Bearing the Fruits of Thought

2008

Some say there is no longer a need for a research library in a time when everything is online and easily avail-able. But they don’t know Cornell University Library and the immense treasures that are located only here, which draw the best and brightest to the university on the hill. They don’t know that the faculty rank the Li-brary as a leading indicator of work-life satisfaction. They don’t know the many young scholars who cred-it the Library’s holdings with creative breakthroughs in research, and they don’t know the sacred trust that the Library maintains in connecting the past to the present to envision the future.

Some say nobody goes to libraries anymore. But they don’t know Cor-nell University Library and the stu-dents, faculty, and other folks who pass through its doors close to four million times a year. They don’t know that graduating seniors con-sistently rank the Library as the No. 1 service on campus. They don’t know Heather Levy, ILR ‘10, who calls the Library her “second mom,” or the McErnery daughters, who frequent all of the libraries on campus and are on a first-name basis with many li-brarians. They don’t know the many students who credit the Library with saving their GPAs or keeping their dissertations on track.

Some say the Library is just a ware-house for books, but they don’t know Cornell University Library and its cutting-edge work to set stan-dards for digitization, to protect fair use and intellectual property rights

for faculty and students, to promote high-end collaborative computing and cross-disciplinary research, or to acquire special collections ranging from clay tablets to Abraham Lin-coln’s Gettysburg Address and from the No. 1 online repository in the world, arXiv.org, to the hip hop col-lection that gained the Library “real street cred” with the student body.

Some say that librarians wear sen-sible shoes, stamp books all day, and have perfected the “shush.” But they don’t know Cornell and they don’t know its librarians, such as John Dean, who has devoted the last several decades to preserving cultural heritage treasures in war-torn countries, or Camille Andrews and Thomas Mills, who made infor-mation fluency a hallmark of the Li-brary’s work, or Mary Ochs, who has spearheaded the “Library in a Box” initiative to provide researchers in 50 of the world’s poorest countries ac-cess to top agriculture journals.

Research universities are in the busi-ness of provoking ideas, creativity, and scholarly expression in order to address the world’s major challeng-es. As long as the academy thrives on the world of the mind, thought happens. It happens better and more effectively when nourished by the Library’s resources, services, and facilities. This annual report serves as testimony that Cornell University Li-brary is alive and well and stands at the very center of intellectual life on campus. Read on—there’s plenty of food for thought here.

Food for ThoughtA Message from the University Librarian

Anne R. KenneyCarl A. Kroch University Librarian

Table of Contents

Keeping Thought Alive 4 Collections, Events, and Exhibitions

Information at the Point of Thought 20 Scholarship, Access, and Research

Making Room for Thought 30 Library as Place

Thought Leaders 36 People and Ideas

Food for Thought 50 Outreach and Impact

Sowing the Seeds of Thought 60 Statistics, Grants, and Donors

Bearing the Fruits of Thought Cornell University Library

2008

“One of the things that is most impor-tant to me is the superb library that we have. I'm not sure we recognize just how good it is. I have been to all of our competitors’ libraries, and certainly in the kinds of things that I am interested in, ours is right up there. It is a great facility for those of us who are on the faculty in the Arts College and who use it a lot, and of course for our students as well. It has been a wonderful intel-lectual experience for this humanist to make abundant use of this fine facility.“

Fredrik LogevallProfessor and Director of Graduate Studies

History Department

Big Red in the Big AppleA Meeting of the Minds:A Conversation with Cornell’s Celebrated Faculty

Seven distinguished Cornell faculty members discussed the intersection of culture, science, politics, and international relations at a forum in New York City. The session was moderated by Provost Biddy Martin. Nearly 1,000 people attended.

Keeping Thought Alive

“As a new faculty member, this [hip hop] conference has served as one of the defining events of my first months on the job…. When the intellectual experience can go from two to three dimensions and a subject is brought to life, then the learning process be-comes even more visceral. This is what I love and value promoting as a teacher and artist myself. I think that this conference illustrates what is special about education at an institu-tion like Cornell. No one should ever take these amazing opportunities for teaching and learning for granted.”

Riché Richardson Associate Professor

Africana Studies and Research Center

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Some of the hip hop industry’s most notable pioneers descend-ed upon Cornell University last fall. They were part of a confer-ence celebrating the acquisition of “Born in the Bronx: The Leg-acy and Evolution of Hip Hop,” a collection that documents the early days of hip hop with re-cordings, photographs, posters, and more.

Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Caz, Grandwizzard Theodore, Roxanne Shanté, Tony Tone, and others gave presentations and performances during the two-day event hosted by the Library. Prominent scholars led lectures

and panels to round out the ac-ademic side, and hundreds of educators, students, and per-formers from all over the coun-try made the pilgrimage to Itha-ca, N.Y. to celebrate the origins of hip hop.

The materials, donated by collec-tor and historian Johan Kugel-berg, have found a permanent home at the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. As one of the foremost collections of its kind, it will be used by depart-ments across the university for research and teaching and es-tablishes Cornell as a leader in the field of hip hop studies.

Collections Come to Life

“Cornell staked a claim in hip hop history this weekend, and Kroch library just gained some serious street cred.”

Cornell Daily Sun, “Editorial: Grandmaster Ezra,” Nov. 3, 2008

“By paying tribute to those who laid the foun-dation, we tell our own history. Preserving hip hop’s early years will help future gen-erations understand the places they come from.”

Performer Afrika Bambaataa

“I enjoyed being at Cornell and sharing my life with the people that came. My wish is that we could do event[s] all over the world just so people can see for themselves what a real Hip Hop Culture event is like. I am Hip Hop.”

Performer Tony Crush, a.k.a. DJ Tony Tone

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“Incredibly inspiring, informational, intel-lectual, funky/real, well planned AND spon-taneous, creative, fun, and entertaining…. You could hear and see important history, not just on display, but in action—truly living history!”

Comment from an attendee

The Imperial Jade Book. A rare, ancient Chinese encyclopedia. Historical photographs depicting early life in Korea. A bold Japa-nese scholar’s treasured personal collection. Thousands of manu-scripts, pamphlets, drawings, and maps.

These treasures and more were fêted when Cornell University Li-brary hosted a 90th anniversa-ry celebration of the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia in conjunction with the 14th an-nual international conference of the Association of Chinese Pro-fessors of Social Sciences in the United States. The conference featured keynote speeches from noted experts and 17 panels that addressed topics across the social, cultural, economic, and political landscapes of East Asia.

Scholars and librarians from across the United States and China came to Ithaca for the three-day event. Concurrent with the conference, an exhibition featuring the histo-ry of the Wason Collection and its rare materials was displayed throughout the Library.

