Special Collections serves as the repository for the University's collections of rare books and manuscripts, and for holdings relating to its own history.

Location & Hours

Linderman Library
3rd Floor West
Room 341

M-F, 1-5 p.m. – public hours
Mornings and class sessions scheduled by appointment.

Request form for materials in remote storage.

Contact Information

Lois Fischer Black, Curator
Phone: (610) 758-5185
Fax: (610) 758-6091
Email: lob206@lehigh.edu

Ilhan Citak, Archives and Special Collections Librarian
Phone: (610) 758-4506
Fax: (610) 758-6091
Email: ilc4@lehigh.edu

Department email: inspc@lehigh.edu

Mailing Address:
Special Collections
Lehigh University
Linderman Library
30 Library Drive
Bethlehem, PA 18015

 

News & Events

• LEHIGH UNIVERSITY HISTORY RESOURCES

• Current Exhibition: CHARLES DARWIN AT 200 EXHIBIT

  An exhibition featuring works from Lehigh’s premier Darwin collection, including On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man. The exhibition is open from 2/12-6/30 in Lehigh’s Linderman Library (ground and first floors).
  In addition, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries have arranged to borrow a manuscript page from Lehigh’s first edition of On the Origin of Species, one of very few extant handwritten pages. The Smithsonian exhibit, Darwin as Scientist, is scheduled to open in June 2009.

Read the news at The LTS Connection, Friends of the Lehigh Libraries

• Recent Acquisitions:
• Copy of Engineers Private Journal [on] Harlem Bridge(1857–1861)
• Construction of Bronx Public Works Photographs (1893-1935)
• Allen J. Barthold Papers (1914-1984)
• William J. Eney Papers (1900-1984)