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Active projects are listed in alphabetical order
American Periodicals Series II Microfilm
Description: The News & Microforms Library is replacing the boxes for the 1,966 reels in the American Periodicals Series 1800-1850 microfilm collection (APS II for short) with new, acid-free boxes. They plan to barcode the collection at the same time. None of the Cat records for the titles in this series have MARC holdings records. There is usually more than one title on a reel. NML will barcode the reels and link titles together using WorkFlows' Bound With wizard. Using the index for the series, Serials Cataloging will enter MARC holdings for each of the titles on each of the reels. They will also create records for any titles in the index that cannot be found in the Cat.
Contacts: Sandy Morgart, Valerie Allen
Priority: High
Begin date: November 13, 2012
Barcoding Pattee/Paterno Project
Description: With the help of wage staff hired specifically for the project, affix barcode labels to volumes of titles (serial and monograph) that have been identified as not having a barcode number in the Cat. Create call number/item records for each of those previously unbarcoded volumes.
Contacts: Trish Notartomas, Valerie Allen
Priority: High
Status as of 7/11/2012: Pattee stacks finished, Z call numbers. Barcoders in Paterno 4 stacks. Call numbers for Paterno 2 stacks and Paterno 3 stacks being input. Prep work for the rest of Paterno 4 stacks continues.
Begin date: March 29, 2010
Barcoding Serials for the Google Project
Description: Affixing barcode labels to serial volumes that either reside in the selector-identified call number ranges that are part of the Google project or show up as part of Google's Pick List. Creating call number/item records for each of those previously unbarcoded volumes.
Contacts: Trish Notartomas, Valerie Allen
Priority: High
Status as of 7/11/2012: Work continues when lists are received. There is currently no backlog of requests. Acting in an on-call capacity for unbarcoded materials found during the pulling process.
Begin date: Aug. 29, 2007
Chang Gift of Chinese Periodicals
Description: Gift of 67 periodical titles from Mainland China, the Republic of China, and Hong Kong are to be cataloged for the Annex, wherever possible using records with vernacular Chinese access points.
Contacts: Christopher Walker, Jade Atwill, Fanny Mui
Priority: Low
Status as of 7/11/2012: 21 records (31%) completed.
Begin date: December 2011
Civil War Newspapers
Description: 12 Pennsylvania Newspapers held in a variety of formats, each with numerous title changes.
Contacts: Christopher Walker, Debora Cheney, Sue Kellerman
Priority: TBD
Status as of 7/11/2012: Ongoing.
Begin date: July 28, 2011
DOAJ Project, Year II
Description: Targets electronic journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a multidisciplinary aggregation of scientific and scholarly open-access journals on Penn State's A-Z list. CONSER-authentication of bibliographic records that meet national standards for all journals in the collection will make them more discoverable in the Cat. 25 CONSER member institutions are cooperating in this project.
Contacts: Christopher Walker
Priority: Medium
Status as of 7/11/2012: Penn State was assigned 33 titles in French, Italian, and Finnish. The new reporting mechanism has been tested and work begun on the titles.
Begin date: March 1, 2012
Harrisburg Periodical Withdrawals
Description: Harrisburg is withdrawing 25% of their periodical holdings. MARC holdings and OCLC LHR records will need editing for each title.
Contacts: Lisa Morgan, Carolee Roman (Harrisburg)
Priority: TBD
Status as of 7/11/2012: 99 out of 625 titles complete (16%) Carolee and Lisa are using the "Oops" reporting workflow to manage this project. Carolee will send Lisa periodic progress reports on the titles that are left to do.
Begin date: Feb. 28, 2012
International Labour Conference Report Cat. as Sep.: Phase I
Description: The International Labour Conference report (which dates back to 1918) is currently treated as one large serial with numerous parts. It is classified under the International Docs call number of ILO 1.1:. Social Sciences would like this large title broken out into its smaller parts (which consist of both serials and monographs) and to have those parts cataloged separately, also using the International Docs classification system. This is a two-part project, with the monographs probably being referred to the Monographs team at some later date.
Contacts: Helen Sheehy, Valerie Allen
Priority: TBD
Status as of 7/11/2012: Completed spring 2008, except for older, shrink-wrapped documents that are in need of deacidification.
Begin date: November 2007
Microfilm F Periodical Reclass
Description: Reclassify Microfilm F periodicals using LC classification. Also involves barcoding each reel, adding call number/item records into the Cat for each reel, marking each box with the new call number, and sometimes replacing worn-out box labels.
Contacts: Ashoo Kumar, Valerie Allen, Donna Dean
Priority: TBA
Status as of 7/11/2012: 1063 titles (91%) completed. Project placed on hold Nov. 15, 2010.
Begin date: Oct. 11, 2007
PRI Project, serial titles
Description:This collection, moved from the Population Research Institute in the Oswald Building, needs to be cataloged for Pattee/Paterno stacks. Decisions on collection weeding and duplicate retention have already been made by Stephen Woods.
Contacts: Valerie Allen, Mary Derstein
Priority: TBD
Status as of 7/11/2012: 20% complete.
