Most Recent CUL News Stories
Mummies & A.D. White
Cornell Chronicle: An ancient Egyptian papyrus scroll in the Library's archives led to a fascinating detective story
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Dr, Joyce Brothers '47
Cornell Chronicle: The renowned psychologist and advice columnist's archival papers are housed in the Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
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In pursuit of an underwater menagerie
New York Times: Cornell's Blaschka collection of glass invertebrates sheds light on the world beneath the sea
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Air, sea and land
Cornell Chronicle: Mann Library will play a key role in a new initiative to create a climate-change clearinghouse in New York State
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In Audubon's footsteps
Shelf Life: A new exhibit in Adelson Library displays rare works by ornithological painter Louis Agassiz Fuertes
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Zunz in the house
Jewish Daily Forward: Rabbi Steven M. Glazer donated over 100 rare works relating to scholar Leopold Zunz to the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
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A whole new world
Cornell Chronicle: Panel discusses changing venues for academic publishing
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Back to their roots
Cornell Chronicle: Indigenous hip-hop artists tour the Hip Hop Collection and participate in panel discussion
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The world is their canvas
Ithaca Journal: A host of top-tier graffiti artists came to Ithaca as part of the Unbound for the Underground celebration
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Conflict, consensus, community
Cornell Chronicle: Prof. Peter Katzenstein discussed institutional and individual expressions of the Europe during the Library's Europe in the World program
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Europe in the World
Cornell Daily Sun: Six students won prizes in a competition for multimedia projects on European communities
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Expanding the Hip Hop Collection
Cornell Chronicle: Graffiti art, photography, film, video, audio -- new acquisitions are boosting the Hip Hop Collection
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Deep in the archives
PeriodiCALS: Investigating the special collections in Mann Library, including the Phillips Beekeeping Collection, the Rice Poultry Collection and the Language of Flowers Collection
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New acquisitions
Cornell Chronicle: Graffiti, film, photo archives expand the Library's Hip Hop Collection
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Cultural Icons
Ithaca Times: City prepares to celebrate hip-hop culture with Unbound from the Underground celebration
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Preserving our collective memory
Cornell Daily Sun: A student reflects on the importance of archives in times of cultural and historical uncertainty
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Hooray for Gay
Cornell Chronicle: Photo exhibition marks the 25th anniversary of the Human Sexuality Collection
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Leaving your brain to science?
Slate: The Division of Rare and Manuscripts has archived a medical bequest form used for brain donations
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Memory lane
Cornell Alumni Magazine: Emeritus professor Howard Howland is putting Cornell history online
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Playing by the new rules
Cornell Chronicle: Updated federal funding rules mean major changes for researchers and more open access for the public
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Mountains of data
Cornell Chronicle: Library-faculty collaboration helps graduate students conquer their data-management challenges
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Saving access
Cornell Daily Sun: Thanks to a $300,000 NEH grant, the Goldsen Archive will help figure out digital preservation
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Colder than Ithaca
Shelf Life: Two exhibitions in Olin Library offer a glimpse of Iceland and the far North Atlantic
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Look for the union label
Shelf Life: A new exhibition from the Kheel Center displays ephermera related to the history of labor unions
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The language of flowers
At Mann Library, patrons are exploring the poetic power of the floral vocabulary in the ways of romance.
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Creating 'greater efficiency'
Cornell Daily Sun: Cornell-Columbia partnership will integrate their library technical services
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History on view
Ithaca Journal: To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Library brought its original copy out of the vault and into the public spotlight
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Simple requests
Shelf Life: Life just got a little easier for Cornellians heading to the Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, which inaugurated a new online registration and request system
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Integrating infrastructure
Library Journal: The 2CUL libraries are getting ready for their technical services departments to operate as two parts of a whole
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'Eternity's Sunrise'
Shelf Life: A new brushed aluminum mobile is gracing the study space in Mann Library
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Understanding Black History Month
Africana Library Director Eric Acree will host a community conversation and panel discussion with two Cornell faculty members at the Tompkins County Public Library on Feb. 16
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A Bright spot
Ithaca Journal: Sexpert Susie Bright donates her archives to Cornell
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Drumming up dialogue
Cornell Chronicle: With a new book giveaway, the Library aims to spark discussion on the future of scholarly publishing
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Crowdsourcing infiltrates libraries
Edcetera: The Library's Kheel Center teamed up with the University of Warwick to create a Yiddish crowdsourcing project
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Images of inauguration
Shelf Life: Just in time for Barack Obama's second inauguration day, the library is putting materials from his first inauguration online
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A dark history
Ithaca.com: Exploring the latest exhibition in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections brings up memories of children's literature
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Take a day on, not a day off
Shelf Life: Celebrate the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. by volunteering and learning more about his work
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Off the shelf
Shelf Life: The Library has created a virtual browser that allows readers to discover materials just as they would standing in front of a real shelf
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Chronicling Cornell
Ithaca Journal: A new book tracks the history of Cornell University from its founding in 1865 to the present, complete with historic photos from the Library
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ILLiad's odyssey
Shelf Life: The Library's interlibrary loan system reached its millionth request in late 2012
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The lawn in the Library
Library Journal: Therapy dogs are a common choice to help students de-stress during finals time, but Cornell University Library went a more unusual route
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Bringing nature inside the Library
Ithaca Journal: The grass is always greener, and now so are two of Cornell University’s libraries
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Trial by pamphlet
Shelf Life: Abolitionist John Brown was executed 153 years ago, and now the record of his trial is online for the world to see
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Libraries go zen
UPI: Indoor lawns help students handle end-of-semester stress
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Spreading the love
ALA's ilovelibraries.org named the Library's trials pamphlet collection its Digital Library of the Week
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Concrete oases
Shelf Life: New grass installations in Mann and Olin libraries bring the calm of nature indoors
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A Q&A with Afrika Bambaataa
Cornell Daily Sun: A student reporter goes behind the scenes with Cornell's visiting scholar, one of the founding fathers of hip hop
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Calling all Yiddish speakers
Cornell Chronicle: A new crowdsourcing project is asking the public to help translate a host of journals and newspapers
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A beautiful darkness
Cornell Daily Sun: New library exhibition brings out the darker side of children's literature
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Keeping it local
Ithaca Journal: The Ivy League got a little greener when Cornell hosted a Local Fair at Mann Library
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Meet Afrika Bambaataa, Cornell professor
Village Voice: The DJ pioneer and hip hop founding father talks about his new appointment as a visiting scholar at Cornell, in conjunction with the Library
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Digital pioneers
Three Cornell librarians were named to a list of the most influential early digitization innovators around the world
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Video: Do we still need a Library?
