GOAL X: Develop strategic alliances in support of CUL's goals and objectives.
1. Expand joint initiatives and relationships with peer institutions.
STATUS:
CUL joined the Borrow Direct partnership in 2002-03 enabling the Cornell community to search the combined library catalogs of Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale and to directly request expedited delivery of circulating items. (See V.2)
CUL joined the RAPID consortium in spring 2004 and will begin a phased implementation in fall 2004. RAPID is a speedy cost effective system for the interlibrary delivery of copies of serial articles. There are twenty ARL libraries, from coast-to-coast, currently participating in RAPID. (see V.2)
CUL continued its collaboration with the University of Washington to extend hours of chat reference coverage for Washington and Cornell patrons. (See V.7)
In June 2004, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded CUL, in concert with Pennsylvania State University Library and University Press, a grant to further develop DPubS, the system that delivers Project Euclid content. (see III.1)
In 2004, CUL and the State and University Library Goettingen received grants from the NSF and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to create a system for the long-term preservation and dissemination of digital mathematics and statistics journals. The two institutions will develop an online archive of serial publications that will be available worldwide.
CUL, the State and University Library Goettingen, Tsinghua University Library (Beijing), and Orsay Mathematical Library (Paris) -- and the publisher Springer-Verlag are collaborating on a project with the European Mathematical Society's Electronic Library of Mathematics. EMANI -- the Electronic Mathematical Archiving Network Initiative -- is working to insure long-term preservation and accessibility of mathematical information in digital form. In conjunction with the digital mathematics library project, the retrodigitization of the Springer-Verlag journal Communications in Mathematical Physics began in 2004.
In October 2003, Cornell University in partnership with FAO, the publishing community, and the Rockefeller Foundation launched AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture). AGORA provides students and scientists in some of the world's poorest countries with free access to more than 500 journals in agriculture and related sciences. This new service builds on the success of TEEAL and a similar WHO initiative for the health sciences (HINARI). Additional support from the Rockefeller Foundation is supporting training materials and an evaluation of the TEEAL program.
The Catherwood Library of Industrial and Labor Relations became the repository for the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ exceptional collective bargaining agreements collection reaching back to the late 1890's. In addition, the Catherwood Library has been designated, with the help of the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) library, as a depository for ILO publications, only the second such arrangement in the US. The ILO has a similar arrangement with Library of Congress. The exchange of staff is a goal, which is part of rebuilding a closer working relationship with the ILO which existed in previous years (pre 1980). The Catherwood Library is also collaborating with the Bibliothek der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung to microfilm proceedings and related documents of many of the International Trade Secretariats.
CUL received a three-year grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services in 2002 to further the work in metadata definition for the Global Performing Arts Database. Cornell's partners on this project include the St. Petersburg Museum of Theatre and Dance (Russia), the Museum of the City of New York, the San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum, the Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre (New York), and the University of Washington Libraries.
2. Expand relationships and joint projects with other Cornell University departments.
STATUS:
The Library implemented a Cornell Faculty Digitization Grant Program in the Spring 2004, focusing during the first this year on faculty in the humanities and the social sciences. Twenty-nine proposals were received. Eleven digitization proposals and two planning proposals were funded.
CUL is represented on a CIT group planning the implementation of Blackboard 6 Enterprise on campus. (See II.V)
CUL is working with the University Press to explore how to identify and develop a suite of services to promote and support digital scholarly publishing at the campus . (see III.3)
CUL staff serve on the DSpace Steering Committee. (see III.2)
CUL is represented on the Unified Service Working Group, along with CIT, the Office of Information Technology, the Center for Teaching and Learning, the School for Continuing Education, Communication and Marketing Services, and eCornell. The Group is exploring how to rationalize service access for faculty interested in using various distributed learning technologies. (See V.3)
CUL's Office of Distributed Learning is an active partner with CIT and others in supporting the Faculty Innovation in Teaching Grant Program. (See III.4)
CUL and CIT formed the Digital Synergies Planning Group, to address key issues affecting the delivery of digital asset services to the Cornell community.
3. Determine the strategic value of CUL's membership in regional, national, and international library consortia and organizations.
STATUS:
CUL staff met with representatives from the Research Libraries Group in June 2004 to, among other things, review the benefit CUL receives from its affiliation with RLG and to seek opportunities to increase that benefit.
CUL joined the New York State Higher Education Initiative (NYSHEI) in 2002. NYSHEI is a member-governed organization of public and private academic libraries and institutions in the state that is working to provide a single, unified voice for institutions of higher education and their libraries in order to build an effective framework for collaboration.