Kudos

This month's Kudos go to Kristine M. Alpi, Adam Chandler, Jim LeBlanc, Erla Heyns, Terry Kristensen, Michael Friedman, Peter Hirtle, Zsuzsa Koltay, Leah Solla, Michelle Paolillo, John Saylor, Donna Thomas, Cindy Lamb, Pat Viele, Mark Funk, Michael Wood, Carolyn Anne Reid, Kristine Alpi, Diana Delgado, helen ann brown, Rich McGowan, Pattie Mongelia, Susanne Whitaker, Pat Miller, and Xian Wu.
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Events

CUL picnic on the Arts Quad from 1 to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, August 3.
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Shorts

What's happening around CUL.
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Feature Articles

Putting Myself in the Place of the Learner

Janet McCue

Middle-aged librarians in middle-management positions don’t often have a chance to take classes. This year I was fortunate to “enroll” in two classes. The first was an International Agriculture and Rural Development course (IARD 402/602) at Cornell, called Agriculture in the Developing World, and the second was the Frye Leadership Institute, a two-week intensive residential program at Emory University.
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CUL Efforts Make 2006 New Student Reading Project ‘Wonderful’

Chris Philipp

It is a dress much like one Daisy Buchanan might have worn to one of Jay Gatsby’s lavish parties.

Delicately beaded and the color of spring moss, the flapper dress conjures up the image of Daisy lazily sipping a drink while listening to a discussion between her husband Tom and Gatsby at his Long Island mansion.
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Copyright Workshop at the College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM)

Terry Kristensen

Imagine Dr. Robert Gilmour’s surprise when he was told he would have to pay $400 to use a chart that was part of an article that he had written. The fee would go to the journal that now owns the rights to that article—rights it had gained at the time Gilmour signed a contract with the journal to publish it.
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LTS Leaders Recognized

Anna Korhonen

Two Library Technical Services (LTS) leaders from Cornell were honored on Sunday, June 25, during the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans at the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) annual award ceremony. Both Karen Calhoun and Martin Kurth were awarded a 2006 ALCTS Presidential Citation for their roles in implementing elements of the Library of Congress Action Plan that arose from the Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium: Confronting the Challenges of Networked Resources and the Web.
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Patience Has Its Rewards: A New Building for the College of Architecture, Art and Planning

Martha Walker

On Thursday, June 15, Cornell’s Buildings and Properties Committee of the Board of Trustees gave approval to the College of Architecture, Art and Planning to move on to the next phase of the design process—“schematics”—for the college’s new Milstein Hall. Readers of the Cornell Chronicle may remember a January 2006 article on the proposed Milstein Hall. The article addressed the college’s ambitious educational plans under the leadership of the new dean, Mohsen Mostafavi. It is the dean’s stated intent that Milstein Hall will help “…unify the college’s campus and allow for more interdepartmental collaborations and future growth.” The article also included information about the project’s architect (and Pritzker Prize winner), Rem Koolhaas, of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), and his inarguably stellar career.
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