Vol. 14 No. 1

    February 2010

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Party on!  
 


Mellon Funds New Open Library Project


$90K Grant to Access “Hidden Collections”

 


Exhibition Highlights 350 Years of Scientific Communication
 

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THE EDITOR'S UPDATE
 

Party on!
The Lehigh University Computing Center opened in the E. W. Fairchild Martindale Library and Computing Center 25 years ago this month and during the summer of 1985, some 250,000 books were moved from Linderman Library to...read more
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$90,000 Grant to Lehigh Facilitates Access to Moravian “Hidden Collections”
Lehigh University, in partnership with the Moravian Archives, has been awarded a $90,000 grant under the Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives Program funded by the Mellon Foundation. This two-year collaborative project, “The Moravian Community in the New World: The First Hundred Years,” will process collections documenting the material culture, religious values and cultural diversity of the Moravian community of Bethlehem from its...read more.
 
 

Mellon Funds New Open Library Environment Project
Lehigh is one of the founding partners in the Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE) project to develop software that streamlines the operations of academic and research libraries. The partnership will create an alternative to an integrated library system that provides library users easier access to the wealth of new digital materials, ties in seamlessly with...read more.
  

Exhibition Highlights 350 Years of Scientific Communication
A new exhibit titled “The Royal Society and the Origins of Scientific Communication” opened in Linderman Library on January 22nd . The exhibit not only commemorates the founding of the Royal Society at Cambridge University in 1660 but also highlights recent developments such that are in the process of transforming scientific communications once again.
In November 1660, nearly 350 years ago, a group of esteemed scientists met to establish...read more.
 

  Course Site and Windows 7 Transitions On Track
I
n November, Library and Technology Services announced the university’s move from the Blackboard learning management system to Course Site. This transition will occur throughout 2010, with Course Site being fully in use for the fall semester, 2010. Professors teaching over two hundred courses have opted to use Course Site for the spring semester. Although courses at both...read more.
 
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