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Catherwood Library's Kheel Center shares its collection of materials documenting the tragedy of the March 25, 1911, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City that killed 146 garment workers on the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors of the building.

In recognition of the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, the Carl A Kroch Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections will display Cornell University's original copy of the Gettysburg Address -- one of five known copies in Lincoln's own handwriting.  The public is invited to this special viewing of the Gettysburg Address as well as the entire exhibition "Abraham Lincol

See http://www.library.cornell.edu/hours for library hours over the break.

How can cultural heritage institutions legally use the Internet to improve public access to the rich collections they hold?

"Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums,” a new book by published today by Cornell University Library, can help professionals at these institutions answer that question.

Cornell University Library is pleased to announce a $12.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish and support the national networking of biomedical researchers. The two-year grant is led by the University of Florida, with Cornell University and Indiana University as major partners.

In honor of Abraham Lincoln’s 200^th birthday, Cornell University Library will display a rare trio of documents that framed Lincoln’s presidency and etched an indelible chapter into American history.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $385,000 to the libraries at Columbia University in New York City and Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., to support the development of an innovative partnership dubbed “2CUL.” This new relationship has the potential to become the most expansive collaboration to date between major research libraries.

Who said nothing good is free? Every library on campus now offers high-quality scanning at no charge.

Cornell University Library and the Office of the Provost are contributing $25,000 each for a pilot program to pay publication fees in open-access journals for Cornell faculty, researchers, staff and students.