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New Mui Ho Fine Arts Library inspires by design
What sets the Mui Ho Fine Arts Library apart from other libraries is apparent in the sheer volume of the books it contains, visible all …
Historic collection gets fresh start
It’s a job that seems perfectly designed for her. “It doesn’t even feel like a choice,” says Marcie Farwell, the inaugural Gordon and Marjorie Osborne …
Art-science collaboration spotlights pollinator health
The declining population of insects – especially pollinators, such as honeybees and wasps – is a serious threat to ecosystems and agricultural production around the …
Exhibit features first Commencement, first graduates
At Cornell University’s first Commencement, on July 1, 1869, President Andrew Dickson White handed out diplomas in alphabetical order to eight students – and George …
Exhibit on labor movements features Kheel Center artifacts
With historical materials from Cornell University Library’s Kheel Center for Labor-Management and Archives, the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) opens the exhibit …
Fine Arts Library service to be interrupted May 20-Aug. 5
In preparation for the anticipated Aug. 5 opening of the Mui Ho Fine Arts Library, selected fine arts materials will not be available May 20–Aug. …
On its 25th year, Library’s Fuerst Award honors student workers
Cornell University Library honored its most dedicated student workers with the Fuerst Award at an April 16 ceremony attended by their cheering mentors and supervisors, …
Book marks Tompkins County’s place in suffrage movement
What can a small upstate New York county reveal about the entire United States? In their book, Achieving Beulah Land: The Long Struggle for Suffrage …
Cornell librarians help train researchers in Africa
Cornell University librarians go the distance to share knowledge that makes a difference—and, in January and February, two of them traveled to Africa to help …
JFK letter to professor donated to library
Widely considered a classic, Clinton Rossiter’s book, “The American Presidency,” has garnered praise from scholars of political science since its publication in 1956. But one …
Rediscovering a pioneering botanical illustrator
A pioneering but little-known botanical illustrator from the early 1800s is finally getting the recognition she deserves, thanks to the digitization efforts of Cornell University …
Apply for 2019 Digitization Grants
To build lasting collections for teaching and scholarship, Cornell University Library’s digitization grants program invites proposals from faculty and graduate students in the College of …
How do you flourish in scientific publishing? Ask a librarian
To jump-start the careers of graduate students and postdocs in the fields of engineering, math and the physical sciences, Cornell University Library held a free …
Celebrating arXiv’s growth at the library, future at CIS
It’s not official unless there’s cake. On the cusp of arXiv’s move to Computing and Information Science (CIS) in January, members of Cornell University Library …
Documentarian: Take down paywalls with open access to scholarship
Two minutes into Jason Schmitt’s documentary Paywall: The Business of Scholarship, a pop-up window flashed across the screen, demanding payment. At the free Nov. 29 …
Hip hop and basketball icon shows documentary at Cornell
As his autobiographical documentary Rock Rubber 45s played in the Africana Studies and Research Center auditorium, Nov. 6, Bobbito Garcia was in Helen Newman Hall, …
Exhibit commemorates women’s right to vote
As voters make their voices heard on Election Day, a new online exhibit looks back at a time when casting a ballot in itself was …
SPARK Talks 2018 brings specialized research to a general audience
Can years of highly specialized research be boiled down to a five-minute talk that sparks the interest of a general audience? Since 2015, through a …
“Beautiful” oddity unveiled at math library
On Oct. 25, Cornell’s Department of Mathematics unveiled a strange, shiny object that’s made from one material, has uniform density, and always rests on the …
Library study named in honor of Isaac Kramnick
Studied by scholars of English and American political thought and by Cornell students in particular, Isaac Kramnick’s books form a sizable collection on the shelves …