PAGE 3 ANNUAL REPORT 2023–2024 - - - - - - - - - library organizations and consortia around the globe. FOLIO membership expanded and now includes the Library of Congress, Columbia University, and many others. The IMLS-funded Collaborative Collections Lifecycle project now includes participants from more than 70 library organizations. ▶ Acquired and digitized 27 issues of a monthly mag azine called “Coplay Echoes,” designed to connect those in the military with the people and activities in Coplay, Lehigh County, PA, between September 1943 and November 1945. The publication con tained news and letters about service members, community news, many photographs, and some gossip. This is wartime local history of value to the Lehigh Valley and to researchers beyond this immediate area, now available online through the Lehigh Preserve. ▶ The Libraries have continued to develop our collec tion for the LTS CIRCLE (Community and Inclusion Resource Center: A Library for Everyone) space, adding titles authored by BIPOC and LGBTQ+ authors from diverse genres, topics and perspec tives including speculative fiction, banned books, contemporary art, and activism across history. Evidence Synthesis Support Evidence synthesis projects, such as sys tematic or scoping reviews, are becoming increasingly common in medical and health research as a means of exhaustively search ing the research literature on a topic in order to identify gaps, determine trends, and make recommendations regarding clinical practice. Instruction and Outreach Librarians have worked extensively with several research groups undertaking these projects, providing assistance with refining research questions, developing intricate search strategies, and managing the organization of high volumes of studies. One such group in the College of Health is researching preg nant and parenting people who use drugs (PPPWUD) and improving care for these indi viduals through coordinated care and stigma reduction. Another group in the College of Education is researching supports for therapy providers who serve Hispanic communities, investigating the availability of culturally-rooted psychotherapy training and Spanish language assessments. Special Collections ▶ Special Collections fulfills its mission of preserving Lehigh history and legacy. Archivists accepted the papers of faculty members Norman Girardot, Steven Sametz, Paul Salerni, Henri Barkey, Ned Heindel, as well as the Martindale Center and Rich Aronson departmental collections and LU Press office files. ▶ Acquired the Robert Lichtman Science Fiction Fanzine Collection, containing approximately 20,000 items. This collection, one of the biggest and broadest collections of such material in the US, will provide plenty of new information for research ers and students alike for years to come. As digital access to library collections becomes more seamless and ubiquitous, Special Collections continues to advance its digitization program. Newly available digital resources of note include: ▶ Proquest: Received a total of 3,901 digital disser tations, 2,794 scanned from microfilm and 1,107 pre-scanned PDFs. ▶ Godfrey Daniels Archive: Digitized approximately 750 audio tapes resulting in 750+ GBs of audio files. -
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