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January 2002

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Music department receives new pianos
Human Resources and Payroll return to Sutton Hall
Graduate School sponsors poster session
Libraries adopt Library of Congress classification system

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Music department receives new pianos
With the support of Indiana University of Pennsylvania President Dr. Lawrence K. Pettit and Provost Dr. Mark J. Staszkiewicz, IUP’s College of Fine Arts has received nine new pianos for student and faculty use.

The six upright and three grand pianos, which arrived Dec. 5, were purchased for the music department for approximately $210,000. The grand pianos have been placed in teaching studios, and the uprights, available to piano majors and minors, will be used in practice rooms.

The purchase of new pianos was long overdue, according to College of Fine Arts Dean Michael Hood. The department’s last piano purchase was about 30 years ago.

"Our students and faculty are some of the most talented in the world," Hood said. "It’s only right that we can offer them these beautiful instruments, and we are overwhelmed with gratitude by the support shown by the President and Provost that has enabled this purchase," he said.

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Human Resources and Payroll return to Sutton Hall
Human Resources and Payroll are in the process of returning to the ground floor of Sutton Hall and expect to be completing the move by early next week. The Payroll Offices will include both Faculty and Staff and Student Payroll. Employees should go to room G-8 to pick up pay checks.

Also, some of the responsibilities in Human Resources will be changing effective Jan. 2, 2002:

• Tom Mittelhauser will move to Benefits Manager.

• Kathleen Manion will become Classification Manager, responsible for all non-managerial classifications.

• Yvonne Redd will be responsible for coordination of faculty hiring along with her present duties of Affirmative Action and student evaluations. She will give up academic integrity, internships and grade appeals.

• Helen Soltis will take responsibility for faculty labor relations in addition to her present duties. She will give up her present involvement in non-managerial classifications.

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Graduate School sponsors poster session
The Graduate School and Research is already planning numerous activities in recognition of the fourth annual Research Appreciation Week that will be held April 8-12, 2002. This year they are adding a new event, a poster session, to showcase university involvement in sponsored research. Sponsored research includes all IUP projects that are funded by external sources and are devoted to the advancement of the University’s mission of teaching, research and public service.

This poster session, named Sponsored Research:  A Work in Progress at IUP, will provide a forum for externally funded project directors and co-directors to share the results and accomplishments of their work with interested colleagues and fellow researchers.

In order to make the first poster session successful, members of the IUP community are invited to submit a poster describing any project that received an external award since July 1997. These posters will be displayed on Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at the annual Research Awards Luncheon. Following that event, the public will be invited to review the poster presentations as well.

Please consider sharing your externally funded projects with our colleagues. Proposals must be submitted by Feb. 15; further information and criteria is available online.

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Libraries adopt Library of Congress classification system
Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Stapleton Library is celebrating a major achievement in having converted its holdings to the Library of Congress classification system. This makes the library more convenient and efficient for patrons and better able to catalogue research collections. It also makes an important statement about the library’s role as part of a research institution.
The Library of Congress in Washington designed the LC system for the organization of its books. The library, a national library, uses a system of letters and numbers to represent first, a broad and then narrower subject.

The IUP Libraries formerly used the Dewey Decimal system, which is all numbers. The conversion, a long sought-after campus goal, was supported by the Dean after her arrival in 1998.

"This system makes the call numbers on the spine of the books easier to read and locate," Dean of IUP Libraries Rena Fowler said. "This also helps our own student employees who shelve books after use."

In the past, there were delays in getting new books on the shelves, but with the new system, students and faculty should be able to use new books sooner and be able to find them more easily, she noted.

The majority of academic libraries use the LC system because of its flexibility when cataloging in-depth research materials.

The project of relabeling and reorganizing the library was begun in mid-May and was anticipated to last approximately five to six weeks. With the help of more than 150 students, librarians and library support staff, the project was finished in about four weeks.

"Few libraries of our size undertake to convert their collections over such a short time span," Fowler said. "Our project was successful because of the leadership and organization invested before it began and the commitment of those who worked."

The conversion team was led by Judy Bouton, Ron Steiner and Phil Zorich.

The IUP Libraries are open Monday through Thursday, 7:45 a.m. to 11:45 p.m.; Friday, 7:45 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 1 p.m. to 11:45 p.m.
written by Stephanie Emert, student writer, media relations

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