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Earlier issues of this newsletter have highlighted various strategic directions within the Libraries’ evolving Strategic Plan—building learning environments, deepening connections with scholarship, and modeling a library organization. I have left the most enduring and perhaps obvious one for last—that the Libraries ensures access to ideas and authoritative information sources, regardless of time or geography, for Drexel’s diverse community to learn, contribute to scholarship, and serve society.

Libraries staff is undertaking innovative initiatives to address this important responsibility. We continue to license access to electronic information resources, critical to research and teaching, and are challenged in doing so by the growing population at Drexel, as well as the expansion of the University’s scholarly communications and research scope. We are also working to simplify the discovery of multiple unique collections across Drexel and beyond, and collaboratively with others, to ensure that the creative expressions at Drexel are available to others for future use in teaching and research.

“The events of September 11 galvanized many disparate groups. Who would have thought that comic books would be one of them?” wrote Time magazine’s Andrew Arnold¹. Arnold should not have been surprised.

Okay, all you science buffs, math-y types, and gear heads. We know math, science, and engineering are fun, but maybe the text books are making your eyes glaze over.

by Holly Frisbee

The records of the Department of Performing Arts have been processed and are ready for research use.

This collection consists of photos and administrative documents from the