Penn State Altoona

Library Staff

Gale Biddle | glb131@psu.edu
Phone: (814)949-5341

  • Staff Assistant
  • Responsible for:
  1. Assisting the Circulation, Interlibrary Loan and Course Reserves staff in day-to-day operations.
  2. Other duties as assigned

Amy Deuink | ald120@psu.edu or ald120@psulias.psu.edu
Phone: (814)949-5252

  • Assistant Librarian
  • Responsible for:
    1. Basic bibliographic instruction
    2. Collection development
    3. Other duties as assigned

Mary L. Hooper | mlh3@psu.edu or mlh@psulias.psu.edu
Phone: (814)949-5255

  • Staff Assistant
  • Responsible for:
  1. Assisting Head Librarian with office duties.
  2. The frontline contact with faculty, staff, students and customers.
  3. The day to day operation of office area.
  4. Other duties as assigned.

Bonnie Imler | bbi1@psu.edu or bbi@psulias.psu.edu
Phone: (814)949-5499

  • Information Technology Librarian
  • Responsible for:
  1. Library web page design, construction, maintenance
  2. Questions about the library catalog (CAT) or any database on LIAS
  3. Bibliographic Instruction
  4. Collection Development

Jeff Knapp | jak47@psu.edu
Phone: (814)949-5493

  • Assistant Librarian and Coordinator of Instruction
  • Responsible for:
    1. Scheduling of library instruction sessions.
    2. Teaching library instruction sessions.
    3. Collection development.

Cindy L. McCarty | clm15@psu.edu
Phone: (814)949-5519

  • Library Assistant
  • Responsible for:
  1. Processing Course Reserves.
  2. Assisting with Circulation duties.

Jennifer Phillips| jap232@psu.edu or jap@psulias.psu.edu
Phone: (814)949-5257

  • Library Assistant
  • Responsible for:
  1. The day to day operation of the Public Service area of the Library
  2. Processing New Books
  3. Periodical claims

Tracy Reilly | tlr185@psu.edu
Phone: (814)949-5458

  • Staff Assistant
  • Responsible for:
  1. Train and supervise students on daily operations
  2. Ordering of new books
  3. Processing of serials

Peg Tromm | mmf4@psu.edu or pmt@psulias.psu.edu
Phone: (814)949-5254

  • Library Assistant III
  • Responsible for:
  1. The coordination of all operational activities for the Circulation, ILL and Course Reserves Departments.
  2. Supervision of the library personnel in these departments which include the hiring, training, evaluating and coaching of departments staff.
  3. Coordinate the maintenance of the collections, circulation functions, and maintain department equipment.
  4. In collaboration with the Head Librarian coordinate and implement special projects and contribute to overall planning.

Tim Wherry | tlw6@psu.edu or tlw@psulias.psu.edu
Phone: (814)949-5255

  • Head Librarian
  • Responsible for:
  1. Planning, staffing, budgets
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