Wason, a Cornell alumnus and East Asia enthusiast, donated the seed of the collection in 1918. Those original materials estab-lished China as a focal point for the Library and the university. Over the years, the collection has expanded to include materials on Japan and Korea and grown to in-clude more than half a million vol-umes and a multitude of serials and electronic resources. Today, the Wason Collection stands as one of North America’s most dis-tinctive collections on East Asia.

Wason Turns 90

Belly Up Blues legend Lead Belly—whose real name was Huddie William Ledbetter—found a home in the Library. The family of Sean Killeen, a passionate collector of Lead Belly-ana, donated his ma-terials to the Sidney Cox Library of Music and Dance, and now the Division of Rare and Man-uscript Collections is combing through his archives. The com-mercially published books and recordings are already available in the Music Library.

Although all the materials are copies (the originals are the property of the Lead Belly So-ciety, which Killeen headed for many years), they form an ex-tensive research collection un-like any other in the world. Mil-lions of papers, from fan letters to Lead Belly’s FBI file, will be made available to scholars.

“This fits into an enhanced col-lecting focus on 20th-century

Cornell University Library celebrated the 250th anniversary of the Marquis de LaFayette’s birth with an exhibition drawn from its ex-tensive LaFayette Collection, the largest of its kind outside of France. The Library hosted multiple events, including a piano concert and a lecture, to commemorate the event and showcase the Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean LaFayette Collection.

With over 11,000 original manuscripts, documents, and letters, the collection is essential to any serious biographical work on General LaFayette and constitutes an important resource for the study of late 18th- and early 19th-century France.

rmc.library.cornell.edu/lafayette

A new $30,000 endowment from the Class of 1956 establishes a fund to boost Cornell University’s humanities print collection, al-lowing the Library to purchase additional English-language mono-graphs and a range of materials in foreign languages.

Ernie Stern, president of the Class of 1956, said several members of his class had made significant contributions to the Library, and he was pleased to be approached about creating the endowment.

“There isn’t one specific constituency that the Library has—it serves everybody,” he said. “So these library gifts are gifts that serve the entire campus.”

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LaFayette Turns 250

Keeping the Commitment to the Book

asia.library.cornell.edu/ac/Wason

Cornell University Library played a vital role in celebrating the Da-lai Lama’s historic visit to Ithaca, N.Y., in October 2007 with a ma-jor exhibition and lecture series. The Library’s program looked to the larger context of the Dalai Lama, sweeping across Buddhist Asia from northeastern India to the Himalayas, Indonesia, Japan, and many points in between.

Library items displayed in the “Bridging Worlds” exhibit—such as paintings from the Kathmandu Valley and Buddhist treasures from the Asia Rare collection—crossed geographic boundaries drawn between South, Southeast, and East Asia. Moreover, they crosscut traditional academic divisions of labor that may treat art, philosophy, history, and religion as distinct fields of inquiry.

The exhibition was co-sponsored by the East Asia Program, the South Asia Program, and the Southeast Asia Program.

asia.library.cornell.edu/ac/bridgingworlds

Thanks to a gift from the estate of Margaret F. Knox, a new endow-ment named in her honor will allow the Mathematics Library to up-date and maintain its collection for years to come. Steven Rockey, the director of the Mathematics Library, said the gift was “wonder-ful and unexpected.”

Generosity + Libraries = Thought Happens

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Dalai Lama Visits Cornell

Pop quiz: For the price of an annual subscription to the Journal of Applied Polymer Science, you could get:

a) a brand new carb) a solar hot water systemc) a trip to Machu Picchud) any of the above

You guessed it: d).

The staff of the Engineering Library put together two online exhib-its—”Sticker Shock” and “Sticker Shock 2”—to inform the Cornell community about the price of annual subscriptions to various com-mercially produced scientific and engineering journals. And shock-ing they are: The cost of these subscriptions can exceed $18,000 a year, and it’s rising between five and 10 percent every year.

Blues legend Lead Belly—whose real name was Huddie Wil-liam Ledbetter—found a home in the Library. The family of Sean Killeen, a passionate collector of Lead Belly-ana, donated his ma-terials to the Sidney Cox Library of Music and Dance. The com-mercially published books and recordings are available in the Mu-sic Library. Manuscripts will be cataloged, stored, and accessible in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.

Although all the materials are copies (the originals are the proper-ty of the Lead Belly Society, which Killeen headed for many years), they form an extensive research collection unlike any other in the world. Millions of papers, from fan letters to Lead Belly’s FBI file, will be made available to scholars.

“This fits into our enhanced collecting focus on 20th-century pop culture and music,” said University Archivist Elaine Engst.

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Sticker Shock

Belly Up

The “Davy” in question is for-mer Registrar David Fletcher Hoy (Class of 1891, M.S. ‘93), one of Cornell’s first administrators. Hoy also championed the base-ball program, and Hoy Field was named in his honor.

Hoy threw out the first pitch when the field was inaugurat-ed in 1922, and that baseball re-turned to Cornell during a cer-emony in July. Registrar Hoy’s grandson, David Fletcher Hoy III, presented the ball to University Archivist Elaine Engst. The ball will be preserved and displayed in the Division of Rare and Manu-script Collections.

“I think it belongs here,” said the 82-year-old Hoy. “I’m glad [it was] given to a place where it can be properly taken care of.”

Recent generations may not know how to spot a “piker” or where to find Theodore Zinck’s, but the song (sung to the tune of Give My Regards to Broad-way) has resonated with Corne-lians for more than 100 years:

Give my regards to Davy

Remember me to Tee Fee Crane

Tell all the pikers on the hill that I’ll be back again

Tell them just how I busted lap-ping up the high highball

We’ll all have drinks at Theo-dore Zinck’s when I get back next fall.*

A Piece of Cornell History

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* A piker is a freshman. Theodore Zinck's was a bar and longtime institution in down-town Ithaca. Tee Fee Crane was Thomas Frederick Crane, a professor, dean, and acting president. “Busted” refers to being dismissed for academic failure.

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The Albert R. Mann Library added the first 20 volumes of The American Bee Journal (ABJ) to its online library of historical bee-keeping materials. These historic volumes cover 1861 through 1884 and include everything from Chinese honey-harvesting methods to tips on the use of wild onions and other herbs.

Modern-day beekeepers still rely on the ABJ, the first English-lan-guage journal devoted to the field. The ABJ exists as a monument to the long history of American beekeeping and the ingenuity of its practitioners.