CornellCast: Anthony Marx, head of the New York Public Library, speculated on the future of research libraries during a speech at Cornell
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The dark side of kiddy lit
Ithaca Journal: Library exhibition explores violence, death, sex -- a new angle on children's literature
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Digitization developments
Cornell Chronicle: Cornell and HathiTrust prevail in a lawsuit over the copyright rules for digitized books
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Happy birthday, Charlotte
WSYR-TV: The world's most beloved spider turns 60 years old
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Teaching preservation
Cornell Daily Sun: Chinese librarians travel to Ithaca for an internship to learn preservation and conservation techniques
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Upping the digital ante
Chronicle of Higher Education: New data shows that spending by research libraries appears to be rising, especially for digital materials
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Spreading the knowledge
Cornell Chronicle: Library to teach preservation techniques to Chinese librarians
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The library that never sleeps
Ezra magazine: 24/7 access, on campus and around the world, is transforming Cornell's library
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It's easy being green
Cornell Chronicle: Mann Library's garden entrance is now one of only 11 landscapes in the country to be certified by the Sustainable Sites Initiative
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What public domain?
TechDirt: A copyright puzzle about "Happy Birthday," a 1755 letter, and more
Curtius concepts
Cornell Chronicle: Dozens of letters to two European intellectuals found deep in the Kroch Library archives sparked scholars' imaginations
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Kenney reappointed
Cornell Chronicle: The Provost officially named Anne R. Kenney the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian for another five-year term
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Sesquecentennial run-up
Alumni Magazine: 150 years ago, the Morrill Land Grant Act paved the way for Cornell
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A milestone for ILR's repository
Cornell Chronicle: Visitors to DigitalCommons@ILR – a repository of almost 16,000 workplace-related documents – have clicked “download” more than five million times
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Solid financial footing
Nature: arXiv gets a boost from a major new grant from the Simons Foundation
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Supporting arXiv
Chronicle of Higher Education: The Library is taking significant new steps toward its goal of making the online repository arXiv less burdensome to sustain
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Going digital
Cornell Chronicle: Obama memorabilia and early maps are among the newest projects that will be digitized through new grants from Cornell University Library and the College of Arts and Sciences
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Librarian or mermaid?
Cornell Chronicle: Through Cornell's healthy living program, one librarian learned to love swimming
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Hip hop pioneer comes to Cornell
Cornell Chronicle: Afrika Bambaataa will come to campus several days a year during his three-year appointment as a visiting scholar
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Anne Kenney: Digital pioneer
Library of Congress blog: In a lengthy profile, the University Librarian discusses the library's past, present and future
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Bambaataa coming to Cornell
Associated Press: Hip hop pioneer DJ Afrika Bambaataa has been appointed to a three-year term as a visiting scholar at Cornell University
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Alumni access
Shelf Life: The Library just added another powerful tool for Cornell graduates: JSTOR, one of the most popular databases of scholarly journals, is now available to Cornell alumni for free, with their NetID
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Big Red gold
Shelf Life: A new library exhibit features original memorabilia from Cornellians in the Olympics
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Bambaataa named visiting scholar
Hip hop legend Afrika Bambaataa will serve a three-year term at Cornell -- the first faculty appointment for a hip hop pioneer and legend at a major university
More Morrill, please
Cornell Chronicle: The Library is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Morrill Land Grant Act with an exhibit from the university archives
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Patterns in digitized history
TED Talk: What can mathematics say about history... and where do digitization and libraries fit in?
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Imagination on display
Ithaca Journal: Petrified dinosaur eggs, an original Sputnik satellite and a collection of prosthetic eyeballs are just the beginning
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Building blocks
Cornell Chronicle: Immersion program helps librarians learn to create a greater understanding of information literacy in the classroom
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Reunion 2012 at the Library!
Check out a full list of our (many many) reunion events, including the "Collecting Imagination" exhibition, library tours and more.
