News
in Brief
Penn State Intercom......April
4, 2002
Eberly College Open House
The Eberly College
of Science will hold its 13th annual Open House Day 
beginning
at 8:30 a.m. April 6 on the University Park campus.
Approximately 3,000 high-school seniors have been invited to attend. Among the activities are opportunities for informal discussions with deans, faculty, staff and current students in the HUB-Robeson Center Alumni Hall. Other activities include tours of classrooms, residence halls and facilities in research areas.
Participants may register via the Web at http://www.science.psu.edu/academic/OpenHouse.html or by calling (814) 863-0284.
Library survey
Are faculty and students satisfied with the quality of services at their campus libraries? Beginning April 8, thousands of randomly selected individuals at the University will receive e-mail invitations to answer a series of questions on a Web survey regarding perceptions about their library's services. The survey should take about 10 minutes to complete.
University Libraries are participating with more than 160 other institutions nationwide in LibQUAL+™, a large-scale user-based library service assessment tool developed by Texas A&M University in conjunction with the Association of Research Libraries New Measures Initiative with the support of the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education.
The survey tool asks library patrons to evaluate four dimensions of their campus library's service: affect of service, the library as "place," personal control and access to information.
Participation will help the University Libraries create a culture of assessment based on outcomes measures and will provide a set of new measures to evaluate the effectiveness of services in meeting the needs of students and faculty.
To find out more about LibQUAL, check the Web at http://www.arl.org/libqual/index.html or call Laurie Probst at (814) 865-5524.
CPR Saturday
Students from University Ambulance Service are planning CPR Saturday on April 13 in Alumni Hall at the HUB-Robeson Center on the University Park campus.
It will be a free mass program where up to 300 people will be trained following the American Heart Association's cardiopulmonary resuscitation training guidelines. Participants will receive training in adult, child and infant CPR.
Participants may choose either a session from 8:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. or from 1:45 to 6 p.m. Register online at http://www.clubs.psu.edu/emsa/cpr-day/ or e-mail psucpr@psu.edu.
CPR instructors are welcome to register as volunteer instructors for the day. The event includes door prizes and T-shirts.
Vanpool coordinator needed
A new coordinator/main driver is sought to take over an already-established, 8 a.m.-to-5 p.m. University vanpool that runs Monday through Friday from Philipsburg to University Park.
If interested, call Paula Morgan at (814) 865-1775 or e-mail ply2@psu.edu.
Holiday announcements
The Memorial Day holiday will be officially observed by the University on Monday, May 27. Independence Day will be observed on Thursday, July 4.
Classes will not be in session on either of those days.