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.
We are happy to announce that Alex Japha, Digital Archives and Special Collections Librarian in Lehigh Libraries, Special Collections, and Lisa McColl, Metadata Services Manager for Library Technical Services, were recently honored with the 2021-2022 Louis & Helen Zirkel Library Staff Award, established to recognize outstanding performance and service by a member of the exempt or nonexempt staff of the university libraries.
You may have only met him under the worst of circumstances. Your computer made a sickening clicking noise on startup, wouldn’t boot at all, or you just spilled your half-caf, double tall latte all over the keyboard.
Ilhan Citak, Archives and Special Collections Librarian, won the 2021 Vedat Türkali Poetry Award for Dil Tutulmasi (Tongue Eclipse). The jury’s statement included that “Ilhan pushed the form and language boundaries of his poetry and initiated the search for new narratives and expressions, and gave new breath and voice to Turkish poetry.”