Welcome to Lehigh Libraries! We care.
We live in a time of constant distraction and misinformation. We wonder what truthful and constructive information is and how well-equipped we are to identify it as such. We Librarians teach and instruct, provide reference support, and access to trustworthy primary and secondary resources to enable Lehigh learners to navigate multiple demands. We strive to assist you where you are and in a way that you will find genuinely welcoming and respectful. We are on the lookout for partners to co-develop programs and share perspectives and experiences about what it means to be uniquely human in this and other areas of the world.
We live in a post-pandemic world and an ongoing environmental crisis. How do we collect and share information about these major challenges? How do we converse and keep records of the losses, the grief we experienced, and the unprecedented opportunities we developed? We in the Lehigh Libraries work daily on improving how to quickly and responsibly make relevant information and its context available to the public, whether through strengthening our international interlibrary loan infrastructures or experimenting with innovative ways to share networked knowledge between peers and groups. Lehigh librarians are known to be principled risk-takers when values and market forces are at play. As information professionals, we are trusted to offer a lending hand, listen carefully and without judgment and to pause before we tell a story that is not originally ours to describe.
We live in a time of continuous co-creation and collaboration. We seek your assistance figuring out what is original and specific to you within your communities. We like to understand what is lasting and traceable over time and assist with making sure that the right to use that information is protected. Lehigh Libraries Special Collections serve our campus and the individuals who make it a repository of our institutional knowledge. We actively preserve information produced by you when you are within the boundaries of the university and make it openly available to the benefit of our university and society at large. We respect you for your journeys and the means by which you describe them.
We live in a foundational time for utilizing AI and mashing the virtual with the physical world. Lehigh Libraries are keen on developing alluring hybrid environments, state-of-the-art user-centered technologies and updating our beautiful and centuries-old facilities to support where you feel most comfortable doing your research, exploring, working and playing. Together, we imagine ways to connect, to reconnect and actualize your insights and impressions by making these relevant to others in support of their interests. Join us in empowering Lehigh’s research and learning community with your expertise, innovative ideas, and the outstanding collaborative Lehigh spirit.
We are here to help!
Boaz Nadav Manes
University Librarian
Library and Technology Services