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Home Back Issues Kaleidoscope Search InsideCUL	Print this page Kudos This month's Kudos go to Tony Cosgrave, Peter Hirtle, Anne Kenney, Jill Powell, Linda Bryan, Marybeth Michelson-Thiery, Zsuzsa Koltay, Mary Patterson, Ira Revels, Vergie Savage-Branch, and Adam Smith Full article > Events "I Would Found an Institution": The Ezra Cornell Bicentennial Exhibition opened on March 8. More events > Shorts What's happening around CUL. Full article > March 2007 Feature Articles Interim University Librarian's Update Anne Kenney I'm a month into the job as Interim University Librarian and am happy to report that so far so good. I'm not so self-delusional as to believe there won’t be any tough issues facing us in the coming months or that I have much to do with the fact that the library is humming along. The credit goes to you, the staff of this incredible institution. Full article > 1^st Seminar on Juridicial Information Management in Digital Environments Claire Germain Claire M. Germain, the Edward Cornell Law Librarian and professor of law at the Law School, traveled to Brasilia at the invitation of Chief Justice Ellen Gracie Northfleet to give the keynote address at the 1st Seminar on Juridical Information Management in Digital Environments, Brasilia, Brazil, on Monday, February 12, 2007. Some 560 participants attended, mostly law librarians, but also technologists and government officials and staff. All the presentations were simultaneously translated into Portuguese and English and streamed on the Internet. Full article > Getting Up to Speed with Cyberinfrastructure Gail Steinhart In the past few months, I've had the good fortune to get started in my new position as the Research Data and Environmental Sciences Librarian by attending two events that have taught me a great deal about cyberinfrastructure (CI) and science informatics. The first was the Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for Geoscientists (CSIG), held in August at the San Diego Super Computer Center. The second was the 5th International Conference on Ecological Informatics, held in early December in Santa Barbara. Full article > 100 Years as a Federal Depository Library Anna Korhonen CUL has over 285,000 federal documents in its online catalog, and most of them have been received from the GPO free of charge as depository materials. Today, this collection is priceless. Full article > Suggestion Box Your ideas, questions, concerns, and comments are welcome. Including your name is optional, but encouraged. Name (optional) E-mail (optional)