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The writing on the wall
Cornell Daily Sun: An ode to library graffiti
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Sputnik lands at the Library
Cornell Chronicle: Reunion exhibition to feature Sputnik satellite and Enigma code-breaking machine
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Strenghtening ties
Cornell Chronicle: 2CUL partnership with Columbia libraries creates new collaboration for Latin American and Iberian studies
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Emancipation, mapped
Shelf Life: A new interactive map tracing the spread of emancipation pulls primary cources from the Library’s Making of America Collection
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Mind's eye
Cornell Alumni Magazine: Jay Walker's historic Library of Human Imagination will come to the Library in time for reunion
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Outstanding achievements
The Library's most accomplished and passionate student workers were honored at the Fuerst Outstanding Library Student Employee Awards
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Spring cleaning
It's almost time for National Preservation Week... do you know where your family's most important photos and documents are?
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Cornell on the Titanic
A new exhibition of artifacts from the four Cornellians on the Titanic is now on display in Olin Library
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A gift for the future
Cornell Daily Sun: Prof. Emerita Helen L. Wardeberg has given a generous bequest to Mann Library and CALS
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Fruit of the vine
Shelf Life: A specialized archive at Cornell University Library preserves the history of grape growers and wine makers
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Sing it, Marian(s)
In honor of National Library Workers Day, Cornell University Library staff members have created a tribute video to the people who make the Library tick
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Robot invasion!
Shelf Life: In a student-created exhibition, two commercially available vacuum-cleaning robots trace their own movements across the floor of Mann Library’s second-floor gallery space
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A helping hand
The Library's winter-break immersion program bolstered humanities Ph.D. students
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Keys to the Library's future
Ezra magazine: Faculty members reveal the impact of library collections -- and the importance of funding them fully
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Keeping the connection
Shelf Life: The Library's newly revamped alumni website provides easy access to back issues of the Daily Sun, full-text databases and much more
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Words by the millions
New York Times: New software combs through the library-supported arXiv to sort words and find common themes
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Preserving winemaking history
Democrat & Chronicle: From historical records to bottle labels, an archive at Cornell University is quietly collecting and preserving materials related to the East Coast wine industry
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Rediscovering America
Shelf Life: Eight original maps depicting Columbus’ and Vespucci’s voyages are now on display on the lower level lobby of Olin Library
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Guiding force
Shelf Life: More than 700 library guides are now available online in a new and improved interface
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Making a case for collections
Cornell Daily Sun: The Faculty Senate discusses the Library's lagging collections budget and presents a petition aiming to regain a top 10 spot
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Inside the vault
Cornell Chronicle: Far below the Arts Quad, some of Cornell's richest treasures live in a massive, cold, locked room
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Ithaca re-spins White's web
Shelf Life: E.B. White's classic, “Charlotte’s Web,” is the pick for this year's Big Family Read, and the Library is part of the action
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The sound (and study) of music
Cornell Chronicle: The Sidney Cox Library of Music and Dance serves as a creative space faculty and students
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A crisis brewing?
Library Journal: A recently released study of e-journal preservation at Columbia and Cornell universities revealed that only about 15 percent of e-journals are being preserved
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Faces of immigration
One of the Africana Library’s own is featured in the new book “Green Card Stories,” which introduces readers to U.S. immigrants by telling their own stories in their own words
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Sounds of silence
Cornell Daily Sun: A new photography exhibition in Mann Library stretches and compresses time
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Links to the past
In partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Mann Library is making historic census results available online
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Black History Month @ the Library
The umbrella organization for Cornell’s students of the African diaspora, has created multiple displays in three different library spaces across campus
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New photos bring history into focus
YNN: A live interview with two of the Library's curators about the new collection of African-American photographs
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Digitize it
Shelf Life: Applications are now being accepted for grants to help faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences create new digital collections
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Photo collection highlights everday images
Cornell Chronicle: Images depict the African-American experience from slavery in the agricultural antebellum South to celebrities of modern media-frenzied America
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Expanding TEEAL
Cornell Daily Sun: The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library will reach 50 more countries this year
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Linking Ithaca and India
Cornell Chronicle: Four librarians from Mann to participate in a workshop on information literacy
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Digital biodiversity
Shelf Life: Mann Library is a newly minted member of the Biodiversity Heritage Library, an online collection of historic scientific literature
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From elms to brains
Ezra magazine: Through class gifts, Cornellians have given back in unique and creative ways
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HathiTrust hits a high note
The digital repository reaches a major milestone: 10 million volumes in its collections
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TEEAL going the distance
Cornell Chronicle: The electronic library resource expands its reach to more farmers and scientists in the developing world
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MIT joins the Borrow Direct club
Boston-based MIT is now a fully participating member of the Borrow Direct consortium, which allows patrons of nine member libraries to search a combined library catalog of 50 million volumes
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Hu Shih's library legacy
Cornell Chronicle: Library celebrates 100th anniversary of Chinese book gifts
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Survey says...
Cornell Chronicle: 2CUL's resource-sharing program for Slavic studies 'opens up the doors' for Cornell and Columbia library users
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Backfile to the future
Shelf Life: In the constant quest for 24/7 digital access, Mann Library is expanding its historical backfiles of entomology journals
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January immersion
Cornell Sun: New winter break program seeks to assist second-year PhD students in the humanities
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Views of the world
Shelf Life: Generous donations from two Cornell professors have spiced up Olin Library's map collection
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Portraits & power
Cornell Chronicle: Library exhibition unpacks America's earliest photographs
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Thick with controversy
Shelf Life: Library acquired the thickest book in the world... or is it?
