New exhibit maps out emotional states
…across Europe. These are just a few images on maps meant to stir public sentiment, which are featured in the new exhibit, “ Latitude: Persuasive Cartography ,” opening Oct. 3…
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Police union websites preserved by library archive
Amid ongoing national conversations about reform sparked by police killings of Black Americans last year, a new Cornell University Library archive promises to help researchers track and analyze the views…
Newly discovered letters reveal professor’s impact on Ginsburg
…prominent figures in American history who fought for justice and against discrimination.” When Konvitz died in 2003, Ginsburg told The New York Times that she was too shy to approach…
Self-checkout launched at library
Among several ways patrons can check out books and other materials from Cornell University Library, a new service offers another convenient option: letting them do it on their own, with…
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 of Trumansburg, New York, have…
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 Pop Culture. “Japanese comic books…
Cornellians can borrow from Ithaca College Library
Cornell students, faculty and staff can now check out books and other materials on-site at Ithaca College, thanks to a new borrowing agreement between the two institutions. Cornellians planning to visit…
Library celebrates 400th year of Shakespeare folio
…elite of connoisseurs or scholars.” Other featured books include an edition of King Lear, printed in 1904 in East Aurora, New York, by Roycroft, a community that was part of…
Exhibit features first Commencement, first graduates
…books as the first Cornell graduate. A hundred fifty years later, Behringer’s diploma comes full circle as the centerpiece for Cornell Commences, an exhibit at Cornell University Library’s Division of…
Commitment to Privacy
…as more and more library collections involve licensed electronic resources from third-party vendors, and as new technologies gather user data with increasing stealth and ease. As part of expanding our…
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 an exhibit at Cornell University…
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Finding, using map data online just got easier
…has helped researchers, analysts, policymakers and citizen scientists across New York state and the world for more than two decades. The website includes a powerful new search tool, making it…
Cornell unites science and policy to end hunger
…she knew her land could support more food if only she could acquire seeds of improved crop varieties and access the most current agricultural knowledge. New farming methods and crops…
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, doing what he loves: shooting…
Getting Started with Library Research
…it comes to locating and accessing research materials. Use the library catalog to find materials such as books, music, videos, journals, and audio recordings in our collections. Search databases to…
Cornell RAD expands and unites special collections
…interview for Fine Books and Collections Magazine. “It challenges the conventional interpretation of special collections as only non-circulating rare books, archives, and manuscripts.” “Where many institutions grapple with definitions of ‘specialness,’…
Scholarly Publishing
…in many fields of research and robust open access publishing programs for scholarly books have begun to take hold. While open access publications are free to read, it costs money…
TOME Open Access Monograph Publishing Grant
…which it is under contract, the name and contact information of the book’s acquiring editor, and the book’s anticipated publication date. The introduction to the book and the peer reviews…
Gift Policy
…the Library’s most valuable resources and special collections originated in this way. Gifts of money, books, periodicals, equipment, and other research materials contribute to the Library’s development. Modest gifts are…
Student Textbook Request Form
Struggling to purchase books for class? We may be able to help! Undergraduate students struggling to get required texts for their classes can request that the library make copies available…
From omen to breakthrough: Library exhibit explores eclipses
…teaching, these collections include pioneering works of astronomy, such as Nicolaus Copernicus’ “De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri” VI (“Six Books Concerning the Revolutions of the Heavenly Orbs”) from 1543, which…
Preservation Fund Awards
…Ornithology View in Biodiversity Heritage Library Piranesi Katherine Reagan, Rare and Manuscript Collections 2019 American Bee Keepers Photographs Michael Cook, Mann Library Freshmen Desk Books Evan Earle and Eileen Keating,…
Events celebrate Nabokov as butterfly scientist
…the new Mann Library exhibits; Visit with students in the class to discover new information they discovered about Nabokov, the professor; Talk with faculty, students and Nabokov experts from across…
Kheel Center undergraduate award celebrated
…by Bernard Kassoy, an artist and fine arts educator. Kassoy, an active member of the American Federation of Teachers created editorial cartoons for “The New York Teachers News,” a publication…