PAGE 10 LIBRARY AND TECHNOLOGY SERVICES - - - - - - - - holidays. This work has helped to date and geolo cate the production of the manuscript to a specific city of Italy. Special Collections hosted William Crow’s class ART 175, Introduction to Museums and Museum Professions, which incorporated archival research into the course’s final project. Students were required to select a piece of public sculpture on campus and research the history of the piece and its artist. These students delved deep into The Philip I. and Muriel M. Berman Papers to read personal corre spondence and acquisitions records. New Resources The Libraries acquired new resources in support of lifelong learning and emerging research and curric ular areas including PitchBook, a leading resource for comprehensive data, research, and insights on global capital markets; TDM Studio, a text and data mining tool that facilitates the large-scale analysis of resources including newspapers, dissertations, and journals; MEDLINE Ultimate, a health and medicine full-text research database; Ancestry.com Library Edition, a genealogical research and primary source database; and ComicsPlus, a digital graphic novel and comics platform. I’m writing to let you know how appreciative I am of Lehigh's recent purchase of annual membership in PitchBook, allowing faculty access to financial data that cannot be found elsewhere. I had used this data for my recent book but had to piece together the money for my personal access that lasted only a year. Indeed, because of the cost I couldn’t continue work in this line of research and now I can pursue it again. – PROFESSOR LAURA OLSON, DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR, POLITICAL SCIENCE The Digital Research and Scholarship Team consulted on faculty research projects. Major projects included: • Continued technical support for Gloria Naylor Archive project (Suzanne Edwards) by consult ing on metadata creation and enhancement for existing and newly digitized materials. • Continued support of Lehigh Valley LGBT+ Community Archive project (Mary Foltz), mainly through consultation on WordPress compo nents of the project. • Continued support of Vault at Pfaff’s project (Ed Whitley) through consultation and research assistance for expansion of bibliographic and biographic data on the site. • Developed data pipeline and visualizations for the Lehigh County Breathes research project, funded by Lehigh and Northampton Counties (PI, Breena Holland). • Supported the GIS infrastructure and skills development for the socio-environmental science investigations (SESI) research project, funded by NSF (PI – Thomas Hammond). • Supported GIS application and database devel opment for Pennsylvania Asthma Syndromic Surveillance (PASS) research project and pro posal development (PI – Hyunok Choi). • Provided GIS support for College of Health research project looking at health outcomes based on distance to green space trailheads outside of urban Philadelphia (PI – Russell McIntire). • Provided GIS support for research looking at changes in wealth centers over time in Guadalajara, Mexico (PI – Hugo Ceron-Anaya). Open Access pilot • With support from the Office of the Provost and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, the Libraries assessed, extended, and expanded pilots supporting the Open Access publica tion of research articles via agreements with publishers. Pilots with ACS and Wiley led to the Open Access publication of more than 35 journal articles and conference proceedings. The Libraries will continue to assess these pilots as one component in a broader strat-
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