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Digitizing a well-kept secret
Cornell Chronicle: Thanks to a new grant, Cornell's ancient coin collection will find its way online
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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of 'Catch-22'
Cornell Chronicle: First-edition gift rounds out WWII stories and images collected in Cornell Library
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Voices from the past
Cornell Chronicle: Library digitizes interviews with international mathematicians
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Big ideas, big challenges
Library Journal: University Librarian Anne Kenney addressed "game changers" at the 2011 Charleston Conference
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Craving earth
Cornell Daily Sun: At a Mann Library book talk, researcher Sera L. Young explained why people want to eat dirt, clay and rocks
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Digital diaspora
Shelf Life: The Africana Library's redesigned website features new books, new films, new subject guides and more
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The library life
Cornell Chronicle: Winter break immersion program to aid humanities graduate students
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Speaking aloud
Cornell Chronicle: Cybertools and Sinhala archive will improve analysis of world's 7,000 languages
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A riveting glimpse of a vanished bird
New York Times: Newly discovered film footage -- found through archival research at the Library -- shows a huge, extinct woodpecker
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Trick or truth?
A new contest for students tests out an old Ithaca legend -- and the ability to find credible sources
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Reuse & recycle
Cornell Chronicle: Library computers are part of a new donation to local public schools
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A new chess board
Inside Higher Ed: Redefining the relationship between academic vendors and institutions
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Elevating arXiv
The Digital Shift: Grant will support development of stable governance structure for scientific repository
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Bike-sharing program expands
Cornell Daily Sun: Big Red Bikes program now offers bikes outside Mann Library, as well as its original location in front of Uris Library
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Drinks at Zinck's
Shelf Life: Did you know Mark Twain once joined the crowds at the fabled Cornell pub, Theodore Zinck's?
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Library digitization projects span multiple millennia
Cornell Chronicle: Six new grants have been awarded for Cornellians to create new digital content of enduring value
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McCue pays tribute to outdoor legend
Cornell Chronicle: The Library's Janet McCue co-authored a new introduction to Horace Kephart's guide "Camping and Woodcraft"
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One potato, two potato...
Book talk in Mann Library explores the humble but magnificent potato
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Summon better search results
Test out a beta version of a new Google-like search service that can help find better articles
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Law & the new order
Cornell Daily Sun: Femi Cadmus, new head of the law library, embraces change in the digital age
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A decade of Chats in the Stacks
Library's popular book talks series branches out on its 10th anniversary
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Info sessions for data management plans
Cornell faculty and staff are invited to attend informational sessions on the National Science Foundation's new policy requiring a data management plan with all grant proposals
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arXiv at 20
Cornell Chronicle: Founder Paul Ginsparg discusses the global e-print repository
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Transforming the Nestle Library
Cornell Sun: The Hotel School has received $3M grant to revamp the library and study lounge to a more student-friendly space
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Crimson connection
With Harvard University Library now an official lender in the Borrow Direct consortium, books from Harvard will get to Cornell faster than ever before
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'Divine or monstrous love'
Cornell Chronicle: Alexandridis discusses bestiality in ancient Greek art
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The Library's haiku guru
Cornell Daily Sun: Tom Clausen ’73 discusses his past adventures, his love of poetry and his work as a three-decade library staffer
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'We're a country of diversity'
Cornell Chronicle: Library receives gay-related photograph collection
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The Library is a-changin'
University Librarian Anne Kenney updates alumni during a Cornell Club event in NYC
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A pioneer's legacy
A new gift honoring Cornell's first limnology professor helps boost Mann's collections
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Four more universities address orphan works
Inside Higher Ed: Libraries address "orphan works" -- those whose copyright holders are not known or reachable
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Digitizing orphan works
Chronicle of Higher Education: Libraries pledge to follow the University of Michigan's lead
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Get Started
Wondering what the Library can do for you? Watch a video featuring your friendly neighborhood librarians, plus recommendations for good starting places depending on your college or school
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Orientation at the Library
Welcome to Cornell -- and to the Library! Check out library-centric events, from workshops to tours to social hours, in the orientation guide
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Assessing arXiv
Chronicle of Higher Education: Pioneering effort to share scientific research without the restrictions of journal prices and embargoes turns 20 this month
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Building community through books
Ithaca Journal: Africana Director Eric Acree talks about life, literature, the MLK Community Build... and his "cool job"
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arXiv at 20
Nature: arXiv founder Paul Ginsparg writes about the scientific repository's two decades of transforming scholarly communication
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Fear no weevil
Glamorous weevils invate Mann Gallery during exhibition opening
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2CUL collaboration grows
Cornell Chronicle: In an era of shrinking budgets, how can academic libraries provide the best possible information for their communities?
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Something borrowed, something new
Shelf Life: Stay up to date on the Library’s latest and greatest on the New Books page
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Cornell & Columbia team up
Inside Higher Ed: Two Ivy Leagues expand their collaboration efforts to borrowing privileges
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Crossing forbidden boundaries
CornellCast: Watch the full reunion lecture on "hybrids & chimeras" from Cornell Professor Doug Antczak
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Grandmaster archives
Shelf Life: Library's hip hop collection lends its name to summer jam sessions in NYC
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Kudos for Euclid
Cornell Chronicle: Project Euclid earns award for improving the exchange of information in physics, mathematics and astronomy
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Tales of hybrids and chimeras
Cornell Chronicle: Doug Antczak '69 entertained alumni with stories about fantastic animals at the Library's annual reunion lecture
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Celebrating Olin @ 50
What's the perfect birthday gift for a library?
