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Yiddish Gift
Approximately 25 shelves of Yiddish materials to be cataloged for the Annex. Contact: Rebecca Mugridge. Completed 12/12
Noji Gift of Japanese materials
Gift of ~120 Japanese monographs and some serial issues. Priority: medium. Contacts: Jeff Edmunds, Jade Atwill, Alicia Leathers. Completed 5/11
Peterson Gift on Religious Studies
Religious studies materials in many Western European languages. Approx. a few hundred items. Low priority. Contact: Dan Mack. Completed 1/11
Sakai Gift Collection
502 Japanese titles needing cataloged; Duplicates will not be added. Contacts: Jade Atwill, Jeff Edmunds, Fannie Mui. Status: 10 titles remaining as of 5/14/09. Completed 6/2010
Moser Gift
Four shelves of Portuguese-language material donated to the library 2005; received in Cataloging August 2008. Contact: Katherine Strenko. Completed 1/2010
Dewey Reclass
~6500 titles in all formats needing reclassed from Dewey to LC
Dewey Sets/Reclass, Serial/Recat
Pennsylvania archives ... (tc# l01016391): approx. 139 vols. with Dewey nos.; Reclassing serial for stacks; Serials Cataloging Team will reclass this serial title
Colonial records (mono set - LIAS324624): 16 vols.; Reclass to LC for stacks
Ecclesiastical records state of New York (mono set - l06013746): 7 vols; Reclass to LC for stacks
Jesuit relations and allied documents : travels and explorations ... (mono set - LIAS322101): Reclass to LC for stacks
Messages from the governors, comprising executive communications ... (mono set - l10001752): 11 vols; Reclass to LC for stacks
Status: All mono titles complete as of 5/09
Hastings Gift
Six trucks of gift books donated to the library in 2004; received in Cataloging August/September 2008. Contact: Fannie Mui. Completed 3/09
Dewey Set/Reclass, Serial/Recat
Collections of the New York historical society (serial recat - l01016508): approx. 70 vols. with Dewey nos.; Need decision on whether or not to reclass/relabel if sending to Annex; earlier vols. on serial record (LIAS219798) already at Annex with Dewey number; Contacts: Eric Novotny, Will Covington. Completed 2/09
Harkins Gift (Japanese Art Books)
Approx 55 titles (gift books); 3 or 4 in Japanese but copy has already been identified; A larger (6 boxes) gift of books focuses on Japanese art; Contact: Henry Pisciotta, Fannie Mui. Completed 1/09
Canal History and Technology Symposium
25 volumes in this annual, currently cataloged as a serial. The publication is not well indexed and has many articles related to PA. Re-cat to mono so that table of contents notes can be added; TOC to be provided by EMS. [Note from Linda Musser: OCLC has monographic records for most of the years (I didn't check them all). Some already have contents notes; most do not. I've asked the folks at W-S if they care one way or the other, since they also have some of the volumes. I talked with Christopher Walker about a way to accomplish this without re-cataloging to mono and we couldn't find a way, hence this request.] Contacts: Linda Musser, Jacqueline Peagler, Elaine Fetterolf. Priority 1. Completed 11/05/12.
Added entries and notes requested
Request for notes and added entries (if appropriate) added to existing monograph records for items in the 2nd and 3rd PA Geological Surveys; Approx. 90 titles in the 2nd survey; 10 in the 3rd survey; The notes will cover the unique titles of the loose accompanying plates for these volumes. Approx. 500 loose pieces but many have no titles; Contact: Linda Musser. Status: Completed 2012.
United States Geological Survey series, Professional papers
Serial recat (QE75.P9); ~1100 items in Annex. Contacts: Linda Musser, Elaine Fetterolf
Status: Complete as of 5/2/12
Natural resources and environmental issues (serial recat)
13 items with call number QH541.5.R52N3; This is a serial that really needs to be cat-as-sep; The volumes are on widely varied topics and each has a clear monographic title. Contacts: Linda Musser, Jacqueline Peagler Status: Complete as of 2/11
Circular. PSU EMS Experiment Station
86 items for serial recat: TN24.P4P44; most needing original cataloging; Contacts: Linda Musser and Jacqueline Peagler. Status: Complete as of 5/14/09
Children's Chinese Literature
Approximately 86 Chinese language juvenile books; Most will require original cataloging. Contacts: Fannie will provide the descriptive cataloging and consult with Charlene on subjects and call numbers, Steven Herb is the contact for EBSL. Completed 6/09
IEEE and/or ANSI Standards
Approx. 575 IEEE and/or ANSI standards in collection that are not in The CAT. They belong to two different call #s: TK277.I5 and TA368.A6. Most of the items already have call numbers and barcodes. Contacts: Linda Struble, Fannie Mui. Completed 4/2010
Note: These items do not need to be cataloged by any particular date; however, if they could be sent to cataloging before Engin. closes for asbestos abatement on May 10, 2010, they would not have to be reshelved in the stacks without being cataloged.
