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Map exhibit traces Lafayette’s 1824-25 triumphal tour
 
A new exhibit in Olin Library’s lower level uses rare maps and other outstanding materials from Cornell University Library’s collections to trace Lafayette’s 1824-25 triumphal tour.

In 1824-25 Lafayette made a triumphal tour of the United States. At the invitation of Congress and President Monroe, he became the Guest of the Nation for almost two years.
 
The tour was an affirmation of American democracy and an opportunity for the still young, but increasingly confident American nation to celebrate its success. Lafayette, the last surviving major general of the Revolutionary War, was welcomed as a hero at every stop.
 
The map exhibit puts Lafayette’s tour in its geographical context and demonstrates the state of American cartography (and the cartography of America) at the time of the tour. The exhibit, by including items from several Rare Books Collections, the University Archives, the Map Collection and the Web, reveals the breadth of Cornell University Library’s collections of maps and charts, and the ease of access researchers have to materials throughout the world.
 
The maps in the exhibit enable one to picture the extent of the tour and the state of the country at the time. Once can compare several cities as they were when Lafayette first arrived in 1777, and their extent when he visited in 1824. The exhibit also gives as much attention as possible to Lafayette’s progress through upstate New York.
 
Quotes from contemporary newspaper accounts give you some insight into General Lafayette’s character and his commitment to democracy and a constitutional government which protected human rights. Less well-known, but clearly demonstrated throughout the tour were his interest in education, penal reform and Masonry.
 
A map from the recently acquired Huntington Free Library Native American Collection is the centerpiece of the display. Originally created by Aaron Arrowsmith, it was updated and re-engraved by Tardieu in 1820. It represents the best of European cartography and the skill of two very famous map-making families. It also reflects indirectly the growing importance of the United States on the world stage. European cartography was still influential, but the exhibit demonstrates that American cartography was growing quickly in skill and stature. Melish, Burr, De Witt, Tanner and others exhibited here were forging a powerful tradition of American cartography.

The exhibit is mounted in the display cases on the lower level of Olin Library, outside of the Media Collection and will remain through April 2008. Please visit the exhibit and drop by the Map and Geospatial Information Collection with reactions or questions.

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‘Good Eats’
Hotel Library cookbooks help with holiday feasting

Want to change your luck in the new year?  Need to learn how to truss a turkey?

A recipe for beans and cornbread, which is served for good luck on New Year’s Day in the South, and step-by-step instructions for preparing a “roast beast” this holiday season can be found at the Nestlé Hotel Library in Statler Hall.  The library’s wide selection of holiday cookbooks will motivate even the most reluctant chefs, whatever the celebration.

Alongside recipes for gefilte fish soufflés and fried okra, Kwanzaa and Hanukkah titles also offer essays about the history and the significance of these holidays.  The library also contains a number of vegetarian and vegan cuisine holiday cookbooks, including Ithaca’s very own, “Moosewood Restaurant Celebrates.”

For the more culinary challenged, “Christmas Cooking for Dummies” offers lots of helpful tips – one of them being that “it’s OK to buy canned fruit.”

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Libe Café Hours

Date	Day of the Week	Hours of Operation
12/12/2007-12/13/2007	Wednesday-Thursday	8 a.m.-10 p.m.
12/14/2007	Friday	8 a.m. -5 p.m.
12/15/2007	Saturday	Closed
12/16/2007	Sunday	Closed
12/17/2007-12/20/2007	Monday-Thursday	8 a.m.-5 p.m.
12/21/2007	Friday	8 a.m.-2 p.m.
12/22/2007-01/01/2008	Saturday-Tuesday	Closed
01/02/2008-01/04/2008	Wednesday-Friday	8 a.m.-5 p.m.
01/05/2008-01/06/2008	Saturday-Sunday	Closed
01/07/2008-01/11/2008	Monday-Friday	8 a.m.-5 p.m.
01/12/2008-01/13/2008	Saturday-Sunday	Closed
01/14/2008-01/18/2008	Monday-Friday	8 a.m.-5 p.m.
01/19/2008	Saturday	12:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
01/20/2008	Sunday	noon-6 p.m.
01/21/2008	Monday	Regular hours resume

Tower Café
Closed Thursday, 12/13/2007 through Sunday, 01/20/2008. Normal hours will resume on Monday, 01/21/2008.

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Book Talk Explores Child Language Acquisition

Chats in the Stacks
Barbara Lust, professor of human development
Thursday, Nov. 29
4 p.m.
Mann Library, Room 102

How do humans learn languages? Why do we learn them at all?

In a Chats in the Stacks book talk at Mann Library, Dr. Lust will present highlights from her new book exploring human language development from birth. Please join us for a cross-disciplinary discussion of recent discoveries about child language acquisition that will touch on linguistics, developmental psychology and cognitive science and may help explain what makes those busy infants, toddlers and pre-schoolers tick, or rather, talk.

Free and open to the public.

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‘Librarians Rock’

That was one student’s reaction after using Cornell University Library’s new Chat 24/7 service.

Chat 24/7 extends the library’s help services beyond its reference desks. Now scholars, students and staff can get online reference help no matter where they are located in the world, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Cornell joined an online cooperative chat reference service in June. Chat 24/7, which works similar to instant messaging, means a librarian is always available to provide basic reference help, especially after hours or those times when staff are busy helping others.

The way the cooperative works is that librarians from participating universities and colleges across the U.S. take turns answering questions on scheduled shifts and can directly access and search Cornell’s catalog and many databases.  If a query is too complex, it is sent to Cornell librarians for follow up.   

To use Chat 24/7, visit <ask.library.cornell.edu>.  Help from a friendly, rockin’ librarian is just a click away, even at 2:30 a.m.

 

 

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Cornell Librarian Receives John C. Tyson Award
Ira Revels Recognized by American Librarian Association’s Black Caucus

Ithaca, NY – A Cornell librarian has been awarded the prestigious John C. Tyson Award by the Black Caucus of the American Librarian Association (BCALA). 

Ira Revels, a project manager in the library’s Division of Public Services and Assessment, was recognized for her work with the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Library Alliance.  She is the first librarian to receive the award since 1998.

Revels manages Cornell’s partnership with the HBCU Library Alliance.  She has secured $850,000 in funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation since 2005 to help train librarians and archivists at 20 HBCU institutions in digital imaging, preservation and management.  This effort has resulted in an online digital collection that chronicles the founding of America’s black colleges and universities and represents the first collaborative effort by HBCU libraries to make a historical collection digitally available.

In 2006, Revels was named one of Library Journal’s “Movers and Shakers.”  She came to Cornell as a library fellow in 2001 after earning her library science degree at the University of Pittsburgh. The library fellows program, initiated in 2000 by University Librarian Sarah Thomas, was one of the first programs that encouraged the growth and professional development of underrepresented minorities in academic research libraries.

Revels is also a past secretary with the BCALA, where she has served on the recruitment and professional development committee. She helped implement BCALA’s "Night Out," a social event introducing prospective members to the caucus prior to the general American Library Association's annual membership meeting.

The John C. Tyson Award is granted to a librarian with less than 10 years experience who is building an impressive body of work.  It is given in honor of Tyson, who served as the vice president and president-elect of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association from 1986 until 1990, and was instrumental in establishing the National Conference for African American Librarians.  During his career, he served as the state librarian of Virginia, library director of the University of Richmond and as a professor of library and information science at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. 

 

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National Science Foundation awards $400,000 grant to Cornell University Library
Funds will be used to facilitate data sharing and archiving

Mann Library, one of 20 member libraries that comprise Cornell University Library, has been awarded a $400,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to make sharing digital data easier among researchers.

During the three-year grant, librarians from Cornell University will develop a set of services and electronic tools to document and archive digital scientific data that university researchers can use to share their work and make it available to other academic and government repositories.

“This is a very exciting time to be working in an academic library.  We’re exploring new ways of managing information and interacting with Cornell researchers,” said Research Data and Environmental Sciences Librarian Gail Steinhart, who will be leading the project.  “Some Cornell faculty members have been quick to recognize the potential value of these activities, collaborating with us to include sections on data management and archival plans in their grant proposals.  It’s our hope that planning for these activities at the proposal writing stage will both make proposals more attractive to funders, and make the process as simple as possible for researchers when the time comes to prepare and document data for archiving and distribution.”

While researchers produce vast amounts of digital data, an infrastructure that supports the sharing and preservation of this type of data is not universally available across disciplines.  To address this problem, Cornell librarians will develop an electronic management system and related services for organizing and archiving digital data, regardless of discipline. 

As part of the grant, this data would then be deposited by researchers in a “staging” repository that will be created at Mann Library, which serves the university’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Human Ecology.  Mann’s repository will be set up so that data sets can be easily retrieved and used by other collaborating researchers, and later transmitted to discipline-specific repositories, or to Cornell’s own digital repository, eCommons.  This will ultimately result in the increased public availability of data sets created by Cornell researchers, as well as a set of services that can help researchers fulfill increasingly common requirements from funding agencies that they archive and provide public access to their data.

