scholarly journals Lessons Learned in Leaving the Library and Coming Back Again

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-102
Author(s):  
Meg E. Massey
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
State University ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Interlibrary Loan ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Working From Home ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Penn State ◽  
Remote Services

In early March 2020, libraries across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania began to close in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. On March 19, staff members in the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Department at Penn State University Libraries pivoted to providing remote services to Penn State users and library partners from around the world. In addition to describing the difficulties of transitioning to and the realities of working from home, this piece describes the challenges experienced in returning to the library. Considerations for the future are also discussed.

scholarly journals Pennsylvania Perspectives of the 2016 Election: A Project to Collect Web and Social Media Content Around Significant Societal Events

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-106
Author(s):  
Anthony T Pinter ◽  
Ben Goldman ◽  
Eric Novotny
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Media Content ◽  
State University ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Twitter Data ◽  
The People ◽  
2016 Election ◽  
Penn State

During the 2016 election, Pennsylvania was viewed as a crucial state not only for the presidential race, but also for a Senate seat, seats in the House of Representatives, and for state-specific positions. In response to the attention placed on Pennsylvania during the election, Penn State University Libraries undertook a project to document the discourse that occurred online. The resulting project, “Pennsylvania Perspectives on the 2016 U.S. Election,” collected websites and Twitter data in order to document the people, voices, moments, and prominent issues in Pennsylvania. In this practice paper, we describe the project background, scope, collection methodology, lessons learned, and best practices that we discovered, in the hopes that it will inspire others to undertake similar projects to document important societal events at local, state, national, and international levels.

Share resources through the largest interlibrary loan network

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 137-140
Author(s):  
Gemma Burke ◽  
Erin Duncan ◽  
JL Smither
Keyword(s):  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Interlibrary Loan ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Purpose The paper aims to show how using a resource-sharing service can help you provide more resources to your users. Design/methodology/approach This paper discusses interlibrary loan challenges and opportunities, specifically with reference to WorldShare Interlibrary Loan. Findings This paper describes the service that connects libraries to the largest cooperative resource-sharing network with more than 10,000 borrowing and lending libraries worldwide, the possibilities for the future, facts and figures and how libraries around the world have used the solution successfully. Originality/value This paper looks at how WorldShare Interlibrary Loan can help libraries overcome the challenges that they face regarding resource sharing.

Epilogue

2016 ◽  
pp. 119-122
Author(s):  
Christian W. McMillen
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Past ◽  
Public Health Infrastructure ◽  
Health Infrastructure ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Challenges

There will be more pandemics. A pandemic might come from an old, familiar foe such as influenza or might emerge from a new source—a zoonosis that makes its way into humans, perhaps. The epilogue asks how the world will confront pandemics in the future. It is likely that patterns established long ago will re-emerge. But how will new challenges, like climate change, affect future pandemics and our ability to respond? Will lessons learned from the past help with plans for the future? One thing is clear: in the face of a serious pandemic much of the developing world’s public health infrastructure will be woefully overburdened. This must be addressed.

Applying Andragogical Concepts in Creating a Sustainable Lifelong Learning Society

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 38-51
Author(s):  
Suwithida Charungkaittikul ◽  
John A. Henschke
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Learning Society ◽  
Facilitating Factors ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

Today, the world is changing, re-establishing the role of education to have a developed society. This article aims to explore the practical application of Andragogy as a key element for creating a sustainable lifelong learning society, to propose strategies for developing a lifelong learning society using andragogical concepts, to enhance ‘andragogy' as a scientific academic discipline and to expand on the horizon of andragogical assumptions and processes put forth by Malcolm Knowles. The literature on andragogy demonstrates the need to consider the future of andragogy, which may strengthen the theory and allow for the assumptions and processes to further guide this aspect of adult education. While the journey towards a lifelong learning society will continue to evolve, the lessons learned may help to identify key facilitating factors as well as pitfalls to be avoided in formulating more comprehensive lifelong learning society development strategies in the future.

scholarly journals 50th Anniversary Celebrations of Atomic-Resolution Imaging

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 46-47
Author(s):  
Thomas F. Kelly ◽  
Allan J. Melmed
Keyword(s):  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Atomic Resolution ◽  
State University ◽  
Pennsylvania State University ◽  
Field Ion Microscopy ◽  
The World ◽  
Penn State ◽  
History Of ◽  
Resolution Imaging ◽  
Ion Microscopy

October 2005 marks 50 years since the first images achieving atomic resolution were obtained by Erwin Miiller and Kanwar Bahadur at the Pennsylvania State University using field ion microscopy. An image from that seminal work is shown in Figure 1. Two separate meetings were held this year to commemorate this important event in the history of microscopy; the 50th Anniversary of Atomic Resolution Microscopy, held June 15-17, 2005 at Penn State and the Golden Anniversary of Atomic Resolution Imaging, a symposium at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2005 in Honolulu held July 31 to August 4, 2005. These celebrations were timed to coincide also with the World Year of Physics 2005 http://www. wyp2005.org/.

The Challenges in Developing an Online Applied Statistics Program: Lessons Learned at Penn State University

2015 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek S. Young ◽  
Glenn F. Johnson ◽  
Mosuk Chow ◽  
James L. Rosenberger
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Applied Statistics ◽  
State University ◽  
Penn State

scholarly journals Strategic Reinvestments of Journal Packages at the Pennsylvania State University

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihoko Hosoi
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Organizational Strategy ◽  
Institutional Repository ◽  
State University ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Pennsylvania State University ◽  
Penn State ◽  
The Face ◽  
Strategy Changes ◽  
Near Future

In the face of budget challenges, organizational strategy changes, and the new open access (OA) policy, the Pennsylvania State University Libraries (PSUL) are reevaluating negotiations and collections of ‘big deal’ journal packages. While a growing number of libraries are considering cancelling subscriptions to ‘big deals’, PSUL has been taking a careful approach in containing cost and making sure that faculty and students have access to resources that they need. Current efforts include: renegotiating ‘big deals’; cancelling low value titles in title-by-title agreements; obtaining single agreements for the entire Penn State; promoting green OA for future subscription negotiation purposes; and renegotiating OA related licensing terms. To achieve greater efficiency of acquisitions workflows and increase university-wide purchasing power, reallocation of the collection budget will be discussed in the near future. Auto deposit of accepted manuscripts from any Penn State author into ScholarSphere, Penn State’s institutional repository, as well as exploration of other OA models are also under consideration.

scholarly journals Twelve Tips to Successfully Conducting Virtual Clinical Assessment Using Zoom™ Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed H. Shehata ◽  
Archana Prabu Kumar ◽  
Mona R. Arekat ◽  
Hani Atwa ◽  
Samar A. Ahmed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Clinical Examination ◽  
Clinical Assessment ◽  
Arabian Gulf ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Clinical Assessments ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the world of medical education, moving it years ahead of time into the future. Many concepts needed to be changed, so did the methodologies. Nevertheless, clinical assessment remained tricky. This work highlights the outcome of the work of College of Medicine and Medical Sciences at the Arabian Gulf University in Bahrain in performing virtual clinical examination using Zoom™. Tips in this article are meant to help plan, implement and evaluate clinical assessments virtually.

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