The Hive and the Honeybee is a free, full-text digital archive of selected rare works from Mann Library's E. F. Phillips Collection, one of the world’s most comprehensive apicultural libraries. This growing online archive, supported by American beekeepers, of-fers ready access to both scholars and practicing beekeepers.

bees.library.cornell.edu

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Cornell University Library uncorked a ma-jor exhibit in 2008 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its Eastern Wine and Grape Archive. The exhibition explored the ori-gins of viticulture in Europe and the de-velopment of wine-making in America and also addressed the cultural move-ments and legislative acts that shaped the nation's complex relationship with alcohol.

Made possible through the generosi-ty of Ronni Lacroute ’66, “Song of the Vine” featured a wine-tasting and lecture by noted wine historian Thomas Pinney at the opening reception during reunion weekend in June. Documents describing the growth of New York’s wine industry and Cornell's contributions to the field, as well as historic materials on grape cul-tivation, were among the artifacts dis-played in the Division of Rare and Manu-script Collections in Carl A. Kroch Library.

The Comstock Memorial Library of En-tomology also featured a display: “Phyl-loxera: How One Tiny Insect Nearly De-stroyed the European Wine Industry.” Tiny yellow aphids, phylloxera vastatrix, arrived in France on imported American vines in 1868. That initial invasion led to a 30-year battle to save the European wine industry that ultimately ended with an American solution.

Mann Library, Nestlé Library, and Maps and Geospatial Information in Olin Library also hosted Wine and Grape exhibits.

rmc.library.cornell.edu/ewga

Song of the Vine:A History of Wine

Early Buzz

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Thanks to a new effort from the Adelson Library, 200 years of art from the Cornell Lab of Orni-thology’s collection is now avail-able online.

Users can search for images of a particular bird species or art-ist with keywords or browse the extensive collection. Many of the images are also in the public domain and available in high-resolution.

birds.cornell.edu/About/art.html

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“Beyond the Taj”—a collection of visual and written materials on South Asian architecture—has gone beyond the Library’s Web site.

An agreement was signed to allow the digital exhibit to be pub-lished as an open collection on ARTstor*, making it broadly avail-able to subscribers. Faculty and students can also access the col-lection through Luna Insight.

“Beyond the Taj” supports instruction and research on South Asia from the perspectives of architecture and ethnography. It features approximately 7,000 photographs of architecture, pilgrimage sites, and domestic life taken in India and Sri Lanka by anthropolo-gist and architect Robert MacDougall, a former Cornell professor and dean of the School of Continuing Education.

The digital collection is a result of a long-term collaboration be-tween Digital Consulting and Production Services in the Library; Bonnie MacDougall, professor in the Department of Architec-ture; and Margaret Webster, director of the George W. & Adelaide Knight Visual Resources Facility in the College of Architecture, Art & Planning.

beyondthetaj.library.cornell.edu

* ARTstor is a digital library of nearly a million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.,

Avian Art

Thinking Outside the Box

Information at the Point of Thought

"A collaboration that pairs the com-plementary strengths of a leading re-search library and a university press from different universities is an ex-traordinary move. The result is noth-ing less than securing the future of alternative publishing options for in-dependent presses in the fields of mathematics and statistics."

Anne R. KenneyCarl A. Kroch University Librarian

(See Independent Thought, p. 28)

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Scholarship, Access, and Research

Scholars in the humanities are having an increasingly difficult time finding outlets to publish the books on which their fields depend. On Nov. 7 and 8, 2008, Cornell University Library and Cornell's Society for the Humani-ties co-hosted a Forum on Aca-demic Publishing in the Humani-ties. The event brought together scholars, university press publish-ers, foundation representatives, and librarians to address the question, “Is humanities publish-ing in crisis?”

Prominent speakers from around the world addressed new hori-zons developing in the “digital humanities,” but they also of-fered words of caution about what might be lost in a move away from print culture. Partici-pants discussed the evolution of scholarly writing and university press publishing, as well as the place of libraries’ special collec-tions and archives in the creation of new digital scholarly editions.

Reinforcing its place in the scientif-ic community, the arXiv repository at Cornell University Library reached a new milestone in October 2008: half a million e-print postings—research articles—published online.

arXiv is the primary daily information source for hundreds of thousands of researchers in many areas of phys-ics and related fields. Researchers upload their own articles, which are usually made available to the public the next day. A team of more than 100 volunteer moderators from around the world screen submis-sions and recommend whether they should be included in the repository.

The world's most prominent re-searchers in science use and post on arXiv, including 53 Physics Nobel Laureates, 31 Fields Medalists, and 55 MacArthur Fellows. Users include scientists as well as journalists and people in countries with limited ac-cess to scientific materials.

More than 200,000 articles are downloaded from arXiv each week by about 400,000 users, making arXiv the Library’s most visible exter-nally used resource. Its 118,000 reg-istered submitters live in nearly 200 countries, including Suriname, Su-dan, and Iraq.

Two Schools of Thought

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Publish or Perish? Major Milestone

Pairing up with leaders in online information discovery such as Google and Microsoft puts Cornell University Library at the forefront of the digitization movement. These large-scale partnerships support the Library's long-standing commit-ment to make its collections broadly avail-able, as well as the university's goal to increase the impact of Cornell beyond the campus.

Through its work with Microsoft, the Library digitized approximately 80,000 Eng-lish-language books, all in the public domain. Also digitized were 1,300 items from the Di-vision of Rare and Manuscript Collections’ internationally prominent holdings on the poet William Wordsworth. Print-on-demand options with Amazon.com allow read-ers from all over the world to request print copies of Cornell’s books.

Google’s partnership is also making library materials available online using Google Book Search, which provides scholars and the general public with the ability to search for and locate books from Cornell's collections. The Library started digitizing books for the initiative in October 2008 and is now focusing on its agriculture and life sciences collections.

Large-Scale Thinking

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In the historical tradition of liter-ary salons devoted to the life of the mind, Cornell University Li-brary launched a series of library salons. These salons offer an op-portunity for alumni and friends to gather and engage in intellec-tual discussions as they relate to the role of research libraries in the academy.

The first salon, held at the Cornell Club in New York City in October, featured two photographers—Mathew Brady and Liberty Hyde Bailey—who produced some of the 19th century’s most memo-rable images. University Librarian Anne R. Kenney presented Bailey’s cyanotypes, and expert and Li-brary supporter Stephan Loewen-theil, JD ‘75, showcased his col-lection of Brady’s photographs.