Hosting such a service within Cornell University Library will provide researchers with the benefit of having local support for these activities, and studies have show that data sharing efforts are more successful when one-on-one assistance is provided to participants. If successful, Mann’s repository could also serve as a model for other academic libraries to provide a data staging repository for use by researchers at their institutions.

To learn more about the grant and this project, contact Gail Steinhart at (607) 255-7251 or gss1@cornell.edu.

 

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The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman

Reading by Author Nancy Marie Brown
 
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
4:00 PM 
2B48 Carl A. Kroch Library

Nancy Marie Brown, author of the newly published The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman, will read from and sign copies of her book in a presentation in the Kroch Library lecture room. The reading is sponsored by the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, which is the home of Cornells renowned Fiske Icelandic Collection.

In The Far Traveler, Nancy Marie Brown employs her remarkable narrative skill to reconstruct the life of the Icelandic Gudrid (Gurur orbjarnardttir), who gave birth to the first known European child in North America 1000 years ago and later, widowed, went on pilgrimage to Rome before retiring to a contemplative life in northern Iceland. The book also weaves archaeology, economics, ecology and saga literature into an engaging tapestry of the Norse world in which women, no less than men, could be important and sometimes unusual characters.

Kirkus Reviews (July 15) described The Far Traveler as a nimble synthesis of the literary and the scientific that will charm even readers who didnt know they were interested. The New York Times Book Review (October 14) praised the authors fecund imagination, stoked by the archaeologists' collected facts and objects and the sights and sounds of her own far travels (to Scotland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland and beyond).

Nancy Marie Browns Web site (with more reviews of The Far Traveler) is at http://www.nasw.org/users/nmb/.

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Celebrate GIS Day 2007 at Mann Library  

Stop by Mann Library on Nov. 14 to celebrate GIS Day 2007, a global event about geographic information system (GIS) technology that is held annually on the Wednesday of National Geographic Society's Geography Awareness Week.

Events planned for the day include a workshop, lecture and an outdoor game where participants can use global positioning system units provided by the library to find hidden caches.  "Earth Patterns," an art exhibit featuring work that uses GIS elevation data, will also be on display in Mann's gallery.

GIS technology is used throughout the world to solve problems related to the environment, health care, land use, business efficiency, education and public safety. GIS Day serves to make people aware of the important contributions it is making in the fields of science, technology, information and the humanities.

To learn more about GIS Day 2007 and its scheduled events, visit http://www.mannlib.cornell.edu/services/reference/GIS/gisday2007.cfm.

Two Cornellians honored in book collecting contest
Theater studies scholar places second in competition

Two Cornellians won top honors in a national book collecting contest, making 2007 the second year in a row that students from Cornell have been among the competition’s finalists.

Diane Looser and Brent Morris, who tied for first prize in the graduate student division of the 2007 Cornell University Library and Library Advisory Council Book Collection Contest, were awarded second place and an honorable mention, respectively.  They competed against 40 book contest winners from 25 universities across the U.S. and the U.K. in the Collegiate Book-Collecting Championship, sponsored by Fine Books & Collections magazine.  Last year Cornell graduate students Daniel McKee ‘06 and David Rando ’06 garnered first and third prizes in this contest.

“I would like to congratulate Cornell University, which had two of the three winners last year and another finalist this year,” said Scott Brown, editor of Fine Books & Collections magazine.  “In fact, all three contestants from Cornell made the short list this year.  They are turning into a powerhouse among collecting contests.”

Titled “Dramatic Oceania Literature, c. 1970 – Present,” Looser’s collection is comprised of works by indigenous and diasporic playwrights such as multi-actor plays, musicals, monodramas and multi-character solo shows, radio plays, community theatre scripts and opera libretti.  Some of the items have been formally published, but many of the collection’s pieces are simply typed manuscripts, complete with dog-eared pages and notes in the margins. 

“I was really surprised. I have a lot of faith in the archive but wasn’t sure it would translate in this context,” said Looser, referring to her collection of plays by indigenous Pacific Island artists.  “It is a very utilitarian collection, not rare or pretty.  It’s designed to be used.” 

A Ph.D. student in theater studies from New Zealand, the collection is a product of Looser’s research, which focuses on the Pacific region and the body of work that has emerged there over the last 30 to 40 years despite geographic, material, cultural and economic challenges.   It includes contemporary dramatic literature from Hawaii, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Fiji and Rotuma, Papua New Guinea, American and Western Samoa, Tonga, Niue, Vanuatu, and the Solomon Islands. 

Brett Morris, a Ph.D. student in history, was also recognized for his collection, “The Abolitionist Mind.”  His collection traces the ideological developments of the American abolitionist movement in the mid-19th century and includes many original works and first editions. Like Looser, Morris’ collection is the result of his graduate study and focuses on the men and women involved in the abolitionist movement.

The collection, Morris said, is “meant to offer a reader the opportunity to share the same intellectual experiences of the abolitionists themselves” through “volumes published in the reformers' lifetimes, written by and about the most prominent abolitionists and their crusade to bring freedom to America's 4 million enslaved men and women.”

Introduced in 2003, Cornell’s book collection contest continues the tradition of the Arthur H. Dean and Mary Marden Dean Book Collection Contest, which was held in Uris Library for undergraduate students from 1966 to 1987.  The annual competition provides both undergraduate and graduate students with the opportunity to display their aptitude in assembling and organizing book collections and to articulate their interest in reading and collecting books.

"One of the things we've learned from our book collecting contest is that books still matter to Cornell students. Many of them are quite passionate about their reading and collecting,” said Lance Heidig, the coordinator of Cornell’s competition and a reference and instruction librarian in Uris and Olin libraries. “These students are actively visiting book stores and searching the Web for specific items to add to their collections. As their success in the new national competition confirms, some of these collectors and collections are truly exceptional."

For details about the national competition, its rules and contestants, visit http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/contest/.  For more information about Cornell’s book collection contest, go to http://www.library.cornell.edu/bookcontest.

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History, Tradition, and Truth: Buddhist Studies and Its Recurring Pattern of Demythologizing Buddhism
C.W. Huntington, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Hartwick College
Thursday, October 18, 2007 -- 6:30 p.m.
703 Olin Library

The academic study of Buddhism is two centuries old, but even as progress is made in understanding the texts and practices of this ancient tradition, in its many varieties, a recurrent appeal to an essentialized Buddhism persists. In this discussion of his recent History of Religions article "History, Tradition, and Truth," Madhyamaka scholar C.W. Huntington, author of numerous scholarly articles and The Emptiness of Emptiness, considers just how much progress has been made. Specifically focusing on modern figures such as Gombrich and Schopen, Huntington lays bare critical ethnocentric assumptions and errors made in disregarding normative Buddhist ideals in the search for historical truth amidst other sources. Rather than substantial progress, we have seen different forms of a few basic assumptions directing research.  This important assessment of the divergence of Buddhist Studies from the Buddhist tradition is not to be missed by scholar or practitioner alike.

Please also see the Bridging Worlds: Buddhist Words and Works exhibition and visit asia.library.cornell.edu/ac/bridgingworlds.

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Recording of Davis Talk Available for Loan

If you missed Angela Y. Davis' lecture in Sage Chapel on Sept. 18, a video recording of her talk is now available for loan through the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library.

Davis, a scholar, activist and professor of history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz,  spoke on, "The Prison: A Sign of U.S. Democracy? "  In her talk, she discusses her views on prison abolition, drawing parallels between mass imprisonment and the model of democracy in the United States. By relying on issues such as the "War on Terror", secret prisons in Europe, Africa and the Middle East run by the C.I.A., and the United States' history with slavery, Davis attempts to answer what imprisonment really solves. Does it truly help prisoners to better themselves and serve as a means of rehabilitation, or is it just another form of slavery, in which prisoners are stripped of certain rights and liberties?

The video recording of her lecture, can be found on Cornell University Library's Gateway at https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=6136694&DB=local.

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Entomology Library Lecture Explores Franclemont Collection

Jim Liebherr, a professor of entomology at Cornell, will be speaking about the significance of Cornell's Franclemont Collection at the Comstock Memorial Library of Entomology (Comstock Hall, 2nd floor) on Oct. 4 at 4:30 p.m.  His talk, "Between the Pages: The Legacy of Professor John G. Franclemont's Lepidoptera Library and Collection," highlights several books currently on exhibit in the library.

Liebherr will also be bringing insects from the personal collection of the late Dr. John G. Franclemont, a renowned lepidopterist, leading teacher and scholar in modern field biology and systematics and a Cornell professor of entomology from 1953 to 1982.  The lecture coincides with the last days of the library's special exhibit, "Caught between the Pages: Treasures from the Franclemont Collection," which showcases exquisite materials from Franclemont's personal library.

Refreshments will be served following Liebherr's lecture.The exhibit will remain up until mid-October.

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Cornell University Library Celebrates Banned Book Week – September 29-October 6, 2007
By Anne R. Kenny, Interim University Librarian

Cornell University Library is participating in the twenty-sixth anniversary of Banned Books Week -- a nationwide initiative to celebrate the fundamental right to read. 
 
