September 2005
The autumn semester is upon us and the Library is full of students,
faculty, and news!
Please be sure to share your news and events with your colleagues via
InsideCUL—October
1st is the deadline for the next issue—till then, enjoy these last
summer days . . .
Feature Articles
The Future of Public Services: Challenges and Opportunities
Anne R. Kenney
Over the past year, Sarah Thomas has been making the rounds
of unit libraries and departments to meet with staff, get a better sense
of daily operations, and discuss issues and concerns. When it came time
for her to visit
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Finding “Problem” Serial Titles in the Public Catalog
Jim LeBlanc and Ida Martinez
Until recently, it has often been challenging for patrons to find the “right” record
in the OPAC for commonly requested serials such as the New York Times, Nature,
or Time. The results from a title search for these serials are
simply too voluminous, and the Voyager sorting protocols are not readily
apparent.
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(CL)³: One Down and One to Go
Tony Cosgrave
The Cornell Library Collaborative Learning Computer
Laboratory, (CL)³,
in Uris Library marked its first anniversary in August. With approximately
10,000 users taking advantage of the lab during public hours, and seven
courses using the lab for all or some of their classes, we can certainly
claim that it is popular. So we have one year down and one year to go.
The use of the facility as a collaborative learning computer laboratory
for regular class sessions is a two-year experiment.
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From the University Librarian
"NEVER"
Sarah Thomas
A few weeks ago, President Rawlings invited me to meet with him to catch up on
what was happening in the Library. Before I started my update, though, I asked
him to tell me about his recent library experience at the University of Virginia,
where he and his wife, Elizabeth, had spent spring semester. President Rawlings
began by noting that Virginia had not placed as much emphasis on research until
the 1950s and thus did not have the same depth of collections as did Cornell.
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