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Greetings:
Spring has arrived in Happy Valley and the campus looks beautiful in bloom, after emerging from the long winter. The start of this semester saw the opening of a new exhibit highlighting the Chip Kidd Archives. Archivist Alyssa Carver curated a compelling display, representing the multifaceted career of renowned graphic artist, author, and Penn State alumnus Chip Kidd.
Spanning visual culture, popular culture, and book-publishing history over the past three decades, there is much in the Kidd
Archives to draw scholars and students, and we are excited to build on our growing collection of materials related to design, graphic novels, and the book arts. Fans of graphic novels may also be interested in the new Graphic Medicine series published by the Penn State Press. Two titles from this series, The Bad Doctor and Graphic Medicine Manifesto , are highlighted in “Press
Picks” on page 11.
This is an especially busy time of year, as students are rushing to complete papers, projects, and dissertations, and relying on us for research support and help with class assignments. One of our most heavily used services, and one that has a direct impact on our students’ finances, is the textbook loan program, which offers course materials for student use on reserve. With the average student spending $1,200 a year on books and supplies, the Libraries are working hard to make more course materials available on reserve to students. Our story on page 4 highlights our textbook loan program, how it impacts our students, and how we would like to expand it in future.
Finally, we welcome many new faces into the fold, including our new associate dean for Learning, Undergraduate Services, and Commonwealth Campus Libraries, Joseph Salem, who started in March. We also have a new copyright officer, Cataloging and Metadata services head, metadata strategist, digital humanities research designer, social sciences data curation fellow, and geospatial services librarian. Read more about our new appointments on pages
6 and 7. With these new positions, the University Libraries are charting a path forward that is very different from what has gone before, as our profession continues to meet and anticipate the needs of a changing higher education landscape.
Sincerely,
Barbara I. Dewey,
Dean of University Libraries and Scholarly Communications
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engineering liaison librarian, B.S., Penn State 2011;
M.L.I.S., University of Pittsburgh 2012
What drew you back to Penn State?
I worked in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences Library as a student and I really enjoyed my experience. The Engineering Library allows me to combine my two favorite elements—working in libraries and science. I understand the students who are studying engineering and know how important it is for them to have a strong understanding of the library. I find it very exciting and rewarding to share my experiences with them. Photo: Harlan Ritchey
What do you do on a day-to-day basis?
I answer reference questions, teach library instruction sessions, and look for resources to add to our collection. I do a lot of research assistance and help students find information for projects. My goal is to show students the resources that they need to complete their projects efficiently and professionally. I am also active in university and library committees, including the University’s Forum on Black Affairs (FOBA) and the Libraries’ Digital Preservation Strategies Team.
Renovations were completed recently in the
Engineering Library. How have students and faculty reacted to the changes?
One exciting addition to the library is our new instruction lab. The room is used primarily for instruction sessions and when it is not in use it serves as a computer lab. The reaction to the instruction room has been fantastic! It’s not uncommon to see at least 30 students in the computer lab at one time. As a librarian I love the fact that we are doing library instruction inside the library. We actually get the students to the physical location, so they know where we are and that we exist.
What is the Engineering Open House program?
We organized the open house series as a way to get to know our students and faculty better in a more casual setting and to introduce them to the unique library resources for the profession and each department in the College of Engineering.
We’ve been very pleased with the success of the open houses and we plan to make this an ongoing program. We also offer open houses in specific areas, like Diversity in Engineering and Sustainability in Engineering.
How do you think we could better help our students?
We could always use more space; the library is often full. We are striving to update the library to continue to make it a place where our students want to study. There are a lot of students in the College of Engineering and our mission is to help them become world-class engineers.
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Today’s college students shoulder a growing financial burden—tuition is rising, but so too are all the other costs associated with getting a degree, and the price of textbooks is no exception. Students can find themselves with a semester course load that requires an outlay of several hundred dollars just for books. Boen Wang, a Penn State sophomore, began looking at some of the reasons for high costs. He asked, “Why are textbooks so expensive?”
