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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 …
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 …
Portal connects President Pollack to Afghan coding school for girls
On a crisp and sunny morning, President Martha E. Pollack and a small group of Cornell leaders walked into a gold-painted shipping container outside Olin …
Conference explores migration, celebrates Wason Collection centennial
More than 100 scholars and librarians from 12 countries celebrated the centennial of the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia at the seventh International Conference of …
Seven projects awarded 2018 digitization grants
Seasoned documents and artifacts are starting fresh digital lives through the Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences, which is funding seven projects this …
Library exhibit weaves together text and sound
From whimsical 17th-century illustrations to game-changing gadgets like Thomas Edison’s wax cylinder-playing gramophone to the modern-day audiobook, Mixed Media: The Interplay of Sound and Text showcases artifacts …
New program lets students request textbooks for reserve
Textbooks can be heavy in the backpack, but even heavier on the budget. Through a pilot program this semester, Cornell University Library is lightening the …
Railway records document seismic labor shifts
Railroads transformed the world and sped the pace of social change. Newly organized and now available to researchers, the Kheel Center’s railroad collections tell stories …
Library receives collection on Jewish fables around the world
A newly arrived collection of Jewish books containing fables, with around 400 volumes spanning six centuries, will enrich Jewish studies at Cornell and cast light …
Notes from Cornell typewriters
Library users are invited to record their thoughts on vintage typewriters now set up in Olin and Uris libraries. Inspired by “Notes from a Public …
Student workers honored for ‘outstanding service’
Five student workers with a combined 15 years of library experience received the Library’s 2018 Fuerst awards for outstanding service. Named for William F. Fuerst, …