John Dean, the Library’s former head of preservation, was the fea-tured guest at the second salon in November. Held at the Stamford Yacht Club in Connecticut, Dean’s presentation described his two decades of efforts to save cultur-al heritage treasures in war-torn countries and bring back digital versions to add to Cornell’s online collections.

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Library Literati

Library.cornell.edu v. 2.0

“Absolutely fantastic job with the new Web site. I can’t tell you how frustrating the old one was. A very welcome change.”

“Disaster! Did you pay someone for this?”

“I love the new library Web site! Very attractive and user-friendly...”

“This new page is terrible.”

“I just wanted to say how much I love the new Web site redesign.... It makes it a lot easier to find everything.”

This small sampling of varied opinions all describe the same thing: the redesigned Cornell University Library Web site that greeted students and faculty returning for the new semester in January.

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The Library’s Web site got a major makeover in 2008. More than a year’s worth of work resulted in a sleeker site that connects users with the in-formation they want in seconds.

The best features of the revamp? • New homepage with a prominent search box for the library catalog, ar-ticles, and databases• Direct links for course and research help• Updated “My Account” section• We Recommend, a place where students, faculty, and staff can point out library highlights

The new look also showcases the millions of images in the Library’s collection.

Other technological innovations, such as a new catalog from World-Cat Local that allows users to search the holdings of libraries around the world, also got started. The broad scope and new look echoes the focus of the project, which centered on the user experience across the multiple systems that make up the information landscape. At every step along the way, user testing was key to guiding the project.

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Independent Thought

In a publishing agreement that reaches across institutional boundar-ies, Cornell University Library has partnered with Duke University Press in an unprecedented joint venture to expand and enhance the services of Project Euclid, the premier online information community for math-ematics and statistics resources from independent publishers.

The collaboration marks the first time “a university press and a library that don't share the same genetic material have entered into formal partnership,” said Terry Ehling, executive director of Project Euclid.

The Library established Project Euclid in 2000 as an online publishing service for nonprofit independent and society journals in mathematics and statistics to help them thrive in the increasingly competitive and commercial world of scholarly publishing. It is now home to 93,000 journal articles (65 percent of which are open access) from 54 jour-nals, along with 60 monographs and conference proceedings.

projecteuclid.org

Cornell’s campuses in upstate New York got a little closer to New York City and Doha, Qatar this year, when the Library made it easier for the Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC) and Cornell’s main campus to share resources.

A February 2008 report identified key factors inhibiting uniform, consistent, seamless access to library resources across all Cornell campuses. The report called for extending electronic access to the same materials and address-ing technical barriers that impede discovery, access, and use of resources.

Since then, the Library has acquired shared licenses of several of the high-priority journals identified in the report for use by both the Ithaca/Geneva and the WCMC communities. Students, faculty, and staff in Ithaca and Ge-neva now have access to almost 90 percent of the subscriptions at WCMC; the WCMC communities now have access to 97 percent of the subscrip-tions at Ithaca and Geneva, N.Y.

A Goldsen Opportunity

Cornell librarians support faculty by seeking out and adding vital re-search collections to the Library’s holdings, and they play an impor-tant role in helping faculty publish, disseminate, and preserve their research.

Designed as an experimental center of research and creativity, the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art is the direct result of a part-nership between the Library and Tim Murray, professor of compara-tive literature and English and director of Cornell’s Society for the Hu-manities. Murray founded the archive to serve as a research repository of new media art and resources, featuring digital interfaces and artis-tic experimentation by international artists.

Cornell celebrated the public launch of the archive and its Web site with a full-day workshop on “New Media Art and Archival Ambitions.”

goldsen.library.cornell.edu

Connecting Campuses

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Making Room for Thought

“I think the renovations of Mann Library are truly spectacular. The li-brary has evolved from one of the finest 20th century libraries to one of the finest 21st century libraries in the world without losing its charm, architectural richness, or superb staff. And the collections themselves. What can I say? Mann Library is one of the crown jewels of Cornell Uni-versity…. My life as an academician at Cornell has been enriched many times over by having Mann Library as a resource.”

Karl J. Niklas L. H. Bailey Professor of Plant Biology

Department of Plant Biology

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Library as Place

Olin Library stands as the cor-nerstone of Cornell’s entire li-brary system. But it was built in 1961, when 3x5 cards were cut-ting-edge research tools; now, nearly half a decade later, a whirl of activity surrounds plans for its renovation.

Library users are being prepared for the changes. Although the first phase of the project means closing floors three through sev-en for about two years, strenu-ous efforts are being made to accommodate the academic life of the Library and all of its users.

“User services are the Library’s No. 1 priority, and the goals of the renovation—both during and after the project—all speak to a user’s experience at Olin,” said University Librarian Anne R. Kenney.

Life-safety concerns, includ-ing fire protection and ventila-tion improvements, are a pri-mary consideration. More study

spaces and research carrels, new environmental controls, and high-speed Internet access throughout the building will be prominent features of the newly redesigned Olin.

Collections relocated to the An-nex will benefit from enhanced document and book deliv-ery services to the main cam-pus, and 500,000 of Olin’s most heavily used volumes will be kept on central campus or in the Olin/Uris library complex. Plans are under way to find alternate study spaces for faculty and graduate students. Ongoing presentations for faculty, staff, and students, which began in 2008, will also keep the com-munity abreast of the changes.

Renovation planning, which has been in the works for several years, has finished the design development phase. Look for progress reports and more spe-cifics on the Web site: ”Olin Library is not just a Library; it’s much more

than that. It’s a community, an intellectual hub located in the Heart of Campus. Olin is a warm refuge in this cold Ithaca; a place of comfort for friends and faculty. At Olin, everyone’s family.”

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One undergraduate’s “Ode to Olin Library”:

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The Kenneth J. Bissett ’89 Col-laborative Center stands out as one of the gems of Mann Li-brary’s recent renovation. The room that used to hold the card catalog is now a customizable space where students can work together on projects and assign-ments, promoting brainstorm-ing and high-energy interaction.

Seven mobile workstations in-clude cutting-edge equipment such as portable LCD screens, a SmartBoard display, Mac mini computers, and DVD record-

A new name graces the halls of the Carl A. Kroch Library. The Mad-eleine H. Tang Conference Room was dedicated in November, in hon-or of the mother of Cornell Trustee Martin Tang ‘70.

The Tang family’s generous gift also establishes the Madeleine H. Tang Chinese Historical Materials Fund, which will be used to purchase de-classified historical documents re-lated to Chinese-U.S. relations. The materials will be available to the entire Cornell community and es-pecially useful for undergraduate

University Librarian Anne R. Kenney, Cornell University trustee Martin Tang, and his mother Madeleine Tang at the dedication ceremony.