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2CUL 4 words
College & Research Libraries News: 2CUL partnership with Columbia named a top trend in academic libraries
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International ILL
Library Journal: Research libraries and publishers are waging a battle over international interlibrary loans
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Sharing & strengthening
Cornell Chronicle: Thanks to the 2CUL partnership, Cornell will help Columbia's community of Southeast Asian scholars
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The ivory tower opens its treasure chest
The Economist: Libraries revisit public-domain restrictions on their collections
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Changes at the law library
Law Librarian Blog: Femi Cadmus has been appointed the new law librarian at Cornell
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Alumni resources
Graduation may mean saying goodbye to late nights at Mann and Olin, but it doesn’t have to mean leaving the Library behind entirely
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Celebrate Olin @ 50
Birthday party kicks off a spectacular exhibition with photographs, drawings and artifacts celebrating John M. Olin Library's first half-century
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Literacy in the digital age
Inside Higher Ed: The Library's information competency initiatives can help instructors change the way their students approach research
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A man with a mission
Cornell Chronicle: Library helps Nigerian scholar digitize ancient documents that 'reconstruct humanity'
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A pop of color
Cornell Chronicle: Pop artist Ed Ruscha's "artist's books" come to Cornell University Library, thanks to a generous donation
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Calling Christopher Guest
Shelf Life: Library wins “best of show” for its 2010 annual report
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'Landscape is a Verb'
Look at landscapes in a new way, through Mann's exhibition of photographer Marc Miller's work
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Familiar faces
Cornell Chronicle: You've probably seen Alison Mason Kingsbury's murals around campus -- now she's rediscovered in new book
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A new kind of collaboration
Library Journal: arXiv, one of the largest and most heavily used digital archives in the world, is seeking funds for a second year of its collaborative support model
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Generation Tech
Cornell Alumni Magazine: From shh to click, libraries face big changes in the digital age
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Bike-share program gives Cornellians a free ride
Cornell Chronicle: Uris Library hosts Cornell's Big Red Bikes program, which starts with 20 bicycles at Uris Library
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Apps for nature-lovers
Reader's Digest: The iBird app from the Macaulay Library at the Lab of Ornithology makes a top-six list
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Preserving history
New library grant provides for the restoration and digitization of the law library’s collection of trial pamphlets, which date back to the 17th century
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Literary lives
Cornell Chronicle: Professional book-lovers (and librarians) discuss potential careers for English majors
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Got Words? raffle winner!
Congratulations to graduate student Shyla Foster, who won a raffle that asked Cornellians what the Library means to them
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Caught in the Web of Science
A new feature allows users to export directly from one of the most popular scientific databases into RefWorks, one of the most popular citation-tracking tools
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Celebrating student workers
Cornell Chronicle: The Library honors its top five student employees in the annual Fuerst Awards
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Preserving online content
Cornell Daily Sun: Entire Cornell Web space to be archived through Internet Archive
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Ensuring the future of digitized books
Cornell Chronicle: Whatever happens with Google Books, HathiTrust will keep books online
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Love, paradise & the rise of the animal
CornellCast: Check out the introductory festivities for the Library's "Animal Legends" exhibition
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Saving a piece of history
Ithaca Journal: Library rescues early U.S. trial records
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Calling for full disclosure
Cornell Daily Sun expresses support for the Library's stance against nondisclosure agreements and encourages others to follow
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Hip hop's pioneers
Ithaca Times: Cornell has been quietly amassing a collection of vital musical, historical and cultural importance for the last several years
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Selling scholarly materials
WHCU: Associate University Librarian John Saylor discusses the Library's new policy on nondisclosure agreements and contract fairness
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Remembering New York's deadliest factory fire
NPR's "Tell Me More": Listen to an interview with Kheel Center Directory Curtis Lyons on the anniversary of the Triangle Fire
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For your listening pleasure
A world of symphonies, operas, jazz performances and much more are only a few mouseclicks away through the Library's online streaming
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Ain't no paywall high enough
Shelf Life: The Library offers Cornellians additional options for accessing the "New York Times" online
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Going on the record
Library Journal: Nondisclosure clauses create a barrier to transparency between libraries and negotiating partners
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Cornell U. Library takes a stand with vendors
Chronicle of Higher Education: Cornell requests that contracts with publishers, including pricing details, be made public
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Triangle fire inspired safer workplaces
Ithaca Journal: Kheel Center Archivist Patrizia Sione discusses the anniversary of the New York City tragedy
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Library calls for contract transparency
Cornell Chronicle: Nondisclosure agreements forbid libraries from revealing the price and terms of certain purchases
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Remembering the Triangle Fire, 100 years later
New York Times: An outpouring of events marks the centennial of the workplace tragedy
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Behind the library scenes
Library staff members offer dozens of book recommendations for readers of fiction and nonfiction alike
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Lecture kicks off Animal Legends exhibition
Cornell Chronicle: Literature about animals inspires debate about love and the afterlife, says vice provost
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Bike-sharing program coming to Cornell
Ithaca Journal: Uris Library will be the first site of the new bike-sharing program, with 20 bikes available
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Strange maps
New exhibition in Olin explores maps of fictional places and imaginary landscapes
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Six more Triangle fire victims identified
New York Times: A hundred years later, the roll of the dead in a factory fire is complete
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How long should Black History Month last?
