Library 24/7: Tucked behind the main reference desk in Olin Library is a little room where librarians go to get a healthy dose of adrenaline. Referred to as the “reference command center” by those in the know, this room is the hub of the library’s remote reference activity.

Accessibility for patrons with disabilities

General Questions

Library-to-Library Delivery

Teaching & Learning

Tips for researchers: For anyone who’s ever wished a librarian could personally show her around Olin’s stacks or sit down and point out which resources are legit, Research Minutes are the answer.

Spring 2009 Workshops Learn from free classes on technical & research skills; manage research & writing.

Cornell University plans humanities publishing conference.
Cornell University will host a forum on academic publishing in the humanities on Nov. 7 and 8, 2008. All events will be held at the A.D. White House on Cornell’s campus in Ithaca, N.Y., and are free and open to the public.

Cornell University Hosts Hip Hop Conference and Celebration Celebrating Hip Hop History October 31 to November 1, 2008. Afrika Bambaataa and other pioneers of hip hop will travel to Ithaca, N.Y., to speak at a two-day conference celebrating Cornell University Library’s acquisition of “Born in the Bronx: The Legacy and Evolution of Hip Hop”...

Exhibitions in Olin & Uris

Celebrate Banned Books Week at Olin Library!
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” “The Golden Compass.” “And Tango Makes Three.” “The Chocolate War.” Without librarians, those titles – some of the most-challenged books of 2007 by would-be censors – might have been taken off shelves forever.

The [Richard] Wright Stuff
The 100th anniversary of Richard Wright’s birth – Sept. 4, 1908 – kicks off festivities of different kinds all over the country, but Cornellians can stay close to home and still celebrate the seminal African-American author.

New Collections

Get research ready with library workshops
Think Google is the only research tool you need? Think again. Whether you’re an undergrad writing your first college paper, a Ph.D. student in the last throes of your dissertation or a faculty member working on your next publication, library workshops can help.

Podcasts

University Librarian Anne Kenney prepares for a major overhaul of Olin Library
Like the sprawling institution it serves, Cornell University Library is reinventing itself to meet the changing needs of its patrons. In the six months since Anne Kenney became the 11th Carl A. Kroch Librarian, she has introduced a new administrative structure and identified new strategic goals

Gettysburg Address on display.
New Cornell students learn about Lincoln at Gettysburg by seeing one of Lincoln's manuscript copies of the Address. Video and story by News 10 Now.

Welcome new students & faculty!
Olin & Uris Libraries offer a full roster of orientation tours and workshops.

Olin & Uris Librarians blog about Gettysburg as part of the 2008 New Student Reading Project: Garry Wills’s. Lincoln at Gettysburg.

CUL Labs offers new web tools that make research easier.
Try them out and tell us what you think. CUL Labs: Become part of the experiment!

Whose right is it, anyway? Cornell University librarian works to revise copyright laws
To hammer out what libraries can do in support of research and teaching, Peter Hirtle, Cornell Library’s intellectual property officer, worked for three years on the Section 108 Study Group...

Keeping the Commitment to the Book
Endowment provides for additions to Humanities collection.

Olin Library Room 601 closes for renovation
As part of the planning for Olin Library renovation, Room 601, the American and European History and History of Science reading room, is now unavailable so that the façade investigation of Olin may continue outside Olin.