Creating Your Own Archive, with poet Remica Bingham-Risher | Friends of the Lehigh Libraries talk, Tue., Apr 23

Join us for a Friends of the Lehigh University Libraries talk in celebration of National Poetry Month, Tue., April 23

Celebrate 2024 National Poetry Month with Lehigh Libraries

Join LTS for our 6th annual celebration of National Poetry Month. Every April since 1996, the Academy of American Poets has sponsored a month-long celebration of poetry. Lehigh has participated in National Poetry Month since 2019 with poetry readings, scholarly talks, and poetry workshops.

Introducing Library Single Search!

The Lehigh Libraries invite your feedback on an exciting new “single search” capability in the ASA Library Catalog. Single Search lets users search the ASA catalog for e-journals, e-books, and many research databases, starting from one unified single search box.

ALA President Emily Drabinski champions libraries amidst politicization

Librarians and library advocates gathered at Packard Lab on Monday, Feb. 12, for a lecture by American Library Association president Emily Drabinski, who shed light on the critical importance of libraries amidst growing political pressures. Sponsored by the Friends of the Lehigh University Libraries, Drabinski’s talk, Libraries Do Good Work, comes at a time when libraries across the nation are facing increasing challenges and attacks on their fundamental role in society.

Libraries Do Good Work | Friends of the Lehigh Libraries talk | Mon., Feb. 12

The Friends of the Lehigh University Libraries invite you to join us on Monday, February 12, 2024 from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Packard Lab Auditorium (Room 101) for Libraries Do Good Work, presented by Emily Drabinski, 2023-2024 President of the American Library Association.

Rediscovering Miles Rock

Rediscovering Miles Rock in a new Special Collections exhibit

With the opening of the spring exhibit, “Rediscovering Miles Rock,” students and visitors will have the unique opportunity to walk in the footsteps of one of Lehigh’s earliest graduates. The exhibit will provide insight into the intriguing life of Miles Rock, who, much like today’s students, reacted to the world around, pursued an education, and subsequently a career that took him around the globe.

Lehigh Libraries receive national honor for commitment to diversity, inclusion and equity

Lehigh Valley LGBT Community Archive

12th annual Harvest of Ideas celebrates Lehigh faculty authors

On Thursday, October 26, 2023, the Friends of the Lehigh University Libraries hosted its 12th annual Harvest of Ideas reception in the Linderman Library Rotunda for faculty who published or edited a book or composition during the previous year.