Team Links
Pennsylvania State and Local Documents Reclass
Description: Reclassify all Pennsylvania state and local documents from Sudoc number to LC classification.
Contacts: Ashoo Kumar, Beth Pfeiffer
Priority: Medium
Completed: Summer 2004
Math/Phys Sci Merger -- Corrections
Description: Correct serial records to show new library and home location information. Delete old MARC holdings statements and add new statements for UP-PAMS.
Contacts: Misti Smith, Grace Aumiller, Lori Leatherman, Beth Pfeiffer
Priority: High
Completed: Spring 2004
Annex Transfer Bound Periodical Prep (for summer 2005 transfers)
Description: Itemizing thousands of bound periodical volumes that have been barcoded by subject library staff in order to be sent to Annex. Catalog any titles for which no record can be found. Resolve any problems found.
Contacts: Subject library staff, Beth Pfeiffer, Lori Leatherman
Priority: High
Completed: Summer 2005
Micro 4 Periodical Reclass
Description: Reclassify Micro 4 periodicals using LC classification.
Contacts: Ashoo Kumar, Beth Pfeiffer
Priority: Medium
Completed: Summer 2005
Right Wing Collection of the University of Iowa: Phase 1
Description: Over 400 serial titles on microfilm to be cataloged using copy available in OCLC.
Contacts: Ann Thompson, Lori Leatherman
Priority: Medium
Completed: Spring 2005
Architecture Library Move Preparation
Description: Designate all serials over 28 cm. in height as oversize (Q). Change all instances of location code PERIOD-AC to STACKS-AC. Update call/copy records, MARC holdings and notify Serials Receiving and Bindery of changes to titles on standing order.
Contacts: Stephanie Movahedi-Lankarani, Darla Baker, Judy Hewes, Beth Pfeiffer
Priority: High
Completed: Spring 2005
Underground Newspapers
Description: Cataloging of newspaper titles on microfilm for which no records were available for bib load purchase, and editing of the existing records to add holdings information. There are over 1000 titles in this set.
Contacts: Ashoo Kumar, Hi SooHoo, Valerie Allen
Priority: TBA
Completed: Feb. 2007
Abington-to-News and Microforms Library transfer
Description: Abington campus is transferring 45 titles in microfilm to the News and Microforms Library. In all but one case, these reels fill gaps in the existings holdings of News and Microforms records; in one instance, the title is not in the Cat and will need to be cataloged when it arrives. The records in the Cat and OCLC will need to be edited, (or created), and the reels will need to be barcoded and marked.
Contacts: Valerie Allen, Ashoo Kumar, Sue Brilhart
Priority: Medium
Completed: Nov. 2008
Yeager and O'Connor metadata project
Description: 316 electronic titles added to the collection need to have locations added and have authority work done.
Contacts: Cinthia Stellabotte, Kevin Clair
Priority: undetermined
Completed: Nov. 2008
G-GN Stacks Transfer
Description: In mid-July 2008, titles classed G-GN were transferred from Paterno-3 to Paterno-2. The catalog records for these titles were updated globally to reflect this change at approximately the same time for all call numbers of the item type "BOOK." Apparently the system cannot make this change for item type "PERIODICAL," so the home locations need to be done by hand, as does editing of the 852c field the MARC holdings record for each serial title.
Contacts: Cinthia Stellabotte, Heather Ross
Priority: High
Status: Active
Completed: Aug. 2008
PALCI Distributed Journal Archive Project
Description: Working from a spreadsheet provided by PALCI, determine and record Penn State's physical holdings for approximately 200 science journals. This completed spreadsheet will be needed for a PALCI meeting in early June 2008.
Contacts: Lisa German, Valerie Allen
Priority: High
Completed: May 2008
Chronicling America
Description: Original cataloging of more than two (2) dozen American newspaper runs that have been digitized by the Library of Congress as part of a project to enhance access to America's historical newspapers. The number of actual titles involved, when title changes are counted, is as yet unknown. Most likely these titles will be candidates for PSU's CONSER contributions.
Contacts: Debora Cheney, Lori Leatherman
Priority: ? Not high.
Completed: Jan. 2008
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Description: The Engineering Library has been receiving the proceedings of this institution for years and has been holding them in their workroom. They would like to have them added to the Cat, and to have serial control records set up for the current titles. Back issues will be bound.
Contacts: Valerie Allen, Grace Aumiller, J. Harlan Ritchey
Priority: TBA
Project completed: Oct. 5, 2009
Google Books Project Clean-Up
Description: Working from spreadsheets provided by Jeff Edmunds, investigate Cat records without OCLC record numbers in them that have been identified as serial titles, find OCLC record that match these records, and insert the OCLC record number into the existing Cat record.
Contacts: Lori Leatherman, Jeff Edmunds
Priority: High
Project completed: Sept. 17, 2009
OCLC Reclamation Project - Microforms
Description: Examine a subset of records returned as errors from the OCLC Reclamation Project -- specifically the ones for titles in microform -- and correct the perceived errors in the records so that they can be resubmitted to OCLC and hopefully find a match in OCLC's database.
