Mark Mattson

Head of Global Engagement Initiatives and International Partnerships Librarian
Associate Librarian

Office Address

E208D Paterno Library
Office Phone
814-863-2480
Departmental Phone
814-863-2480 (department)
mam1196@psu.edu

Research Interests

International Sister-Library Partnerships, Comparative and International Librarianship, Contribution of Academic Libraries to Campus Internationalization, Global Citizenship Programming, Libraries and Intercultural Dialogue, International Student Services, Librarianship in Service of Global Priorities and Goals, Viking-age Scandinavia, Old Norse Literature, Norse Mythology, and Historical Linguistics.

Publications

Cooking up engagement during a pandemic: The international Great Rare Books Bake Off between the Penn State and Monash University Libraries, IFLA Journal, 2022

International students and COVID-19: The initial response from the Penn state libraries, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021

Best Practices in Library-Community Engagement from Around the Globe, International Information and Library Review, 2020

Best Practices from World Libraries Photo Gallery Project: Engaging Global Libraries, International Information and Library Review, 2020

Lyman tower sargent’s utopian literature in english: An annotated bibliography from 1516 to the present: New recognition, Utopian studies, 2020

International library partnerships: From shoestring startups to institutional sponsorships, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2018

A planning perspective for library journal publishing services, OCLC Systems and Services, 2014

Performances

Home: Contemporary Indigenous Artists Responding, University Park, PA, 1/1/2018

Academic Libraries Around the World, University Park, PA, 11/1/2017

Syttende Mai, 1940, University Park, PA

Other Publications

Blogs

Evolving: An Update on Library Publishing at Penn State, 2015

Chapters

Mark Allen Mattson, Head of Global Engagement Initiatives and International Partnerships Librarian, Pennsylvania State University Libraries, The Marketing of Academic, National and Public Libraries Worldwide, 2023

Infrastructure for Open Access: Mechanics, Economics, Politics, Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication: Policy and Infrastructure, 2016

Dissemination as Cultivation: Scholarly Communication in a Digital Age, Doing Digital Humanities: Practice, Training, Research, 2016

Others

Sister Library Profile: University of Split and Penn State University, International Leads, 2018

Sister Library Profile: University of Freiburg and Penn State University, International Leads, 2017