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students in the China and Asia-Pacific Studies Program.

“Alumni and friends have en-abled the Library to build up and acquire collections unique to Cornell,” University Librari-an Anne R. Kenney said at the dedication. “This is why Mar-tin’s support means so much—as a university leader, he is set-ting an excellent example for other alumni and friends in en-dorsing the Library’s vital role on campus.”

High-Tech, High-Impact Learningers. The space also houses two large plasma screen “Knowledge Bars,” one with an interactive whiteboard, as well as low-tech whiteboards, chairs, and tables that can be configured for group work.

This space honors Kenneth Bis-sett, a College of Agricultural and Life Sciences student killed in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Bissett’s perspective lives on with the establishment of the center.

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A Family’s Dedication

Thought Leaders

“Our mission is to support teaching and learning at the university. This is the heart of it: working with faculty and all the campus partners to make student learning more effective. That piece is key. We can do all the talking and digitization and institutes we want, but if we’re not affecting student learn-ing, why are we here? This is vital to our core mission—it raises awareness among the faculty and our campus partners about the value and perspec-tive the Library brings.”

Camille AndrewsCo-Leader of the Cornell Undergraduate

Information Competency Initiativeand Instruction Coordinator and Public Services Librarian

Mann Library

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People and Ideas

Attempts to improve students’ research skills evolved into a major coordinated effort when the first Cornell Undergraduate Informa-tion Competency Initiative institute was held in 2008.

A group of library staff, information technologists, instructional de-signers, and faculty—led by librarians and committee co-chairs Ca-mille Andrews, instruction coordinator from Mann Library, and Thom-as Mills, head of collections and lecturer from the Law Library—ran a week-long institute in June. It addressed undergraduate research and information literacy skills and helped faculty redesign their re-search assignments throughout the year.

“Faculty members were paired with a librarian and other campus support staff. That collaborative structure was one of the most im-portant things we did, because it gave the institute an amazing en-ergy. The participants all sparked off each other,” Andrews said.

Christine Ranney, associate professor in Applied Economics and Management, said she found the week’s activities “utterly thrilling” and appreciated the chance to focus exclusively on her teaching.

It resulted in big curricular changes for some of the participants. For example, Peter Hobbs, adjunct professor in Crop and Soil Sciences, revamped his class on tropical crops in developing countries to in-clude sessions co-taught by a librarian and group research projects done collaboratively on a wiki, developed with and by the students themselves.

“Professor Hobbs’ course was more innovative technically, and the quality of the research and citation was better,” Andrews said. “He saw it as a significant and worthwhile endeavor.”

In June 2008, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California upheld the Library’s efforts to promote free speech and freedom of the press.

The case started when Cornell alumnus Kevin Vanginderen ’83 sued the university in 2007. Van-ginderen, a lawyer in California, claimed $1 million in damages for making available online the 1983 issue of the Cornell Chron-icle, which contained a po-lice report noting he had been charged with third-degree bur-glary in connection with multi-ple campus thefts. (The Chron-icle was digitized and made available through the Library.)

Vanginderen alleged that the newly digitized version of the article constituted libel against him. The court granted Cornell’s motion to strike Vanginderen’s

complaint on the basis of free speech and freedom of the press.

“It would be disastrous if every time we scan something, we had to take the same editorial respon-sibility as the initial publisher," said intellectual property officer Peter Hirtle, a leader in Cornell's exten-sive digitization programs. Hirtle said the court’s decision is a step forward: "It reaffirms the impor-tant role libraries can play in pro-moting free speech and providing ready public access to information on the activities of government."

More legal action is on tap for 2009. These cases will prove cru-cial in determining the rights of libraries and other parties to dig-itize and make accessible older materials—regardless of the con-tent’s potential for embarrassment or other consequences.

Building an Information-Literate Student Body

Freedom Fighting

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Under the direction of its new University Librarian Anne R. Kenney, Cornell University Library has transformed itself to align more closely with the mission of the world-class university it serves.

Leading the Library Forward

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Anne R. Kenney Carl A. Kroch University Librarian

Janet McCue Associate University Librarian for Teaching, Research, Outreach, and Learning Services

Lee Cartmill Associate University Librarian for Administrative Services

Xin Li Assistant University Librarian for Strategic Initiatives

Oya RiegerAssociate University Librarian for Information Technologies

Scott Wicks Associate University Librarian for Central Library Operations

John Saylor Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources and Special Collections

Dean KrafftChief Technology Strategist

From left:

Adam Chandler, database man-agement and electronic resources librarian, received the Association for Library Collections and Techni-cal Services (ALCTS) Outstanding Collaboration Citation for 2008. Chandler earned the award in recognition of his contributions to the development of a new pro-tocol for usage-statistics retrieval, as co-chair of the National Infor-mation Standards Organization’s Standardized Usage Statistics Har-vesting Initiative (SUSHI).

Jesse Koennecke, head of ac-cess services at Mann Library, re-ceived the 2008 SUNY Chan-cellor’s Award for Excellence in Librarianship. The award recog-nized Koennecke’s contributions to Cornell and the national access services community through his strong leadership, technical abili-ties, and visionary thinking.

Jacalyn Spoon, Adelson Library administrator, won a poster con-test at the 2008 Special Libraries Association conference in Seat-tle, Washington. Her presentation was called “Flying Solo at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: De-velopment of the Gallery of Bird and Wildlife Art.”

From Visionary Thinking to Saving Lives

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Julie Jones, head of information services and law lecturer at Cor-nell Law Library, won the 2008 American Association Law Librar-ies’ “LexisNexis Call for Papers—New Member Division” award. Jones’ paper addressed the im-pact of user interface design on legal research.

Teresa Whitaker, office manager at the Johnson Graduate School of Management Library, received the Distinguished Citizen of the Month award from the Tompkins County Legislature for saving the life of an MBA Cornell student who had gone into cardiac arrest. Whitaker, a trained emergency medical technician, performed CPR and used a defibrillator on the student until the paramedics arrived.

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John Dean in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, training library workers to make protective enclosures for

palm leaf manuscripts, 1991.

John Dean, former head of preservation for Cornell University Li-brary, was presented with a medal by Vietnam’s Minister of Culture for his part in preserving the country’s cultural heritage. Dean—who has worked for 20 years to rescue historical materials in southeast Asia, Af-ghanistan, Egypt, and beyond—has been assisting Vietnamese scholars since 1990 to restore books, woodblocks, maps, and manuscripts.

Exceptional Student Employees Recognizing the

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With the economy in turmoil, the Library stepped up efforts to help job-seekers this year.

