LTS Annual Report_2024

PAGE 31 ANNUAL REPORT 2023–2024 - Ideas, a celebration of Lehigh faculty authors, Student Library Advisory Board meetings, and, this April, was a stop on the Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble’s “POP UP: An Artistic Adventure.” With funding from a Lehigh University partnership between The Institute for Indigenous Studies, The Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, The College of Health, Library and Technology Services, and Lehigh University Art Galleries, artist Daniel StrongWalker Thomas, a citizen of the Delaware Nation, was commissioned to create Transgenerational Wealth and Trauma. This artwork, prominently displayed in Linderman Library, reflects Lehigh’s partnership with Delaware Nation and symbolizes a shared commitment to honoring the Lenape people, acknowledging their land, and fos tering ongoing collaborations among the university, Delaware Nation, and the broader Lenape community. The first installation of work in the “Research by students, for students” area of FML (6th floor north) was unveiled. Posters produced by students in PHIL 145, “Philosophy and Technology,” taught in spring 2023 by Dr. Greg Reihman, presented research on how generative AI is impacting various aspects of higher education. - - Daniel StrongWalker Thomas Delaware Nation of Oklahoma (Lenni Lenape), b. 1979 Transgenerational Wealth and Trauma, 2022 Paper from books, maps, land deeds and historical documents; cotton from prayer ties; cedar; tobacco Research by students, for students which included a library director, school board member, book seller, literature advocate, and student, also spoke to the ways in which books are powerful tools for affirmation and empathy, and the deleterious effects of removing titles that represent the diversity of human experience. Reading Parties: This spring the Library Welcome Committee piloted a monthly series of reading parties held at Linderman Library. Inspired by a Brooklyn program that has since been adopted across other cities, these parties offer readers a quiet space to gather and read their book of choice, with time to share with each other about what they’re reading. The series, designed to foster literary community, was a success and will continue into the fall. The Student Library Advisory Board (SLAB) met eight times this academic year, during which student members reviewed and provided valuable feedback on library websites and services. The group focused on selecting books to enhance the University Libraries’ leisure reading section. In the spring, SLAB held their annual “Blind Date with a Book” event, where members selected, wrapped, and described leisure reading books, and created a display from which students could choose books to check out for summer reading. The group has many ideas for future events and is excited to continue collaborating with Lehigh Libraries. Dickens Study Break: The Libraries Special Collections, the Humanities Librarian, and English professor Charles French partnered to present a reading of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol in Lucy’s Cafe Gallery as a student study break during fall final exams. The Saint-Georges Project Lunch and Learn: In a collabora tion between the Libraries Special Collections and Zoellner Arts Center, this event explored The Saint-Georges Project and included a musical performance by Michael Jorgensen, a talk by History Professor John Savage, and an exhibit of rare books. The exhibit featured a contemporary 18th century atlas, a manuscript from a French forge, and volumes of Diderot’s Encyclopedie on violin manufacture and fencing. Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, was a fencing master.

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