New Library Opens
Radio Station WPSH Is
Wired and Ready to Go
The efforts of WPSH's staff
have finally paid off.
The campus radio station is
wired and broadcasting on a
regular basis for the first time in
years.
WPSH staffers Brad Moist,
Brad Grissinger, and Assistant
Coordinator Jesse Gutierrez, are
ready to take on the challenge
of providing a variety of enter
tainment and public affairs pro
gramming to the Penn State
Harrisburg listening audience.
“We’re going to pick a day
when we’re going to be live and
on that day we're going to have
music and campus news,” said
station manager Brad Moist.
That day is scheduled to be
Wednesday, and according to
Moist, WPSH will broadcast
live from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Included in the mix of live
shows will be interviews with
campus clubs and organizations
as well as faculty and staff
members.
Jesse Gutierrez, a fall 1999
communications graduate who
has returned to work at the sta
tion part-time through the
Photo courtesy of Brad Moist
WPSH staff members (left to right) Brad Grissinger, Brad Moist and
Jesse Gutierrez.
By Matthew McKeown
Capital Times Editor
Student Activities office, said
the station wants to start out
with a small amount of pro
gramming so he, Moist, and
Grissinger don’t overwhelm
themselves.
Being overwhelmed with too
much to do hasn't been a prob
lem for the trio since joining
WPSH in the fall of 1998.
At that time, the station was
n’t even on the air. That's
because, according to
Gutierrez, “Nothing worked.
There was no signal or any
thing.”
Equipment had been pur
chased by the station to convert
the station’s signal from broad
casting on AM to FM prior to
Gutierrez, Moist and Grissinger
joining it.
That was in 1996 and most
of the equipment that was
obtained through a grant pro
vided to the station from stu
dent affairs was in boxes and
not hooked up.
The staff wasn’t told the
equipment to get WPSH up and
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Lusty
Thoughts
Exposed
Volume XL. No. H Wednesday. January Id. 2000
Or. Harold B. Shill, Pirector of of the Capital College Libraries, takes
a break in the faculty lounge on the second floor of the new library.
The Man Behind
the Library Move
Dr. Harold B. Shill, the direc
tor of libraries at the Capital
College, had a vision to create a
“library of the future.”
And that vision has finally
become a reality as Penn State
Harrisburg’s new $17.33 million
library opened its doors on Jan.
10.
Shill, 55, cites the building of
the library' as the main reason he
accepted the position of head of
the Division of Library and
Information Services in 1991.
“I was ready for a new chal
lenge,” Shill explained. “I saw
the opportunity to do a state-of
the-art library for the 21st centu
ry.”
Since the 1997 merger of Penn
State Harrisburg and Penn State
Schuylkill, Shill has been the
Director of Capital College
Libraries for both campuses.
He admits that he has spent
most of that tenure here. “I have
not been able to go there [Penn
State Schuylkill] as often as I’d
like to due to the library project.”
Shill said, he has worked an
The ABC’s
ofSA/UN
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By Matthew McKeown
Capital Times Editor
average of 80 to 90 hours a week
to meet the demands of the con
struction of the new library.
But working hard is not new
for Shill. He received his Ph.D.
from the University of North
Books were crated up and
trucked over to the new library
over Christmas break.
Cletus and
the Pig
Catchers
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Moist Goes
to a
Speakeasy
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The Dream
Becomes
Reality
By Cathie McCormick Musser
Capita! Times Staff Writer
The Library of the Future is
now the Library of the Present.
Bright lights, spacious work
areas, squeaky-clean shelves
and magnificent windows greet
visitors. Lights shining through
those windows peer around the
CUB at night, changing the
nighttime campus skyline.
The collective campus reac
tion is, “Wow!” Other than ela
tion, the reaction of the team
who made it happen is,
“Whew!”
Lt. Col. Chuck Breslin, a PSH
graduate student in Public
Administration, as well as a
graduate student of the Army
War College, summed it up dur
ing his opening day visit to the
new library.
“It's first class,” Breslin
reports.
This first class library is the
result of more than two decades
of effort by a long list of people.
Many of the students crossing
the threshold on opening day
were not alive during the
library’s conception.
Many of the originators of the
dream are gone. The supervisors
from the moving company
Meyer, Inc. and the temporary
help who physically carried the
books were involved for only a
short time.
Gloria Clouser watched the
dream evolve during her 25
years as circulation staff assis
tant.
Professor Irving Hand,
A.1.C.P., Professor of State and
Regional Planning Emeritus sat
on the original task force that
got the ball moving.
Library Director Dr. Harold
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