EPRI NP Reports
188 EPRI NP reports need cataloging; High priority request to finish within 1-2 month of 6/11/09. Contacts: Linda Struble, Anna Letowski. Completed 8/09
Goldman Gift
Russian MLP records needing subject headings and some revision; Authority records for personal names will be created when appropriate. Contact: Anna Letowski. Completed 3/09
Publicaciones del Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas (series)
F2801.B98 nos. 45-96 in Annex; Need additional cataloging and preservation. Contacts: Judy Hewes and Jacqueline Peagler. Completed 10/10.
Copy Cataloging Project, Phase II
The project copy cataloger is adding 035 fields with OCLC numbers to records for more than 2,300 items sent to Google as part of the first shipment of books. Contact: Jeff Edmunds
Completed 5/2010
Monographs in paediatrics (series)
19 uncataloged volumes transferred to Annex from Hershey. Contacts: Robin Grandy Waltz and Jacqueline Peagler. Completed 6/09
Copy Cataloging Project, Phase I
~ 1,000 non-Roman language records in The CAT for items on the original Google Pick List were overwritten with OCLC records containing vernacular data. Most of these were Chinese and Japanese, with a small number of Korean, Arabic, and Hebrew titles; holdings were attached and/or corrected for several dozen records; 035s were manually added to several dozen records. Contact: Jeff Edmunds
Status: Completed
British Literary Manuscripts from the British Library
109 films; Call Number is Microfilm A363; items need cataloged and re-classed to LC as PR1121.B68 1984 Series 1. The boxes are acid free and will not need changed.
Contacts: Sandy Morgart, Carol Holt. Priority 1. Completed 12/12/12
Records of ante-bellum Southern Plantations …
423 microfilm boxes. Need re-marking and re-boxing (black plastic boxes). From Microfilm A264 to F213.R489 ser. Contacts: Carol Holt, Ashoo Kumar. Completed 11/2012 Priority 3
Goldsmith-Kress Library of Economic Literature Segment II Bibload
~28,465 records; 1710 reels + 2 guides; Clean up of records from bibload including: missing records possibly needing to be imported from OCLC; records with partial/incomplete call numbers; updating some item records; Re-boxing, barcoding and new labels needed. Contacts: Carol Holt, Mary Derstein, Alicia Leathers. Completed 10/24/12
NAACP papers
Call number E185.5.N276A2 pt. date range series reel no. Some of this collection (newer) is already LC classed, older reels are not. ~2210 microfilm boxes; more than 4000 titles ; multiple guides; Clean-up of records from bib- load including: missing records possibly needing to be imported from OCLC; records with partial/incomplete call numbers; updating some item records; many items bound-with due to sending out for ILL needing to be unbound and rebound. Re-boxing (black plastic boxes) , barcoding and new labels needed. Contacts: Carol Holt, Ashoo Kumar. Priority 1 (one). Completed 9/7/2012.
Dime Novels
73 microfilm boxes. LC classed PS374.D5D5 . Need Remarking and re-boxing. Contacts: Carol Holt, Ashoo Kumar. Priority 2 (two) Completed 12/10
Landmarks II, Monographs (microfiche project)
There are approximately 510 records in the CAT for this series. Call number base has been changed globally from Micro 4 LNDM to Q125.L285.
Processing: Add cutter for Author and Title to base number. Cutter number will be added to record in CAT, written in pencil on fiche pants, and the work-list of cutters will be given to CatMarking to make labels. News & Microforms staff will affix labels to microfiche pants, and re-file microfiche in drawers.
Contacts: Ashoo Kumar, Carol Holt. Completed 12/10
Landmarks of Science (Micro opaque project)
3915 records in The CAT for series title "Landmarks of science"; Change present call number from: Microprint.L35 to: Microprint.L35 [main entry cutter]. In cases where there are multiple works by a given author, it may be necessary to use a third cutter based on the title.
Processing: Write call number on back of each micro opaque; Re-box, filing in call number order; Mark boxes with call number range enclosed in that box. Contacts: Ashoo Kumar, Carol Holt. Completed 10/10
American drama of 19th Century - Microprint E55A
Approximately 43 with no CAT record or WorldCAT record; So far, an OCLC record has been found for 10; There are also 52 records in the CAT for which the matching microprint could not be found; This is out of an estimated 5200 microprints. Contacts: Ashoo Kumar, Carol Holt. High priority request. Completed 8/09
Non-PSU Theses
There are 4000 reels of “B” film. According to the Title/Author list NML made, there are only 210 that are not cataloged. Not all of these are theses. There is a mixture of theses, older literature, and misc. No guide. Boxes have barcodes (not in acid-free boxes). Other 3800 are Microfilm B1008 call numbers. The missing 210 are mixed in the drawers with the others.