Contacts: Valerie Allen, Judy Hewes
Priority: High
Project completed: September 10, 2009
Social Sciences Reference Z to J Reclass
Description: Four shelves' worth of serials in classed in the Z1223's need to be reclassed so that they sit in J83.
Contacts: Heather Ross, Valerie Allen
Priority: TBD
Project completed: August 25, 2009
Non-PSU Theses on Microfilm - Catalog and Transfer
Description: Out of a 4,000-title microfilm collection (currently housed in News and Microforms), 210 reels have been found that have no Cat record. This collection is a mixture of books and non-PSU theses. After cataloging, these reels are being transferred to the Annex.
Contacts: Cinthia Stellabotte, Ashoo Kumar, Carol Holt (for microfilm-related instruction)
Priority: Medium
Project completed: June 11, 2009
Honey Board Project (Constant DM)
Description: Providing descriptions for 260 in-house digitized articles by Johnathan W. White on the subject of purifying honey. These descriptions will eventually become a database.
Contacts: Cinthia Stellabotte, Kevin Clair
Priority: TBA
Project completed: June 2009
Barcode for Annex Transfer
Description: Affixing barcode labels to volumes of titles identified by selectors in the News & Microforms Library as titles to be transferred to the Annex. Creating call number/item records for each of those previously unbarcoded volumes.
Contacts: Valerie Allen, Cheryl McCallips
Priority: High (Window for Annex transfer is small)
Project completed: May 19, 2009
Dewey Serial/Recat
Description: Reclassing approx. 139 vols. of Pennsylvania Archives from Dewey to LC. This project is a subset of the Monographs Team's Dewey Sets/Reclass, Serial/Recat project for the A&H library.
Contacts: Beth Pfeiffer, Eric Novotny
Priority: TBA
Project completed: March 2009
World Economic Forum
Description: Original cataloging of the online publications of the World Economic Forum (approx. 50 titles)
Contacts: Lori Leatherman, Helen Sheehy
Priority: Medium
Project completed: Mar. 17, 2009
British Periodicals in the Creative Arts
Description: This is a microfilm collection consisting of 100+ periodical titles on 224 reels. Currently there is a single record in The CAT with added-entry access for each title in the set. Pieces in the set have been classified in differing schemes: they are listed as having the call number NX1.B75, but reels 69-224 actually bear the call number Microfilm F538. To provide better access to microfilm holdings (decisions about weeding and transferring items to the Annex would be easier if the Libraries' holdings were better represented in The CAT), this project entails importing the serial records for each title in the set, reclassifying each title, and then removing the monograph record for the collection. There might be some "filmed-with" work entailed. **Update** Due to the number of titles filmed together, the series call number of NX1.B75 is being used. Otherwise, volumes of the same title could be scattered throughout the drawers under different call numbers.
Contacts: Valerie Allen, Ashoo Kumar, Sue Brilhart
Priority: TBD
Project completed: Mar. 6, 2009
Recataloging and Reclassing Pa. Series "Bulletin"
Description: This project is a subset of the Google project . The title Bulletin by the Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction needs to be recataloged. Bulletin was originally done as a serial, but it has since been decided the issues would be more useful cataloged separately. Some of the series' title are serial, some are monographs. The Serials Cataloging Team has decided to take responsibility for cataloging the whole set regardless of format in the interests of expediency.
Contacts: Beth Pfeiffer, Jackie Peagler
Priority: High
Project completed: Feb. 25, 2009
Hershey-to-University Park transfer
Description: Approximately 900 volumes (103 titles) are being transferred from the library at Hershey to the libraries at the University Park campus. Some are going to be filling gaps in Pattee/Paterno, others are being sent to the Annex. Working from a list that will be provided, Cataloging will assign call numbers and change locations in the Cat. MARC holdings information and OCLC symbols will be updated by the staff at Hershey.
Contacts: Judy Hewes, Valerie Allen, Ginny Lingle
Priority: High
Date completed: Feb. 2, 2009
Cataloging Free E-journals in Egyptology and Ancient Near East
Description: The following list of online resources of (free) online journals and (free) digitized/digitalized paper periodicals has been compiled by Michael Tilgner for the Egyptologists' Electronic Forum. The focus is on Egyptological material. Journals that have an electronic edition for subscribers only have not been listed, nor are occasionally free journal articles (only whole issues and series). For material available on the website of a journal, only the main link is given, as there you will find the Tables of Contents and the articles readily accessible. For older journals at the Internet Archive and similar sources, individual links are given if they can only be found separately.
Contacts: Lori Leatherman, Dan Mack
Priority: Low -- Note from Dan: The Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies requests that we catalog these important resources. We probably have some either in print or through online subscriptions, or both. This is an extremely low priority project.
Project completed: Jan. 2009
