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Lehigh Key Partner in PennREN Networking Initiative
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced in February that Pennsylvania will receive $99.6 million, one of the largest single-grant awards under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, to build the Pennsylvania Research and Education Network (PennREN). The grant will be supplemented with an additional $29 million in private investment. The grant culminates the efforts of...read more
 

46,313 Books in 12 Minutes!
In just 12 minutes, Library and Technology Services increased access to electronic books through ASA, the online catalog, by adding bibliographic records for the 46,313 titles in the ebrary collection. In a matter of days since the bibliographic records were loaded, Business Librarian Heather Simoneau reported that...read more
  

LTS Receives 6th Digitization Grant: Beyond Steel Oral History
Library and Technology Services has been awarded a Library Services and Technology Act grant by the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Libraries for the digitization, transcription, and publication of oral history interviews conducted in the Bethlehem area in 1975. The interviews are the result of...read more
 

New LTS Residential Wireless Will Deliver Fast, Pervasive Connectivity
Library and Technology Services recently announced that it has begun a project to upgrade the wireless networking capability of Lehigh University student residential facilities so that every room will gain enhanced access to wireless connectivity. In addition this more pervasive level of connectivity will be much faster because it will employ...read more
 

“Power to the People” in Fairchild Library
New tables with convenient power outlets on the top have been added to the north wing of the main floor of the Fairchild Library very recently. The carrels have been removed so that the space is open and inviting. This area now makes a great place for students to use wireless laptops; they have already occupied every available seat. All the seating on that floor has recently been replaced with...read more
 

Major Book Shift Scheduled for May in Fairchild Library
Immediately after exams end in May, a major shift of books and journals will take place on the three upper floors of Fairchild. The purpose of the shift is to compress the journal collections on 2 North and 3 South while expanding shelving for books...read more
 

LTS Advances Lehigh
On November 13, 2009, Library Catalog Librarian Doreen Herold was the Past President's "Hot Topics" Speaker for the meeting of the Governing Board of the Associated College Libraries of Central Pennsylvania. She presented a talk about open source options for...read more
 

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