Events

"Fashion and Fetishism," Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
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Shorts

What's happening around CUL.
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We hope you enjoy the international flavor of this issue—indeed, so much of what we do here at CUL is transnational and of importance to the world.

InsideCUL hopes to share the news of our dynamic library Please send contributions (professional kudos, events, stories, and department news) to Marty Crowe (mjc4), Library Communications, by May 1 for the next issue, which will include the new e-version of Kaleidoscope.

Feature Articles

In Ithaca It Was 20 Degrees, but on the Arabian Peninsula, the Thermometer Registered 94

Sarah E.Thomas

On Sunday, March 6, I began a four-day visit to the Weill Cornell Medical College and its library in Education City, located near Doha, Qatar. Sunday is a workday in this country situated on the west coast of the Arabian Gulf. Education City is a sweeping undertaking of the leadership of Qatar, the Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani and his wife, Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned, in which several western universities such as Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Georgetown, Texas A & M, and Virginia Commonwealth University have pioneered to establish educational facilities in business, medicine, design, diplomacy, and other subjects on the 2,500-acre campus.
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Medical Librarians Visit Doha, Qatar

Daniel E. Cleary

Diana Delgado and Helen-Ann Brown, information services librarians, and Octavio Morales, head of Library Computer Services, at the Weill Cornell Medical Library in New York City, traveled to Doha, Qatar, in February to consult with the librarians of the "Distributed eLibrary".
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Where in the World?

In addition to all you've been reading about Qatar, staff were in Jamaica, Thailand, and Vietnam last month as well.
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A Library Is Not a Box of Books.

If Google has millions of digitized books, it is not a library. It’s a resource and a tool. A library, your library, is an integrated suite of services optimized for you and your community, the Cornell community.

Sarah E.Thomas

Google. Everybody uses it. Most Internet users couldn’t live without it. A tech start-up that made good (Google’s market value is estimated at $50 billion), Google has repeatedly captured the world’s attention with new releases and announcements of breathtaking innovations.
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IRIS Reorganization

Anne R. Kenney

At the beginning of this month, IRIS launched a major reorganization. I had been mulling over some proposed changes for a while, but recent events coincided to bring about this reorganization quickly: Lenore Coral's death; Martha Hsu's announcement of her impending retirement; Susan Greaves' new job as maps/GIS librarian at Queens University, in Kingston, Ontario; Bob Kibbee's expressed interest in the maps librarian position; and David Block’s acceptance of the Huntington Free Library curatorship in RMC.
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The Library’s New Information Technology Executive Committee

H. Thomas Hickerson

The members of the CUL Information Technology Executive Committee (ITEC) met for the first time on March 4, and a summary of the proceedings of that meeting was recently distributed library-wide. The formation of this new group charged with improving the coordination, quality, and efficiency of technology services across the library and the university is one more outcome of Library and Related Information Services (LARIS) Workforce Planning.
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