Wang noted that according to the College Board the average student at a four-year public college spends $1,200 per year on books and supplies. Some single books required for a course cost can cost $225 or more.
The Libraries are helping students mitigate these high costs through a number of initiatives, with the most significant being the textbook loan program, which offers a variety of textbooks and course materials for student use on reserve.
Librarian Emeritus Tom Conkling, the former head of the
Engineering Library, says that he had so many requests in the
1980s from students for these materials that he started to buy them for classes with high enrollments.
By 1995, the J. Harvey Fahnestock Endowment for
Scientific, Engineering and Rare Books began to fund a reserves textbook program that Conkling formalized. Today, we dedicate more than $125,000 to provide textbook to all students.
A big fan of the textbook reserves program, Horacio Perez-
Blanco, professor of mechanical engineering, shared, “The reserve program is one of the library gems. As education and information systems have evolved over the years, the program has steadily fulfilled the need of making important information readily available to students. The system is responsive to the needs detected by faculty and fills many educational gaps.”
A few of his students noted:
“It forces me to go to the library where I am more productive.”
“Helps not to carry textbooks to and from campus.”
“The Knovel textbook can be found online, but a hard copy is always helpful.”
Nan Butkovich, head librarian for the Physical and
Matematical Sciences Library, observes, “Nothing that our library provides has as direct of an impact on the curricular needs of students than our textbook program.”
Earth and Mineral Sciences Library Head Librarian Linda
Musser adds, “Our students are so appreciative, and I’m sure that some would not be able to afford the required books.”
Diane Zabel, the Louis and Virginia Benzak Business
Librarian and head, points out, “Not only do we assist students who are financially strapped, the books provided by the William and Joan Schreyer Business Library are available
24/7 through Course Reserves
Services.” Greater funding would enable the
Libraries to provide multiple copies of textbooks and the related solution manuals and study guides, and help even more students.
“I go to the PAMS Library all the time, maybe three or four times a week to do homework.” — undergraduate Boen Wang
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Photo: Yin Mo (Wang’s mother)

Right: A student in Professor Elizabeth Smith’s medieval art history class watches as
Sandra Stelts, curator of rare books and manuscripts, holds an encapsulated 15th-century manuscript leaf to the light to highlight a watermark in the paper. Protecting materials between two sheets of inert polyester plastic also allows them be viewed on both sides.
Above: Students pore over medieval manuscripts and manuscript facsimiles that Stelts has displayed for Professor Charlotte Houghton’s undergraduate writing seminar in art history.
A variety of scholars and students visit the
Special Collections Library regularly throughout the year to explore the wealth of rare and archival materials contained within its doors.
Last fall a delegation from the South China Agricultural
University (SCAU) visited Penn State. Forged by George
Weidman Groff (1884–1954), the partnership is the oldest bilateral international agreement in Penn State history and one of the oldest cooperative programs between a U.S. and a Chinese university. A highlight of the delegation’s visit was the Penn State University Archives and the opportunity to review historical documents that SCAU lost during the
Cultural Revolution in China.
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Joseph A. Salem, Jr., the new associate dean for Learning, Undergraduate
Services and Commonwealth Campus Libraries, will lead Library Learning
Services, the Knowledge Commons, the Commonwealth Campus Libraries,
Penn State World Campus support, and other initiatives related especially to undergraduate students. He will join Dean Barbara I. Dewey and Associate
Dean Lisa German as a member of the Libraries’ administration collective leadership team.
Salem notes, “I am looking forward to working with library and university faculty to create, expand, and promote partnerships for learning and scholarship focusing on course-integrated information literacy, eLearning, and new models of information delivery, use, and creation.”
