Kudos

This month's Kudos go to Mark E. Funk.
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Events

PSEC's next Public Services Forum will be in debate format focusing on the topic of the next-generation gateway.
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Shorts

What's happening around CUL.
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Feature Articles

Last Books Evicted from UT Undergrad Library

Or, "We Don't Need No Stinkin' Books"

Sarah Thomas

San Antonio is an appealing location for the ALA Midwinter meeting.  The weather, compared to Ithaca’s usually cold January, is mild, and pedestrian pathways wind along a riverwalk with greenery and twittering birds overhead.  I packed in several valuable sessions on Saturday and Sunday, making the trip well worthwhile.
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The Map & Geospatial Information Collection

Bob Kibbee

“I love maps!”

All of us in the Map Collection hear this any time we tell someone where we work.  With their visual appeal and the peculiar way they engage our imaginations, maps are a universally popular information medium.
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Native American Collection Processing Moves Forward in LTS

David Banush

The Cornell Native American Collection (NAC), formerly held by the Huntington Free Library in the Bronx, was transferred to CUL’s custody in June 2004.  This rich collection comprises more than 40,000 volumes and over 200 cubic feet of archival materials dealing with the history, languages, and cultures of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.  Since its arrival in Ithaca that summer, Library Technical Services (LTS) staff have been chipping away at the processing of the print materials in the collection.  In September 2004 most of the items designated for the circulating collection were shipped to Mann Library, where technical services staff began the task of cataloging the unique items for CUL.
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Ensuring Relevancy: Key Challenges in Public Services, 2006-2010

Presentation to the Academic Assembly, February 2, 2006

Anne R. Kenney

As one of my library colleagues remarked, “I’d rather give a talk at ALA than speak to the Academic Assembly.”  So it was with some trepidation that I took the podium on Thursday, February 2, to address an unusually large turnout for Academic Assembly.  It was also somewhat intimidating to follow both Ross Atkinson, who presented six key challenges for collection development in the Janus Conference on Research Library Collections in October, and Tom Hickerson, who addressed the November Academic Assembly, speaking on “Sociotechnological Change: A Brief History of Technology in Libraries and the Future of Library Management Systems and Institutional Repositories.”  But I also welcomed the opportunity to think aloud about future directions for public services.
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