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February 2005 |
1. Borrow Linderman books soon that you may need for teaching or research. Linderman books can be renewed unless (1) books are re-called for another user or (2) you leave Lehigh and must return all materials.
2. Identify core reading lists of Linderman books for courses. These will be moved to a "mini-Linderman" area in Fairchild Library beginning in late spring 2005 for convenient student use.
3. Encourage graduate students who need Linderman materials to borrow them soon too. The books can be renewed unless they are recalled for another user or the student leaves the university.
For HELP, please contact Humanities Librarian Kathe Morrow (kem6,
83041) or Team Leader Roseann Bowerman (rb04, 83053). INSIDE the
newsletter, please see planned staff locations and information about
limited Media Production services during summer 2005.
Get Linderman books or journals?
In addition to the "mini-Linderman" collection, LTS plans to retrieve requested materials on a schedule similar to that of the Library Materials Center (24 hour notice weekday delivery). There are also many opportunities to take advantage of consortial borrowing (both interlibrary loan & direct such as PALCI, LVAIC, and others). See this website for more details:Read current Linderman periodicals?
All humanities periodicals will be shelved in a separate section adjacent to the Fairchild current periodicals. Many Linderman periodicals are also available electronically.
Borrow or browse new humanities books?Beginning sometime in April 2005 new Linderman books will be shelved in the "mini-Linderman" section on the main floor of Fairchild Martindale Library.
Enjoy the Leisure Reading collection?
The Leisure Reading collection will move to Fairchild Library,
probably outside the Circulation office door.
Humanities Librarian Kathe Morrow will have an office in Fairchild Library in close proximity to the "mini-Linderman". Team Leader Roseann Bowerman's office will on the 3rd floor of the Mart Wing. The computing consultants will be located in room 194/196, the former Lewis training lab, adjacent to the elevator on the lowest level of the Computing Center.
Use Special Collections materials or consult with the Special Collections staff?GET HELP?
For general questions, the Help Desk (8HELP) is staffed many, many
hours. For specific help with humanities library issues, contact Kathe
Morrow (kem6, 83041) or Roseann Bowerman (rb04, 83053).
Telecommunications Moves to Computing Center in February
In February 2005 the Telecommunications Team will move permanently from Linderman Library to the lower level of the Fairchild Computing Center. This will include a move of the university telephone operators as well as Team Leader Lizanne Hurst and her staff: Monica Weber, Lisa Luchini, and Debbie Henritzy. The offices are in the former Lewis training lab (room 194/196) immediately adjacent to the elevator.
Software Libraries Consolidated in Room 281
The two software libraries presently on the lower level of the Fairchild Computing Center will be combined permanently in room 281 on the mezzanine level.
Library Technical Services to Fairchild Library in March
In March the Library Access Services Director, Sharon Wiles Young, and the Library Technical Services Team under the leadership of Judy McNally will move to Fairchild Library. Staff will be housed in room 625 and 628 as well as other spaces on the top floor of the Mart Wing. This is a temporary location during the renovation of Linderman Library.
A&S Team and Other Staff
The Arts and Science College Team, Special Collections, the Media
Production Center, and the Library Lending Team members will stay in
the building until the end of the spring semester. The Academic and
Administrative Department Team and the Digital Library Team may leave
in April. The April newsletter will announce the new locations for each
individual. See page 3 for an article about the change in both the
location and the name of the Media Production Center. Contact Sue Cady
at sac0@lehigh.edu or x84645 for more information about the moves.
by Greg Reihman
Beginning spring semester 2005, public events sponsored by the Lehigh Lab will be organized under a new name: "The Lehigh Lab Forum." The new rubric will capture both the unity of purpose and the breadth of scope of the many workshops, discussions, and roundtables offered.
The purpose of the Lehigh Lab is to help foster excellence and
innovation in teaching, learning, and research at Lehigh. To bring Lab
activities to a broader audience of faculty and staff, a wide variety
of events, including presentations of new instructional technologies;
conversations about teaching techniques; roundtables on the educational
role of libraries, computing, and new media; and discussions about
student learning are being offered. Previously some of these events
were billed as Teaching, Learning and Technology Roundtables (TLTR) and
some as Faculty Development events, while some fell into no category at
all. By bringing these many events under one umbrella, we will
emphasize their interconnectedness and highlight their relationship to
the Lehigh Lab.
See the list of this spring's Lehigh Lab Forum events, and look for more details in faculty mailboxes soon.
Lehigh Lab Forum - Events for Spring 2005:
The Who, the How, and the Why of Blogging
Laying the Groundwork for Student Research in the Age of Google
Fostering Great Discussions and Improving Student Participation
Integrating Research into Undergraduate Education
Exemplary Uses of Blackboard
Using the Financial Services Lab as a Teaching Resource
Scientific Computing
The Media Production Center currently in Linderman Library will be
moving permanently in May. It will be relocated into two large spaces
on the south side of the ground level breezeway of Fairchild Martindale
Library. This move will provide an opportunity to rethink the
configurations of various services such as the graphics training lab,
the video studio, and editing workstations. To reflect the current role
of the Center, its name will be changed to the Digital Media
Laboratory. Some services may be limited during summer 2005 as the
new facility is prepared for operation. Contact Elia Schoomer or
Steve Lichak for more information.
by Gale Fritsche
LTS recently received a large computer system from JP Morgan Chase to be used by students, faculty and staff for research, graduate and undergraduate instruction. This system is part of a growing scientific computing infrastructure at Lehigh that is being designed to enhance research and innovation in teaching and learning.
