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ShortsGrant Funding for Catherwood Library The 21st Century ILGWU Heritage Fund has awarded the Kheel Center a grant of $21,000 to aid in the preservation of audiotapes and videos produced by, or relating to, the history of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. The ILGWU, founded in 1900 to represent employees in the garment industry, merged with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) in 1995 to form UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees). In 2004, UNITE merged with HERE (Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union) to form UNITE HERE, an organization of over 450,000 members. The Kheel Center is the official repository of records for UNITE HERE as well as its predecessor unions, including the ILGWU. Catherwood also recently received a $25,000 New York State legislative grant, sponsored by Senator Michael Nozzolio, for the acquisition of materials for its print and electronic collections. Redesigned Catherwood Library Web Site The new Catherwood Library Web site, using the CommonSpot content management system, was released on August 11. Under Mary Newhart’s leadership, the Catherwood Web team, with support from ILR Web Studios, was hard at work throughout the spring and summer months revising content, analyzing layout considerations, performing user tests, and selecting photos for the site drawn from Catherwood’s collection of over 360,000 images documenting the labor movement. The site employs a clean and streamlined approach to organization and navigation. In addition to information about the library, its services, and its collections, researchers will find over 900 listings for databases, Web sites, and other materials in the newly redesigned Web subject guides. Trial by Fire In his article “Trial by Fire,” in the August issue of Smithsonian Magazine, David von Drehle, also the author of Triangle: The Fire that Changed America (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003) credits Richard Strassberg, the director of the Kheel Center, with arranging for the digitization of the sole remaining copy of the transcript of the famous trial originating out of the Triangle Fire of 1911, in which 146 workers died. That fire was a pivotal event in promoting the passage of protective labor legislation in this country that was designed to guarantee the health and safety of employees. The actual digitization of the transcript was done by DCAPS. The file is now accessible on the Web. A complete transcript was long thought to have been lost until von Drehle uncovered a lead to an incomplete set held by the New York County Lawyers’ Association in the city. Until this most recent discovery, the Kheel Center had been the only source of a partial transcript of the trial. Now the center is able to provide a very extensive, if not exhaustive, set of transcripts of the trial. Barton Hall Campus Services Event Gives Freshman a Glimpse of the Library
On a hot and humid day in August, librarians braved the heat in Barton Hall to introduce incoming freshman and their parents to the wonders of Cornell University Library. Referred to as an “information extravaganza,” the Barton Hall Campus Services Event was flooded with parents and freshmen seeking to learn more about the various clubs, organizations, and services offered at Cornell. Booths were arranged in circle on the indoor track surface, with the Library’s information booth positioned at about one o’clock. It offered freshmen a glimpse of the Library resources and services available to them as new members of the Cornell community. “The Barton Hall orientation event is the Library's all-important first The Library’s participation at the Barton Hall event is an initiative of the Public Services Executive Committee’s Sub-Committee on Research and Outreach. Other orientation sessions were also held for graduate students and residential assistants. They were organized by Virginia Cole, a reference and digital services librarian in Olin, and Jim Morris-Knower, the publicity and public relations coordinator at Mann. Ten librarians and staff members worked the Library’s booth at the Barton Hall event, which occurred on August 18th. They included Jill Powell, Engineering Library; Ida Martinez and Nancy Skipper, Olin reference; Howard Raskin, Laura Larrimore, Kathy Chiang, and Medha Devare, Mann Library; Susanne Whitaker, Veterinary Library; David Ruddy, D-LIT; and Susette Newberry, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. In addition, Keene Silfer and David Kuo, of Desktop Services, arranged for the use of a computer, monitor, and printer. Annex Move Statistics for July 2006
Annex Move Statistics for August 2006
If you are interested in the moving progress since November 2005, check out the project Web site. |
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