Update: Carol went over some NML specs with Cindy Stellabotte. She put the title, reel # list in the Cataloging drive under Missing B film. Direct to Annex cataloging will be done for this collection, but all will be sent at once when finished. Not going to re-box, boxes are barcoded, not going to LC Class. Call Number Microfilm B8 a-c (through) Microfilm B4063. Contact: Ashoo Kumar. Status: Completed 6/09
B Film NOT Theses
36 titles from the Non-PSU Theses project that are not actually theses. Contact: Carol Holt. Status: Completed 6/09
Microfilm Collection of Manuscripts of Middle American Cultural Anthropology
Microfilm D17 ; This set has about 50 titles and mono records are available in WorldCAT. 35 microfilm reels with guide. User Guide: Z5114.M6. Need new boxes, need barcoded, and need Title/LC Class Call # Labels. Contacts: Ashoo Kumar, Carol Holt, Will Covington. Completed 4/09
Elsevier Medical and Biological Titles
E-book records were input for 536 Elsevier titles that did not have records available from the vendor. Contacts: Jeff Edmunds, David Brennan, Alicia Leathers. Completed 3/11.
Springer e-book records update
Records for Springer e-books as provided by the vendor were substandard but were Bibloaded into The CAT to provide access pending the availability of better records in OCLC. Project is to overwrite several thousand records in The CAT, using a combination of Bibloading and manual editing. Contacts: Jeff Edmunds, Alicia Leathers. Completed 10/10.
CRCnetBASE records
With cancellation of access to CRCnetBASE online titles, ~200 records must be either deleted from The CAT or have the online holdings manually removed. Contacts: Jeff Edmunds, Alicia Leathers. Completed 8/4/10.
Gutenberg-e
Gutenberg-e is a collection of open access digital monographs sponsored by the American Historical Association among others. About 40 titles are now available. In most cases we probably have records for the print version in the CAT. The request is to add links to the online versions, http://www.gutenberg-e.org/index.html; Contact: Eric Novotny. Completed 6/2010.
ACM Digital Library
705 records in The CAT for items in the ACM Digital Library have invalid URLs and 69 records have one invalid and one valid URL; URLs will have to be manually updated using information supplied by ACM; Contacts: Tom Conkling, Jeff Edmunds.
Note: Since these records were purchased from OCLC, and since the URLs have been invalid for more than a year, it is hoped that this project can be completed before the end of Spring Semester 2010. Completed 6/2010
Knovel Titles
146 additional titles purchased from Knovel need records for online versions; Jamie Jamison has a list of the titles in the Sustainable Energy & Development collection, which he shared with us. Contacts: Linda Musser, Tom Conkling, Jeff Edmunds.Completed 5/2010
Tabachnikov Gift Books
Russian math books cataloged for the Annex. Duplicates will be offered to other libraries. Some original cataloging needed. Contacts: John Meier, Alicia Leathers, Anna Letowski. Completed 10/2012; a total of 82 books were cataloged
Russian Mathematics Books
Gift of ~1000 mathematics books in Russian from the American Mathematical Society (part of a larger gift). Some were originally published in the USSR; others are translations into Russian of foreign works. Catalog for the Annex. Some records found in WorldCat during initial searching; Google is interested in scanning many of these unique materials for the Book Project. 717 hardcovers and 296 paperbacks. Contacts: John Meier, Katherine Strenko, Alicia Leathers, Anna Letowski. Completed 2/14/2012
Flood Insurance Study
Approx. 1495 items. Can be cataloged as monographs. Have Documents records in OCLC. All are barcoded and marked with SuDoc call numbers, so do not need marking, but do need to be ownershipped, and the shelflist cards discarded. Contacts: Stephen Woods, Carol Holt. Completed 8/21/12.
Population Research Institute (PRI)
Approximately 2900 books, 6 DVD’s, 69 maps or charts, 383 CD-ROM journals. This collection, moved from the Oswald Building, needs to be cataloged for the Stacks. Decisions on collection weeding and duplicate retention will be made by Stephen Woods. This is priority no. 1 (one) due to reference requests from PRI researchers. Project will most likely begin with monograph items. Contacts: Carol Holt, Mary Derstein (Social Sciences). Completed 1/26/2012
ILO Documents
Approximately 234 International Documents need to be added to The CAT; SuDoc call numbers assigned by Helen Sheehy will be used. Examples:
ILO 1.2:[cutter] (Not conference - leave number as is)
ILO 1.1/2:conference session number/cutter
Processing: Hand made labels will be affixed to cover of item. Contacts: Helen Sheehy, Carol Holt. Completed 11/10
ILO Documents
Approximately 827 International Documents need to be added to The CAT; Some may be serials, which will will be referred to Valerie Allen; SuDoc call numbers assigned by Helen Sheehy will be used. Examples:
ILO 1.2:[cutter] (Not conference - leave number as is)
ILO 1.1/2:conference session number/cutter
Processing: Hand made labels will be affixed to cover of item. Contacts: Helen Sheehy, Will Covington. Completed 1/10
Cataloging & Binding 1990 Census
Approximately 5 pans of 1990 paperback and looseleaf Census materials; Provide barcoding and technical documentation; New call number to position items next to the 1990 Census materials in Census section of library; Dark Green binding; Need cataloged, reclassified, remarked and bound. Contacts: Mary Derstein, Carol Holt. Completed 10/09
Theses Reclamation
207 (mostly older) theses needing corrections to the 008 and 245 fields. Contact: Elaine Fetterolf. Completed 2009
