Editors' Update

Library and Technology Services welcomes everyone back for a new academic year, after our busy summer featuring work on several grants.

A National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for $1.7 million was received, funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The award will be used to improve networking and infrastructure in Iacocca Hall. Lehigh also continues to work with partners throughout the state on PennREN (The Pennsylvania Research and Education Network).

In the Libraries, work proceeds on a CLIR (Council on Library and Information Resources) grant in concert with the Moravian Archives; on the multiyear Kuali OLE (Open Library Environment) project; and on an LSTA grant to digitize recorded interviews of steelworkers.

Also during the summer, our facilities and technology underwent upgrades and rearrangements. The entire Fairchild-Martindale Library stack area was rearranged in an enormous moving project to better accommodate future growth.

Lehigh’s commodity internet connection has gone from a speed of 500 megabits per second to 1 gigabit per second. The new STEPS building contains numerous technology enabled classrooms, public computer labs, and research labs as well as the networking and computer installations for the building. Campus public sites and classrooms were moved to 64 bit Windows 7.

LTS has been exploring the rise in mobile handheld devices and has created a web page at https://drusandbox.cc.lehigh.edu/ltsmobileapps  with mobile compatible links and applications which can be added to your iPhone, iPad, Droid, Blackberry, or Windows Mobile device.

Library mobile applications are featured as part of a new Library tab on the campus portal that provides easy access to electronic resources; the new tab replaces the previous MyLibrary service.

--Tim Foley and Christine Roysdon
  Acting Editors

Article posted September, 2010

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