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Attorney Brandy Karl , the University Libraries’ new copyright officer, is on board to advise the Libraries on national and international copyright matters and to help to craft policies to provide the fullest possible access to the
Libraries’ collections. Serving as an expert in the University community for copyright, fair use, Teach Act, and other related issues, she is developing an outreach, education, and consultation program that is helping students and faculty understand how copyright and related concepts affect their work, as well as how they can make informed decisions in the use and creation of copyrighted works. She serves as a resource for the Libraries’ growing programs of digitization, research data curation, and digital scholarship and will coordinate with the Office of General Counsel, Information
Technology Services among others to help develop and apply polices for intellectual property in the University.
This past fall, Linda Ballinger began her appointment as the Libraries’ metadata strategist to provide leadership and expertise in the development and implementation of

search strategies to support digital initiatives. Metadata, traditionally in the card catalogs of libraries, describes both the content and context of files to help patrons discover
Libraries’ content.
Ann Copeland, head of Cataloging and Metadata
Services, oversees staff cataloging physical materials as well as staff on the Digital Access Team working to create metadata in service of Penn State’s repositories, publishing services, and digital projects. An associate librarian, Copeland was the interim co-head of Cataloging and Metadata Services, serving concurrently as special collections cataloging librarian since April 2001, when she began her tenure at
Penn State.
James O’Sullivan is the digital humanities research designer in the Publishing and Curation Services
Department. This newly created position advises scholars in the design and development of their projects, helps them apply various tools and methods in explorations of their research questions, and trains humanists in the use of emerging technologies.
Sarah Pickle is the Social Sciences Data Curation
Fellow, a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship offered by the
Council on Library and Information Resources. As part of the Publishing and Curation Services Department she is working on an assessment and understanding of restricteduse data needs for social science researchers, as well as providing data management services support.
Nathan Piekielek, the geospatial services librarian in the Social Sciences and Maps Library, works collaboratively as part of the Research
Hub’s Data and Geospatial
User Services and provides tactical vision and leadership in developing and promoting geospatial services for faculty, staff and students.
Clockwise from above:
Ballinger, Copeland,
O’Sullivan, Pickle,
Piekielek, Karl, Salem.
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When Penn State acquired the Chip Kidd Archives last year, the University Libraries were presented with a unique and enviable challenge—to catalog the diverse collections of the renowned writer and designer, who has been dubbed “the closest thing to a rock star in graphic design” by USA Today . The collections contain a substantial body of work, from his student portfolio at Penn State to the original artwork for each of his several hundred published dust jacket and book designs, including the art for the cover of Michael
Crichton’s Jurassic Park . They contain numerous other materials too—correspondence, books, memorabilia, comics, digital files, action figures, and other objects. Essentially, the Chip Kidd Archives are collections within a collection—a trove of print culture, visual culture, and graphic design materials, waiting to be cataloged and made discoverable by the University Libraries.
Archivist Alyssa Carver was hired last summer to work on the collection, tasked with both processing the materials and creating an exhibition. “My first job was to separate the items into what he made, and what he collected,” she explains. “And then from that division, I separated them into things that were collected because they were historical, and things he collected because they were personal.” From this jumping off point, Carver was able to divide the materials into numerous collections or
“capsules”—design history, comic history, original design work, papers and archives, and objects.
The Special Collections Library’s off-site storage warehouse, where the materials were stored in some 250 boxes, many requiring oversized shelving, was where she began. “A lot of the material is large and odd shaped and we have to create custom housing for some items. There are action figures and toys, and memorabilia like trading cards, patches, and pins. There are even vintage boxes of Batman Cereal… you can’t just file them away in a folder,” she says. “Figuring out the provenance of something that is just an image, or just a design, is also hard, because they don’t have any other metadata—there’s no date, no signature,” she adds.
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Chip Kidd
The unfamiliar territory of working with such a multifaceted collection as the Chip Kidd Archives, however, is proving challenging. This is especially so with the integration of the digital and analog archive, says Carver. Kidd began his professional career on the cusp of the desktop publishing revolution in graphic design, and this is reflected in the diverse formats of his work. “He bridges a time period from working in a totally analog environment to working in a digital environment,” says Carver. The challenge will be for the
Libraries to determine how to properly house, preserve, and provide continued access to these materials. “I like the idea of working on something that is cutting edge. Not every library is up to this challenge. I think that the Libraries, and Special
Collections in particular, are willing to meet this challenge and really do something interesting.”
