Special Collections received a gift of the papers of a member of Lehigh’s first graduating class. This unique collection donated to Lehigh by brothers Chris and David Grace, great-great grandsons of Miles Rock (class of 1869), paints a full picture of the diverse life experience of one of Lehigh’s earliest graduates, beginning with his adolescence in Lancaster County, service in the Civil War, time at Lehigh, and professional work in the sciences and engineering in the Americas. Included are his letter correspondence, journals, photographs, maps and drawings, printed material, scientific data, and artifacts that form an intimate narrative and insightful perspective into the thoughts and deeds of a prominent 19th century figure. This extraordinary collection holds tremendous potential for researchers in the classroom and scholars of the period at Lehigh and beyond. Challenges for2023-2024: As data- and computing-intensive research grows, howwill we best continue tomeet the needs of our researchers? What will LTS’s role be in creating and adopting new forms of digital lending and collaborative collection development? Howwill Digital Scholarship and High Performance Computing evolve, and how can LTS experts best provide leadership and support in those areas?Which new fields of study will emerge as priorities when the newStrategic Plan is released in 2023, and what actions will LTS need to take to provide the new resources, support, technologies, and facilities our faculty and students will need to empower and enable their research and scholarly activity? Designed and secured a cloud-based Research Data Warehouse to facilitate research. Helped COH faculty design and build a Health Data Warehouse computing cluster in HST. Consulted and supported the development of the NanoHuman Interface research group’s new behavioral lab, AR/VR space, and visualization lab. Partnered with Facilities Services and contractors to ensure the new building would be properly networked and connected to Lehigh’s campus cybernetwork infrastructure. HELPING PREPARE HST BUILDING FOR FALL 22 OPENING Provided GIS support for NSF ITEST grant (PI - Tom Hammond, College of Education), which involved creating and maintaining geospatial data for three institutions (Lehigh University, Washington State University Tri-Cities, and Texas Christian University) and developing professional development workshops for faculty and graduate students involved in the grant. Provided R programming and GIS support for research proposal development and on-going research projects in Almaty, Kazakhstan (PI - Hyunok Choi). Developed script to automatically collect and store data from PurpleAir sensors and other air monitoring agencies in the Almaty region of Kazakhstan. Created a GIS data hub for students and other project participants to collaborate. Provided R programming support for a research proposal to look at the effects of warehouse development on air quality in the Lehigh Valley, which was successfully funded by Lehigh and Northampton Counties (PI - Breena Holland, Political Science & Environmental Initiative). Developed script to automatically collect and store data from PurpleAir sensors throughout the Lehigh Valley and a public facing app for data visualization. The Digital Scholarship Team consulted on faculty research projects. Major projects included: DIGITAL MEDIA STUDIO AND DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP 202 1 /22 | ANNUAL REPORT | 1 1
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTA0OTQ5OA==