Tompkins Weekly: Eric Acree from the Africana Library discusses African Americans' place in history
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The future of the book
WHCU: Associate University Librarian John Saylor discusses the future of publishing and the rise of ebooks
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Lessons from the Triangle fire
Cornell's Kheel Center -- the world's foremost repository for information on the 1911 sweatshop fire -- remembers the victims and ponders its legacy with a newly revamped website and exhibition
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Digitization grants open for second year
Faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences are invited to submit proposals to digitize collections
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Flickr remix
Inspired by its entry in Flickr Commons, the Library is sponsoring a remix contest using its own images — and first prize is a brand-new iPad
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Cornell working to archive golf legend Jones' life's work
YNN: Watch a news report and interview with the university archivist on the Robert Trent Jones archive
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Remembering the Triangle Fire
Cornell's Kheel Center -- the world's foremost repository for information on the 1911 sweatshop fire -- remembers the victims and ponders its legacy with a newly revamped website and exhibition
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Happy 50th, Olin Library!
A Cornell landmark celebrates the half-century mark
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Books that bite
Cornell Daily Sun: A student's analysis of the Library's Werner Pfeiffer exhibition
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Joining Borrow Direct
Harvard Gazette: New participation in the Borrow Direct network provides millions more volumes for participating libraries, including Cornell
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Finding your library personality
Cornell Daily Sun: What's your strategy to find the perfect spot in the library?
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Expanding the Borrow Direct collaboration
Two new users join Borrow Direct, the rapid book request and delivery system that enables Cornell library users to get materials quickly from a wide network of partners
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Databases debut
The Africana Library and others develop research possibilities with new databases
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Playing catch-up in a digital library race
New York Times: What role can academic libraries play in creating an American digital library?
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Vegging in
Cornell Alumni Magazine: Library acquires the archives of the famed Moosewood Restaurant
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A local angle on Robert Trent Jones
Syracuse Post-Standard: Golf course designer began his work in Upstate New York and left his mark on the area
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New NSF rules
The Library is helping Cornell researchers, faculty and staff to develop new data management plans for National Science Foundation grants
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Displaying 'beautiful math' online
Cornell Chronicle: A new technology developed with help from the Library's Project Euclid makes it possible to display complex mathematics problems on Web pages
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Adoption's dark history
ABC News: Cornell's archival materials inspire coverage of "practice babies"
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Preserving golf's history
Associated Press: Cornell University has acquired 70 years' worth of plans and papers of famed golf course designer Robert Trent Jones
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Golfing greatness
Golf Digest: The voluminous papers and plans of golf course architect Robert Trent Jones are ending up at his alma mater, Cornell University
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Implementing MathJax
ResourceShelf: Aan open-source JavaScript display engine renders standard mathematics codes readable in regular Web browsers
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Social networking seeks critical mass
Nature: VIVO leads the movement for an open-source network for scientists
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What's driving the data
Information Today: VIVO makes progress on its two-year-long timeline
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CornellCast: Librarian Eric Acree
In a video interview, Director of the Africana Studies and Research Center discusses his work at Cornell, his background and the role of the librarian
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Cornell Chronicle: Robert Trent Jones collection comes to Cornell
Wealth of materials spans 70 years of famed golf course designer's career
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Keeping it local
Ithaca Journal: Kroch Library serves as an archive for Ithaca institutions
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Food and Fiber fun
Cornell Daily Sun: Mann Library hosts fair celebrating local agriculture, sustainability and nutrition stations
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Update on Olin's Fire Safety Project
Cornell Daily Sun: Assessing short-term floor closures and the future of the Olin project
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Dolled up downtown
The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections takes its toys out to play, with an exhibition of historical dolls at the Tompkins County Public Library
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Taking up a collection for arXiv
Chronicle of Higher Education: University Librarian Anne R. Kenney discusses the newest efforts to raise funds for the online repository
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The Library and the Google Books Project
DuraSpace blog: Addressing preservation, access and the long tail of Google Books
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Cooking with grease
A generous gift from the Cameros family adds 300 cookbooks to the Library's collection
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Accessing Amazon
OCLC: New "buy-it" link on the Library's catalog connects consumers to Cornell's print-on-demand content
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Waxing anonymous
Allie Riggs '13 places wax Barbie figures on the shelves of the Fine Arts Library to make a statement about women artists
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USDA adopts VIVO
Cornell Chronicle: The Department of Agriculture will be the first federal organization to use an innovative networking application conceived and developed at Cornell
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Africana Library director helps found MLK event
Ithaca Times: Ithaca's MLK Community Build preparing book distribution
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'Paper has a memory'
Cornell Chronicle: Library hosts book artist Werner Pfeiffer
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HathiTrust's copyright detectives
Library Journal: Initiative tracks down previously unknown public-domain materials in the digital repository
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Progressive cities
New Olin exhibition celebrates Cornell’s Department of City and Regional Planning’s 75th anniversary
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The future of research libraries
University Librarian Anne R. Kenney is quoted in a Chronicle of Higher Education story on different scenarios for academic libraries
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Preserving an Ithaca icon
Ithaca Journal: Moosewood Collective's archives find a permanent home at Cornell University Library
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Expanding archival access
Mann Library helps buy backfiles of the Oxford Journal Online
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Moosewood donates manuscripts
Cornell Daily Sun: Historical documents from one of Ithaca’s most famous vegetarian eateries find a home in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
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History @ CUL