I'm profession-proud that libraries have been at the forefront of those who have vigorously defended this freedom, one that has been attacked by both the left and the right and all points in between.  And in recent years, assaults on the basic freedom to read have become more challenging and intense under the impact of new technologies, litigation threats, and concerns about national security. In July, Cambridge University Press agreed to destroy all unsold copies of its 2006 book, Alms for Jihad:  Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World, in response to a potential libel suit.  The publisher didn’t stop there, however.  Cambridge Press agreed to ask university libraries worldwide to pull the book from their shelves. When they come knocking on our door, we'll say no.

During this week, there will be a display in Olin Library highlighting famous banned books, including those by Cornell authors whose publications have been attacked.  Books by Kurt Vonnegut, E.B. White, Toni Morrison, and Vladimir Nabokov number among the top 42 of 100 best novels of the 20th century that have been challenged or banned.

We also created a pamphlet that contains excerpts from Cornell faculty, students, and librarians who have shared their thoughts on favorite banned books -- copies of this brochure have also been distributed to all the library units. 

Other Banned Books Week events at Cornell include a Speak Out co-sponsored by the Library and the Cornell American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on October 3rd at Ho Plaza beginning at noon.  

Ithaca events include a reading on Sunday, Sept. 30th at the Unitarian Church, which is sponsored by the Ithaca City of Asylums Voices of Freedom.  Speakers will include Sarah Mkhonza (Swaziland), Ithaca City of Asylum's writer in residence, and Horacio Castellanos Moya (El Salvador), City of Asylum/Pittsburgh's writer in residence. The Ithaca City of Asylum is also sponsoring readings by Horacio at Cornell and Ithaca College on Monday October 1.
 
On Oct 18th, Sir Salman Rushdie will be on campus to participate in the Cornell Creative Writing Programs Fall 2007 Reading Series. Rushdies book, The Satanic Verses, so angered Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini that he issued a fatwa (religious edict) against Rushdie and called for his death.  Rushdie spent nearly a decade in hiding, appearing in public only rarely.

I'm also pleased to report that CUL has joined over 30 other research libraries in North America as organizational members of the Freedom to Read Foundation.  Serving as the First Amendment legal arm of the library community, the Foundation has participated in much of the key landmark litigation that has defended intellectual freedom in our courts.  This is of critical importance to libraries, to the users they serve, and to the ongoing health of a democracy.  The written word is powerful indeed.

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Welcome New Students
Library Services You Should Know About

One of the leading academic research libraries in the United States, Cornell University Library is a highly valued partner in teaching, research, and learning at the university.  Composed of 20 libraries, the Library's services are designed to provide easy access to its outstanding collections.  Please see the services below to help you get started with your academic life at Cornell.

Ask a Librarian
Need help? Librarians are available to answer your questions throughout the day by phone, in-person at reference desks, or by e-mail.  You can also use our live online chat service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Library Tours
Orientation tours give new students knowledge of the physical arrangement of the buildings, their collections, and the general policies of the libraries.

Workshops
Many of the individual libraries offer a wide variety of open workshops designed to assist you in developing skills in library research, information management and computer applications. These workshops are free and open to registered Cornell students, faculty and staff.

Find Your Library
Consult our clickable maps to find your library.

Library Guide
Pick up a free Cornell University Library A-Z Guide at any library.  The Guide provides a comprehensive overview of the vast resources and services that the Library offers you.

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Cornell University Library partners with Amazon

More than 6,000 titles from Cornell’s collections will soon be available as paperback books

Rare and out-of-print historical materials from Cornell University Library’s collections are now available as paperback books.

Cornell Library has partnered with BookSurge, a subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides inventory-free book publishing, printing, fulfillment, and distribution, to make digitized materials from its world-class collections available as paperback editions. Customers who order a Cornell title from Amazon.com will receive a high-resolution facsimile copy of the original contents.

Currently, 3,500 Cornell titles are available for sale by anyone browsing Amazon.com.  That number will jump to more than 6,000 in the next six months. Google BookSearch also leads users to Cornell titles on Amazon or they can be purchased through Cornell Library’s customized Amazon storefront at <bookstore.library.cornell.edu>.

One of Cornell’s most exclusive collections, the Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection, currently represents the majority of the content, with some 2,000 available.  Other Cornell holdings being offered as reprint editions include unique non-copyrighted scholarly materials on a variety of topics including the American Civil War; 19th and 20th century texts in home economics, agriculture, animal science, food science and rural sociology; historical western travel narratives of Southeast Asia; and important historical works in science and mathematics.

Previously, access to these digitized titles was limited to Cornell Library’s Web site.  Scholars and others, however, often want a printed copy of the material in addition to viewing it online and this partnership fills that void.  When a book is retrieved online from the library’s Web site, records now indicate whether it is also available as a print-on-demand title via Amazon.com.

For more information about Cornell Library’s partnership with BookSurge and Amazon, contact Terry Ehling, director of the Center for Innovative Publishing, by email at teresa_ehling@cornell.edu.

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Government map exhibit marks Cornell's 100th year as federal depository

A map exhibition that marks Cornell University Library's 100th anniversary as a federal depository is now on display in in the lower level of Olin Library.

Maps, charts and atlases have been an important part of the federal depository library program since its inception. Over the last 100 years, the federal depository library program has provided over 200,000 maps to Cornell University Library, which is proud to be able to celebrate this anniversary with an exhibition of some of the U.S. government maps acquired through the program.

The exhibit showcases a wide variety of government maps spanning those 100 years. It features map formats that are instantly recognizable, such as the USGS "topo quads," and others that are less familiar, but no less interesting, including several maps of the local area contained in the U.S. Serial Set of Congressional Documents. Cornell subscribes to an online version of this important set of documents: http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/misc/5958959.

The exhibit only suggests the program's shift in recent years to online access and how this shift has changed the nature of the depository program, which now supplies very few print documents. For depository mapping the change has come more slowly and selectively, but the trend is certainly toward making maps available online for self-printing, or providing interactive sites on which users can customize their own maps from the data provided.

The map display is located on the lower level of Olin Library, just outside the Media Center, and will remain up until mid-August.

Cornell University Library is celebrating its 100th year in the federal depository library program ( http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March07/Fed.depository.html) . As a federal depository library, it has been receiving publications and public documents issued by government agencies free of charge for 100 years. In return, Cornell makes these items available to the public at no cost.

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Reunion 2007 Library Programs

                                                                                
Friday, June 8
9:00–5:00        Math Library Open House (& film screenings, every hour until 4 pm)
9:00–10:00      Electronic Genealogy workshop, Uris Library Electronic Classroom
10:00–11:00    “Preserving Your Home Library” Workshop, 703 Olin Library
10:30–11:30    Class of ‘47 Program, RMC Lecture Room
11:15–12:15    Preservation Dept. Tour, meet in front of Olin Circulation Desk
11:30–12:45    Class of 72, tour of Uris and Ezra Cornell Exhibit
11:00–2:00      Barton Hall Info. Booth & All-Alumni Lunch
1:00–4:00        Music Library Open House
1:30–2:30        Electronic Genealogy workshop, Uris Electronic Classroom
2:30–3:30        Historic Tour of Uris Library
3:00–4:00        Entomology Library, Franclemont Exhibit Reception, Comstock Hall
3:30-4:30         “Song of the Vowels” Rededication, Plaza Between Olin & Uris Libraries
4:30–6:00        Class of ‘92 program and reception, RMC Lecture Room & Hirshland Gallery

Saturday, June 9
9:00–2:00        Catherwood Library Open House, ILR School
10:00–2:00      Adelson Library Open House, Lab of O
10:30–5:00      Highlights from Rare & Manuscript Collections, RMC, 2B Kroch Library
10:30–11:30    State of the University Address by President David Skorton, Bailey Hall
11:00–Noon    Historic Tour of Uris Library
11:00–2:00      Barton Hall Info. Booth & All-Alumni Lunch
11:00–5:00      Fine Arts Library Open House
1:30–2:30        Electronic Genealogy workshop, Uris Electronic Classroom
1:30–2:30        Engineering Library Film Festival, Carpenter Hall
2:30–5:00        Map Collection Open House & Tours, Olin Library

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$450,000 grant awarded to Cornell University Library Partnership between Cornell Library and the HBCU Library Alliance documents the founding of nation's black colleges and universities

A digital collection that chronicles the founding of Americas black colleges and universities will continue to expand, thanks to a $450,000 grant Cornell University Library recently received from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Cornell Library is sharing its expertise in digital imaging, preservation, and management with librarians and archivists from the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Library Alliance in an initiative that is laying the foundation for an HBCU digital library. Important materials from the founding collections of ten HBCU institutions will soon be available online in a digital collection entitled "Celebrating the Founding of the Historically Black College and University". Some of its highlights include student yearbooks, early campus architectural drawings, and a rich assortment of photographs featuring choral groups, student sports teams, famous alumni, and churches (which often served as the first classrooms at several of these institutions).

The online collection is the result of a partnership that began in 2005 between Cornell University Library and the HBCU Library Alliance with the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. To date, Cornell librarians have trained staff members from HBCU institutions to use flat-bed scanners, high-end multimedia computers, and digital imaging software as well as storage, collection management, and access systems.

