoo Kumar. Priority 5

Russian Historical Sources - Microprint R92
There is a total of 77 Microprint boxes and each box has about 200-240 microcards in it. Records are available in OCLC. Contacts: Carol Holt, Ashoo Kumar. Priority 6