The Library has created a new for the broad community of Cornell scholars and students interested in history
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Expanding VIVO
U.S. Department of Agriculture signs on to networking application for scientists
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Story time
Brighten Ithaca's gray fall days with extensive children's book collections
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Rethinking library linking
American Libraries: Making OpenURL better with data, data, and more data
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Encouraging science librarianship
Librarians from Cornell University Library participate in the Syracuse iSchool's eScience mentorship program
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Good research in the Information Age
Learning more about Cornell's Undergraduate Information Competency Initiative
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Last chance for Twain
Mark Twain exhibition in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Carl A. Kroch Library, ends Oct. 8
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Restoring history
Ezra magazine: Art historian strives to rescue historic plaster cast collection
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Creating cross-discipline projects
Digital humanities initiatives inform new approaches to research, art, media
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Cornell & Columbia collaborate
Cornell Daily Sun: Libraries will share Slavic and Eastern European studies collections
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Digital treasures
Cornell Chronicle: Grants create digital collections of plaster casts and more
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Joining forces for Slavic studies
Library Journal: 2CUL program takes another step toward collaborative collection development
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Catherwood Library digitizes labor history
Economic shifts and globalization chronicled in publication added to DigitalCommons@ILR
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Celebrating Signale
Cornell Chronicle: Cornell writes the book on new print/Web scholarly publishing model
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In the Finger Lakes, enjoying a master's vision
New York Times: Golf course designer Robert Trent Jones' papers, designs and more find a home in the Library's archives.
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Get Started
The Library created a comprehensive Web page to assist with borrowing materials, getting research help, finding course reserves and much more.
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Mann becomes SITE of sustainability
Cornell Daily Sun: Students in horticulture and landscape architecture class restore library entrance for sustainability initiative.
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The replicant future
The library is hosting exhibitions supporting this year’s pick for the New Student Reading Project: Philip K. Dick’s classic science fiction novel, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
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Getting to know you
The Library is hosting orientation tours, workshops, drop-ins and events all over campus.
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Adopting a collaborative model
As part of the strategic planning process, the Hotel, Management and Labor libraries are undergoing some changes.
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Brushes with genius
Faculty members recall Nobel Prize-winning plant geneticist Barbara McClintock at library panel discussion.
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Feeding frenzy
Hungry for more library-specific stories? Get your fill with the Chronicle’s library-specific RSS feed.
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Making of America Web site recognized
The Library's Making of America Web site was recognized by Family Tree Magazine as one of the best 101 Genealogy Web sites in the Best History sites category.
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Videos discuss copyright issues
John Saylor, Peter Hirtle, and Fiona Patrick are all featured in videos discussing various copyright issues the Cornell Copyright Information Center Web site.
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Changes to the Engineering Library
Thinking beyond traditional library models, the Advisory Committee to Re-envision the Engineering Library, in support of the university’s strategic planning, has developed a set of recommendations to improve support for the teaching and research mission of the College of Engineering.
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Law librarian named co-chair of new interest group
Amy Emerson, research attorney and lecturer in law at the Law Library, was recently named co-chair of a new interest group within the prestigious American Society of International Law (ASIL).
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Enlightening e-resources
Thousands of periodicals are freely available through the Library's website, Cornell Chronicle's Shelf Life
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Uris Library ranked one of the most beautiful
Uris Library is ranked 22nd out of the 25 Most Beautiful College Libraries, Campus Grotto
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Wild Bill Donovan's Nuremberg Legacy
Law Library video on the Donovan Nuremberg Trials Collection sheds light on quest for justice for victims of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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Simply Map
Using a Nestle Library database called SimplyMap, anyone interested in marketing can create professional-quality thematic maps and reports.
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Heading Information Competency Institute helps faculty improve student research in their classes
Institute equips faculty with new teaching skills, produces 'stunning' results
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Beautiful glass sea life sculptures restored and on display
Mann showcases scientifically accurate glass sea life sculptures by famed artists.
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Welcome Alumni
The Library has open houses, workshops, lectures, receptions, exhibitions and more. Please see the full schedule.
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Student-designed Mann Library landscape chosen for sustainability test
The Mann Library entrance landscape, which was designed by students, is one of the first landscapes to participate in an international pilot project program to test the nation's first rating system for green landscape design, construction and maintenance.
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Got Ovid? Classical knowledge base will assist in citing ancient Greek and Latin texts
David Ruddy and Adam Chandler are collaborating with Eric Rebillard, professor of Classics and history, on developing the Classical Works Knowledge Base, a database and link resolver, to assist Classics scholars citing ancient Greek and Latin texts
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Conference draws international social scientists to Cornell
CUL is a co-sponsor of a conference that drew international social scientists to Cornell this week.
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Mark Twain's Cornell
Watch a new CyberTower video on Mark Twain's connection to Cornell.
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Don't forget that NetID
Three of the most heavily used databases in the Library are now available to all Cornell graduates
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Boosting the Goldsen Archive
Arts group wins NEA grant to collect its works in the Library's Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
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Preserve your past
The Library is celebrating National Preservation Week with workshops, webinars and more
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Changes to the Entomology Library
As part of the University’s and Library’s strategic planning process, the Comstock Memorial Library of Entomology has been under review. After careful analysis and input, a decision has been made to consolidate the collections and services into Mann Library by 2011 or 2012, after the Library digitizes a significant portion of the material.