The Johnson Graduate School of Management library staff increased the number of career research consultations and workshops to help students prepare for corporate briefings and job interviews. Using current industry insider resources and working together with the Johnson School Career Man-agement Center, the Library was involved throughout the en-tire job-seeking process.

“I can’t tell you how grateful I am,” one MBA student said. “From the perspective of a student, it’s great to see how sup-portive the staff is here.”

The Library and the Working World

Exceptional Student EmployeesAmong the 500 student workers that the Library employs, six were honored this year with the Fuerst Outstanding Student Employee Award.

This year's winners, pictured above from left, are all from the Class of 2008: Lisa Liebherr, Mann Library; Shianne Beer, Mathematics Li-brary; Erin Brasch, Olin/Kroch/Uris Collection Maintenance; Kathryn Kalaf, Engineering Library; (Anne R. Kenney, Carl A. Kroch University Librarian); David Rosen, Law Library; and Laura Santamaria, Manage-ment Library.

William F. Fuerst Jr. ‘39, created the annual award in 1995 to rec-ognize outstanding student employees for their exceptional perfor-mance, leadership, and library service to the campus. Each winner re-ceives $500, the campus’ most generous monetary award for student employees.

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Guidance for a New GuidelineA new reporting requirement from the National Institute of Health (NIH) affected researchers receiving funding this year, and the Library played a key role in helping Cornell grantees understand the new rules. Principal investigators must enter peer-reviewed manuscripts into NIH's digital archive, Pub-Med Central, which will then provide free, full-text access to the articles within a year of their publication. The new rule affected hundreds of Cornell researchers on the Ithaca and Weill Medical College campuses.

Information sessions and a Web site were among the ways that the Library reached out to faculty impacted by the new guidelines.

The friendship of Harriet Morel Oxman, ILR '48, and Theodore Ox-man, changed Gordon Law's career this spring. In recognition of the couple’s remarkable generosity, Law's position at the Martin P. Cath-erwood Library has been named in honor of Harriet Oxman.

Catherwood is the foremost library of its type in North America and one of just a few collections in the world focusing on the workplace. The po-sition is only the fourth named li-brary position in Cornell University Library.

“Harriet is an educator, and books and knowledge and preserving cul-tural heritage are important to her,” Law said. “The library is an expres-sion of those values that she holds—and I hold them as well.”

Recognizing the Crucial Role of Libraries

Gordon Law, The Harriet Morel Oxman Director, Martin P. Catherwood Library

‘Reach Beyond the Library Walls’

A new blog from the staff of the Nestlé Library is making it easier for students, faculty, and staff at the School of Hotel Administration to stay up-to-date with the library and the wider hospitality world. Hospitality Insights offers a mix of current industry news and devel-opments in the hospitality field, including research from Cornell Ho-tel School faculty.

“We wanted to reach beyond the library walls a bit,” said Ken Bolton, public services librarian. “We already have sever-al subscribers from other universities, and we hope to see the blog grow and evolve as an effective current-awareness tool.”

nestleblog.com

Reference Librarians, Plugged In

The tagline for the Ask a Librarian blog reads, “See what others are asking,” and the continually updated question-and-answer forum allows users to do just that. When a patron e-mails a question to the Library, he or she can check a box granting permission to display it on the blog.

After the question and a librarian’s answer are posted, students, fac-ulty, staff, and the general public can access it, along with the entire archive of past questions.

Reference librarians continually update the nascent blog, which launched in February 2008. So far, it has gathered hundreds of ques-tions in dozens of categories and addressed topics from copyright queries to a hunt for the entire Sears Catalog.

Blogging supplements the existing Ask a Librarian services, including 24/7 chat, phone calls, drop-in hours, and more.

blogs.cornell.edu/askalib

Questions from the Ask a Librarian Blog:How do I find historians’ views on controversies involving the Interna-tional Red Cross and the treatment of POWs in WWII? How do I im-port JSTOR citations into RefWorks? Where can I look for the most used credit card companies in New Jersey? How do I find boiling point and melting point info for isomers of esters with molecular formula C33H66O2? What is the history of auto emissions standards in the U.S.? Do you have any information on South African specific symbols used to represent philosophies and concepts? I’m looking for maga-zine articles on the 1999 Woodstock Festival. I need five sources deal-ing with the topic of sexuality in the Epic of Gilgamesh. How do I find legal cases regarding misuse of patients’ confidential information. I’m looking for information on current issues involving Seneca Indians and land claims. Do we have electronic access to the Journal of Mass Media Ethics? I need studies of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra that focus on how the main characters served as metaphors for Rome and Egypt. I need to find a United Nations General Assembly docu-ment from 1964. I’m looking for a print copy of Malcolm X’s “Ballots or Bullets” speech. How can I get a list of Private Equity Companies that invest in non-control portion of companies? I need information on premodern (up to 1400 A.D.) Malaysian culture and society. I need primary election statistics by state going back 20 years. I want to find a book that was in the library of an 18th-century Italian economist named Custodi. I’m looking for magazine articles on “anti-fouling ma-rine paint.” Where can I find information on Alpha Phi Alpha, the first Black fraternity founded on Cornell’s campus in 1906? I am conduct-ing research on food advertisements targeted towards children. I was wondering if Cornell maintains any sort of advertisement database and if ads are at all collected and archived. I need to find images of contem-porary furnishings designed by architects and made of recyclable ma-terials. Do you know of any resource with images of many, many dif-ferent individual feathers? Can graduates students organize a union? I need tables of optical band gaps for oxide materials. What name was Martin Luther King, Jr., originally christened with? Could you please help me find a state-by-state listing of peanut production, etc. in the US? I am looking for solubility curves for various salts especially for sub-zero temperatures. I would like to find out if Vladimir Nabokov viewed the painting Castle on Bluff above Village (1878), by Philadelphia artist Carl Philipp Weber, in Berlin in 1930. What is the median check for dif-ferent segments of the restaurant industry? Where can I find informa-tion about Lyme disease in animals? What do librarians do exactly?

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The Library once again played a crucial role in Cornell Universi-ty’s annual New Student Read-ing Project, which took on Gar-ry Wills’ Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Lincoln at Gettysburg.

The project not only introduced incoming students to their first college-level academic discus-sion, it offered an introduc-tion to the Library’s resources as well. Library staff, working with a team from the Provost’s office, created the project posters and bookmarks, mounted displays, provided design and content for the Web site, and co-authored

a blog—“GettysBlog”—about the project. Librarians also led several of the small group discussions.