"Cornell University Library has a rich tradition of sharing what it has learned with others through publications and workshops," said Interim University Librarian Anne R. Kenney. "Anything that we can do to make available the special collections of HBCU libraries will benefit researchers and students everywhere."

In the partnership's next phase, library staff from ten additional HBCU institutions will be trained in digital collection building so materials from their founding collections can become part of the online repository. They include Lincoln University - Missouri, Miles College, Morehouse School of Medicine, North Carolina Central University, Paine College, Southern University at Shreveport, South Carolina State University, St. Augustines College, Texas Southern University and the University of the District of Columbia. The grant will also allow the first ten participating HBCU institutions to continue their digitization efforts and provide funding to train selected HBCU librarians in digital video and audio techniques.

"The HBCU Library Alliance is indeed grateful for the opportunity to partner with Cornell University and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to train HBCU librarians in digital resource preparation and management," said Janice Franklin, dean of Alabama State University Libraries and co-founder of the HBCU Library Alliance. "Access to artifacts in the special collections and archives of HBCU libraries, as assisted by this training initiative, will promote teaching and learning opportunities for the study of African-American history and culture. The initiative will also highlight the contributions that HBCU institutions have made to American history and culture."

For more information about the partnership and the HBCU Library Alliance digital library initiative, visit http://hbculibraries.org/html/programs.html.

About HBCU Library Alliance
The HBCU Library Alliance is a consortium that supports the collaboration of institutions dedicated to providing resources designed to strengthen the libraries of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and their constituents. The purpose of the HBCU Alliance is to ensure the excellence in HBCU Libraries and the development, coordination, and promotion of programs and activities to enhance member libraries.

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Cornell University Library launches improved version of Project Euclid

A new version of Project Euclid <http://projecteuclid.org> that supports the online publication of monographs and conference proceedings has been launched by Cornell University Library, thanks to staff from the Center for Innovative Publishing and E-Publishing Technologies.

The updated site brings enhanced functionality and a fresh new design to Project Euclid, Cornell’s innovative online publishing service in the fields of mathematics and statistics.  Powered by the library’s Digital Publishing System, DPubS v.2, Project Euclid now supports online publication of a wider range of content types, including monographs and conference proceedings; improved searching via Lucene; publisher-driven customization options; and intuitive administrative tools. Later this year, Project Euclid will provide a set of tools to facilitate the peer review process for journals.

New to Project Euclid with this upgrade are the Notre Dame Lecture Series on Mathematics (1942–1990) and, by year's end, the entire run of the Proceedings of the Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability (1946–1971).  Both are available on an open access basis.

In 2007, seven new journals will join Project Euclid, which currently delivers 45 journals and 42,000 articles from 30 partner publishers. Forthcoming this summer will be the complete back files for the Tohoku Mathematical Journal, the Proceedings of the Japan Academy and the four flagship journals from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.  Links to back issues of the Bulletin and Journal of the Association for Symbolic Logic will also be available as will back volumes of the Bulletin of the AMS (1891–1991), under a special arrangement with the American Mathematical Society.

For more information about Project Euclid, contact Terry Ehling, director of the library’s Center for Innovative Publishing, at teresa_ehling@cornell.edu or David Ruddy, director of the library’s E-Publishing Technologies, at dwr4@cornell.edu.

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Cornell University Library (CUL) Announces New Appointments

Donald Schnedeker, Director of Special Initiatives, Cornell University Library

Jean Poland, associate university librarian for subject libraries at CUL, is pleased to announce that effective June 1, Don Schnedeker, director of the Nestlé Library in the School of Hotel Administration and director of the Johnson School’s Management Library, will take on a new role in CUL, that of director of special initiatives.  He will also continue as director of the Nestlé Library in the School of Hotel Administration.  As director of special initiatives, Don will work with other CUL administrators to develop and enhance a range of programs such as the Library Fellows Program and career mobility mapping.

Don began his Cornell career in 1974 as a library assistant in the Veterinary Library.  After earning the MLS in 1976, Don began his professional career in what is now the Management Library.  Don earned an MBA from Cornell in 1984. He was promoted to associate department head several years later.  Following a year as acting librarian, Don became director of the Management Library in1988.  Don has been active in the Special Libraries Association (SLA) and is a founding member of the Academic Business Libraries Directors (ABLD), where he serves as Webmaster and statistician for the group.  In addition to directing the Management Library, Don became director of the Nestlé Library in 2003.

In 2002, Don received the annual award for Outstanding Achievement in Business
Librarianship from the SLA Business and Finance Division, in part as recognition of his continuing contributions to ABLD.

Angela Horne, Director, Management Library, Johnson Graduate School of Management

Angela Horne, currently associate director of the Management Library, will become the new director of the Management Library effective June 1.  Angela earned her MLIS and BA with combined honors in Russian and English at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. Starting her career as a librarian at the Nova Scotia Department of Labour, Angela arrived at Cornell in 1998 at the Physical Sciences Library.  Soon after, she accepted the position of public services librarian in the Management Library, became assistant director in 2004, and in 2005 was promoted to associate director. In addition to her full-time position, Angela is a 2007 graduate of the Cornell-Queens Executive MBA program offered jointly through the Johnson School and Queens University in Kingston, Ontario.

Angela has provided leadership to CUL on a variety of initiatives and currently chairs the Planning to Plan team. Outside CUL, she has served on and led national and international-level committees of the Canadian Library Association and the Special Libraries Association (SLA), has been president of the 2003 Upstate New York (UNYSLA) chapter, and currently serves as UNYSLA treasurer.  Angela also chairs SLAs Student and Academic Affairs Advisory Council (SAAAC).  Her awards include the inaugural OCLC/Canadian Library Association Promoting Technology in Libraries Award and the 2005 UNYSLA Chapter Member Award. 

“Her considerable accomplishments and proven track record at CUL and in the profession underscore Angela’s readiness to assume the challenges of a unit directorship,” said Jean Poland, associate university librarian for subject libraries at CUL.

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Book Arts Club to feature Cornell University Library’s fine press and artist books

Highlights from May 9 show-and-tell presentation will span 100 years of fine printing

The Cornell Book Arts Club will present a special show-and-tell presentation on May 9 about Cornell University Library’s fine press and artist books.

Katherine Reagan, assistant director for collections and the Ernest Stern '56 Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts, will show examples held by the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections between 3:30-4:40 p.m. in lecture room of Carl A. Kroch Library*.  Her talk will focus on the library's collecting history in these areas and highlights from the presentation will span more than 100 years of fine printing, from William Morris's Kelmscott Press to the recent work of contemporary book artists.
 
For more information on the Cornell Book Arts Club, visit <www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/bookarts> or e-mail bookarts@cornell.edu.

For more information on the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, visit their Web site at ,http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/>.

*Enter through Olin Library, walk directly ahead toward the green slatehallway, and you will soon enter the Carl A. Kroch Library. Pass the Asia Collections (on your left) and proceed to the rotunda. Just beyond the rotunda, take either the elevator (to your right) or the stairs (straight ahead) down two levels to level 2B. The lecture room is to your left, through the rotunda to the right, and through the second set of doors to your left.

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Olin and Kroch-Asia Extended Hours

Olin and Kroch-Asia will be open until 12 midnight on Saturday, May 5; Friday, May 11, and Saturday, May 12 to accommodate students wishing to study in these spaces during Cornells study and final exam time period.  For all Library hours, please see http://library.cornell.edu/about/libhours.html

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Cornell University Library Announces Book Collection Contest Winners

Cornell University Library, together with the Library Advisory Council, has selected the winners of its annual student book collection contest.   The winners are:

Undergraduate Category

First Prize:

Honorable Mentions:

 Graduate Category

   First Prize – Tie

Second Prize:

Third Prize:

Undergraduate and graduate students competed in separate competitions. Finalists from each group received cash awards. First-prize winners received $1,000 and prizes of $500 and $250 were awarded to second and third place winners, respectively.  Honorable mention finalists received $100.  Judges for this year’s contest were Elisabeth Boas; member of the Library Advisory Council, David Corson, history of science collections curator; and Kizer Walker, collection development coordinator in Olin Library.      

First-prize winners automatically qualify to compete in the national Collegiate Book-Collecting Championship, established and sponsored by Fine Books & Collections Magazine. In 2006, Cornell graduate students Daniel McKee and David Rando tied for first-prize locally and went on to win first and third prizes in the national competition.

Introduced in 2003, the Cornell University Library and Library Advisory Council Book Collection Contest is an annual competition for Cornell students interested in books and book collecting.  It continues the tradition of the Arthur H. Dean and Mary Marden Dean Book Collection Contest, which was held in Uris Library from 1966 to 1987.  The competition provides both undergraduate and graduate students with the opportunity to display their aptitude in assembling and organizing book collections and to articulate their interest in reading and collecting books.

 

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Digital Initiatives Provide Broader Access to Materials

• From abolition to algebra, CU Library's unique holdings are available to readers online
• Library works with faculty and staff to create digital collections
• Focus on Cornell University Library (PDF)

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Cornell University Library recognizes student workers

Cornell University Library has honored five of its top student employees with the Fuerst Outstanding Student Employee Award.

