PAGE 22 LIBRARY AND TECHNOLOGY SERVICES • In fall 2022, the new TRAC Fellows in the TRAC 100 Seminar presented findings from their group research projects on grading and assessment in a symposium open to the entire campus community, held in CITL Commons. The fellows were guided through the research process by the Assistant Director of Instruction and Outreach and Education Librarian. • CITL convened Communities of Practice for several audiences of faculty and staff including a New Faculty COP, the AR/VR COP, and the Virtual International Exchange (VIE) COP, whose initial session included Claudia Tobar, chief innovation officer and professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) in Ecuador. • As ChatGPT and other generative AI tools emerged as disruptors in higher education, CITL provided several opportunities for faculty to consider the impact of GenAI on their teach ing and research including a facilitated faculty discussion during the CITL Winter Workshop, a faculty/student panel discussion, and a faculty/ staff panel discussion to open the CITL Spring Symposium on Teaching and Learning. - Special Collections Exhibitions Special Collections curated, designed, and installed two exhibits on display in Linderman Library. In the fall, No Postage Necessary: Views of the Postcard World invited visitors to navigate a panorama of vintage postcards representing locales near and far, as well as a selection of photo-postcards on loan from Professor Scott Paul Gordon, whose collection focuses on the work of Moravian minister D. Cornelius Meinert. Other postcards originated from a number of archival collections, including the South Bethlehem Historical Society, Cramer Family Collection, David Guise Papers, Bridge Postcards and Chris Eline Postcard Collection. Postcards displayed in the exhibit date from the earliest days of this format in the 1890s through the beginning of the 21st century, and include original photographs, lithographs, and collotypes. A spring exhibit, Manufacturing a Narrative about Work: Labor Fiction Inspired by the Industrial Age, featured a collection of novels that tell the stories of textile workers, bakers, miners, steelworkers, and others who were involved in historical labor movements. The exhibit included books of regional interest, including a scarce title, privately published in neighboring Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, by E. H. Leftwich, an aircraft worker. Final Assembly (1944) chronicles the daily lives of workers at a WW2 aircraft plant who were likely living in the Lehigh Valley. There were also fictional accounts of work in the Pennsylvania oil fields, including Francis Newton Thorpe’s 1905 novel The Divining Rod: A Story of the Oil Regions. Special Collections collaborated with Deborah Walters, class of 2023, and Lorne Bair Rare Books in the preparation of this exhibit. On exhibit: Vintage postcards whisper tales of bygone eras (l), while labor movement novels tell stories of resilience and progress (c,r). Other Special Collections events: • Building on annual astronomy class visits, Special Collections hosted several open houses centered around seminal works by Copernicus, Brahe, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton. One such event was a collaboration with the Zoellner Arts Center, Department of Theatre, and Department
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