CUL in the News

Shelf Life: a weekly Cornell Chronicle column about recent happenings at the Library

December 2008

Hip hop heroes (American Libraries, December issue)
Saylor named associate university librarian (Cornell Chronicle, Dec. 23)
Gandhi grows in the grass in Mann Library lobby (Cornell Chronicle, Dec. 23)
Mann Library expands access to rare beekeeping volumes (Cornell Chronicle, Dec. 18)
Collection agreement: Beyond the Taj (ARTstor Blog, Dec. 4)
Technology ambassadors send Cornell library computers, software to Iraqi schools (Cornell Chronicle, Dec. 3)

November 2008

Internal hiring program protects Cornell workers (Cornell Chronicle, Nov. 13)
Forum examines humanities publishing in digital age (Cornell Chronicle, Nov. 11)
Hip-hop pioneers recall a global culture 'Born in the Bronx' (Cornell Chronicle, Nov. 5)
Conference draws hip-hop pioneers to Cornell (Cornell Daily Sun, Nov. 4)
Grandmaster Ezra (Cornell Daily Sun, Nov. 3)
Cornell hip-hop conference concludes at Southside (Ithaca Journal, Nov. 3)

October 2008

What's going on: The origins of hip hop (Elmira Star Gazette, Oct. 31)
Cornell University Library conference to commemorate archive tracing early days of hip hop (Ithaca Journal, Oct. 30)
Cornell unveils hip hop collection (Artist Direct, Oct. 24)
Rachael Ray recommends Manndible (Cornell Chronicle, Oct. 24)
Cornell University acquires hip-hop collection; Bambaataa hosts roundtable (AllHipHop.com, Oct. 23)
Artsbeat: Pioneers of hip hop to speak at conference (Ithaca Journal, Oct. 23)
Infovell Adds Major Scholarly Publishers, Broadens Reach into Deep Web (PR Newswire, Oct. 21)
Tom Cotton on serving his country in Kuwait (Cornell Chronicle, Oct. 16)
Things to do: Hip hop appreciation (Cornell Chronicle, Oct. 9)
Free online scientific repository hits milestone (Slashdot, Oct. 8)
Online scientific repository hits milestone (Cornell Chronicle, Oct. 8)
Hip hop preserved at Cornell (SOHH.com, Oct. 7)
Pending Univ. approval, Olin preps for renovation (Cornell Daily Sun, Oct. 6)
Milestone for arXiv (Open Access News, Oct. 3)
Online scientific repository hits milestone (NYLA News You Can Use, Oct. 3)
Well, there goes the academic neighborhood (Cornell Daily Sun, Oct. 2)
Pioneers of hip hop to speak at CU conference (Ithaca Journal, Oct. 2)

September 2008

Kroch Libe goes 'street' (Cornell Daily Sun, Sept. 25)
Libraries and the freedom to read (Cornell Chronicle, Sept. 25)
In the news: Ivy-League hip hop (The New Yorker, Sept. 24)
On YouTube, Cornell's Research Minutes (Library Journal, Sept. 15)
Cornell librarian Lucille N. Wright dies at age 93 (Cornell Chronicle, Sept. 15)
University Librarian Anne Kenney prepares for a major overhaul of Olin Library (Cornell Chronicle, Sept. 10)

August 2008

A new Cornell: Changes to watch out for (Cornell Daily Sun, Aug. 29)
Gettysburg Address on display at Cornell (Ithaca Journal, Aug. 28)
Gettysburg Address on display at CUL (News 10 Now, Aug. 26)
Incoming Cornell students immersed in American history through reading project (Ithaca Journal, Aug. 16)
Cornell Library videos earn raves (Library Journal, Aug. 14)
Campus-wide events address 'Lincoln at Gettysburg' (Cornell Chronicle, Aug. 14)
Interview: CUL's Brenda Marston (Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley, Aug. 13)
Whose right is it, anyway? Cornell University librarian works to revise copyright laws (Cornell Chronicle, Aug. 8)

July 2008

Giving regards to Davy Hoy (Cornell Chronicle, July 25)
Founding of Historically Black Colleges and Universities celebrated (Chicago Defender, July 14)
Mann Library upgrades ag 'library in a box' for world's poorest countries (Cornell Chronicle, July 9)
Library names Dean Krafft chief technology strategist (Cornell Chronicle, July 7)
New endowment adds to humanities print holdings (Cornell Chronicle, July 3)

June 2008

Institute explores how to help students surf the growing waves of good and not-so-good information (Cornell Chronicle, June 20)
Cornell conference to explore modern research (Ithaca Journal, June 17)
Research methods 'Beyond Google' (Inside Higher Ed, June 17)
Libel suit over digitized article dismissed (American Libraries, June 13)

Libel lawsuit over 1983 news item is dismissed (Cornell Chronicle, June 9)
Wine expert tells alumni of U.S. wine's tumultuous history (Cornell Chronicle, June 7)
Alumni travel far to recapture memories at reunion (Cornell Chronicle, June 8)
Microsoft's book-search project has a surprise ending
(Chronicle of Higher Education, June 6)
Cornell prevails over alumnus in suit over digitized material (Chronicle of Higher Education, June 6)

May 2008

Post-Microsoft, libraries mull digitization (Inside Higher Ed, May 30)
Gordon Sander '72 views Cornell then and now in photo exhibit (Cornell Chronicle, May 12)

April 2008

Exhibit focuses on 40 years of gay student activism (Cornell Chronicle, April 31)
Lafayette experts: French revolutionary terror was a gross exaggeration (Cornell Chronicle, April 28)
Duke University Press joins Cornell Library to expand 'Project Euclid' by putting independent journals online (Cornell Chronicle, April 21)
Students win prizes for book collections (Cornell Chronicle, April 16)
Cornell and Duke University Press partner to provide enhanced services for Project Euclid (Knowledgespeak, April 16)
Biography of professor emeritus Bob Lorenzen is presented to Cornell Library (Cornell Chronicle, April 11)
Library staff treated to monthlong wellness series (Cornell Chronicle, April 4)
Kenney to broaden access, expand collections and services (Cornell Chronicle, April 2)

March 2008

Digital library expert Anne Kenney named to lead Cornell University Library system (Cornell Chronicle, March 31)
County recognizes Teresa Whitaker for saving Cornell student's life (Cornell Chronicle, March 25)
Cornell University Library will help researchers meet new NIH rules for public access (Cornell Chronicle, March 17)
Alumnus claims newly available article constitutes libel (Library Journal, March 1)

February 2008

Library offers free workshops (Cornell Chronicle, Feb. 14)
Konstantin Frank wine cellars donates historic books (Cornell Chronicle, Feb. 6)