In conjunction with the New Student Reading Project, the Di-vision of Rare and Manuscript Collections exhibited Cornell’s copy of the Gettysburg Address in Kroch Library during Orien-tation Week. Hundreds of stu-dents, faculty, staff, and local residents turned out to see the famous document, which is one of only five copies that Lincoln wrote out in his own hand.

New Student Reading Project: reading.cornell.eduGettysBlog: cornellreading.typepad.com/gettysblogGettysburg Address: rmc.library.cornell.edu/gettysburg

Lincoln at Gettysburg—and at the Library

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Providing Food for Thought

Going Green, by the Numbers

288: Number of different signs on the digital display at Olin Library’s entrance (in six months)

300: Approximate number of pounds of paper saved by the digital sign

27: Number of cents saved on a small coffee if you bring a reusable mug to Libe Café

2: Number of shared-use bicycles available to library em-ployees, parked outside Uris and Mann libraries

154: Approximate number of short-distance car trips saved by the bicycles

171: Number of library staff who participated in CUL Wellness Month

0: Number of disposable water bottles provided at library functions

300+: Number of library computers donated to Iraq, His-torically Black Colleges and Universities, and more

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Outreach and Impact

Building Ties with China

Declassified diplomatic documents from China are still rare in this country. With the exception of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., Cornell University Library is the only U.S. institution where the Chinese Foreign Ministry Ar-chives will allow certain documents to be housed and accessed for research purposes.

A Chinese government delegation, led by Deputy Foreign Min-ister Qiao Zonghuai and Foreign Ministry Archives Director Zong Chongli, visited the Library in September. During its visit, the dele-gation presented Cornell with 67 declassified documents from the U.S.-China ambassadorial talks in Geneva in 1955. The delegation also viewed historical artifacts and documents in the Wason Col-lection and other items from the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.

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Mann Library plays host to a world-famous eatery—a culinary “class act,” according to Rachael Ray—in its lobby.

Manndible Café was profiled in the October issue of Every Day with Rachael Ray, the celebrity chef's monthly print magazine. Calling the Ag Quad eatery a "study in eco-friendly eating," the article noted the use of local produce delivered by bike from Dilmun Hill, Cornell's student-run organic farm, as well as the campus favorite: overstuffed burritos. Innovative food joints at Penn State, University of Wisconsin, and Brown Uni-versity were also cited.

Manndible Takes a Star Turnwith Rachael Ray

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About a quarter of the Library’s computers become obsolete during the course of a school year. In 2008 alone, the endowed library buildings and units turned over 230 of their 870 total active computer systems.

A good number of those computers wound up at an Iraqi university, due to the Library’s technology services staff and a student group called the Cornell Computer Reuse Association (CCRA) that sends computers to far-flung places in need of technology.

The Library is the biggest donor to the program. Al Heiman, who leads the group and works in Cornell Information Technology’s Academic Technology Support and User Services, estimates that the Library has provided more than half of the 600 computers that have been shipped during the course of the program.

“Without the Library, we wouldn’t even have been able to do half of what we’ve done,” Heiman said.In November, the first installment of 25 computers from Cornell was sent to al-Anbar University’s library in Ramadi, Iraq. Access will be avail-able to about 10,000 students, faculty, and staff of the Agriculture Col-lege, which reopened in 2007, after Coalition Forces had occupied it for a year and a half.

The Iraq shipment also marked an important milestone in extending the Library’s reach. Included with the computers were materials from TEE-AL, The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library. TEEAL is a Mann Library program that provides an extensive journal database to developing countries and other places in need. The Ramadi shipment was the first time that TEEAL materials were boxed up with the hardware on which they’ll be used, as well as instruction manuals in English and Arabic.

Library Computers Go Global

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Cornell Univeristy Library’s goals of increased transparency and cross-cam-pus access between libraries served a new purpose this year: tuberculosis research.

Two joint-instruction sessions between the Physical Sciences Library and the Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC) in New York City used video-conferencing facilities in the Mann and WCMC libraries. Dr. Carl Nathan and his summer graduate students at the WCMC received training on two scientific databases—Beilstein and SciFinder Scholar—from Leah Sol-la, chemistry librarian at the Physical Sciences Library.

The session was part of a series of workshops supporting the research-ers’ participation in the TB Drug Accelerator initiative, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Helen-Ann Brown Epstein, head of education and outreach at Weill Cornell Medical Library, organized four information-resource workshops throughout the summer.

Solla was set to do the final session for the group; by popular demand, Ep-stein said, Solla conducted a second session for further instruction.

Cross-Campus Collaboration

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Eric Acree, director of the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library, traveled to the Canary Islands to participate in the country’s first annual meeting of li-brary professionals and archivists from Africa. The conference host, Casa Africa, is a public consortium run by the Spanish government that aims to promote cultural awareness and strengthen the relationship between Spain and Africa.

Acree gave a presentation on the goals of the entire Cornell University Li-brary system, the mission of the Africana Library, and cataloguing processes at the Library. His presentation was simultaneously translated into Spanish and Portuguese to reach librarians attending from various parts of Africa.

“It’s important to make our imprint in other places,” Acree said, noting that the conference links to the Africa-U.S. Higher Education Initiative co-chaired by Cornell President David Skorton.

Taking Cornell to the Canary Islands

Some of the Library's recycled computers were distributed throughout the country this year, when shipments went out to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). West Virginia State University re-ceived 20 computers from the Library, and various other HBCUs re-ceived 15 more.

“Any way to keep the computers out of a land-fill and get them to people who need them is fantastic.”

John HoffmannCornell University Library Director of Facilities Planning

More Traveling Computers

Multimedia assets from the College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) that were once scattered throughout the Web are now gathered in a single place, thanks to the newly developed CVM Media Archive.

The new format makes it easy for resources to be used as education-al tools and to create instructional Web sites and informational docu-ments. The archive resulted from collaboration between the Veterinary Library, the Department of Library Information Technology, and Partners in Animal Health, a program co-sponsored by the Library that provides Web-based information for pet owners and veterinarians alike.

In this innovative partnership, the Veterinary Library extends its tradi-tional role of gathering, storing, and providing access to print-based and audio-visual information including digital images, video clips, and audio files. In this way, the Library finds itself deeply integrated into the mission and goals of the Veterinary College.

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Extending Tools for Animal Research

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How can new information technologies help some of the poorest farm-ers in the world?

Cornell University, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foun-dation, addressed that question by organizing two WorldAgInfo Proj-ect workshops. The project aimed to produce strategies for investing in new information technologies to aid small-scale agricultural producers.

