tel.: (607) 255-2277
fax: (607) 255-9641
e-mail: ilrlib@cornell.edu, ilrcirc@cornell.edu
www: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/

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Campus map showing the ILR Library location.

The library of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) is housed in two adjoining structures with state-of-the-art environmental and telecommunications infrastructure. The new addition to Catherwood opened in 1998 and complete renovation of the old library was finished in Fall 02.

It's resources support the instructional, research, and extension programs of ILR, concentrating in the areas of collective bargaining, economic and social statistics, labor and employment law, labor economics, labor history, labor unions, human resources, income security, international and comparative labor relations, negotiation and conflict resolution, and organizational behavior.

The library’s Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives is a major repository for labor union archives, union constitutions, collective bargaining agreements, rare pamphlets, oral histories, and other primary materials for research in industrial and labor relations. The center maintains collections of photographs, recordings, and films relevant to labor history and acquires microfilm copies of primary source materials, the originals of which are located in other repositories.