Penn State University Libraries - Awards, Distinguished Honors

• Bibliographer, James Joyce Quarterly (William Brockman)
• Editor, James Joyce Checklist (William Brockman)
• Editor, Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship (Gary White)
• Editor, Reference & User Services Quarterly (Diane Zabel)
• Classical Music Editor, Basic Music Library 4th ed. (Amanda Maple)
• Consulting Editor, Brill’s New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World, Classical Tradition (Daniel Mack)
• Editor, Language, Linguistics and Philology, Guide to Reference Sources 12th ed. (Daniel Mack)
• Member, ACRL New Publications Advisory Board (John Meier)
• Member, Editorial board, Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship (Diane Zabel)
• Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Academic Librarianship (Diane Zabel)
• Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Agricultural & Food Information (Amy Paster)
• Member, Penn State Press Editorial Committee (William Brockman)
• Member, Penn State Press Library Advisory Board (Eric Novotny)
• Member, Editorial Board, Science and Technology Libraries (Thomas Conkling)

• Isadore Gilbert Mudge Award; 2011 recipient Diane Zabel, an award established by the ALA in 1958 to recognize distinguished contributions in reference librarianship
• Louis and Virginia Benzak Business Librarian;  Diane Zabel
• Larry and Ellen Foster Communications Librarian;  Debora Cheney
• Paterno Family Librarian for Literature;  William Brockman
• Tombros Librarian for Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies; Daniel Mack 
• Distinguished Librarian;  Linda Musser

BEST PUBLICATION AWARD is awarded to Thomas Conkling, Kevin Harwell, Cheryl McCallips, Sylvia Nyana and Bonnie Osif of Pennsylvania State University for their article "Research material Selection in the pre-web and post-web Environments:  An Interdisciplinary Study of Bibliographic Citations in Doctoral Dissertations" published in The Journal of Academic Librarianship Volume 36, Number 1 (January 2010)." 

This award will be presented by the Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) at it's annual conference in June 2011, in Vancouver, BC.

Geoscience Information Society Best Paper Award 2010; Linda Musser for her article "Progress in the Citation of Geoscience Data"

Journal of Map and Geography Libraries Best Paper Award 2010; Marcy Bidney for her paper "Can Coordinates in Catalog Records be Useful?"

The 2011 Award for Administrative Excellence: Sally Kalin, Associate Dean, University Park Libraries

• Donald W. Hamer Maps Library
• Fletcher L. Byrom Earth and Mineral Sciences Library
• William and Joan Schreyer Business Library ;   
  • Richard F. DeFluri Seminar Room
  • Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library
• Dahn & Krieger Group Study Room
  • Duff Instruction Room
• George and Sherry Middlemas Arts and Humanities Library ;
  • Edward and Judith Anchel Music Seminar Room
  • Walter and Doris Goldstein Music and Media Center
  • Gray and O’Toole Family Reference Foyer
  • Joan D. Kerr Reading Room
  • Paterno Family Humanities Reading Room
• Mellon Bank, N.A. Group Study, 206 Paterno
  
• News and Microforms Library
  • Class of '94 Extended Hours Study Area
  • Thomas James O'Toole Reading Room

• Vice-President/President-Elect, Reference and User Services Association, 2010-2011 (Gary White)
• Member-at-Large, Reference and User Services Association, Business Reference and Services Section, 2010-2011(Kevin Harwell)
• Councilor-at-Large, American Library Association, 2009-2012 (Diane Zabel)
• Member, Nominating Committee, American Library Association, 2010-2011 (Daniel Mack)
• Vice Chair/Chair/Past Chair for MAGERT 2010-2012 (Marcy Bidney)
• Co-Chair Cartographic Users Advisory Council 2009-Present (Marcy Bidney)
• Director-at-Large, Reference and User Services Association, 2003-2004, 2006-2009 (Gary White)
• Chair, Atmospheric Science Librarians International, 2009 (Linda Musser)
• President, Reference and User Services Association, 2005-2006 (Diane Zabel)
• President, Geosciences Information Society, 2004/2005 (Linda Musser)
• Chair, American Society for Engineering Education, Engineering Libraries Division, 2000/2001 (Linda Musser)
• Chair, Intellectual Freedom Committee, American Library Association, 1997-2000 (Steven Herb)

• The Pennsylvania Center for the Book, affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress (Education and Behavioral Sciences Library)

• Public Poetry Project, 2000- (Pennsylvania Center for the Book, Education and Behavioral Sciences Library, and Paterno Family Librarian for Literature)
• Video Series, 2000- (Earth and Mineral Sciences Library)

• Dr. Leon R. Kneebone Mushroom Reference Collection (Life Sciences Library)
• Local, state, federal, and international documents, including depository collections (Social Sciences Library)
• Walter and Doris Goldstein Music and Media Center (Arts and Humanities Library)
• Fine Prints Collection (Arts and Humanities Library)
• George P. Tombros Ancient Greek Collection (Arts and Humanities Library)
• Instructional materials and kits (Education and Behavioral Sciences Library)
• George Harvey Fly-Fishing Literature Collection (Life Sciences Library)
• Three Mile Island Recovery and Decontamination Collection (Engineering Library)
• Worldwide Buildings and Landscape Pictures image database (Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library)