The following students, all from the Class of 2007, are this year's winners:

• Rivkah Darabaner, Uris Library
• Stephanie Hoffman, Law Library
• Micheal Somersel, Preservation and Collections Maintenance, Olin Library
• Margaret Rich, Mann Library
• Devin Angle, Database Management Services/Physical Processing.

Each winner receives $500, the largest monetary award for student employees on campus. The library system employs approximately 500 students a year.  Library supervisors nominate students based on their exceptional performance, initiative, and service to the library.  A committee with representatives from throughout the Library selects the five winners of this prestigious award.

The awards are made possible, thanks to William F. Fuerst Jr. '39.  In 1995 he created the annual award to recognize outstanding student employees in the library. Fuerst was a devoted supporter of Cornell University Library, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Big Red Athletics and Cornell Plantations. He was named "foremost benefactor of Cornell" in 1989 and received the Frank H.T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Award in recognition of his extraordinary service and leadership in 2000.

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Buzz Spector
"Unpacking My Library"

April 21, 2007 - 1:00PM to 5:00PM
2B Kroch Library

Please join Cornell University Professor of Art Buzz Spector for a performance work inspired by Walter Benjamin's famous essay of 1931, "Unpacking My Library: a Talk on Collecting" (published in Benjamin. Illuminations,1968). The event will take place on Saturday, April 21 from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the Kroch Lecture Room 2B48, Carl A. Kroch Library. Visitors are encouraged to join the artist in discussing books, collecting, reading, and more generally, in appreciating books. The performance will take place in the room adjoining the Hirshland Gallery, where Spector and his students have installed "Big Red C," the Humanities Book Art Project. The installation is composed entirely of books written by Cornellians. The event is free and open to the public.

For more information on the project, please visit http://www.cornell.edu/humanities/features/buzzbookart/index.cfm. The Humanities Book Art Project is co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost; Cornell University Library; the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning; the College of Arts and Sciences; and Humanities Communications. 

Gallery hours:
Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Saturday 1:00-5:00 p.m., closed Sundays

 

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John M. Saylor, Director of the Engineering Library, Wins Award

John M. Saylor, director of the Engineering Library, Cornell University and interim associate university librarian for scholarly communications and collections, Cornell University Library (CUL), has won the prestigious 2007 Homer I. Bernhardt Distinguished Service Award.  This award is presented each year at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference by the Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) to recognize work that contributes to the advancement and development of excellence in engineering libraries.

The ELD Awards Committee cited as determining factors John's over thirty-five years of leadership in engineering librarianship, his pioneering work in advancing the cause of digital libraries and open access initiatives, and his record of presentation, collaboration, and publishing.  In addition, John’s professionalism and mentoring of numerous engineering librarians and his significant contributions to ELD, including ELDnet-L and Director and Chair of the J-stor Task Force, were cited.  John's nomination received support from many ELD colleagues including several Bernhardt Award honorees. 

“The Bernhardt award is a wonderful acknowledgement of John’s many creative contributions to the development of engineering librarianship over the past 30 years,” said Jean Poland, Associate University Librarian for Subject Libraries.  “John is an acknowledged and respected leader in the expansion of digital libraries in the sciences.  As an early adaptor, he has guided his colleagues at Cornell and throughout the country into the digital age.  He is a strong force in librarianship and the open access movement.”

John has been the director of the Engineering Library at Cornell University since 1988.  He began his library career at Cornell as reference and collection development librarian in the Engineering Library in 1973.

Homer I. Bernhardt was, from 1966 until his death in 1982, head of the Bevier Engineering Library at the University of Pittsburgh. Homer Bernhardt's professional activities contributed to engineering and librarianship at Pittsburgh and at ASEE. His commitment to the field is recognized in ELD's decision to name its Distinguished Service Award in his memory. ( http://eld.lib.ucdavis.edu/awards.php#homer)

CUL is one of the top ten academic research libraries in the United States. Composed of 20 unit libraries, CUL is a highly valued partner in teaching, research, and learning at the university, offering cutting-edge services and a full spectrum of library resources.

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Humanities Book Art Project: “Big Red C” Reinstalled on Campus
Fresh from its display in Manhattan’s Chelsea gallery district, the Humanities Book Art Project was reinstalled April 2 on campus at the Hirshland Gallery, Kroch Library. The sculpture of the letter “C” is composed entirely of Cornell-authored books and was first constructed in January at the College of Architecture, Art and Planning’s West 17th Street loft by Professor of Art Buzz Spector and 15 students in his "From Inspiration to Exhibition" class.  The entire project was filmed for a documentary
The exhibition will open on April 4 with a reception from 4:30-6:30 p.m.  Professor Spector will give a short talk at 5:00 p.m. about some of the large-scale book constructions he has built over the past twenty years, and excerpts from the documentary will be shown.  On April 21 from 1:00-5:00 p.m., Professor Spector will give a performance work called “Unpacking My Library” and will invite visitors to join him in discussing books, collecting, reading, and generally appreciating books.  The exhibition will be on display until April 25.   All events are free and open to the public.
For more information, please visit http://www.cornell.edu/humanities/features/buzzbookart/index.cfm.
The Humanities Book Art Project is co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost; Cornell University Library; the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning; the College of Arts and Sciences; and Humanities Communications. 

Gallery hours:
Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Saturday 1:00-5:00 p.m., closed Sundays

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Find it! :  Library Tool Simplifies Research
Win $100, iTunes Gift Cards and Ezra T-shirts in April Fortune Cookie Giveaway

Win prizes and learn interesting facts inside Cornell University Library’s Find it! fortune cookies, which will be handed out April 3 and 4 in Willard Straight Hall, the atrium of Duffield Hall and Mann Library. 

The event is to promote Find it!, an online Library tool that searches hundreds of resources and guarantees the scholarly integrity of its results.  Find it! scans databases, articles, images and other reference materials as well as the Library’s own online catalog and digital collections.

Fortune cookie prizes will include:
• $100 in cash
• four $25 iTunes gift cards
• five Ezra Cornell Bicentennial T-shirts.
Winners can collect their prizes in Room 213 in Olin Library.

Use Find it! at findit.library.cornell.edu. For more information about the giveaway, contact Library Communications at (607) 255-4813 or libcomm@cornell.edu.

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Sarah Thomas receives the 2007 Melvil Dewey Medal
 
CHICAGO Sarah Thomas, PhD, university librarian at Cornell University Library, is the 2007 recipient of the American Library Association (ALA) Melvil Dewey Medal, which recognizes distinguished service to the profession of librarianship.

The jury for this years Melvil Dewey Medal is pleased to honor Dr. Sarah Thomas for her extraordinary leadership in the advancement of research libraries in general, and cataloging and bibliographic standards and practices in particular, both nationally and internationally, during a distinguished career spanning more than three decades, said Melvil Dewey Jury Chair Winston Tabb of Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Thomas has demonstrated inspiring vision, relentless determination, and unfailing optimism as an innovative leader in three great American libraries - the Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, and Cornell University - and will undoubtedly enhance this impressive record of achievement as she assumes leadership of Oxfords Bodleian Library.

Among the achievements specially noted by the Dewey jury and the numerous colleagues who wrote in support of this award were Dr. Thomass vision, perseverance and diplomacy in conceiving, launching and nurturing the Program for Cooperative Cataloging, which ushered cooperative cataloging into the 21st century; innovative initiatives at Cornell such as the Library Gateway, Project Euclid and DPubS; her commitment to diversity in library workforces and collections; and her leadership of numerous professional organizations, including the presidency of the Association of Research Libraries, which she led in a major, transformative strategic planning process.

Taken together these manifold achievements demonstrate accomplishments of the highest order.

Thomas is an active life member of the American Library Association.  She received her PhD. From Johns Hopkins University, a M.S. from Simmons College, Graduate School of Library and Information Science and a A.B. from Smith College.  She is a noted author, consultant, trainer and has a long and impressive list of presentations, appointments and grants.

Other members of the 2007 Melvil Dewy Award Jury are: Carl A. Antonucci, Capital Community College, Ludlow, Mass.; Patricia S. Banach, Eastern Connecticut State University, Somers, Conn.; Emily A. Berbman, Occidental College, Glendale, Calif.; Angela A. William, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.

The Melvil Dewey Award will be presented Tuesday, June 26, during the ALA Annual Conference in Washington DC.

The deadline for submissions of applications for the 2008 Melvil Dewey is December 1, 2007.  Guidelines and application forms are available at http://www.ala.org/ala/awardsbucket/deweymedal/deweymedal.htm.


Contact: Cheryl Malden
Program Officer
312-280-3247
cmalden@ala.org

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Ezra Cornell Bicentennial Celebration Continues at Cornell University Library

Carol Kammen presents “Ezra Cornell and Any Person” on March 28

Ezra Cornell and his dream of founding of a university open to anyone regardless of their religion, gender or race will be the focus of a March 28 presentation at Cornell University Library.

