PAGE 26 LIBRARY AND TECHNOLOGY SERVICES - - - - 6 Places & Spaces LTS CIRCLE Grand Opening Community & Inclusion Resource Center: A Library for Everyone In February, we celebrated the grand opening of the LTS CIRCLE — Community & Inclusion Resource Center: A Library for Everyone — in FairchildMartindale Library. The new space offers Lehigh students, faculty, and staff an inclusive area to study and relax, filled with resources supporting diversity, equity, and antiracism priorities. Over 75 members of the Lehigh community attended the opening, coin ciding with Lehigh student panel discussions cen tered around the Traveling While Black Community Conversations series. The creation of the LTS CIRCLE, a project spanning two years, addressed the need for a platform for conversations, presentations, and study focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism themes. The opening marked an opportunity for fostering dialogues and hosting various discussions on such topics. Greg Reihman, Vice Provost for Library and Technology Services, expressed the aim to collabo rate with the community for a multitude of conversa tions in the space. The LTS CIRCLE embodies Library and Technology Services’ commitment to inclusivity and accessibility, serving as a hub for meaningful conversations and a place of learning, reflection, and connection. The opening session, Traveling While Black (Internationally) Through the Education System, featured Lehigh students sharing their experiences studying abroad. Panelists recounted their journeys across diverse countries, addressing challenges, surprises, and joys. The conversation touched on practicalities and profound intersections of cultural
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