The donated system is an Egenera BladeFrame computer cluster consisting of 96 Intel processors and a total of 288 Gigabytes of Random Access Memory (RAM). It is a "diskless" system because it does not have internal storage such as a hard disk drive but is connected to a SAN (Storage Area Network) that handles the primary storage requirements. The system runs the Redhat Enterprise Linux operating system and will be accessible from computers on campus via Secure Shell. It is currently being configured and will be available for general use sometime in February 2005. The Egenera website is www.egenera.com/prod_home.php.
The addition of this system, and the recently operational second
Beowulf cluster, will increase the scientific computing resources at
Lehigh to over 400 processors and nearly one terabyte of RAM. It will
enable faculty and researchers to conduct scientific research more
efficiently as well as give graduate and undergraduate students
exposure to a wider range of systems and resources.
by Roy Gruver
In February, for on-campus Internet users the WWW, sometimes described as the "world wide wait", will become a bit more speedy. In a new agreement with PPL Telcom, a local Internet Service Provider or ISP, Library and Technology Services (LTS) will double the campus commodity Internet bandwidth from 50 MBPS to 100 MBPS. In addition, because Lehigh's Internet link is so important to its everyday academic and business needs, LTS will be establishing a geographically separate backup Internet link that can be engaged if the primary link goes down or becomes inoperable. The primary link will connect into the network on the Asa Packer Campus and the backup link on the Mountaintop Campus.
So what does this mean for the typical campus Internet user? Since our Internet bandwidth was almost completely utilized during the entire fall semester, there should be better throughput for most Internet activities. Second, in order to provide adequate bandwidth for all uses on campus (computing sites, classrooms, libraries, faculty, staff, and students—resident and nonresident), there were limits on certain types of usage. LTS will be able to relax some of those limitations with this new Internet agreement.
Nevertheless, regardless of how much Internet bandwidth Lehigh has, acceptable use policies and copyright protections still apply. LTS will continue to track excessive Internet usage and abuses.
PPL Telcom is a new provider for Lehigh. In an open bidding process, Lehigh invited competitive bids from a variety of vendors. Several bids were received, including one from the incumbent provider, US LEC (and their internet trademark, Fastnet). A variety of criteria were evaluated-ability to provide the services, total cost, vendor experience and competence, financial stability of vendor, ability to provide primary and backup connections, and evaluation of references.
Lehigh University has two types of Internet access: "commodity"
which is the general usage described above and Internet2, designated
for research-related activity. PPL Telcom will also be providing
transport of Lehigh's Internet2 traffic from the campus to Philadelphia
where it is delivered to Internet2 provider MAGPI (Mid-Atlantic
Gigapop). Lehigh's Internet2 bandwidth will remain at 100 MBPS.
Dewey 000s Move to Fairchild Library
Over the semester break, all monographs and most journals classified in the Dewey Decimal 000 range were moved from Linderman Library to Fairchild Library. As a result, the 000 call number range for monographs is no longer divided between the two libraries: they are now all located together on the 3rd level north side of Fairchild Library (FM 3rd Floor North). The 000s include books in such areas as library science, journalism, and computer science. Likewise all of the journals classified in the 000s, except for general journals (classified in 050-059) are also in Fairchild Library. The 050-059 journals are comprised of long runs of general periodicals like Harpers and The Atlantic Monthly. Changes have been made in the online catalog to reflect these new locations.
Linderman Journals Move to Lower Level Rotunda
LTS has begun moving all Linderman bound journals to the lowest
level of the Rotunda. In the renovated Linderman Library bound journals
will be shelved together in call number order as they are in Fairchild.
By the end of January, LTS expects that bound journals with Dewey
classifications in the 050-059s, 100s, 200s, and 400s will have been
moved. Signs are being posted in Linderman as journals are being moved.
Changes will be made in the online catalog as the project proceeds to
reflect these relocations to Linderman Basement - Rotunda.
The Martindales provided the major gift for the E.W. Fairchild-Martindale Library and Computing Center which opened some twenty years ago. The complex houses many facets of Library and Technology Services including the science and social science library collections, the Help Desk and Circulation functions, the Media Center, the Technology Resource Learning Center, various computing public sites, the software library, the computer operations center, and staff offices.
The building was named to honor Mrs. Martindale's father E. W. Fairchild who was a pioneer in business journalism, founding Fairchild Publications, which published Woman's Wear Daily and other trade publications in fields ranging from fashion, textiles, and foods to metals, appliances, energy and computers. A portrait of the Martindale's hangs in the lobby of the Fairchild Library.
The Martindales funded other endeavors at Lehigh including the E.W. Fairchild Chair in American Studies; the E.W. Fairchild Visiting Writer; the E.W. Fairchild Fellowship in American Literature; the Fairchild-Martindale Center for the Study of Private Enterprise; the Paul J. Franz, Jr. Chair in University Administration; and the Elizabeth and Harry Martindale Scholarships.
Mr. Martindale received his bachelor's degree with honors in business administration from Lehigh University in 1927. After 14 years in retail merchandising, he served in World War II with the War Production Board and the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps. Leaving the military as a major in 1945, Harry joined Fairchild Publications. In 1970, he retired as vice president and continued as a member of the board of directors. Elizabeth Fairchild Martindale died in June 1997. They had no children.