UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State University Libraries has launched a new column, “Inside the Libraries,” to highlight University Libraries and Penn State University Press key employee appointments, significant behind-the-scenes and operational updates and milestones, select honors, and other academic research library-relevant news in brief.
This Penn State News column reflects a periodic summary of posts to a new section of the University Libraries website with the same name. That section reflects library-field communications similar to many of the University Libraries’ peers in the Big Ten Academic Alliance and the Association for Research Libraries.
“Inside the Libraries” will elevate information of interest to University Libraries and Penn State University Press institutional peers, friends and supporters.
The periodic column soft-launched earlier in the summer. Initial posts include the following:
Libraries’ cataloging of 400K AEC, DOE reports boosts global research impact
A University Libraries team including Fletcher L. Byrom Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) Library employees completed large-scale, behind-the-scenes work of adding and making discoverable nearly 400,000 federal records and reports’ metadata to the University Libraries catalog. Their records also were shared with the global library organization OCLC for other libraries’ access and use of those documents.
Libraries Open Publishing adds Manifold for publishing Open Access monographs
Penn State University Libraries’ Open Publishing program is now using a hosted instance of Manifold, an open source, virtual publication platform, to publish Open Access monographs.
Penn State University Press transitions inventory to new distributor
Penn State University Press has transitioned its book inventory to an off-site warehouse through a new distribution partnership with Longleaf Services and its warehousing and fulfillment source, Ingram, the largest book wholesaler in the United States.
Summer 2026 updates highlight achievements, new faculty, leadership
New employees have been named to head the Preservation, Conservation and Digitization (PCD) Department and the Office of Records Management; faculty and staff receive several honors; and more.