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Book retrieval effort gives grad student welcome relief
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 …

New RMC exhibit celebrates black women in media
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 boosts digital resources for teaching, learning
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. …

Library books virtually fly off the shelves
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 …

Moog festival to feature talks, music, exhibition
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
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 …

Wikipedia project promotes women artists
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 …

Exhibit sheds light on railways’ discriminatory history
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 …

A&S digitization grants program seeks applications
In research, documents and artifacts must be discoverable online to have the broadest impact. Continuing to recognize this need, the Grants Program for Digital Collections …

Atlantic Philanthropies archives open with first batch of files
A treasure trove for scholars of philanthropy and social change is now available at Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC) as …

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

Exhibit explores history, diversity of manga
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 …

‘Cornell According to Sound’ offers sonic look at campus
Chris Hoff ’02 and Sam Harnett have spent the semester on campus just listening – listening to fish, frogs, Latin speakers, particle accelerators, organs and …

Showcase your art on Olin Library elevators! The 2020 theme is “Belonging.”
Cornell students, enter our contest for a chance to showcase your creativity on Olin Library’s first-floor elevator doors and to win a Cornell Store prize, …

Project partners researchers, librarians and AI to fight hunger
For smallholder farmers in the developing world, adopting crops hardy enough to adapt to the droughts, floods, heat waves and frosts of a changing climate …

Design ideas for Uris, Olin libraries to be presented Oct. 30
What does the future hold for Olin and Uris libraries? Consultants for Cornell University Library will present preliminary concepts for reimagining these two iconic buildings Oct. 30, …

Remembering physicist Sternglass, who helped the world see man on the moon
The ghostly, black-and-white image of Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, was a spectacle that has replayed all over the …

Pilot course partners students with incarcerated learners
Cornell undergraduates are deepening their knowledge of Cornell University Library’s abundant scholarly resources by helping those with no access to them: incarcerated students at Cayuga …

New exhibit maps out emotional states
The United States in the shape of a hog, representing the nation’s love of pork. A mosquito turning continents red with malaria. Russia seen as …

Five projects awarded 2019 digitization grants
Cornell University Library’s Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences transforms fragile artifacts into lasting online collections for teaching and research. This year, …