Begin date: July 2011
Pending projects are listed in alphabetical order
Business Reference/Social Sciences Reference Collections Merger--Serials
Description:The Business Library is moving the contents of their reference collection (REF-BU) to the Social Sciences Library's reference collection (REF-SS). The serials involved in that move will need to have maintenance done on their MARC holdings records, serial control records, and call number/item records.
Contacts: Heather Ross, Mike Wright, Lisa Morgan
Priority: High
Status: Pending
Herstory Microfilm Collection
Description:There seem to be a couple of hundred records in OCLC for individual (all serial?) titles in the Herstory collection. There is currently no record set available for purchase.
Contacts: Valerie Allen, Debora Cheney
Priority: TBD
Status: Pending
NEH National Digital Newspaper Program, Phase II
Description: Historic newspaper material to be digitized and cataloged, pending approval of an NEH grant.
Contacts: Christopher Walker, Sue Kellerman
Priority: TBD
Status: Pending
Right Wing Collection of the University of Iowa: Phase II
Description: Over 300 serial titles on microfilm to be originally cataloged. Original cataloging of over 1000 additional ephemeral publications may be shared with Monographs Cataloging Team.
Contacts: Ashoo Kumar, [to be determined]
Priority: TBD
Status: Pending
Completed projects are listed in reverse chronological order. Listings for projects completed prior to 2011 can be found here.
Annex Bound-With Microfilm Clean-Up
Description: When the Early English Newspapers microfilm series was cataloged and barcoded, bound-with links were created between records in the Cat for different titles residing on the same reel of microfilm. When this series was later transferred to the Annex, the records containing bound-with links didn't transfer properly, resulting a home location of "CATO-PARK" and a home library of "UP-MICRO." The records for 681 records(65 parent records, 616 child records) had to be unlinked, changed manually, and relinked. Also, most of the MARC holdings records (404 of them) for these titles didn't get edited and still listed these titles as being in UP-MICRO, so that was also in need of correction. During a final sweep of the clean-up, two more parent records and 5 more child records were found and fixed, and 50 more MARC holdings records for other titles in the series were found in need of correction, bring the totals to: 688 records edited and linked (67 parent records, 621 child records), 459 MARC holdings records corrected.
Contacts: Valerie Allen, Sandy Morgart
Priority: TBD
Project completed: November 8, 2012
Microforms Transfers and Withdrawals
Description: News and Microforms and Harrisburg both hold copies of the Library of American Civilization collection, and have decided to consolidate their separate holdings into one complete collection, which will be held by Harrisburg. Most of the News & Microforms Library's holdings are to be withdrawn, as they duplicate Harrisburg's holdings. There are four titles that are to be transferred to fill gaps. Holdings and locations information in the Cat for both libraries need to be edited, and there may be OCLC holdings records to edit as well.
Contacts: Ashoo Kumar, Kim Warren, Valerie Allen
Priority: High; collection is to be moved July 25, 2012
Project completed: The four titles that are to be transferred have had their records in the Cat and OCLC edited on July 23, 2012 to reflect that change. The rest of the project was completed by August 15, 2012
PTI Project, serial titles
Description: A number of serials have been found among the materials for the Monograph Team's PTI project (for the Engineering Library). These volumes need to be added to existing records or cataloged as title changes (when necessary).
Contacts: Valerie Allen, Anna Letowski, Kelly Riley, Linda Struble, Bonnie Osif
Priority: TBD
Project completed: April 18, 2012
Law Reporter Withdrawals
Description: Paterno-3 copies of law reporters are to be withdrawn.
Contacts: Lisa Morgan, Verne Neff
Priority: TBD
Project completed: Feb. 9, 2012; missing volumes will be withdrawn as they are found.
E&MS Microfilm Transfer
Description: Three titles (689 reels, total) are to be transferred from the Earth & Minerals Sciences library to the News & Microforms library. The reels will be sent in lots of 100 and will have their current boxes switched for archival boxes (supplied by the E&MS library) while they are being reclassed and marked.
Contacts: Linda Musser, Lee Ann Nolan, Ashoo Kumar, Lisa Morgan, Donna Dean, Valerie Allen
Priority: TBD
Project completed: December 2011
DOAJ Project
Description: Targets electronic journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a multidisciplinary aggregation of scientific and scholarly open-access journals on Penn State's A-Z list. CONSER-authentication of bibliographic records that meet national standards for all journals in the collection will make them more discoverable in the Cat. 25 CONSER member institutions are cooperating in this project.
Conctacts: Christopher Walker
Priority: TBD
Project completed: Aug. 31, 2011
Altoona Campus Microfilm Recataloging Project
Description: Recataloging microfilmed newspaper titles that have been included erroneously as part of the record for the Altoona Mirror. Approximately 150 reels. Titles will be reclassified to LC, and each reel will be barcoded.
Contacts: Jen Phillips, Valerie Allen
Priority: Medium--they would like it to be done before Fall semester 2011 starts.
Project completed: Aug. 17, 2011