Because there are so many parts to the collection, she sees its value across many disciplines. Graphic design students may be interested in the books about typography and fonts, for example, while students of publishing and print history will find items related to Kidd’s nearly three-decade-long history with publishing house Alfred A. Knopf a valuable resource.
Carver also sees great potential in the comic history materials in the archive. Kidd collected a lot of original vintage comic strips, and is friends, and corresponds with, many of the major contemporary comic artists and graphic novelists of our day.
These materials will add to Penn State’s growing collections in the field of graphic novels and graphic design, including the extensive Lynd Ward collection.
Carver notes that some of her favorite pieces in the collection are the collaborative projects. “It’s interesting to see how two creative processes come together—where two people with different ways of thinking work together on something.” One example is the Batman model on display in the exhibition, which Kidd worked on with artist Alex Ross. “First there is a sketch, and then they have a back and forth with their notes about the design and the colors—there is just something a little more intimate about it. I like those revealing moments.”
The Chip Kidd Archives exhibition “Everything Not Made by
Nature Is Design” is on display through April 24, in the Special
Collections Library, 104 Paterno Library.
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Seen here wearing the OR headset, Joe Oakes, information sciences and technology program chair at Penn State Abington, spearheads the use of Oculus Rift technology in a new course.
Photo courtesy of Penn State Abington
It’s not unusual for a librarian, especially at Penn State campuses, to assist students in many disciplines. Dolores
Fidishun, head librarian at Penn State Abington, notes, “As a librarian at a campus, unlike teaching faculty in a particular college, I frequently work across multiple disciplines as I help students in a variety of majors.”
Fidishun is a member of a team, composed of 8 faculty, who are working with 24 students at Penn State Abington in an exploratory class focused on interdisciplinary collaboration.
Using a fifth-century Chinese Buddhist text on visualization meditation, the students, who include psychology, IST, history, art and art new media majors, are creating cross disciplinary projects that examine visualization and mediation across the disciplines of history, religious studies, art, new media, library and information science, computer science, neuroscience and psychology.
A goal of the course is to generate deeper possibilities for critical thinking and creativity by students through the explicit and purposeful integration of multiple disciplines.
So for instance, computer science majors learn to express their experiences with meditation through art, art students learn to problem solve with computer coding. Students are encouraged to synthesize material across disciplines and demonstrate an understanding of how the disciplines relate and interact.
Technology is assisting the LA497 Visualization class to alter their reality. As part of some of the projects, an Oculus
Rift Virtual Reality Headset, a virtual reality simulator, generates three-dimensional visualizations that implement the artistic, historical, and psychological perspectives learned in the class. In addition, students have the option of signing out iPads from the Abington Library for use during the course.
Fidishun observes “We faculty are stretching to make sure we work across disciplines but are working on a learning curve in some of the other disciplines. We are experiencing some of the same things the students are experiencing. I was self-conscious. This is actually a good thing as our students are in the same situation and we need to be empathetic as we move forward, not only expecting them to reach across disciplines and helping them to understand new paradigms but providing social and emotional support as they encounter new experiences.”
This pilot course, partially funded by a Schreyer Center for
Teaching Excellence grant, hopes to create a new, integrated model of teaching and learning that transcends conventional approaches to postsecondary education.
For additional information, contact Dolores Fidishun at dxf19@psu.edu or 215-881-7425.
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The Troubled Life and Times of Dr. Iwan James
By Ian Williams
Meet Dr. Iwan James: cyclist, doctor, would-be lover, former heavy metal fan, and, above all, human being. Weighed down by his responsibilities—from diagnosing personality disorders to deciding who can hold a gun license—he doubts his ability to make decisions about the lives of others when he may need more than a little help himself. Ian Williams is a visual artist and illustrator, a medical doctor, and co-editor of the Graphic Medicine series published by Penn
State Press.
by MK Czerwiec, Ian Williams, Susan Merrill Squier, Michael J.