Tompkins County Historian Carol Kammen, a senior lecturer in the university’s history department and co-curator of the library’s Ezra Cornell Bicentennial exhibition, will give a talk entitled “Ezra Cornell and Any Person,”  beginning at 4:30 p.m. in the lecture room of Carl A. Kroch Library.  The event is free and open to the public.  A reception will immediately follow.

In his address at the opening of Cornell University on Oct. 7, 1868, Cornell said, “I trust we have laid the foundation of [a] university – ‘an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.’”  Kammen’s presentation will center on the historical significance of Cornell’s “any person” belief and how it ultimately led to the creation of a university bearing his name.

“What impresses me about Ezra Cornell is that having been poor, and then in debt, when he came into money – and he came into a lot of money for the day – his  immediate goal was to use it to do the most good and to do something for his hometown,” Kammen said.  “In an age that would come to be dominated by ‘Robber Barons,’ Ezra Cornell set a stunning example of stewardship and humanity.”

The March 28 presentation is part of the university’s yearlong bicentennial birthday celebration for Ezra Cornell. Also on display in Kroch Library’s Hirshland Gallery through Aug. 31 is the exhibition, “‘I Would Found an Institution’: The Ezra Cornell Bicentennial.”  It details how Cornell, who came to Ithaca with no formal education, went on to amass a fortune in the telegraph business and found one of America’s finest universities.  The exhibition features Cornell’s letters, diaries and photographs. Highlights include the university’s charter, the telegraph receiver used to receive the world’s very first telegraph message, Cornell’s safe and tools and a collection of shells from Hawaii that he purchased to enhance the university’s holdings

For more information, call 255-3530 and visit rmc.library.cornell.edu/Ezra.  For press information, call 255-4813 or go to library.cornell.edu/communications/Ezra. 

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Karen Calhoun, Senior Associate University Librarian (AUL) for Information Technology and Technical Services at Cornell University Library, to Join OCLC

Karen Calhoun, Senior Associate University Librarian (AUL) for Information Technology and Technical Services at Cornell University Library, will be leaving Cornell to join OCLC Online Computer Library Center in the role of Vice President, WorldCat and Metadata Services, effective May 14.

Since joining CUL in January 1997, Karen has held a number of positions, most recently as Senior AUL.  Quite active professionally, Karen recently served as principal investigator for The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools, a Library of Congress-commissioned study on the future of the catalog.  The report, released in March 2006, challenged assumptions about the traditional library catalog and proposes new directions for the research library catalog in the digital era.

Karen's new role is in OCLC's recently announced global integration of services.  Karen previously worked for OCLC from 1986 through 1996, serving in the OCLC Library Resources Management Division before joining Cornell.  "I have loved working at Cornell," said Karen.  "At the same time, the opportunity to help OCLC make its services and programs available to libraries and cultural heritage organizations around the world is compelling."

"Please join me in congratulating Karen on her new position and wishing her the best," said Anne Kenney, Interim University Librarian. "Although she will be sorely missed, to have Karen recruited for such an important post at OCLC is another sign of the great library that is Cornell's."

"Karen Calhoun is an internationally respected librarian and thought leader, and we're confident that her expertise and vision will be instrumental in continuing to build WorldCat and extend its global reach.  She will lead OCLCs efforts to chart a course for the future of cataloging and metadata services," said Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO.

 
About OCLC
Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit library membership and research organization that has provided computer-based cataloging, reference, resource sharing, eContent and preservation services to 57,000 libraries in 112 countries and territories.  OCLC and its member libraries worldwide have created and maintain WorldCat, the worlds richest online resource for finding library materials.  For more information, visit www.oclc.org.

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Olin Looks to the Future with Renovation Plans

• Upgrades planned for 46 year old Olin Library
• Olin Redesigns Interior

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Peter Hirtle, Cornell University Library Intellectual Property Officer, Quoted in the Press

• Microsoft Copyright Attorney Bashes Google Book Search
• Government May Relax Copyright Law

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Chocolate: Food of the Gods

In the afterglow of a snowbound Valentines Day that we hope saw many of you with plenty of opportunity to enjoy the romance and sweetness of the day, Mann Library is proud to announce our newest exhibit, Chocolate: Food of the Gods, curated by Ashley Miller. More than a food, but less than a drug, chocolate has played many roles throughout its history. From Aztecs to aphrodisiac, the exhibit traces the lore and lure of the world's favorite confection.

In conjunction with this installation, Mann will be hosting a special lecture, Pleasure & Comfort: The Allure of Chocolate, by Cornell professor and chocolate connoisseur Jordan Le Bel (Cornell School of Hotel Administration), on Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 4pm.  Please join us on the 2nd floor of the Mann Library addition for a treat sure to stimulate both intellect and palate!

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Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel: Slavery, Christianity and its Influence on the Anti-Slavery Movement

The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections will host the program "Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel": Slavery, Christianity and its Influence on the Anti-Slavery Movement on Tuesday, February 27 from 4pm to 5:30pm in the 2B Carl A. Kroch Library lecture room.

Rare and Manuscript Collections staff will showcase rare books, manuscripts, letters, engravings, and other materials from Cornell's pre-eminent anti-slavery, slavery, and Civil War collections. The program will explore conditions enslaved persons endured, the faith that inspired them, the wide range of viewpoints within the abolitionist movement, and how Christianity expressed itself through anti- and pro-slavery supporters in their battles to influence the nation.

The program is open to the Cornell community and general public.

 

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Strengthening Bonds: Exploring Collaboration Between Cornell University and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)

In Celebration of Black History Month, the Africana Studies Library will host a seminar titled Strengthening Bonds: Exploring collaboration between Cornell University and historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Attendees of the event are encouraged to share their perspectives on the potential for developing research opportunities, teaching, and learning exchange between HBCUs and Ivy League institutions. Participants are invited to hear a short presentation led by Ira Revels, Project Manager of the HBCU-CUL Digital Initiative who will discuss an effort involving Cornell and ten HBCUs to develop digital library collections of American cultural heritage materials on HBCU campuses.
 
Ira Revels is a Senior Assistant Librarian and Project Manager at Olin Library of an initiative designed to train librarians at historically black colleges and universities to preserve and provide access to their institutional cultural heritage materials <http://hbculibraries.org/html/programs.html>.
 

Hoyt Fuller Room
Africana Studies and Research Center
7:30 9:00pm
Wednesday, February 21
Refreshments will be served.

 

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Copyright Presentations

Copyright, E-Reserves and Blackboard

Confused about what you can make available electronically to students and how? In this hour and a half long seminar, Peter Hirtle, Intellectual Property Officer at Cornell University Library, will cover Cornell's guidelines on using copyrighted material in courses, using the Fair Use Checklist, available options when your proposed use is not fair (including using course packs, linking to licensed library resources, and securing permission).

Thursday Mar. 1, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Register

Keeping Your Copyright for Content Producers

Much ado has recently been made about securing permission from other copyright holders, but what are your rights as an author? Peter Hirtle, Intellectual Property Officer at Cornell University Library, explains how you as authors can make sure that you have the right to repost your work, use it in your classes or give other colleagues permission to use it as well as how to successfully negotiate for better and broader control of your own publications.

Tuesday Mar. 27, 2:00-3:30 pm
Register

Register at Olin/Uris or Mann Reference Desks or online at http://host.evanced.info/cornell/evanced/eventcalendar.asp.

For more information contact Camille Andrews, Instruction Coordinator at Mann Library, at 255-8673 or email: ca92@cornell.edu.

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CU Library in the News
Recent mentions of CUL in the news include:

• Libraries learn: Pour coffee and they will come
• Mann Library Plans for a Green Cafe
• The Ezra Files
• 25 years of gay-rights struggles traced in online exhibit
• CU Library's great treasure of science: Lavoisier collection is Mme. Lavoisier's achievement
• This library is more than just books: How about Sinatra, wax fruit or antique slide rules?

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Anne Kenney Named Interim UL

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Linking to Library Resources Workshop, Jan. 19

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Tour Rare and Manuscript Collection, Jan. 17

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A Cornell University Library Guide to Martin Luther King, Jr.

As the nation honors Martin Luther King on Jan. 15, Cornell University Library invites students, faculty and staff to learn more about the civil rights leader.  The Library offers the several resources that detail King’s life and works.  

A comprehensive Web guide created by Africana Library Director Eric Acree can be found at www.library.cornell.edu/africana/guides/king.  Most of the items on the guide are available at Cornell University Library or can be obtained using the interlibrary loan service. 

King was the guest speaker at Alpha Phi Alpha’s 50th Anniversary Convention in 1956.  A program from the event can be found in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC), where the archives of Alpha Phi Alpha, the nation’s first African-American fraternity founded at Cornell in 1906, are housed.    

•50th Anniversary Convention Banquet Program of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (1956). Galvin Family Papers, #4933, Box  2.  The program is available at http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/alpha/publications/REX021_019.pdf. 

King visited Cornell in 1960 and 1961.  RMC has several newspaper articles that detail these visits as well as a program from Sage Chapel where King gave an address.

•“A Talk With Martin Luther King,'' Interview on 11/13/60 at Cornell University, 12/1960. In Dialogue (Cornell Student Publication) Vol. 1: No. 2.  Call Number: LH1.C8054+

•Sage Chapel Programs, #39-5-371, in 1960-1961 program booklet for 11/13/1960.

