Kudos

This month's Kudos go to David Banush, Marty Kurth, Jean Pajerek, Tony Cosgrave, Phil Davis, Tom Hickerson, Peter Hirtle, Ashley Miller, Marcy Rosenkrantz, and Pat Viele.
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Shorts

What's happening around CUL.
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Welcome back!

We hope you had a great summer, and look forward to featuring your news this academic year!
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Feature Articles

Fostering Open Access at CUL by the Use of Open Access Repositories (OARs)

Ross Atkinson and Marcy Rosenkrantz

Libraries in general, and CUL in particular, have always been committed to providing free, open, and unimpeded access to information. But as the cost of peer-reviewed scholarly literature, especially in the sciences, continues to increase, we find ourselves forced to make difficult decisions about how to allocate our limited resources. How do we strive to meet this commitment in the face of declining budgets and increasing costs?
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Digital Solutions—A New Joint CUL/CIT Initiative

Since the introduction of Digital Consulting and Production Services (DCAPS) in 2003, a small CUL/CIT group called Digital Synergies Planning Group has been discussing how to harmonize digital content development services between the two organizations. The group has focused on addressing the need for a common “front door” for requests from the Cornell community for such services.
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Mann Library Launches LanTEEAL,

Improving Access to Scientific Literature in Developing Countries

Zimbabwe’s Africa University was the venue for the recent launch of LanTEEAL. The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL) is a system developed by Mann Library to make more than a hundred important agricultural journals available on CDs to low-income countries. Now Mann has condensed ten years (1993-2003) of journal literature—that’s 1.8 million pages, valued at about $1 million in subscription fees—onto one external drive that can be uploaded to a server and used by researchers and students directly from their computers over a local area network (called LanTEEAL).
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From the University Librarian

In preparation for a meeting to be held by the Mellon Foundation, Sarah Thomas recently held a brown-bag lunch to discuss with staff some of the questions that might arise in considering the future relationship between university libraries and schools of library and information science (LIS).
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