	Fall 2007

	Get Your Study On! (Sarah Olesiuk for the Cornell Daily Sun) As we enter into study week and finals frenzy begins, many Cornellians will spend their last days of this fall semester camped out in the library...

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

	10th anniversary of the great Cornell pumpkin prank, and we still don’t know whodunit October 2007 marks the 10th anniversary of one of the grandest pranks ever perpetrated on the Cornell campus: Somehow, some way, in the dark hours of Oct. 7 or 8 of 1997, someone managed to place a hollowed out pumpkin atop Uris Library’s McGraw Tower spire...

	Quad Blogger : Greece Trip Travel-weary, bleary-eyed and a little delirious, Quad Blogger and a group of nine Cornell/Ithaca travelers (including one Olin librarian) began an eight-day, jam-packed adventure in the stomping grounds of Sophocles, Pericles and Aristophanes, to name a few...

	. Library exhibition, events examine Buddhism in pan-Asian context The world of Buddhism is being celebrated at Cornell University Library in honor of the Dalai Lama's Oct. 9-10 visit to Ithaca. “Bridging Worlds: Buddhist Words and Works,” an exhibition and lecture series sponsored by the Cornell Library, is an exploration of the different schools of Buddhism across Asia.

	..After 32 years, the library card catalog is retired The Olin Library card catalog is officially history. No longer will researchers need to browse through some 3,000 catalog drawers holding 1.9 million 3x5 index cards to find the library's earlier holdings...

	For Banned Books Week, Cornell Library has a banned book dispute right on its shelves As part of its observance of Banned Books Week, Olin Library is mounting a display of famous once-banned books, including those by Cornellians Kurt Vonnegut, Toni Morrison, Vladimir Nabokov and E.B. White. The library has also joined the Freedom to Read Foundation, which participates in intellectual freedom litigation.

	Cornell European institute sending group to Ithaca’s twin city on Greek island of Cephalonia Ithaca’s official sister city, Elios Proni, Greece, hosted 10 travelers from Ithaca....Trip participant Sarah How, a Cornell librarian, was drawn to the opportunity to visit Greece in part from her work in collection development for the library...

	The Ezra Files : One for the books The University Library, now known as Uris Library, opened in 1891 -- a full 23 years after classes began -- as Cornell's first dedicated library...

	‘The Pickup’ map exhibition in Olin Library takes viewers on a mind’s-eye journey For the past four years, the Map and Geospatial Information Collection at Cornell’s Olin Library has prepared a display of maps in support of the Cornell New Student Reading Project....Gordimer leaves us with a difficult challenge: What maps can we display to enhance our understanding of the novel without adding more specificity than the author intended?..

	Olin & Uris librarians participate in the New Student Reading Project A week after the Cornell edition of the novel was mailed to students, two Cornell University librarians, Lance Heidig and Wendy Wilcox, launched a far-reaching, moderated blog that gathers resources on issues raised in “The Pickup,” including immigration, belief systems and politics...

	Orientation tours of Olin, Kroch & Uris Libraries : now available as podcasts 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..

	Half-million volumes in Cornell Library collection to be digitized and available through Google Book Search Cornell University Library is partnering with Google Inc. to digitize materials from the library's collections and make them available online through Google Book Search...

	History of Uris Library : web exhibition & vodcast tour Uris Library, Cornell’s first dedicated library building, opened in 1891. Designed by Cornell’s first architecture student, William Henry Miller, the building is considered his masterpiece. On campus and around the world, Uris library and its attached bell tower are symbols of Cornell University...

	How the library decides what to buy Who decides what to buy? Librarians, of course, consulting with faculty and students...
	Summer 2007
	Olin Library map exhibition celebrates Cornell’s centennial as a federal depository
	Libecast debuts
	Song of the Vowels returns
	How the library processes new books
	Spring 2007
	Book collection contest
	Latest plans for Olin Library renovations Olin redesigns interior New & Noteworthy Books







	Current News

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