PAGE 17 ANNUAL REPORT 2022–2023 - - - ► As digital access to library collections becomes more seamless and ubiquitous, Special Collections has continued to update its infrastructure and advance its digitization program. Newly available digital resources of note include: • The Rave Records Collection, donated by LTS Media Production Specialist Jarret Brown, includes 35 digitized LP (Long Play) vinyl records produced by the record company owned by Bethlehem arts staple Jolly Joe Timmer. • Externally funded digitization of audio record ings from the Godfrey Daniels listening room. These live music recordings date back to the venue’s opening in 1976. Digitization of the 900+ recordings is actively underway with an anticipated spring 2024 completion. • Digitization of over 1,200 pieces of obsolete and at-risk audio-visual recordings from the Rodale Archives. This diverse collection spans family home movies from the 1920s, internal corporate resources, documentaries, and public television programming. • Special Collections student employees devel oped two in-house software programs designed to facilitate the efficient capture and description of born-digital Lehigh resources, including offi cial podcasts and videos. • Specialized cataloging and digitization of medieval manuscript leaves and fragments from the John C. Hirsh Collection in collaboration with librarians and photographers from the University of Pennsylvania. This will facilitate addition of this material to the Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis collaborative project. Additional description and metadata for these items were produced by Special Collections student employees. ► Lending Services circulated over 10,000 physical materials from Library collections and over 500 laptop loans. We loaned over 5,000 materials to other libraries and borrowed nearly 4,000 from other libraries in support of Lehigh researchers. ► We strengthened our computing desk-side support for other teams, expanded our hours of availability, consolidated and added to our laptop pool (serving students with financial needs), and increased our online seminar offerings. 491 STARS student computing help requests 34,513,407 Zoom minutes 169,687 Zoom meetings
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