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A new member has joined the Library Communications team, Chris Philipp.  Chris, a writer and editor, is already making her debut in this issue of Inside CUL with her feature article on the New Student Reading Project.

CUL to Benefit from a Federal Grant to the Institute for European Studies
The Institute for European Studies (IES) at Cornell will receive funding under the Title VI National Resource Centers Program of the U.S. Department of Education via a prestigious grant awarded to a select number of European studies programs at top U.S. universities.  The award recognizes IES’s position as one of the country’s premier centers for teaching and research on Europe.  In consortium with our partner, the Center for European Studies at Syracuse University, IES will maintain its status as a designated National Resource Center (NRC) through 2010.  

Is European studies a type of “area studies?”  At Cornell, collecting Western European publications has always been part of mainstream collection development.  Fortunately we can have it both ways, because Cornell has once more been awarded the highly competitive Title VI National Resource Center for European Studies grant.  Cornell has held this award almost continually since 1987 and jointly with Syracuse University since 2003.  Initially the resource center area was Western Europe; now the area encompasses the whole of Europe.

The grant is administered by the Institute for European Studies within the Einaudi Center.  Among the criteria for the grant are strong library collections and services, and the Library has always received full points for its section of the application.  This is a strong tribute to the historical strength of the Library’s European studies collections and to the Library’s success in maintaining it as Europe expands.

Having this additional source of support is particularly important because of the impact of European unification on publishing—there is consequently an increased availability of publications and an increase in prices for materials from new eastern European Union states, as well as increased publishing on unification, migration and citizenship, identity, new social movements, religion, and other transnational topics.  Sarah How and Wanda Wawro are the selectors who have responsibility for the grant’s acquisitions funds.

Why does this grant matter for the Library?  Over the years, it has provided over $300,000 for acquisitions, student staff support, and travel for collection development.  With this support, student staff have searched publication announcements and gifts and augmented Web sites, and librarians have traveled to book fairs and library seminars in Frankfurt, Leipzig, and Paris and met with vendors in France, Germany, and Italy.

ITSO Grows
OCLC and Cornell are developing ITSO CUL (the Integrated Tool for Selection and Ordering at Cornell University Library) as a new product called WorldCat Selection.  In effect, the OCLC-Cornell partnership extends the benefits of ITSO CUL to all OCLC member libraries.  The new WorldCat Selection service will be available from OCLC in the second half of 2006.  Hearty congratulations and thanks go to Scott Wicks, Adam Chandler, and Peter Hoyt for this wonderful innovation for libraries.

Annex Move Statistics for May 2006

Library

Number of Vols. Moved

Asia

 21,245

Olin

 27,112

Fine Arts

      288

From Olin to RMC (medium rare) through LTS

   3,706

 

 

Total

 52,351

 

 

Grand total

343,696

 

Annex Move Statistics for June 2006

Library

Number of Vols. Moved

Asia

 34,382

Olin

   9,818

Fine Arts

   1,969

From Olin to RMC (medium rare) through LTS

   3,412

 

 

Total

 49,581

 

 

Grand total

393,277

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