Green, Kimberly R. Myers, and Scott T. Smith
This inaugural volume in the Graphic Medicine series establishes the principles of graphic medicine and begins to map the field. The volume combines scholarly essays written by the editorial team with previously unpublished visual narratives by Ian Williams and MK Czerwiec and includes comic avatars by a wide range of graphic medicine contributors.
Visual Rhetoric and Civic Action by Thomas W. Benson
Posters for Peace tells the story of antiwar posters created by art students at the University of California at Berkeley, in 1970. This book brings to life their rhetorical iconography and restores them to their place in the history of poster art and political street art. The posters are vivid, simple, direct, ironic, and often graphically beautiful. Penn State Professor Thomas Benson shows that the student posters from Berkeley appealed to core patriotic values and to the legitimacy of democratic deliberation in a democracy—even in a time of war.
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Kuhar (center) with Penn State President Eric Barron and Molly Barron, in the President’s suite at the 2014
Homecoming football game against Northwestern
Penn State ’72 and MBA Gannon University
Some of Paul Kuhar’s earliest and fondest memories revolve around books. As a preschooler in Erie, Pa, his older sister,
Betty, was determined to teach him how to read. “I was about three years old and she started me on books like Casper the
Friendly Ghost . She was a tough teacher. I hated it!” Betty’s techniques, however, were successful, and by first grade
Kuhar had already progressed to reading the daily newspaper.
More importantly, he had developed a lifelong love of books, reading, and libraries that he would later pass on to his own children and grandchildren.
“I had rheumatic fever at age seven and spent a year in bed—that was how they treated it back then. Tutors came on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and after doing my homework, I got bored,” says Kuhar. “My mother would buy volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica from the grocery store and I would read each set from front to back.” When
Kuhar started at Penn State Erie, he naturally gravitated to the library during his free periods, a practice he continued two years later at University Park. “I just got into the habit in my junior year of spending a lot of time studying and writing in the library. It was a lot more comfortable than the apartment
I was sharing with four other guys,” he notes.
Although a lifetime alumni member of Penn State since the
1970s, it is only in the past few years that he has had the time to reflect deeply on his support for his alma mater, and how to make the strongest, most lasting impact. Kuhar’s goal: to find something that would help a lot of people, for a long time. He found just the spot in the technology-rich, student-centered
Knowledge Commons. “I could not think of a better place to give than the Libraries,” he says.
In May 2014, he paid a visit to the Knowledge Commons, cementing his support with a gift for the Paul Kuhar Group
Study Room. “I spent about an hour touring the Knowledge
Commons and the minute we stepped in, I felt so comfortable and at home. The thought process that went into the
Knowledge Commons was just brilliant, from the design of the tables to the color-coded help stations. And I was blown away by the one-button studio where students can rehearse presentations,” says Kuhar. Walking through the Knowledge
Commons, he was impressed to see first hand how students were using the space. “All the computers were busy, the group study rooms were full, everyone was studying, and no one was wasting time. There were no empty spaces. I grabbed
Chris, the assistant director of Development, by the arm and asked if he had hired actors for my tour!”
Kuhar cites the group study room as a perfect example of how well designed the space is for today’s students. “It seats six to eight people, they can draw on the whiteboard, and work on their laptops together—it is perfect for group projects.”
The university experience has changed significantly in the decades since he was a student, reflects Kuhar. “Even though
MBA programs have always been somewhat collaborative, the
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learning experience overall now is much more collaborative, even at the undergraduate level. It’s important for people to meet, sit together, and work on projects. It can be difficult to do that in a hallway or dorm room. So, the notion of a group study room, and the Knowledge Commons in general, is perfect. It offers access and availability, and has that social aspect, too,” he says, adding that meeting others and working together on projects are key learning experiences that are critical to the workplace.
