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In an honor recognizing exceptional research, creativity and service to the University community, two Penn State librarians are among the 14 faculty named as distinguished faculty for 2008–09.

John Attig is a monographs cataloging librarian and a national and international specialist in descriptive cataloging and authority control, the basis for standardizing practices for bibliographic description worldwide. He has raised Penn State’s cataloging standards to a level of recognized excellence within the Library of Congress international cooperative cataloging efforts. In addition, he is a John Locke scholar and maintains the internationally recognized John Locke bibliography, utilized by Locke scholars worldwide.

Linda Musser is head of the Fletcher L. Byrom Earth and Mineral Sciences Library, a nationally recognized engineering and geosciences librarian, and recipient of the 2006 Homer I. Bernhardt Distinguished Service Award by the ASEE Engineering Libraries Division. Musser is one of the Libraries’ most prolific authors and speakers. She has held the highest leadership positions within the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), the Atmospheric Science Librarians International, and the Geoscience Information Society and was a member of the select committee that authored the National Science Foundation’s publication, “Geoscience Collections and Data: National Resources in Peril.”