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Librarians aid startups
Finding accurate data to size a potential market, determine emerging trends, and understand the competitive landscape can be a daunting process for new entrepreneurs. During …
Paniccioli’s vast hip-hop photo archive launches online
Missy Elliott and Li’l Kim dressed up as anime characters, resting between takes on the set of the “Sock It 2 Me” music video. Biz …
Library’s linked-data project gets new grant
A $2.5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is boosting a multi-institution initiative to develop tools and workflows that improve the sharing of …
Library gears up for curbside pickup, other services
Cornell University Library is rolling out services to give scholars and researchers access to physical collections over the summer, while continuing to guard against the …
Aviation company’s archive donated to Cornell library
The archive of Shannon Engineering Inc., an aviation company that specialized in “hush kits” to muffle the roar of Boeing 707s during takeoff, has landed …
Library webinar series ends with COVID-19 response panel
A four-part webinar series devoted to academic libraries’ role in a sustainable future concluded with a discussion of how three libraries in China have responded …
Cornell library gains permanent access to genocide archive
Witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust and other acts of genocide are dwindling in numbers, but their faces and voices will live on through Cornell …
Cornell library sends laptops to students
In the week before the start of online classes, doctoral student Amanda Domingues drove from Ithaca to shelter in place with her partner in St. …
Library boosts digital resources for teaching, learning
As Cornell University Library’s physical spaces remain temporarily closed to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, librarians are opening digital doors for Cornell’s community of scholars. …
New RMC exhibit celebrates black women in media
Curator Ben Ortiz dug deep into the Cornell Hip Hop Collection and culled more than 400 vibrant images to honor black women in media with …
Library expands remote services for Cornell community
Amid the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Cornell University Library staff are working to support students, researchers, faculty and the campus community. Library users …
Book retrieval effort gives grad student welcome relief
You’ve been working on your dissertation for what seems like forever, doing research abroad when you’re not teaching or holed up in the library, and …
Library books virtually fly off the shelves
Out of the millions of titles freely available through online repository HathiTrust, five books digitized and uploaded by Cornell University Library made it to the …
Spending time in nature reduces stress, research finds
New research from an interdisciplinary Cornell team has found that as little as 10 minutes in a natural setting can help college students feel happier …
Moog festival to feature talks, music, exhibition
The strange oscillations that first emanated from the small synthesizer factory of Robert Moog PhD ’65, more than a half-century ago in the quiet village …
Wikipedia project promotes women artists
Cornell’s fifth Wikipedia Art + Feminism Edit-a-thon is March 6 from 10 a.m. to 5 pm. in 107 Olin Library, the Digital CoLab. All are …
Exhibit sheds light on railways’ discriminatory history
The American rail system has connected people and places across the nation, but its early history is marked by division and violence. A new exhibit …
Exhibit explores history, diversity of manga
At Kroch Library’s Asia Collections, visitors can step into the comic-book universe of the manga genre through the new exhibit Story/Lines: Visual Narratives in Japanese …
Conan O’Brien correspondence with E.B. White surfaces
When two Cornell University Library staffers heard comedian Conan O’Brien talk in his podcast about a letter he sent to famed author E.B. White nearly …
Atlantic Philanthropies archives open with first batch of files
A treasure trove for scholars of philanthropy and social change is now available at Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC) as …