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Celebrate 2026 National Poetry Month with Lehigh Libraries
From archival deep dives and AI poetry face-offs to our annual Sonnet Slam, join LTS this April for a month of readings, workshops, and creative discovery.
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Climbing Broken Ladders: The Meritocracy Myth in Academia | March 30
Join Dr. Crystal Chambers for an exploration of race, gender, and the systemic barriers to academic leadership.
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Love Data Week Events Feb. 9-13, 2026
Lehigh University celebrates Love Data Week, Feb. 9–13, 2026, with events exploring “Where’s the Data?” to boost data literacy and data ethics awareness.
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14th annual Harvest of Ideas celebrates Lehigh faculty authors
On Tuesday, November 11, 2025, the Friends of the Lehigh University Libraries hosted its 14th annual Harvest of Ideas reception in the Linderman Library Rotunda for faculty who published or edited a book or composition during the previous year.
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On the Purpose and State of America’s Libraries | Friends of the Lehigh Libraries talk, Mon., Dec. 1
Dr. Maria McCauley, President-elect of the American Library Association and Director of Libraries in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will discuss the State of America’s Libraries from an ALA perspective.
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Got data? Present your work at Lehigh’s Love Data Week 2026!
Lehigh University invites the campus community to submit poster proposals for Love Data Week 2026, an international celebration of all things data. This year’s theme, “Where’s the Data?”, explores how data moves from collection through storage and preservation. Abstracts due by Jan. 14.
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Panel Reflects on Art, Memory, and Rest in “Tending to the Past” Discussion at FML
On October 16, Lehigh Libraries welcomed artists, educators, and community leaders for Tending to the Past: Works from the Petrucci Family Foundation of African American Art, a panel in celebration of the exhibition of the same name currently on view in Fairchild-Martindale Library.
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Jesse Pearson to Join the University of Minnesota
Jesse Pearson, Director of Administration and Planning for LTS, has accepted the opportunity to serve as CFO in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, effective Nov. 20, 2025.
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Reimagining libraries as information wonderlands
On October 8, nearly 300 students, faculty, and community members gathered in Lehigh’s Linderman Library for Alice in Informationland, a collaboration between Lehigh University Libraries and Touchstone Theatre. The immersive event reimagined Alice in Wonderland through themes of AI, algorithms, and the evolving role of libraries in today’s information age.
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Rooted: A Documentary Film about Artists Embracing Place, Showing & Panel Discussion Thu., Oct. 30
Join us on Thursday, October 30 at 2:00 p.m. for a showing of Rooted: A Documentary Film about Artists Embracing Place followed by a panel discussion at 6:30 p.m. in Linderman Library 200.