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Cornell Library Preserves Long-Running Live Folk Show ‘Bound for Glory’
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The program was first broadcast in September 1967 and has aired at 8 p.m. on Sunday in the cafe in Anabel Taylor Hall for five decades since.
Cocktail Lounge
Students React to New Furniture at Uris Library Cocktail Lounge: ‘What are We? IKEA?’
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This furniture is being changed as part of a broader effort to update the cocktail lounge and turn it into a more “accessible” study space, according to librarians Wendy Wilcox and Sara Wright.
Interlibrary Loan
Ithaca College and Cornell Libraries Combine Catalogs
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“The philosophy of resource sharing is getting these materials to people no matter where they are,” said Caitlin Finlay, Director of Interlibrary Services.
portals
Cornell Libraries to Launch Portals for International Communication
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As opposed to traditional methods of video conferencing, these whole-bodied experiences allow participants to feel as though they are “breathing the same air,” according to the press release.
cornell library
Cornell Hires Head Librarian to Oversee University’s 18 Libraries
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Cornell appointed Gerald R. Beasley on Monday to be the 12th university librarian at Cornell University, where he will oversee a budget of about $64 million and a staff of more than 400 beginning on Aug. 1.
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Cornell to Participate in Annual Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon
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Cornell Library, in collaboration with Art+Feminism, will be hosting its second annual Edit-a-thon in several locations across campus on March 11.
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My mom has this interesting habit of sporadically texting me throughout the day. Sometimes her texts are reminders to eat lunch, which weirdly always come around 6 at night, and other times the texts are more inspirational in nature. I’m her smart little boy and she’s always down to remind me. Anyways, the other week I got a bit of a bizarre text from her. She told me that her good friend’s daughter got accepted to Cornell and was visiting to gauge the campus.
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Univ. Library Allows Free Usage of Digitized Public Domain Items
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Open access — the free availability and use of library materials online — took another step forward this month when the Cornell University Library dropped restrictions on the reproduction of public domain items from its collections.
The Library no longer requires users to secure permission or pay any accompanying permissions fees to reproduce or publish material from its digital collections. This announcement, which comes amidst plans by the Cornell Library Board to establish a fund to support open access publishing, has been eagerly received by many in the online community.
According to a press statement, “the Library, as the producer of digital reproductions made from its collections, has in the past licensed the use of those reproductions.”
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Cornell Librarians Protest Bill Closing Access to NIH Research
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This month, President Barack Obama signed into law a bill that would make the National Institutes of Health public access policy permanent, signaling a move towards greater transparency in academia. Under this policy, NIH-funded research, including work by Cornell faculty, will be publicly avaliable. However, another bill introduced in Congress last month seeks to reverse this public access policy and has prompted Cornell’s librarians to take action.
Since last April, the NIH required final, peer-reviewed manuscripts arising from research it funded to be submitted to PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication.
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Physical Sciences Library Next on Chopping Block
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The Physical Sciences Library in Clark Hall — like Tower Café and the Knight Visual Resources Facility before it — has fallen prey to the University-wide budget cuts in reaction to the current financial crisis.
According to a recent announcement on the Cornell Library’s website, “Janet McCue [associate University librarian for teaching, research, outreach and learning services] met with PSL staff on Wednesday to let them know that their library will be closing at the end of 2009.”