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To further its mission, the Library solicits grants and contracts from governmental and private sources. Here are some grant funded projects that are not listed elsewhere.
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| Preservation and Access Framework for Digital Art Objects | An initiative funded by the national Endowment for the Humanities to develop a technical framework and associated tools to facilitate enduring access to interactive digital media art. The project’s focus will be on artworks stored on hard drive, CD-ROM, and DVD-ROM. CUL’s Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art will provide the test bed for the study. Recognized as one of the most prominent collection of its kind in the world, the Goldsen Archive contains thousands of artworks and encompasses a wide variety of formats. CUL will collaborate with AudioVisual Preservation Solutions, and the project will have an advisory board composed on international leaders in curation, arts, and preservation. The key principle of the project is to leverage existing standards, best practices, and technologies, and to focus on moving theory into practice in a working archival environment. For additional information, see http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Feb13/GoldsenNEH.html. Contacts: Principal investigators Tim Murray (Society for the Humanities & Cornell Dept. of English; tcm1@cornell.edu) and Oya Rieger (DSPS, Cornell University Library; oyr1@cornell.edu), and project manager Mickey Casad (DSPS; mir9@cornell.edu). |
| Conservation and Digitization of the Trials Pamphlet Collection at Cornell University Library. | A project to conserve and digitize the 321 pamphlets in the Trials Pamphlet collection at the Cornell University Law Library. The pamphlets range in date from the late 1600s to the late 1800s. As a collection, these trial pamphlets capture a formative period in American history from the early years of the republic, through the turmoil of the Civil War, to the emergence of the United States as a leading industrial nation in the late 1800s. Because cases were not officially reported on until the 1830s, the collection is one of the few ways to research trials from the 18th and early 19th centuries. The project will ensure in-person access to the original artifact at Cornell and provide arge worldwide access to the collection via the Internet. With funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Park Service through the Save America's Treasures program. For additional information contact Barbara Eden <beb1@cornell.edu>
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| Dissemination and Preservation of Digital Agricultural Economic Data on the Internet. | A cooperative agreement with the United States Department of Agriculture to improve and enhance current and long-term access to the electronic information and data resources of the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), the Economic Research service (ERS), the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) and the World Agricultural Outlook Board (WAOB). These resources are vital to data users in universities and other research institutions, state and local government agencies, libraries, and by others in the private and public sectors. Staff at Cornell's Mann Library will organize, preserve and provide network access to the agency files along with user support services, including reference and referral. For additional information contact Mary Ochs <mao4@cornell.edu>
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| Implement the VIVO Application to Enable Discovery of Researchers Across USDA. | A cooperative agreement with the United States Department of Agriculture to support the implementation of the VIVO software across the Department of Agriculture. This will not only link science and research across the Department but also pave the way for linking the Department's VIVO instance into the national VIVO network being developed to create a national VIVO network for agriculture. For additional information see <http://www.mannlib.cornell.edu/news/usda-mann-partnership-bears-new-fruit> Contact: Mary Ochs <mao4@cornell.edu> |
| A Preservation Internship Program for the Staff of Chinese Academic Libraries | A partnerships with the four leading academic libraries in Beijing, China — Renmin University Library, Peking University Library, Tsinghua University Library, and the China Agricultural University Library to strengthen the preservation infrastructure within Chinese academic libraries through a program of internships in preservation practice. Funding is provided by the Luce Foundation. For additional information contact Barbara Eden beb1@cornell.edu. |
| Educating the New Generation of E-Scientists through Developing a Data Information Literacy Curriculum | Cornell University Library is partnering with Purdue University (lead), the University of Oregon, and the University of Minnesota in a two-year project to develop a model for designing and implementing a data information literacy (DIL) instruction program for graduate students in STEM disciplines. Five project teams composed of a data librarian, a subject librarian, and a faculty researcher from a science or engineering discipline are working to develop a DIL program with defined learning goals, educational interventions and metrics for assessment. Direct collaboration with researchers ensures that the resulting instruction is relevant to their students. Outcomes from the project teams’ experiences will be used to draft a model for other academic librarians to develop data information literacy programs of their own. The Cornell team includes Cliff Kraft, Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Resources |
| Strengthening the Academic Library to Enhance Agriculture Education | With funding from USAID awarded to the Cornell University International Programs at the College of Agriculture of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Mann Library and the Banaras Hindu University Library (BHU) in Varanasi, India are partnering to help support libraries of state agricultural universities in India involved in the Agricultural Innovation Partnership (AIP) consortium. Mann and the BHU library will share expertise in managing digital information resources, an area of particular strength for Mann, in order to expand active cyber literacy skills widely in the research, extension and farming communities. Two Indian librarians will be at Cornell in July and August 2012 to be immersed in information literacy and public computing training, and a larger group of Indian librarians will come for similar training in summer 2013. |
| Ahead of the Curve: Mentoring for Emerging Careers in eScience Librarianship | Cornell University Library (CUL) is partnering with the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University (SU) to support its eScience Fellows Program through a mentorship program for enrolled students. The program provides students with opportunities for involvement with world-class science libraries and innovative eScience projects. The eScience Librarianship program, a specialized curriculum within SU’s MS in Library and Information Science program, is designed to prepare students for professional roles supporting scientific practice and communication in eScience environments. Curriculum components include scientific data management, data and collaboration technologies, data services, workflows, and metadata for scientific data sets. The overarching goals of the mentorship program are to provide students with the opportunity to gain exposure to the practice of science and eScience librarianship, and develop career skills and professional contacts. |