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Before the cloud
Through the Library's Flickr stream, take a look at historic public-domain photos of the Icelandic volcano
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Twain's life in letters & business
Cornell Chronicle: Opening exhibition and lecture address Mark Twain's commercial endeavors
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Ask a librarian... for cake
American Libraries: Celebrating 10th birthday festivities for the Library's chat reference service
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Exploring Mark Twain
American Libraries: Highlighting Susan Jaffe Tane's Twain collection
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Student workers recognized
Cornell Chronicle: Graduating seniors earn Fuerst Awards -- the largest financial award for student employees on campus
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Johnson's Management Library wins prestigious award
The Special Libraries Association's excellence award recognizes the quality of service in libraries and information centers
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Celebrating Gaypril at the Library
Check out the collection of Phil Zwickler, who documented the AIDS crisis and the struggle for lesbian and gay rights
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'The Business of Being Mark Twain'
Mark Twain's 100th anniversary exhibition features the extensive collection of Susan Jaffe Tane
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Trivia & history
Cornell history buff recounts live bear mascot, fictional Cornell rascals and the giant pumpkin prank
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CULite live!
Video explains the Library's new mobile services in a few simple steps
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Celebrating chat reference
Olin and Mann hosted informal gatherings to celebrate the service that allows users to chat online with reference librarians
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Human resources
Ezra magazine: Student workers are among the Library's most valuable collections
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Rare finds: Book collectors share the thrill of the hunt
The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections hit NYC to discuss the vital role that collectors play in scholarship
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2CUL 4 the Web
The partnership between Columbia University Library and Cornell University Library has found a home online
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Pocket-sized library
Mobile site and iPhone app make the Library's best features portable
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Reach out, reuse
Thanks to the Cornell Computer Reuse Association, newly refurbished computers from the library are making their way to places that need them most
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Sharing library photos with the world
New CyberTower video illuminates A.D. White's architectural photos, now available on Flickr
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Vive Lafayette!
Materials from one of the Library's premier rare collections are featured in a new documentary on the life of the Marquis de Lafayette
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Scrapbooking history
Cornell Daily Sun: Alumni donate collection of Corneliana to Library
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Kenney counts on faculty to help move library forward
University Librarian Anne Kenney describes the library's efforts to remain at the center of Cornell's academic enterprise
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The evolution of a union
Kheel archivist focuses on International Ladies Garment Workers Union collection
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Preserving Cornell's past
Whalen scrapbook donation creates links to one of first Haitian students at Cornell
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Africana @ 40
Africana Library creates exhibit of books published by current and former Africana faculty members
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arXiv in the news
American Libraries: Cornell seeks sustainable arXiv support
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Helping improve student research
Faculty members: Sign up for this year's Information Competency Initiative
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Library iPhone app released
eSchool News: Cornell students unveil iPhone app for campus library users
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Library on wheels
Cornell Sun: Bike-sharing program offers students a free ride
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Finding a competitive edge
Find research tips, online resources and expert commentary on Cornell Law Library’s new blog
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More news on arXiv
American Libraries: Cornell seeks sustainable arXiv support
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Be the first to try CULite
Cornell University Library is going mobile! Try out the beta version and take it with you wherever you go.
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New Cornell books
Ezra magazine: Dale Corson leaves behind a legacy of a singular scientist-leader
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Working together in hard times
Chronicle of Higher Education: Skorton looks to Library's collaboration with Columbia
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Rare, but not remote
The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections gets more accessible on Facebook
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Paper to public
In the age of GPS, the Library found a new way to look at maps from all over the world
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Happy birthday, chat reference!
Celebrate the past and future of chat reference with parties in Mann and Olin libraries
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Keeping up with copyright
The Library's copyright expert updates his frequently cited public-domain chart
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Spring break hours
Wondering when your favorite library is open during spring break? Check out the hours until March 28
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arXiv in the news
Chronicle of Higher Education: Cornell proposes new funding model for scientific repository
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Worth a thousand words
The Library's annual report takes the shape of a 2010 calendar, with historic Cornell photos and more
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Social media and the Human Sexuality Collection
Facebook provides new access to a gem of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
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Fire-safety changes in Olin & Uris
How will the Olin Library Fire Safety Improvements Project impact collections in Olin and Uris?
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Celebrating Abraham Lincoln
American Libraries: The Lincoln exhibition is still going on in the Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections
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A year in images from Mann Library
From a fungus fair to laptop loans, view photo highlights from 2009
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Asbestos abatement in Olin
Collections on the second floor of Olin Library will be inaccessible from March 19 to 23
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A one-stop image shop
Find millions of images through databases of visual resources
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A library in Winter
Check each unit library's intersession hours online before heading out the door
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Documenting a centuries-old fraternity
Trove of video interviews with prominent African-Americans entrusted to Cornell Library
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New library database facilitates better use of non-C.U. resources
New catalog links researchers to worldwide collections
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Forging ties with China
Library collaboration with China strengthens scholarship
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Libraries and love
Cupid may be lurking right around the corner of the quiet stacks in Uris, or reading a journal in the comfortable chairs in Mann, or listening to 45s in the Music Library...
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Viewing the Gettysburg Address
Ithaca Journal: Cornell Library's copy, written in Lincoln's own hand, on display Feb. 15
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