Penn State University Libraries - Subject Specialists -- Original Cataloging Assignments

• Education and Behavioral Sciences
• Monographs Team: Earth and Mineral Sciences | Engineering | Humanities | Life Sciences | Physical Sciences | Social Sciences
• Music/AV Team
• Serials Team
• Special Collections Team

Cataloger: Charlene Hitchcock

Career, vocational education counseling (may also fall under Social Sciences)
Education (i.e., juvenile, curriculum, instructional, multimedia)
Psychology (may fall under Social Sciences if not counseling education)
Social studies education
Juvenile fiction
Juvenile literature
EBSL Kits, Realia, Games, Toys, A/V, Posters and Charts

Monographs Team

(All monographic materials for E&MS Library, and the following which are not for Engineering or Physical Sciences)
Cataloger: Jacqueline Peagler

Chemical technology (fuel, gas industry, clay, ceramics, textiles)
Climatology
Energy
Energy sources (coal, oil, natural gas)
Engineering (earthwork, tunneling, materials)
Environment (technology)
Geography (geographical treatment of subjects--give to that specialist)
Geology
Geosciences
Geomagnetism
Geophysics
Hydrology
Materials science
Metallurgy
Meteorology
Mining
Oceanography
Petroleum engineering
Water (ground water, rivers, lakes, glaciers)

(All monographic materials for Engineering Library, and the following which are not for E& MS or Physical Sciences)
Cataloger: Anna Letowski

Aeronautics
Astronautics
Bridge engineering
Building construction (include. architectural engineering, construction details, environmental aspects)
Chemical engineering (applied; theoretical/experimental are in Physical Sciences)
Civil engineering
Electrical and nuclear engineering
Energy sources--solar and nuclear
Engineering and related industries
Environmental engineering
Highway engineering
Hydraulic engineering
Marine engineering, naval ships, some ocean engineering
Mechanical engineering and machinery
Military engineering (including chemical warfare and military aircraft and vehicles)
Motor vehicles
Naval science
Optics, applied
Railroad engineering and operations
Technology (General) - (includes industrial safety, industrial engineering (design, improvement & installation of integrated systems of people, materials & equipment), mechanical drawing)
Transportation engineering, applied optics.
Transportation systems and regulations, primarily of wastes and hazardous substances.
Traffic engineering.

Cataloger: Jeff Edmunds

Aesthetics
Art
Architecture
Artistic photography
Ethics (theoretical; ethics in certain discipline falls to that discipline)
Folklore
History
Journalism
Language
Literature (including the classics)
Mythology
Philosophy
Theology (including comparative religion)
Theater

(All monographic materials destined for Life Sciences Library, and Agriculture including farm economics, conservation of land and natural resources, and farm machinery)
Cataloger: Jacqueline Peagler

Animal culture (including veterinary medicine)
Aquaculture
Biology (including economic biology and genetics)
Botany
Chiropractics
Ecology
Energy sources--biomass
Environmental technology
Forestry
Gynecology and obstetrics
Home economics
Human anatomy
Hunting
Internal medicine
Medicine (including internal medicine and nuclear medicine)
Microbiology
Natural history
Nursing
Nutrition
Osteopathy
Pathology
Pediatrics
Pharmacology and materia medica
Physiology
Plant culture (including landscape gardening and horticulture)
Public aspects of medicine (including hospitals and toxicology)
Sports medicine
Surgery
Therapeutics
Zoology

(All monographic materials for Physical Sciences and Mathematics Libraries)
Cataloger: Anna Letowski

Chemical engineering (theoretical and experimental)
Chemistry (analytical and organic)
Computers (including software manuals, books on programming and systems analysis; this does not include computer files)
Math
Physical sciences

Cataloger: Jeff Edmunds

Administration of justice
Agricultural economics
Anthropology
Business
Career, vocational education counseling (may also fall under Education & Behavioral Sciences)
Census
Diversity issues (general)
Economics
Ethnic studies
Finance
History
Human factors
Land use
Law
Library science
Military science
Political science
Political sociology
Popular culture
Psychology (may also fall under Education & Behavioral Sciences if counseling education)
Recreation
Social work
Sociology
Sports
Transportation (social and economic aspects)
Travel
Urbanization

Cataloger: Robert Freeborn

Music scores
All sound and video recordings in all subject areas and formats
Other visual materials (e.g., posters, kits, toys, filmstrips, photographs, etc.)

Catalogers: Christopher Walker

Serials in all subjects, languages, and formats (except maps)

(All materials for the Special Collections Library except for music scores and sound and video recordings)
Catalogers: John Hamilton, Ken Robinson

All subject areas