•Cornell Daily Sun articles (also available on microfilm in Olin Library):
Allan A. Metcalf. "King Sees University, Talks on Civil Rights." 14 Nov. 1960.
            Rita P. Padnick '63. "We Shall Overcome." Guest Room. 14 Nov. 1960.
            "CCAS Plans King Speech" 4 Apr. 1961.
            "Reverend King to Address Bailey Hall Audience Today." 14 Apr. 1961.
            Robert S. Gabriner. "Reverend King Speaks on Negro's Problems Cites Progress in Southern Race Relations." 17 Apr. 1961.
            "A Laudable Moderate" (Editorial) 17 Apr. 1961.

Two photographs taken of King during his 1961 trip to Ithaca also hang on a bulletin board in the Johnson Graduate School of Management Library, thanks to Library Director Donald Schnedeker and his father-in-law.  Stop by the library in Sage Hall and check them out.

For more information about these documents and King’s visits to Ithaca, read a 2004 article in “The Chronicle” at www.news.cornell.edu/chronicle/04/1.22.04/MLK_visits.html.

arXiv accepts 400,000th submission

arXiv, an open access repository for e-print postings operated by Cornell University Library, accepted its 400,000th article in December 2006, underscoring its importance in the world of scholarly communication.

The article, http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0612244, was written by a group of Japanese authors in the field of high energy physics theory.  In total, arXiv has received 400,686 submissions since its inception, with 50,227 in 2006.

With arXiv, Cornell Library provides fast, free and open access to scientific literature, serving the fields of physics, mathematics, nonlinear science, computer sciences and quantitative biology. An international project with dedicated mirror sites in 17 countries, arXiv has registered users from 150 countries.

It was developed by Paul Ginsparg, Cornell professor of physics and of computing and information science, while he was working at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1991.  The repository moved to Cornell with Ginsparg when he returned as a faculty member is 2001 and is now a collaboration between the Library and Cornell's Information Science Program.  The Library is responsible for arXiv's maintenance while research and development is handled by information science.

The repository gained national attention in 2006 when Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman was awarded and subsequently turned down the prestigious Fields Medal for his proof of the 100-year-old Poincaré Conjecture, which he posted exclusively on arXiv .  Most scientists and researchers who post research on arXiv also submit their work for publication in traditional peer-reviewed journals. While Perelman's decision was decidedly unorthodox, it underscores the repository's importance in the fields of physics, math and computer science.

For more information about arXiv, visit arxiv.org or contact Simeon Warner at simeon@cs.cornell.edu.

January 11 marks the 200th birthday of Ezra Cornell.  Please help us celebrate:

11:15 a.m. 
Short presentation by Carol Kammen, Sr. Lecturer from the History Department, held in the Carl A. Kroch Library, Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC)
RMC will have items from the Ezra Collection on hand for visitors to view including a statue of Ezra and a telegraph receiver.

12:00 p.m.
Birthday Cake,  Libe Cafe, Olin Library. 
The Cornell community is invited to enjoy a slice of Ezra's birthday cake.

12:30 p.m.  Chimes Concert, McGraw Tower

Anne Kenney, Senior Associate University Librarian, and Tom Cotton, Library Facilities Coordinator, hanging the celebratory banner.

Please see rmc.library.cornell.edu/ezra for more information.

 

Visit Olin's Lower Level to View Maps by Students in Drawing III Class

We think of maps as relating parts of the world to each other and using those relationships to locate places, to help us find our way. Even if the places and their relationships are not geographical—we are willing to contemplate imaginary or metaphorical maps—we expect maps to get us from some here to some there.

Diana Cooper, a visiting artist and instructor in the Art Department, challenged her Drawing III class to turn that expectation on its head and produce Maps to Get Lost By.   After the class visited Olin's Map Collection and got a chance to look at a wide variety of maps and other cartographic objects, they responded with the works that are mounted in the lower level display case.

Each student uses a different way to get lost.  One recurrent stratagem is to extract from a spoken idiom a way one gets lost and then to represent that environment on the pseudo-map. Examples are "lost in sensual bliss", "lost in attention to detail," "emotionally lost and lost in memory."

Others use common cartographic conventions to engage the viewer’s expectations and then mislead them or force them to rethink the extent a map is possible in the environment their work is portraying. Some students reinterpret historical forms such as the medieval mappamundi and manorial maps.

Maps often exude a kind of immutability and infallibility. These thought-provoking works undercut cartographic arrogance and replace it with uncertainty, misdirection,and ultimately an opportunity for re-examining the world.

Please join Olin's Map and Geographic Information Collection in celebrating these students and their creativity.  Their work is on display in Olin's lower level (below Libe Cafe at the bottom of the stairs) and can be viewed during library hours.

In addition to the student artists, we are grateful to their teaching assistant, Raphael Alika Herreshoff, for his work in organizing the display.  Susann Argetsinger, Map Assistant and Preservation Technician, mounted the display with additional support from Conservation. Susann also chose the type face and designed the title banner.  Note that these are the original artworks, mounted using mylar straps and corners to preserve the integrity of the pieces. The stands were constructed by Conservation Technicians.

 

Exhibit for Alpha Phi Alpha Centennial

To mark the centennial of the founding of Alpha Phi Alpha on December 4, 1906, Cornell University Library features an exhibition of archival materials in Olin Library from December 2 to December 22, 2006. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity: A Centennial Celebration celebrates the organization's roots at Cornell and substantive contributions to American life over the past one hundred years.

On December 4, 1906, seven undergraduate students at Cornell University, The Seven Jewels, organized Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the first intercollegiate fraternity among African American men. With the Great Sphinx of Giza as its symbol, and the motto First of All, Servants of All, We Shall Transcend All, Alpha Phi Alpha dedicated itself to defend the rights and to promote the responsibilities of African Americans. The founders of Alpha Phi Alpha sought to combine social purpose with social action, to be more than a social organization. Throughout its history, Alpha Phi Alpha has promoted knowledge and achievement. Information : http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/alpha/

Lend Buzz Spector Your Books

In an announcement from Provost Biddy Martin on Oct. 11, 2006, all Cornell faculty, staff and students were invited to join the Cornell Humanities Book Art Project by loaning books they have authored. In January 2007, Cornell art Professor Buzz Spector will create a sculpture of a giant letter 'C' composed entirely of books on arts and humanities subjects written by Cornellians. The sculpture will be on display in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning's New York City space at 50 W. 17th Street from Jan. 12-19, 2007. The Cornell 'C' will be reinstalled for a monthlong exhibition in Kroch Library's Hirshland Gallery in the spring on the Cornell campus. Books eligible for the project can be in any broadly defined area of the arts or humanities, including biography, imagery, criticism, theory, plays, scripts, memoir and the history of science. Scientific textbooks and books focusing entirely on scientific research are not eligible. A complete bibliography listing every book in the sculpture will be produced, and participants will receive a commemorative gift. Authors should bring their book (or books) to any branch of the Cornell University Library between Oct. 16 and Dec. 6, hand it to a staff member at the circulation desk and fill out a brief form. Student workers will catalog and pack the books for shipping to New York City and unpack the books when they return to Ithaca for the spring exhibition. Books loaned to the project will be returned at the end of the spring 2007 semester. Authors will receive an e-mail from the Cornell Library when their books are ready to be returned. For More Information: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept06/book.art.gl.html http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept05/buzz.dea.html
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec06/bookcollection.lgk.html

Project Coordinator Ira Revels Interviewed

A radio interview with Cornell librarian Ira Revels will air on Thanksgiving at 7 pm on the radio program "Out of Bounds."

During the 30-minute program, Revels discusses Cornell University Library's digitization project with the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Library Alliance. It will be broadcast on WEOS-FM (89.7 and 90.3 in Geneva, NY and 88.1 in Ithaca, NY).

Thanks to a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, staff from Cornell Library have been partnering with the HBCU Library Alliance to lay the foundation for a future HBCU digital library. Annual reports, photographs, early campus architectural drawings, presidential correspondence, and early student yearbooks are just some of the documents being scanned for inclusion. Scholars of African-American studies, historians of the American South and students of higher education in the United States are expected to be among the most frequent visitors to the Web-based archive.

"We're using our knowledge and experience of digital imaging to customize and update a workshop that was first created by Cornell librarians over a decade ago to teach HBCU librarians about digital imaging processes and ways to manage the legal, copyright and social issues," said Revels, who serves as the project manager, in an article about a weeklong workshop held in November 2005 that was featured in the Library's 2004-2005 annual report.

Cornell librarians taught staff from 10 HBCU institutions to use flat-bed scanners, high-end multimedia computers and digital imaging software as well as storage, collection management and access systems.

For more information about the initiative, visit hbculibraries.org/html/programs.html

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Archivist opens cornerstone box!

Elaine Engst, Cornell University Archivist, recently opened a cornerstone box that had been interred in the Baldwin Memorial Stairway in 1925.

