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ShortsAnnex Moving ProjectThis is the first monthly progress report for the move, which began on November 14. It is quite remarkable that over 31,000 volumes were moved in eleven working days. There will be regular updates to the Annex Web site.
CALS Research PortalLast October Mann Library officially released the CALS Research Portal, a collaborative project between Mann Library and the CALS senior associate dean and experiment station directors, which brings together the varied research activities of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, as well as the people, facilities, and events that nurture this vibrant research environment. The technology behind the portal grew out of the work done on VIVO, Cornell’s virtual life sciences library. Like VIVO, the CALS portal leverages the subject expertise of librarians at Mann Library and information management tools to provide a single point of entry online to a wide range of information about research being conducted at Cornell. For more information, contact Kornelia Tancheva, the project coordinator, at kt18. Changing Assignments at Management and Hotel LibrariesDon Schnedeker At Lynn Brown’s departure from the Management Library in August, Angela Horne assumed added responsibility for business information instruction and is now the associate department head in Management. In addition, she will continue to oversee the reference and access services functions. Angela will also supervise Susan Kendrick, the new public services librarian, who joined us at the end of October. In the Nestlé Library, the circulation/reserve supervisor, Linda Beins, accepted a position as head of Reference and InterLibrary Services for the Finger Lakes Library System. On Linda’s departure, Thad Dickinson will oversee Reference and Access Services at Hotel. His new title is head of Reference and Access Services. Mihoko Hosoi will take responsibility for instruction at Hotel. She will continue to oversee the Hostline fee-based service and Hotel’s Reference FAQ project. Her new title is head of Instruction and Research Services. The changes give these individuals the opportunity to develop new skills and expertise in new areas. I appreciate their flexibility and willingness to take on these assignments. Cornell and University of Washington Receive NSF Grant for National Science Digital Library Metadata RegistryCUL and the University of Washington have received a $500,550 grant from the National Science Foundation for the development of a metadata registry. The collaborative project, entitled An NSDL Registry: Supporting Interoperable Metadata Distribution, supports the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). The NSDL is a program of the National Science Foundation, which is engaged in building library collections and services for all aspects of science education. As part of its mission, the NSDL gathers and updates metadata pertaining to resources in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, aiming for high-quality, large-quantity, and low-cost approaches. The registry will enable the creators of collections of resources for educators to identify specifically how their information is structured and to make that structure (or “metadata schema”) available to others. This approach will also be used for the controlled vocabularies used within these information structures, allowing users to search for information more precisely. Co-PIs for the project are Diane Hillmann for CUL and Stuart Sutton, an associate professor in the Information School at the University of Washington. Other staff on the project includes Jonathan Phipps, formerly the technical lead in the Cornell NSDL group.
CUL Makes It to the House of CommonsThe debate on open access to research is back in the British House of Commons. Here is the context in which Cornell work was cited. Westminster Hall [Excerpt from 15 Dec 2005: Column 521WH ] Dr. Gibson: Under the current system, authors must pay for certain parts of a paper, for example, if it contains a plate or a colour picture. That can be very expensive and one often must get a charity or someone else to pay for it. Therefore, there is already a restriction on authors. It can be quite expensive to publish a paper. Mr. Vaizey: It certainly can be expensive to publish a paper. However, I do not want a system that transfers that expense wholesale. That is why we all agree that there should be diverse publishing systems and models. We should not rush headlong into a situation in which author pays is the mainstream norm. The new model will simply transfer costs because while universities and their libraries must currently pay for access to journals, in future they will have to pay for their authors to get published. That means that the cost will fall most heavily on leading universities, many of which are in the UK. Cornell University in New York has already stated that it would see its expenditure rise significantly under an “author pays” model. CUL Receives Second Grant to Support Its Eastern Wine and Grape ArchiveThe Library has received a $24,972 grant to continue work documenting the grape-growing and winemaking industries in New York State. The grant from the New York State Archive’s Documentary Heritage Program builds on the successful work done last year in the Finger Lakes region by archivists in the Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. This year’s project will focus on identifying and surveying materials of individuals, wineries, juice producers, and vineyards in the Lake Erie and Hudson River viticulture regions. CUL has used the grant to fund an archivist and appointed Kari Smith to the project.
A Great Western champagne advertising detail from a menu of the Antlers Country Club, Amsterdam, N.Y., in the Pleasant Valley Wine Company Records #6599, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.
This hand-colored lithograph of grapes is from a series of fruit images created by Joseph Prestele. Homestead, Iowa, Amana Society, [ca. 1880]. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. Fine Arts Library Bowling PartyThe Library hosted a party for its student assistants in October at the Helen Newman Hall Bowling Lanes. A good time was had by all. Special thanks go to Deb Muscato, the student supervisor, for organizing the event.
GET IT (SFX) Launched at Weill Cornell Medical LibraryLoretta Merlo On November 17 the Weill Cornell Medical Library formally introduced a new service for seamless and efficient access to information, GET IT, with a full-day event designed to publicize and encourage patrons to use it. GET IT is an SFX link server interface that allows patrons searching in MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CINAHL, Mantis, PubMed, Web of Science, Faculty of 1000, or the Library’s own catalog, Tri-Cat, to link from any citation to full text from the Library’s journal collection by pushing the GET IT button. If the Library does not have online access to the article, the GET IT button connects the patron to the Library’s catalog record for the physical journal, links to the Library’s TripSaver request form so the article can be ordered, and allows the user to download the reference into bibliographic management software. The eight-hour celebration, dubbed “GET IT and GO Day,” included demonstration tutorials in the Library conference room with raffle prizes, as well as informal demonstrations and individual searches conducted by Library staff from a workstation on the Library’s main floor and a continuously looped Power Point presentation. The SFX Launch Committee members, Diana Delgado, Loretta Merlo, and Kevin Pain, coordinated the day’s activities with the help of many Library staff. GET IT and GO Day was publicized on the Library’s Web site; in the Library’s monthly e-mail publication, LibNotes; and on the college’s e-mail broadcast system. Library staff members were encouraged to wear buttons that read: “Ask me how to GET IT @ my Library,” and teaser posters went up the week before the event. WMC Library director Carolyn Reid served cakes decorated with giant GET IT buttons, along with other refreshments, from noon until 2:00. Special bookmarks and paper-clip holders provided useful and informative “giveaways,” while balloons and table decorations rounded out the celebration.
Weill Cornell Medical Library 15th Annual Medical Complex Art ShowNovember 3, 2005‑January 5, 2006 Each year the show gets better and better, and this year was no exception! The Medical Library displayed ninety-eight pieces of art created by more than fifty artists from the Medical College community. The show invited works from all Four Corners organizations around the Weill Cornell Medical Center, including the Medical College, the Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Rockefeller University, and the Hospital for Special Surgery. This year, as in all the other years, the most art came from the Weill Cornell community. There were paintings in oil, acrylic, and watercolor; drawings in pastel, pencil, and pen and ink; fabric art and ceramics; and black-and-white and color photographs. The Medical Library was well represented again this year. Loretta Merlo, from Circulation, exhibited a children’s book that she wrote and illustrated. Helen-Ann Brown, from Information Services, and Diana Delgado, from Access and Information Services, had photographs in the show. Two watercolors by Yingjie Li, from Circulation, were on display. Jimmy Wright, also from Circulation, was awarded First Runner-Up for his paper-pulp piece, entitled Red Hedge. See the Library’s Web site for a list of exhibitors and the prizewinners.
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