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 Cornell Undergraduate Information Competency Initiative.Week-Long Institute Explores Ways to Transform Undergraduate Research Instruction. |
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 Shelf Life: Stacks of Memories. Alumni record thoughts and memories of the library for the library's oral history project. |
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| Spring 2008 | |||
 Cornell University Librarian Comments on Microsoft. Anne R. Kenney discusses Microsoft’s Book Search project. |
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 Cornell University Library and Duke University Press Announce Partnership. Cornell University Library and Duke University Press have established a joint venture to expand and enhance the services of Project Euclid, the premier online information community for mathematics and statistics resources from independent publishers. |
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 Carried Away: A large crane at the southeast corner of Olin Library recently removed a 2,200-pound limestone panel from the exterior of the sixth floor as part of Cornell’s investigation to determine how the library’s facade can be rebuilt. |
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 LibX makes research easierThe next time you’re conducting research on the Internet, instead of opening a new tab or window in your Web browser, use LibX to get extreme access to Cornell University Library. Available online at labs.library.cornell.edu |
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 Lincoln at Gettysburg selected for the 2008-09 New Student Reading Project Cornell’s next incoming class and much of the rest of the Cornell community will read Garry Wills’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, as part of the 2008-09 New Student Reading Project.... |
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 Cornell University Library and Cornell University Press announce a new series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought, a new publishing model for new book manuscripts, conference proceedings, reprints... . |
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 Cornell Librarian Receives John C. Tyson Award.Olin librarian has been awarded the prestigious John C. Tyson Award by the Black Caucus of the American Librarian Association (BCALA). Ira Revels, a project manager in the library’s Division of Public Services and Assessment, was recognized for her work with the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Library Alliance. |
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 Pivotal Moments, Unique Collections“Celebrating Black History,” an Olin Library exhibition, honors the history and contributions African Americans have made to American life by highlighting pivotal moments and people that are tied to the Library’s unique collections... |
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 Library offers free workshops on using the Web The world of information is changing quickly, and its fast evolution makes the research process demanding. Cornell's librarians can help you find and manage electronic information and take full advantage of the wealth of resources available to the Cornell community. |
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| Fall 2007 | |||
 Get Your Study On! (Sarah Olesiuk for the Cornell Daily Sun)As we enter into study week and finals frenzy begins, many Cornellians will spend their last days of this fall semester camped out in the library... |
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 Grad students honored in book collecting contestTwo Cornellians have won honors in a national book collecting contest, the second year in a row that students from Cornell have been among the competition’s finalists... |
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 10th anniversary of the great Cornell pumpkin prank, and we still don’t know whodunitOctober 2007 marks the 10th anniversary of one of the grandest pranks ever perpetrated on the Cornell campus: Somehow, some way, in the dark hours of Oct. 7 or 8 of 1997, someone managed to place a hollowed out pumpkin atop Uris Library’s McGraw Tower spire... |
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 Quad Blogger : Greece TripTravel-weary, bleary-eyed and a little delirious, Quad Blogger and a group of nine Cornell/Ithaca travelers (including one Olin librarian) began an eight-day, jam-packed adventure in the stomping grounds of Sophocles, Pericles and Aristophanes, to name a few... |
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 . Library exhibition, events examine Buddhism in pan-Asian contextThe world of Buddhism is being celebrated at Cornell University Library in honor of the Dalai Lama's Oct. 9-10 visit to Ithaca. “Bridging Worlds: Buddhist Words and Works,” an exhibition and lecture series sponsored by the Cornell Library, is an exploration of the different schools of Buddhism across Asia. |
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 ..After 32 years, the library card catalog is retiredThe Olin Library card catalog is officially history. No longer will researchers need to browse through some 3,000 catalog drawers holding 1.9 million 3x5 index cards to find the library's earlier holdings... |
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 Cornell European institute sending group to Ithaca’s twin city on Greek island of CephaloniaIthaca’s official sister city, Elios Proni, Greece, hosted 10 travelers from Ithaca....Trip participant Sarah How, a Cornell librarian, was drawn to the opportunity to visit Greece in part from her work in collection development for the library... |
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 The Ezra Files : One for the booksThe University Library, now known as Uris Library, opened in 1891 -- a full 23 years after classes began -- as Cornell's first dedicated library... |
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 ‘The Pickup’ map exhibition in Olin Library takes viewers on a mind’s-eye journeyFor the past four years, the Map and Geospatial Information Collection at Cornell’s Olin Library has prepared a display of maps in support of the Cornell New Student Reading Project....Gordimer leaves us with a difficult challenge: What maps can we display to enhance our understanding of the novel without adding more specificity than the author intended?.. |
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 Olin & Uris librarians participate in the New Student Reading Project A week after the Cornell edition of the novel was mailed to students, two Cornell University librarians, Lance Heidig and Wendy Wilcox, launched a far-reaching, moderated blog that gathers resources on issues raised in “The Pickup,” including immigration, belief systems and politics... |
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 Orientation tours of Olin, Kroch & Uris Libraries : now available as podcastsThe Olin, Kroch & Uris Library Orientation Tours are designed to introduce new members of the Cornell community to the three libraries along the south side of Cornell’s Arts Quad at the heart of central campus.. |
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 Half-million volumes in Cornell Library collection to be digitized and available through Google Book SearchCornell University Library is partnering with Google Inc. to digitize materials from the library's collections and make them available online through Google Book Search... |
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 History of Uris Library : web exhibition & vodcast tourUris Library, Cornell’s first dedicated library building, opened in 1891. Designed by Cornell’s first architecture student, William Henry Miller, the building is considered his masterpiece. On campus and around the world, Uris library and its attached bell tower are symbols of Cornell University... |
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| Summer 2007 | |||
| Olin Library map exhibition celebrates Cornell’s centennial as a federal depository | |||
| Libecast debuts | |||
| Song of the Vowels returns | |||
| How the library processes new books | |||
| Spring 2007 | |||
| Book collection contest | |||
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Shelved in the computer area on Olin’s first floor, “New and Noteworthy” books include more than 1,000 popular fiction and non-fiction titles
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