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Library expands video streaming resources
With nearly 100,000 newly added videos that Cornell students, faculty, and staff can stream directly on their devices, Cornell University Library has recently expanded visual …
Display celebrates the 50th anniversary of hip-hop
Spinning records in the early 1970s, Clive Campbell – popularly known as DJ Kool Herc – noticed a pattern: Dancers would always wait for the …
Music student helps expand Ethiopian nun’s musical legacy
An enigmatic figure revered for her otherworldly music, Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru gained a global cult following with the release of her piano album in 2006. …
Historic caftan augments a diverse fashion collection
In late January, Professor Denise Green and her colleague Catherine Blumenkamp received an email with remarkable news. The auction house Christie’s would be selling off …
Exhibit celebrates union icon, power of collective
A new exhibit tells the story of a North Carolina cotton mill worker and her pivotal role in sparking a labor-management standoff that inspired a …
Cambridge UP: No charge for Cornell authors to publish Open Access
Faculty seeking to publish Open Access articles in Cambridge University Press’s 400+ journals can now do so without charge, thanks to an agreement between Cambridge …
Library celebrates 400th year of Shakespeare folio
A world without Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Tempest or Julius Caesar? Half of William Shakespeare’s dramatic works – including these four – would have been …
Art and community: Africana Library exhibits quilts
Cornell University Library has launched a new exhibit that celebrates the African American tradition of quilt making as expressions of artistry, history and community. The …
New library acquisitions advance academic distinction, diverse scholarship
Cornell University Library recently allocated an additional $1 million to boost its $18 million collections budget for 2023 to acquire more books, journals, and other …
In letter to White House, libraries push for open access
The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation (IPLC), comprised of thirteen libraries including Cornell University Library, sent an open letter to the White House Office of Science …
Your art, our elevators!
Going up? Artistic Cornell students, take your creativity to the next level by entering our elevator art contest! Cornell University Library is calling for submissions …
Library-lending partnership gets a reboot
Since its beginnings in 1999, the reciprocal-lending service among Ivy Plus libraries known as BorrowDirect has grown into an interlibrary collection that’s 90-million-volumes strong. On …
Fictional civilization leaves behind lasting legacy
Norman Daly spent years chronicling the lost Iron Age civilization of Llhuros – its relics, its rituals, its poetry, its music – as well as …
Library exhibit explores fraught history of textile industry
“Marguerite, a former slave,” is all that’s known of the striking image of a woman in a green dress in Cornell University Library’s Loewentheil Collection …
Library events highlight open access research
In celebration of the international Open Access Week, Cornell University Library is holding a series of panel discussions and talks, Oct. 24–28, to promote freely …
Student receives Kheel Center research award
Workers’ issues were always close to home for Yu An Chen’22, the latest recipient of the Kheel Center’s Undergraduate Research Award for outstanding scholarship using …
Book: Policymakers are failing ‘climate refugees’
Natural disasters may be impossible to prevent, but much of the devastation that occurs in their aftermath – specifically the forced displacement of people – …
Talk to describe conserving centuries-old Chinese encyclopedia
Famous for building the architectural marvel of Beijing’s Forbidden City in the early-15th century, the emperor Zhu Di (known by his imperial name of Yongle) …
Textile exhibit opens with workers’ songs
Librarians are known to be keepers of quiet. But, on Sept. 23 at 5:15 p.m., Caitlin Mathes and Bill Cowdery are hitting the piano keys …
Exhibit calls for textile art
Histories, cultures, and social forces are woven into the clothes we wear and the fabrics decorating our homes, explains Marcie Farwell, the Gordon and Marjorie …