LTS Advances Lehigh University

Digitization, encryption, e-opportunities, user surveys and more are among the topics that LTS professionals addressed recently in publications and state and national meetings. LTS staffers have also been appointed and elected to support scholarly and professional initiatives. 

Director for Administrative Services Sue Cady has been appointed to a state-wide panel of historians, librarians, educators, and archivists charged with formulating a collection development policy for the digitization of materials about Pennsylvania’s history, culture, and society. The project is an element of a larger effort sponsored by the Pennsylvania Advisory Committee on Collaborative Digitization.

"Windows Vista: Implementation Challenges" was the topic presented by Scientific and Desktop Computing Team Leader Gale Fritsche in a paper at ACM SIGUCCS in Orlando during October. In addition he and Administrative Computing Team Leader Sara Rodgers presented another paper, "Encryption Technologies: Testing and Identifying Campus Needs," at the same meeting.

Telecommunications Team Leader Lizanne Hurst has been appointed to serve on two professional organizations: as the vice president for IUGA (the Aastra Intecom Users' Group) and as a member of the legislative/regulatory affairs committee for ACUTA (the Association for Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education).

Catalog Librarian Doreen Kopycinski co-edited the book User Surveys in College Libraries, released in June 2007 as a title in the CLIP Notes series, published by the Association of College and Research Libraries.

Director for Library Access Services Sharon Wiles-Young was elected chair of the Pennsylvania Library Association (PaLA) Technical Services Round Table and moderated several workshops at the annual PaLA conference in October. The proceedings of a workshop entitled "E-Resources = E-Opportunity: Connecting Systems, Technical Services and Patrons" presented by Sharon at the 2006 NASIG Conference was published recently in the journal Serials Librarian.

Article posted November 2007
 

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