On behalf of Library and Technology Services, I'd like to welcome all new and returning students to the fall 2025 semester.
Read on for some information about our hours, upcoming events, and some reminders of the many resources and services that are available to you.
Reading and Researching in the Lehigh Libraries
The Lehigh Libraries offer access to an extensive collection of digital journals, print books, ebooks, databases, tools, and rare and archival materials. Deepen your reading and research by searching our collection, keep up with news such as the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, explore our OverDrive ebook and audiobook Library, and extend your reach by using the PALCI EZBorrow interlibrary loan system to request books delivered to the library in 3-5 business days from over 73 partner institutions.
Contact a Lehigh Librarian for a personal research consultation or consider making a research appointment in our Bayer Special Collections & Instruction Reading Room.
If you’re interested in representing the student body and giving your voice to help shape the Libraries, we invite you to join our Student Library Advisory Board!
Arts & Events
- Lehigh University Libraries present Tending to the Past: Works from the Petrucci Family Foundation of African American Art, featuring works by Black American artists that explore history, memory, and cultural preservation. The exhibition will be on view on the 6th Floor South of Fairchild-Martindale Library from mid-September 2025 through March 2026, with an opening reception and panel planned for October 16th. Stay tuned for more information.
- Step into the digital rabbit hole with Alice in Informationland! Join Touchstone Theatre and Lehigh Libraries on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 7–9 p.m. at Linderman Library for an imaginative performance exploring AI, ethics, and human-machine interaction through the lens of Alice in Wonderland. Learn more.
- Discover Informationland: The Past and Future of Libraries, now on view in Linderman Library. Inspired by this fall’s collaborative event Alice in Informationland with Touchstone Theatre, our new Special Collections exhibit traces libraries’ role from clay tablets to AI, showcasing how librarians have preserved knowledge, guided discovery, and built community across centuries. Explore rare government records, Lehigh archives, and media formats old and new. Visit through December, or continue your journey online with storymaps and timelines celebrating the ingenuity of libraries and the people behind them. Learn more.
- Lehigh University Art Galleries turns 100! Visit Fairchild-Martindale Study Gallery for the exhibition LGBTQ+ ARTISTS: SHOW AND TELL, part of PastFORWARD, a celebration of past exhibitions that continue to shape LUAG's vision for the future.
What’s new in software and technology?
Curious about how generative AI tools like Google Gemini, NotebookLM, or DataCamp’s DataLab can enhance your work? Attend LTS GenAI office hours on the last Friday of each month from 12-1 p.m. via Zoom to explore new capabilities, see how LTS staff use these tools to support teaching and learning, or get your AI questions answered.
Register for Generative AI, technology, research computing, and library resource training in the Fall 2025 Seminar Series. We offer over two dozen seminars highlighting Lehigh tools, software, and services designed to help you work more efficiently and maximize your productivity in the office, the classroom, or in your research.
Whether you are starting your Lehigh journey or preparing to graduate, LinkedIn Learning has a large number of resources to access for just-in-time learning, stop, start, and learn when it works for you. It can help you succeed in your courses, define your career path, build a professional network, and conduct a strategic job search. Learn more and get started.
What’s new in teaching and learning?
Explore LTS’s innovative technology spaces designed to spark creativity and discovery.
- The LTS Emerging Technologies (LETs) Lab offers hands-on access to tools like XR, AI, GIS, and drones, paired with expert support and large-scale displays for collaboration.
- The Digital Media Studio provides high-end computers with Adobe Creative Cloud, specialized equipment, and loaner gear to bring multimedia projects to life.
- For those creating content, the DIY Podcasting & Lightboard Studio makes recording lectures or podcasts as simple as plugging in a USB drive, while the DIY Audio Recording Studio offers professional-quality voice recording for narrations, interviews, and podcasts.
- The Student Developer Lab supports exploration in digital game development and design, offering specialized tools and software for XR and interactive media projects. You can also stay current with the field of XR at Lehigh and beyond by joining Lehigh's Extended Reality (XR) Community of Practice, an avenue for learning and sharing.
Together, these spaces give the Lehigh community easy access to cutting-edge tools, whether you’re experimenting with new technology, designing media, or sharing your voice and ideas.
Data skills are essential in every discipline. LTS offers DataCamp, an online platform for learning data literacy at any level. Students can follow expert-led courses, complete short exercises, and get real-time feedback, all in a web browser. Learn more and get started.
The CITL and Graduate Education & Life are offering a free Teacher Development Series this fall for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. This non-credit training helps participants strengthen instructional and classroom skills and is open to trainees and researchers from all colleges, disciplines, and postgraduate career stages. Learn more.
What’s open when?
LTS provides students with study areas, access to resources, experts ready to help, and events that promote inquiry, deepen learning, and build community.
Fairchild-Martindale Library (FML) and Linderman Library hours (Lehigh ID tap entry is required after 9:00PM):
- Monday-Thursday: 7:45AM - 2AM (both libraries)
- Friday: FML: 7:45AM - 12AM; Linderman: 7:45AM - 10PM
- Saturday: FML: 9AM - 12AM; Linderman: 9AM - 10PM
- Sunday: 9AM - 2AM (both libraries)
The Computing Center Pit (lower level) is open 24 hours, 7 days a week during fall, spring, and summer semesters, offering round-the-clock space for work and study. Lehigh ID tap is required when the building is open but the doors are locked.
View Library, CC, and Digital Media Studio hours on the LTS website.
Dining at the libraries
The hours for The Grind @ FML can be found on the Lehigh Dining website (hours subject to change).
How can we help?
Our wide range of services, programs, and resources includes research consultations with librarians; digital scholarship, instructional and computing technology support; teacher development services; information security; and advanced research computing resources.
The LTS Help Desk is the first point of contact for all these forms of assistance, and our Student Technology and Repair Service (STARS) can help students with their personal computers.
Need help but not sure where to begin? Start with the Help Desk at help.lehigh.edu.
As always, we are dedicated to providing innovative, state-of-the-art resources; library, teaching, and technical consultation; and expert assistance for all students, faculty, researchers, and staff.
Welcome again and best wishes for a rewarding and successful semester!
Greg Reihman, Ph.D.
Vice Provost for Library and Technology Services