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Artifacts from upstate Indigenous towns digitized, repatriated

Jose Beduya
September 23, 2020

Unearthed, digitized and soon to be repatriated, artifacts from two Native American towns are beginning to share their rich stories online thanks to a collaborative …

Librarians aid startups

September 22, 2020

Finding accurate data to size a potential market, determine emerging trends, and understand the competitive landscape can be a daunting process for new entrepreneurs. During …

Paniccioli’s vast hip-hop photo archive launches online

August 4, 2020

Missy Elliott and Li’l Kim dressed up as anime characters, resting between takes on the set of the “Sock It 2 Me” music video. Biz …

Library gears up for curbside pickup, other services

June 30, 2020

Cornell University Library is rolling out services to give scholars and researchers access to physical collections over the summer, while continuing to guard against the …

Library’s linked-data project gets new grant

July 28, 2020

A $2.5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is boosting a multi-institution initiative to develop tools and workflows that improve the sharing of …

Aviation company’s archive donated to Cornell library

June 29, 2020

The archive of Shannon Engineering Inc., an aviation company that specialized in “hush kits” to muffle the roar of Boeing 707s during takeoff, has landed …

Library webinar series ends with COVID-19 response panel

May 18, 2020

A four-part webinar series devoted to academic libraries’ role in a sustainable future concluded with a discussion of how three libraries in China have responded …

Cornell library gains permanent access to genocide archive

May 14, 2020

Witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust and other acts of genocide are dwindling in numbers, but their faces and voices will live on through Cornell …

Cornell library sends laptops to students

April 16, 2020

In the week before the start of online classes, doctoral student Amanda Domingues drove from Ithaca to shelter in place with her partner in St. …

Book retrieval effort gives grad student welcome relief

March 23, 2020

You’ve been working on your dissertation for what seems like forever, doing research abroad when you’re not teaching or holed up in the library, and …

Library boosts digital resources for teaching, learning

April 2, 2020

As Cornell University Library’s physical spaces remain temporarily closed to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, librarians are opening digital doors for Cornell’s community of scholars. …

New RMC exhibit celebrates black women in media

March 3, 2020

Curator Ben Ortiz dug deep into the Cornell Hip Hop Collection and culled more than 400 vibrant images to honor black women in media with …

Library expands remote services for Cornell community

March 19, 2020

Amid the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Cornell University Library staff are working to support students, researchers, faculty and the campus community. Library users …

Library books virtually fly off the shelves

March 16, 2020

Out of the millions of titles freely available through online repository HathiTrust, five books digitized and uploaded by Cornell University Library made it to the …

Wikipedia project promotes women artists

February 25, 2020

Cornell’s fifth Wikipedia Art + Feminism Edit-a-thon is March 6 from 10 a.m. to 5 pm. in 107 Olin Library, the Digital CoLab. All are …

Moog festival to feature talks, music, exhibition

February 26, 2020

The strange oscillations that first emanated from the small synthesizer factory of Robert Moog PhD ’65, more than a half-century ago in the quiet village …

Spending time in nature reduces stress, research finds

February 25, 2020

New research from an interdisciplinary Cornell team has found that as little as 10 minutes in a natural setting can help college students feel happier …

Exhibit sheds light on railways’ discriminatory history

February 12, 2020

The American rail system has connected people and places across the nation, but its early history is marked by division and violence. A new exhibit …

Exhibit explores history, diversity of manga

January 27, 2020 to January 30, 2020

At Kroch Library’s Asia Collections, visitors can step into the comic-book universe of the manga genre through the new exhibit Story/Lines: Visual Narratives in Japanese …

Conan O’Brien correspondence with E.B. White surfaces

December 9, 2020

When two Cornell University Library staffers heard comedian Conan O’Brien talk in his podcast about a letter he sent to famed author E.B. White nearly …

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