Eric Novotny

History Librarian
Associate Librarian

Office Address

321 Pattee Library, University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone
814-865-1014
Departmental Phone
814-863-0377 (department)
ecn1@psu.edu

Academic Support Areas

History, History and Philosophy of Science, Middle East Studies

Research Interests

Library history, usability, assessment.

Subject Expertise

  • History
  • African American History
  • Asian American Studies
  • Asian Studies
  • Middle East Studies

Publications

"Pennsylvania Perspectives on the 2016 Election: Collecting Social Media Data Around Significant Societal Events", Pennsylvania Libraries: Research & Practice, 2017

Tales from a new (virtually) embedded librarian, Library News, 2016

From inferno to freedom: Censorship in the Chicago public library, 1910–1936, Library Trends, 2014

"Bricks without Straw": Economic Hardship and Innovation in the Chicago Public Library during the Great Depression, Libraries and the Cultural Record, 2011

Hard choices in hard times: Lessons from the great depression, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2010

Conference report: Happy trails: Building a user-centered online library, Serials Librarian, 2008

Using the Wisconsin-Ohio Reference Evaluation Program (WOREP) to Improve Training and Reference Services, Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2007

If we teach, do they learn? The impact of instruction on online catalog search strategies, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2006

I don't think i click: A protocol analysis study of use of a library online catalog in the internet age, College and Research Libraries, 2004

Library services to immigrants: The debate in the library literature, 1900-1920, and a Chicago case study, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2003

How do we learn?: Contributions of learning theory to reference service and library instruction, Reference Librarian, 2001

Evaluating electronic reference services: Issues, approaches and criteria, Reference Librarian, 2001

Performances

The Civil War Era in the Stacks, University Park, PA 16801, 9/1/2011

Other Publications

Blogs

Historians and Personal Digital Archiving, Scholarly Workflow Blog, 2013

Books

Assessing Reference and User Services in a Digital Age, 2013

Chapters

Evaluating electronic reference services: Issues, approaches and criteria, 2013

Book/Film/Article Reviews

The Settlement of America: Encyclopedia of Westward Expansion from Jamestown to the Closing of the Frontier, Reference and User Services Quarterly

Review of "Aliens in Popular Culture", RUSQ Digital Supplement, 2021

American Immigration: An Encyclopedia of Political, Social, and Cultural Change, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2014

Immigrants in American History: Arrival, Adaptation and Integration, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2013

Everyday Information The Evolution of Information Seeking in America, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2012

Encyclopedia of American Immigration, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2011

Encyclopedia of American Indian Removal, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2011

The Martin Luther King Jr. Encyclopedia, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2009

Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2009

Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2007

Editorials

Introduction, Reference Librarian, 2006

Preface, Reference Librarian, 2006

Foreword/Postscripts

Introduction, 2013

Preface, 2013

Others

COVID-19 and Innovation: Accessing Microforms in a Pandemic, Serials Review, 2021

Introduction to Issue 1.1: Welcome from the Editors, Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, 2017

Years Ago in the Historical Digital Collegian, 2010

Finding United States historical images in print and online, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2005

NEW DATABASE PRODUCTS: SOCIAL SCIENCE, HUMANITIES, NEWS AND GENERAL (ISSUE 8), Online and CDROM Review, 1996

NEW DATABASE PRODUCTS: SOCIAL SCIENCE, HUMANITIES, NEWS AND GENERAL (ISSUE 7), Online and CDROM Review, 1996