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Digitization program calls for applications
Got an idea for a digital collection to spark scholarship at Cornell and beyond? Cornell University Library’s Grants Program for Digital Collections wants to hear from you. …
Press director elected president of international association
Jane Bunker, Cornell University Press director, has been elected to be the 73rd president of the Association of University Presses, an organization of more than …
Congratulations to our 2022 Elevator Art Contest Winners!
Our annual Elevator Art Contest gives Cornell undergraduate, graduate, or professional school students the chance to showcase their creative talents, win a Cornell Store prize, …
Talks mark exhibits, campus LGBTQ milestones
From April 27 to 28, the “Radical Desire” symposium brings pioneering lesbian feminist scholars, publishers, and photographers to speak at Cornell, in celebration of library …
Library deal to stimulate open access
Research published on an open access basis helps to knock down steep paywalls and reach more readers in need—but, often, authors are expected to cover …
Kheel Center’s Triangle Fire Site Honored
The Triangle Fire website at the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives has received the American Industrial Hygiene Association’s 2022 Health & Safety Virtual Exhibit of the …
Kheel Center Names Strassberg Grant Winners
The Kheel Center has announced that Mary Vidaver and Ian Gavigan have been selected as this year’s Richard Strassberg Travel Grant award winners. The grant …
Library exhibits complement ‘opera quarrel’
Drawing on Cornell University Library’s deep holdings in eighteen-century opera, an exhibit in conjunction with The Pleasures of the Quarrel performance is now open at …
Library exhibit links sea sculptures, human condition
A new exhibit in the Mann Library lobby will examine the forms and nature of marine invertebrates, reimagined in postmodern materials such as silicone, resin …
Elaine Westbrooks named Carl A. Kroch University Librarian
Elaine L. Westbrooks, vice provost and university librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named the next Carl A. Kroch …
Nuclear Freeze documents digitized
“We will not quietly stand by and watch our world go up in flames and radiation,” the late scholar-activist Randall Forsberg once roused a crowd …
Anne R. Kenney, former university librarian, dies at 72
Anne R. Kenney, university librarian emerita, a charismatic visionary who led Cornell University Library through a decade of transformation and growth, died at Hospicare in …
Exhibition features pioneering erotic magazine
From its launch in 1984 to its last issue in 2006, the women-run erotic magazine On Our Backs made good on its tagline of delivering …
If you create it, we’ll elevate it! Enter for a chance to display your art on Mann & Olin Library elevators. The 2022 theme is “Connection.”
Cornell students, enter our contest for a chance to showcase your creativity on the first floor elevator doors in both Mann Library and Olin Library and to …
Library boosts new digitization projects
Four projects have been selected for Cornell University Library’s annual Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences, which boosts the collaboration of scholars and …
Hans Bethe’s Nobel Prize medal given to library
How do stars keep on shining? Physicist Hans Bethe solved this cosmic puzzle early on in his over 60-year teaching career at Cornell, earning a …
Library immersions deepen student research
A doctoral student researching Black life in the U.S. after the abolition of slavery, Victoria Baugh was fascinated by the hundreds of studio portraits in …
Kheel Center undergraduate award celebrated
Sukhmani Kaur, A&S ’21, is the winner of the Kheel Center’s Undergraduate Research Award of $500. The prize is awarded annually to a researcher using …
Working as an archivist is ‘a dream’ for ILR’s Steven Calco
Kheel Center Research Archivist Steven Calco comes from a family of farmers, railroad and construction workers, and garment makers. When he thinks of their experiences …
Exhibit explores landscapes of letting go
Inspired by the geomorphology of the Finger Lakes region, June B. W. Szabo’s exhibit “Landscape Sculptures: Conversations with Land and Water” features wood-and-copper sculptures exploring themes of …