News
A&S digitization grants program seeks applications
In research, documents and artifacts must be discoverable online to have the broadest impact. Continuing to recognize this need, the Grants Program for Digital Collections …
‘Cornell According to Sound’ offers sonic look at campus
Chris Hoff ’02 and Sam Harnett have spent the semester on campus just listening – listening to fish, frogs, Latin speakers, particle accelerators, organs and …
Showcase your art on Olin Library elevators! The 2020 theme is “Belonging.”
Cornell students, enter our contest for a chance to showcase your creativity on Olin Library’s first-floor elevator doors and to win a Cornell Store prize, …
Project partners researchers, librarians and AI to fight hunger
For smallholder farmers in the developing world, adopting crops hardy enough to adapt to the droughts, floods, heat waves and frosts of a changing climate …
Design ideas for Uris, Olin libraries to be presented Oct. 30
What does the future hold for Olin and Uris libraries? Consultants for Cornell University Library will present preliminary concepts for reimagining these two iconic buildings Oct. 30, …
Five projects awarded 2019 digitization grants
Cornell University Library’s Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences transforms fragile artifacts into lasting online collections for teaching and research. This year, …
New exhibit maps out emotional states
The United States in the shape of a hog, representing the nation’s love of pork. A mosquito turning continents red with malaria. Russia seen as …
Pilot course partners students with incarcerated learners
Cornell undergraduates are deepening their knowledge of Cornell University Library’s abundant scholarly resources by helping those with no access to them: incarcerated students at Cayuga …
Remembering physicist Sternglass, who helped the world see man on the moon
The ghostly, black-and-white image of Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, was a spectacle that has replayed all over the …
Wikipedia edit-a-thon Oct. 6 to honor women in STEM
Fewer than 18% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women, but that can be changed, according to Selena Bryant and Wendy Wilcox of Cornell University …
Cornell Day of Data shares challenges, tools, collaboration
More than 100 Cornell faculty and staff members, plus graduate and undergraduate students, put their heads together to explore methods and tools for collecting, protecting, …
Washington letter sheds light on Constitutional Convention
Constitution Day, Sept. 17, is a chance for all Americans to celebrate this nation’s founding document. And Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript …
New Mui Ho Fine Arts Library inspires by design
What sets the Mui Ho Fine Arts Library apart from other libraries is apparent in the sheer volume of the books it contains, visible all …
Historic collection gets fresh start
It’s a job that seems perfectly designed for her. “It doesn’t even feel like a choice,” says Marcie Farwell, the inaugural Gordon and Marjorie Osborne …
Art-science collaboration spotlights pollinator health
The declining population of insects – especially pollinators, such as honeybees and wasps – is a serious threat to ecosystems and agricultural production around the …
Exhibit features first Commencement, first graduates
At Cornell University’s first Commencement, on July 1, 1869, President Andrew Dickson White handed out diplomas in alphabetical order to eight students – and George …
Exhibit on labor movements features Kheel Center artifacts
With historical materials from Cornell University Library’s Kheel Center for Labor-Management and Archives, the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) opens the exhibit …
Fine Arts Library service to be interrupted May 20-Aug. 5
In preparation for the anticipated Aug. 5 opening of the Mui Ho Fine Arts Library, selected fine arts materials will not be available May 20–Aug. …
On its 25th year, Library’s Fuerst Award honors student workers
Cornell University Library honored its most dedicated student workers with the Fuerst Award at an April 16 ceremony attended by their cheering mentors and supervisors, …
JFK letter to professor donated to library
Widely considered a classic, Clinton Rossiter’s book, “The American Presidency,” has garnered praise from scholars of political science since its publication in 1956. But one …