Kuhar recognizes the central role of the Libraries and notes that continued support is critical in order for the University to move forward. “I think libraries serve as information navigators and custodians, and one of the biggest challenges I see is the need to continually upgrade the technology. Libraries have to decide what to store, how to store it, and how to pay for it, and this needs excellent planning and budgeting.” He says he feels proud to give to the Knowledge Commons, and happy that he made the decision to donate now, rather than in the future. “I am excited and blessed to be able to support the Libraries,” he says.
Paul Kuhar currently resides in Euless, Texas, where he enjoys spending time with his two daughters and four grandchildren.
He is active in the community, his church, and his neighborhood homeowners association.
The Eberly Family Special Collections Library
104 Paterno Library
“Everything Not Made by Nature Is Design,” an exhibition from the Chip Kidd Archives, through April 24
Sidewater Commons
102 Pattee Library
“Mushrooms: a tribute to the Kneebone Mushroom
Reference Library,” through May 7
Robb Hall, Hintz Alumni Center
“Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: Penn State in
Space,” a University Archives exhibit, through June 18
Diversity Studies Room
203 Pattee Library
“Jazz Riffs: Breaking Boundaries and Crossing Borders,” through July 1
Sidewater Commons
102 Pattee Library
“Catching Your Attention: Decorative Book Covers and
Unique Bindings,” May 13 –July 7, 2015
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The University Libraries, including 23 statewide locations and the World Campus, are Penn State’s premiere resource and are ranked among the top ten university research libraries in North
America by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL).
With more than 6.9 million volumes and numerous other resources, it is the largest research library in Pennsylvania and one of four state resource libraries that provide service and collections to all other libraries and citizens of the
Commonwealth. It is the only academic research library of the four; the other three are the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, the State Library of Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia Free
Library.
The Tombros and McWhirter Knowledge Commons in Pattee
Library is a technology-rich learning environment with flexible space, collaborative multimedia equipment, hardware and software.
Media and Technology Support Services (MediaTech) houses over 5,000 pieces of technology and audio-visual equipment to support academic credit instruction available to faculty, staff, and students.
It offers video and photo production studios where students can reserve studio space to produce, edit, and export video and audio projects, and practice presentations. Green screen technology is also available for use, with on-site staff available to answer questions and conduct demonstrations.
The Libraries provide a variety of resources and services for people with disabilities. The coordinator of Library Services for
Persons with Disabilities can be contacted in advance of a visit to discuss needs, at (814) 865-0284 or e-mail: shh2@psu.edu.
The Libraries’ collections are available through the Web. The website provides access to The CAT, the Libraries’ online catalog; online resources; online catalogs of other schools and locations (CIC member libraries, E-Z Borrow, and WorldCat
(OCLC)); and reference shelf resources. LionSearch, the
Libraries’ powerful search engine, offers a single search box on the homepage for library resources, including books, articles, newspapers, databases and more.
For more information about Penn State Libraries’ locations and collections, visit www.libraries.psu.edu
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To date, we’ve been to Plano, Texas, for The Penn State Sports
Archives Story ; Williamsburg, Virginia, for The Peoples
Contest, a Civil War Era Digital Archive ; Naples, Florida and
Newport News, Virginia, for Meet the Dean .
Save the date:
July 17, York Revolutions Stadium, Pennsylvania, for The
Williamsburg Greys and York White Roses .
To arrange a chapter event or for more information, contact
Nicki Hendrix at at nmh18@psu.edu or 814-865-2258.
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The 2015 Charles W. Mann Jr. Lecture in the
Book Arts, “Why Flashlights? Because Batman!
A Bookseller’s Adventures in the Archive” by antiquarian bookseller Lorne Bair with an introduction by Chip Kidd.
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Family Special Collections Library; Dean Barbara I. Dewey;
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“Hypnotic and subliminal while entertaining and compelling, ‘Fran’s’ dream world is at once familiar and unsettling, a conduit to mental states that, in many ways, only the graphic novel can achieve.”
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2014 selection jury on winner Jim Woodring’s novel, Fran .