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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 …
Digitization program calls for applications
Got an idea for a digital collection to spark scholarship at Cornell and beyond? Cornell University Library’s Grants Program for Digital Collections wants to hear from you. …
HIV/AIDS exhibit tells story of love and acceptance
Visiting Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections in 2017 to see materials related to the history of HIV and AIDS, Michael Mamp …
Press director elected president of international association
Jane Bunker, Cornell University Press director, has been elected to be the 73rd president of the Association of University Presses, an organization of more than …
Congratulations to our 2022 Elevator Art Contest Winners!
Our annual Elevator Art Contest gives Cornell undergraduate, graduate, or professional school students the chance to showcase their creative talents, win a Cornell Store prize, …
Library deal to stimulate open access
Research published on an open access basis helps to knock down steep paywalls and reach more readers in need—but, often, authors are expected to cover …
Talks mark exhibits, campus LGBTQ milestones
From April 27 to 28, the “Radical Desire” symposium brings pioneering lesbian feminist scholars, publishers, and photographers to speak at Cornell, in celebration of library …
Kheel Center’s Triangle Fire Site Honored
The Triangle Fire website at the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives has received the American Industrial Hygiene Association’s 2022 Health & Safety Virtual Exhibit of the …
Kheel Center Names Strassberg Grant Winners
The Kheel Center has announced that Mary Vidaver and Ian Gavigan have been selected as this year’s Richard Strassberg Travel Grant award winners. The grant …
Library exhibits complement ‘opera quarrel’
Drawing on Cornell University Library’s deep holdings in eighteen-century opera, an exhibit in conjunction with The Pleasures of the Quarrel performance is now open at …
Library exhibit links sea sculptures, human condition
A new exhibit in the Mann Library lobby will examine the forms and nature of marine invertebrates, reimagined in postmodern materials such as silicone, resin …
Elaine Westbrooks named Carl A. Kroch University Librarian
Elaine L. Westbrooks, vice provost and university librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named the next Carl A. Kroch …