Olin, Kroch & Uris Library Orientation Tours

The Olin, Kroch & Uris Library Orientation Tours are designed to introduce new members of the Cornell community to the three libraries along the south side of Cornell’s Arts Quad at the heart of central campus. Together, those three libraries contain 3.5 million volumes—almost half of the Cornell University Library’s physical collections, and some of its most unusual and valuable books and manuscripts. These tours provide an introduction to the collections and guide you through the buildings so that you can make the most of the libraries and their services.

You have several options for taking the audio walking tours:

• Listen to the tours by following the links below to download audio files.
• Check out a pre-loaded MP3 player at the Olin or Uris Circulation Desks.
  • Download instructions for using the library’s MP3 players [pdf document, 948k]
• Follow the directions given below under Subscription Options to download any or all of the podcasts to your own computer, then transfer the tracks to an MP3 player if you own one.

You may also enjoy listening to the Uris Library Historical Tour to learn more about the history of Cornell’s oldest library.

Listen to the Olin Tour	Listen to the Uris Tour	Listen to the Kroch Library Introduction Listen to the Asia Collections Tour Listen to the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Tour
John M. Olin Library 2 million volumes of material on the humanities & social sciences Maps & geospatial information collection Media collection Interlibrary loan Copy center Borrowing & reserves Reference & instruction Libe Café	Uris Library 175,000 volumes on humanities & social sciences subjects Computer labs (CL)3 Borrowing & reserves Reference & instruction Tower Café	Asia Collections 1.3 million volumes on Southeast Asia, East Asia, and South Asia Severinghaus Reading Room Hwan Cho and Soonja Cho Seminar Room for Asian Thought, Culture and Religion Echols Collection of Southeast Asia South Asia Collection Wason Collection on East Asia Over 100 Asian newspapers Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections 400,000 rare books and 75 million manuscripts Samuel L. Hirshland Exhibition Gallery Elizabeth Read Rare Book & Manuscript Reading Room

Subscription Options To subscribe to the Olin, Kroch & Uris Walking Tours Podcast, paste this link into your RSS reader: http://feeds.feedburner.com/OKUTours In the iTunes store, search for Cornell University Library. It’s free. Next, select any or all of the Tours. Within iTunes, you can also click on the Podcasts link in the left hand column. Then from the Advanced menu at the top of the window, select Subscribe to Podcast. In the pop-up window, enter this address: http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/OKUWalkingTour.xml In Juice, choose the Subscriptions tab at the top.  Click on the Add New Feed icon and copy and paste the following address into the url location bar: http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/OKUWalkingTour.xml. Save and click on Check/Download Selected Feed icon to download the podcast.