The Baldwin Memorial Stairway, located between University Avenue and Delta Phi (Llenroc, the house built by Ezra Cornell) was a gift to Cornell University and to the citizens of Ithaca from Arthur J. Baldwin (Class of 1892) in memory of his son, Morgan Smiley Baldwin (Class of 1915). Constructed in 1925, the cornerstone for the Baldwin Memorial Stairway was laid on November 11, 1925 .

During repairs to the Stairway, the Cornell Masons' Shop encountered the copper cornerstone box. On Tuesday, September 26, staff from the Cornell University Archives and Planning, Design, and Construction opened the box.

Morgan Smiley Baldwin of East Orange, New Jersey, graduated from Cornell in 1915, with a Bachelor of Arts degree and received a law degree from Columbia University. At Cornell, he was a member of Delta Phi. When the United States declared war against Germany, he enlisted, training at Camp Wadsworth before being sent to France in May 1918. Towards the end of September, his unit took up position with the British Fourth Army in preparation for the attack on the German Hindenburg line. After several days of fighting, he was severely wounded on September 29. He died his wounds on October 9 and was buried in Saint Sever Cemetery outside the city of Rouen.

A new box will be replaced in the stone at 1 pm on November 11, 2006.

For more information see: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/baldwin/

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We Can and We Whale--Student Art Exhibit

Oct.24 - Nov.8
Olin Library, corridor between Olin and Kroch libraries

A giant sculpture of a blue whale made of 5,000 tuna, sardine and corn cans. Designed and built by CANstruction Cornell, a multi-discipline team of six students participating in Canstruction Rochester. The students will be previewing their sculpture at Olin Library before moving the giant work to Rochester in November.

Canstruction is a design/build competition and a unique way to help feed the hungry. Competing teams in cities across the country showcase their talents by designing giant sculptures made entirely out of canned and packaged foods. At the close of the exhibitions, all of the food used in the structures is donated to local food banks for distribution to pantries, shelters, soup kitchens, elderly and day care centers. The Rochester Food Link will be the recipient of all foods collected from Canstruction Rochester. For more information, visit www.canstructionrochester.com.

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Library Partners with Microsoft

Cornell University Library announces partnership with Microsoft that will allow global access to its world-class resources.

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Expanded New Acquisition Shelves in Olin

Olin Library has tripled the space available to display newly-acquired titles! Now each Wednesday all new books will be shelved for one week on bookshelves adjacent to Libe Cafe. The books can be browsed in place or borrowed normally.

'New and Noteworthy' books remain in the same location in Olin, on the opposite site of the central corridor from the 'Olin New Books' shelves.

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Mann Library Hosts a Forest Harvest Fair

It used to be that forests were cleared to make way for productive farmland. Now, no longer--at least not as a matter of course.

In cooperation with Cornell Department of Horticulture, Mann Library invites you to a Forest Harvest Fair exploring the gourmet foods, energy boosters and other surprising fruits of sustainable forest farming.

Thursday, 19 October 2006, 4 pm Mann Library, 2nd floor Free and open to the public

Fair will feature:

• 4 pm talk by horticulture professor Ken Mudge on "Forest Farming as an Agroforestry System for the Northeast"
• Special exhibit on "Farming under the Forest Canopy"
• Displays of mushroom art, and information booths by the Cornell Mushroom Cultivators, Collectors and Connoisseurs, the MacDaniels Nut Grove, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Greene and Schuyler Counties, The Arnot Teaching and Research Forest and others
• Flavorful samplings of mushrooms, nuts, syrup, herbal teas and sodas, and other fruits from the forest

This event is presented in conjunction with an open house at the MacDaniels Nut Grove (behind the Library Annex, just south of the Cornell School of Veterinary Medicine and Cornell Orchards at the east end of campus) that will take place on Saturday, October 14. "Farming under the Forest Canopy" exhibit will be on display at Mann Library October 16, 2006 through January 15, 2007. Mushroom art by Carl Whittaker and fungi photography by Jeanine Moy will be on display from October 19 through November 2006. For more information, please call 607-255-5406.

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Three New Cornell Digital Collections Added to ARTstor

Cornell University Library is pleased to announce the addition of three Cornell collections into ARTstor, the online searchable database of digital images and associated catalog information. The collections include the AD White Architectural Photographs Collection; the Hill Ornithology Collection; and the visual component of the Southeast Asia Visions Collection.  These can now be found in the Image Gallery collection of ARTstor http://www.artstor.org/info/collections/imagegallery.jsp

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Seminars in Copyright: Copyright and E-Reserves

Monday, Sept. 11
10am - 11:30am
Mann Library second floor assembly area.
Speaker: Jesse Koennecke

Confused about what you can put on reserve and how? In this hour and a half long seminar, Jesse Koennecke, Head of Access Services at Mann Library, will cover the recent changes in policy on copyright for reserve material, the best ways to comply with copyright regulations (such as using coursepacks, linking to library resources through  Blackboard, and using government documents) and how to get copyright  clearance most easily.


Other seminars in the series to come include:

Keeping Your Copyright for Content Producers
Much ado has recently been made about securing permission from other copyright holders, but what are your rights as an author? Peter Hirtle, Intellectual Property Officer at Cornell University Library, explains how you as authors can make sure that you have the right to repost your work, use it in your classes or give other colleagues permission to use it as well as how to successfully negotiate for better and broader control of your own publications.
Wednesday Oct. 25, 10:00 - 11:30 am
Mann Library 2nd floor

Copyright @ Cornell: The Changing Landscape
Curious about what's behind the recent changes in policy on e-reserves and course web pages? Need to know more about the direction of copyright regulation for teaching and research in the digital age? In this essential workshop for instructors and staff, Patricia McClary, Associate University Council, explains the legal reasons behind recent changes to Cornell University Library's e-reserves and course web page policy and the current status of the complaint of copyright infringement from the Association of American Publishers. She will also discuss current copyright regulations and the changing landscape of copyright in the digital age.
Monday, Nov. 13, 1 - 2:30 pm
Mann Library 2nd floor

Refreshments will be served.

Register at the Mann Library Reference Desk, or call (607) 255-5406, or register online at:http://mannlib.cornell.edu/instruction/workshops/.
For more information or to suggest topics for future seminars, contact Camille Andrews, Instruction Coordinator, at 255-8673 or email: ca92@cornell.edu.

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Cornellians Win Top Honors in National Book-Collecting Contest

Two Cornellians garnered top honors in the first ever Collegiate Book-Collecting Championship, a national competition sponsored by Fine Books & Collections magazine. 

Daniel McKee and David Rando, who tied for First Prize in the Graduate student division of the 2006 Cornell University Library and Library Advisory Council Book Collection Contest, placed first and third, respectively, in the national contest.  They competed against 44 other book contest prize winners from 30 universities. 

“What a thrill,” said McKee, who will earn his doctorate in Japanese Literature and is now the curator for the Ruth and Sherman Lee
Institute, a California museum devoted to the arts of Japan.  “Frankly, I never suspected that I had a chance at the national level.”

Titled “Educational Books from Japan’s Meiji Period (1868-1912),” McKee’s collection focuses on richly illustrated textbooks from the late 19th century, which were used to educate Japanese youth.  The Meiji Period revolutionized Japan’s public policy as the political and intellectual elite sought to catch up to the West by creating the nation’s first-ever public education system.

Rando’s collection, titled “The Books at the Wake,” includes more than 50 vintage reference books for James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.  Some of its highlights are a hand-made edition of Finnegans Wake by Rando and essential reference works from the 1960s and 1970s.

“I have always been drawn to books as physical items, but the impetus for this particular collection was primarily interpretive and only secondarily material, said Rando, who earned his doctorate in English and is working as an assistant professor of English at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.  “I was forced to keep company with these assorted, unsorted, and often sordid Finnegans Wake books in order to help make sense of Finnegans Wake itself.”

As the first-place winner, McKee won a cash prize of $2,500 and a one-year membership to the Grolier Club, America’s largest and oldest society for bibliophiles.  Rando received $500.  In addition, a $1,000 donation will be made to Cornell University Library in McKee’s name and Rando will have a $250 donation made in his.  Both were also awarded trips to New York City for the September awards ceremony.

“Both were excellent,” said Lance Heidig, the coordinator of Cornell’s contest and a Reference and Instruction Librarian in the Library’s Department of Collections, Reference, Instruction and Outreach.  “Their essays, bibliographies, and collections demonstrated personal passions for books and learning.  They were clearly the best out of a number of outstanding and interesting entries in this year’s competition.” 

Introduced in 2003, Cornell’s Book Collection Contest continues the tradition of the Arthur H. Dean and Mary Marden Dean Book Collection Contest, which was held in Uris Library for undergraduate students from 1966 to 1987. This was the first year entries were accepted from graduate students.  The competition provides Cornell students with the opportunity to display their aptitude in assembling and organizing book collections and to articulate their interest in reading and collecting books.
For details about the national competition, its rules and contestants, please see http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/contest/index.html.  For more information about Cornell’s book collection content, visit http://www.library.cornell.edu/bookcontest/.

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Find Articles upgraded!

On August 17th, 2006 the Library’s Find Articles service was replaced with a new, more robust system. This new system will provide faster results and will include many more resources from a variety of disciplines. If you have any feedbac