Alan Jalowitz, editor of the Pennsylvania Center for the Book, works in his second-floor office in Paterno Library. "People say a cluttered desk is symbolic of a cluttered mind; I say an empty desk is symbolic of an empty mind," he said. Photo by Terry Casey

Photo Credit: Terry Casey

Year Taken: 2009

Penn State graduate student Smita Chopade works on a nutrition paper on the second floor of the stacks in Pattee Library. Photo by Rebecca Frack

Photo Credit: Rebecca Frack

Year Taken: 2009

Freshman Paula Palencik, foreground, reads The Daily Collegian while other students study or snooze in a second-floor lounge of Pattee Library. Photo by Curtis Letcavage

Photo Credit: Curtis Letcavage

Year Taken: 2009

Pattee Library employee Kerry Rusnak checks catalog numbers on books for the Google Books Library Project on the second floor of the stacks. She wears a mask to shield dust. Photo by Jennifer Lynch

Photo Credit: Jennifer Lynch

Year Taken: 2009

Senior Chris Stewart searches for a book in the Social Sciences Library on the second floor of Paterno Library. Photo by Alyssa Miller

Photo Credit: Alyssa Miller

Year Taken: 2009

Jonathan Wilner, a junior majoring in history, shelves books on the fourth floor of the Paterno Library. Photo by Hannah Sears

Photo Credit: Hannah Sears

Year Taken: 2009

Keith Farwell, left, hands a book to Julius Lobo, a doctoral candidate, at the library checkout desk on the first floor of Pattee and Paterno Libraries. Photo by Jennifer Shutt

Photo Credit: Jennifer Shutt

Year Taken: 2009

From left, Kimlyn Patishnock, director of Administrative Services; Lisa German, dean of Technical and Collection Services; Jack Sulzer, associate dean of Commonwealth Campus Libraries; Mike Furlough, assistant dean for Scholarly Communications; and Sally Kalin, associate dean for University Park Libraries, meet in the conference room of the Dean's Office to discuss issues of the University Libraries. Photo by Erica Wallace

Photo Credit: Erica Wallace

Year Taken: 2009

Richard Gidez reads Book Review Digest on the second floor of the Arts and Humanities Library. Photo by Andre Woods

Photo Credit: Andre Woods

Year Taken: 2009

Janelle Sigel stacks musical library books on the second floor of Pattee Library. Photo by Jimmy Bowen

Photo Credit: Jimmy Bowen

Year Taken: 2009

Curt Krebs, digital photography and scanning technician in the Digitization and Preservation Department of the Pattee and Paterno Libraries, readies flat materials for high-resolution scanning in the department's digital darkroom. Photo by Andy Colwell

Photo Credit: Andy Colwell

Year Taken: 2009

Pembroke Childs and Denise Conklin sort books behind the circulation desk as they are returned on a conveyor belt. Photo by Kallie Feigenbaum

Photo Credit: Kallie Feigenbaum

Year Taken: 2009

Junior Amber Robinson reads in the Diversity Studies Room of Pattee Library. Photo by Kaitlyn Marchek

Photo Credit: Kaitlyn Marchek

Year Taken: 2009

Junior Jeremy Allen finishes his homework in the Social Sciences wing of the Paterno Library. Photo by Katy Whalen

Photo Credit: Katy Whalen

Year Taken: 2009

Junior Daniel Jenson does schoolwork in the News and Microforms Library on the ground floor of Pattee Library West. Photo by Nicole Yetter

Photo Credit: Nicole Yetter

Year Taken: 2009