Recent Press Releases and Announcements
Cornell University Library Publishes New Digitization Manual
‘Copyright and Cultural Institutions’ Will Assist Cultural Heritage Institutions
10/29/2009
National Network of Scientists to Transform Biomedical Research
NIH Funds VIVO Project to Discover Expertise and Enable Collaborations
10/20/2009
Rare Documents Part of Cornell University Library’s Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration
Major Civil War Exhibition Opens with Lecture from James McPherson
10/15/2009
Columbia and Cornell Libraries Announce New Partnership
Mellon Grant Supports Joint Venture
10/12/2009
Cornell University Library Submits Comments to Court on Google Books Settlement
Letter Supports Agreement with Reservations
09/10/2009
Cornell Library Program to Help Strengthen Agricultural Research in sub-Saharan Africa
Cornell University’s Albert R. Mann Library will increase
access to The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL) database for researchers and
students in sub-Saharan Africa, supported by a $1.8 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation. The goal of the project is to strengthen the scientific foundation for agriculture research
and education in sub-Saharan Africa by providing 115 institutions in 14 countries access to more
than 140 key agricultural journals.
08/18/2009
Librarians win excellence awards
Librarians Janet McCue and Suzanne Cohen won excellence awards from the State University of New York
07/23/2009
Cornell University Library and HBCU Library Alliance
Cornell University Library (CUL), in cooperation with the HBCU Library Alliance, is pleased to announce that it has received a grant for $375,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will support a two-year project aimed at promoting sustainability for the production of digital collections at dozens of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) across the country.
07/21/2009
Cornell University Library Removes All Restrictions on Use of Public Domain Reproductions
In a dramatic change of practice, Cornell University Library has announced it will no longer require its users to seek permission to publish public domain items duplicated from its collections. Instead, users may now use reproductions of public domain works made for them by the Library or available via Web sites, without seeking any further permission.
05/11/2009
Cornell University Library Inaugurates Electronic Version of ‘Islandica’
Old Norse-Icelandic Series Now Published Online
05/05/2009
Five students receive Library's top award
The Library is pleased to announce this year’s winners of the Fuerst Award. Each winner received $500, the largest financial award for student employees on campus.
04/28/2009
Mary Ochs Appointed New Director of Mann Library
Cornell University Library is pleased to announce that Mary Ochs is the new director of the Albert R. Mann Library. Ochs has served as interim director since October 2008, when she replaced newly appointed Associate University Librarian Janet McCue.
04/15/2009
Announcement about the Physical Sciences Library
03/25/2009
Sheila Ann Dean Releases Groundbreaking Darwin Text
“Charles Darwin: After the Origin” Informs Current Debate on Evolution
02/25/2009
Rhodes Headlines Cornell University Library’s Darwin Celebration
Library Partners with Museum of the Earth in Collaborative Exhibition
02/04/2009
Cornell University Library Expands Print-on-Demand Offerings
More than 80,000 Books To Be Offered for Reprint on Amazon.com
02/03/2009
Inaugurations of years past
Political memorabilia from the Library's Rare and Manuscript Collections is on display in Olin and online.
01/22/2009
Workshops for the new semester
Workshops for the new semester
01/22/2009