Shorts
Cornell’s University Librarians
Take a look at the Library’s newest Web exhibition, Cornell’s University Librarians, for brief bios of Cornell’s ten University Librarians, from Willard Fiske to Sarah Thomas. This site was created by Du Xu, Sarah Thomas’s student assistant. Elaine Engst and Margaret Nichols, in Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC), assisted with the content, and Ken Williams, also in RMC, provided technical assistance and added the exhibition to the RMC server. You can access this new site from the RMC Web site or from the Library Gateway (click on “About the Library” and then “Exhibit: Cornell’s University Librarians”).
From Willard Fiske to Sarah Thomas: 138 years and counting.
Medical Center Archives: New Web Site
Medical Center Archives, a division of Weill Cornell Medical Library, has announced the launch of a new Web site. Designed by the Office of Academic Computing at Weill Cornell, the site contains historical information regarding the medical college and its affiliation with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (formerly the New York Hospital).
A popular feature of the Web site is an image gallery that displays photographs from the collection of more 10,000 images at Medical Center Archives. The site also lists the various institutional archives, personal papers and manuscripts, and patient medical records that collectively constitute Medical Center Archives.
The Archives was established in 1972 with major funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation. It is currently staffed by two full-time faculty members: Jim Gehrlich, the head of Archives, and Elizabeth Shepard, the assistant archivist and photo archivist.
A New, Improved Interface for the Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository (CUGIR)
CUGIR provides geospatial data and metadata for New York State with special emphasis on those natural features relevant to agriculture, ecology, natural resources, and human-environment interactions. CUGIR contains over 7,500 spatial datasets and has supported nearly 400,000 downloads since 2001. Now, we’re pleased to unveil a new interface with several useful new features for users! Some of the improvements to CUGIR include
- a new look and feel for the interface
- simplified navigation
- new image maps with zoom capability for graphically selecting data
- announcements of new and updated data on the CUGIR home page, also available as an RSS feed
- summary information for each dataset, to help users quickly assess whether a dataset meets their needs
- more-comprehensive cross-referencing between mapsheets
- a data “basket” and the option to select multiple datasets for a single download