Mary Ochs, interim director of Mann Library, co-chaired the core orga-nizing design team. The group brainstormed ways of improving access to agricultural information with people in India, Sri Lanka, Mali, Zam-bia, and other countries.

Cornell hosted the first workshop in October 2007. Agricultural re-searchers, educators, and practitioners met to identify the information needs of African and Asian producers and those who support them. Ochs, Janet McCue, John Fereira, and Jaron Porciello—all members of the library staff—also traveled to Zambia in November 2007 for the sec-ond workshop.

“I genuinely believe this endeavor is critical to all of our futures,” said Cornell President David Skorton.

worldaginfo.org

Spearheading Agricultural Education in Asia and Africa

Brazil, Botswana, China, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia, and South Afri-ca came to Ithaca, N.Y. in October 2008 for the Starr Foundation Con-ference held at the Law Library. International law librarians joined their American counterparts from Cornell University, Duke University, New York University, and Campbell University to discuss modern practices and challenges in foreign and international legal research.

Muna Ndulo, professor of Law and director of the Institute for African Development, gave the keynote address on “The Integration of Electron-ic Research into Teaching.” Librarians gave presentations on the status of electronic legal research and available legal resources in their countries, resulting in a revealing comparative analysis. The conference was funded by the Starr Foundation and sponsored by Cornell Law Library and New York University Law Library.

Destination: Cornell

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Sowing the Seeds of Thought

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“The Library is a constant, but it is always working to make things new and innovative, and to make things easier for students. The Library allows me to access information from anywhere and it provides a place to go when I need to get work done.”

Heather Levy ‘10ILR School

Martin P. Catherwood Library

Full version of CUL’s 2007/2008 Annual Statistics:ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/9968/browse-title

Unless otherwise stated, data are for July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008, and include the Weill Medical College in New York City.

Statistics, Grants, and Donors

Collections Print volumes: 7,943,148 E-books: 392,855 Current journals and other serial titles: 93,000 (55,000 electronic; 48,000 non-electronic) Microforms: 8,521,365 Maps: 253,439 Videos/DVDs/films: 41,958 Sound recordings: 122,062 Archival and manuscript materials: 72,511 cubic feet Electronic collections created/maintained locally: 62 Facilities User seats: 5,685 Public computers: 742 Laptops for loan: 182 Cafés: 3 (Mann, Olin, Uris) Library hours during the academic year: 146 per week (Uris open 24 hours/day Sunday-Thursday) Services Library visits: 3,940,155 Sessions on core library Web pages: 7,435,457 Circulation checkouts and renewals: 1,266,144 Reference sessions: 78,566 Instruction sessions and tours: 1,745 Items borrowed from other libraries for Cornell users: 37,678 On-campus, library-to-library delivery: 25,772 Faculty office delivery: 4,873 Expenditures Collections: $17,745,343 Salaries, wages, benefits: $30,619,417 Operating: $8,345,802

Staff (FTE) Librarians: 126 Staff: 335 Student assistants: 121

Cornell University Library at a GlanceThe Library is among the top 10 research libraries in North America. With 20 unit libraries on the Ithaca, New York City, and Geneva, N.Y. campuses, The Library serves a Cornell population of 34,935 as well as a broader state, na-tional, and international audience, in accordance with its land grant mission.

Cornell community we serve: 34,935

13,510

7,136

2,767

11,522

16,000

14,000

12,000

10,000

8,000

6,000

4,000

2,000

0Undergrads Grads Faculty Staff

Others with borrowing privileges: Retired, temporary, visiting, and affiliated faculty and staff; staff spouses; SUNY students, faculty, and staff, and New York State non-student residents (state libraries); Ithaca Public School teachers; and eligible local and regional non-Cornell individuals who have purchased library cards.

ARL’s 2006/2007 Library Investment Index Top 20

1 Harvard 11 New York

2 Yale 12 Princeton

3 Columbia 13 Illinois, Urbana

4 Toronto 14 Washington

5 UC Berkeley 15 Wisconsin

6 Michigan 16 Minnesota

7 UCLA 17 Duke

8 Penn State 18 North Carolina

9 Texas, Austin 19 Alberta

10 Cornell 20 Pennsylvania

Source: ARL at www.arl.org/stats/annualsurveys/arlstats/index.shtml

In 2006/2007, the Library ranked 10th out of 113 university libraries in ARL’s Library Investment Index. This index is based on: to-tal library expenditures; sal-aries and wages for profes-sional staff; total materials expenditures; professional plus support staff FTE.

Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Library Investment Index (Ithaca/Geneva only)

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Unit Libraries Up Close: Hours, Visits, and Services

Wide range of electronic services: Electronic services and software range from the more traditional servic-es, such as electronic reserves, electronic document delivery (MyDocu-ment Delivery), and an electronic table of contents service (MyContents), to those on the horizon such as VIVO (a research-focused discovery tool) and CUL Labs (a site that allows users to test and provide feedback on newly developed technology tools that make it easier to research and share information).

Library Hoursopen

Library visits*

Visits per hour*

Public computers

Laptopsfor loan

Circulation checkouts &

renewals

Library-to-library

delivery

Faculty office

delivery

Reference sessions

Instruction sessions

Adelson (Lab of Ornithology) 39 4,467 2.3 3 0 962 51 1 322 26

Africana 75 27,823 7.4 6 2 11,591 371 32 171 26

Annex 35 489 0.3 1 0 42,955 10,548 766 n/a n/a

Asia Collections 114 with Olin with Olin 10 with Olin with Olin with Olin with Olin 897 38

Engineering 104 339,883 65.4 111 9 46,651 461 44 1,697 27

Fine Arts 87 88,658 20.4 16 3 65,390 1,055 165 2,185 4

Geneva Experiment Station 44 u/a u/a 16 13 2,121 374 3 588 14

Hotel 93 240,084 51.6 30 22 68,708 294 22 2,711 24

Industrial & Labor Relations 83 384,568 92.7 49 0 25,833 620 63 5,819 107

Law 80 u/a u/a 14 0 20,968 416 78 8,058 134

Management 102 237,516 46.6 16 0 31,666 473 29 2,561 64

Mann/Entomology 102 306,801* u/a 148 50 165,699 2,421 259 10,654 209

Mathematics 85 83,206 19.6 9 3 24,257 262 32 567 n/a

Medical College 108 232,199 43.0 39 10 48,963 n/a n/a 3,261 158

Medical Archives 43 580 0.3 0 0 n/a n/a n/a 475 n/a

Music 78 40,414 10.4 45 3 46,524 267 17 1,710 2

Olin 114 1,197,062 210.0 70 30 490,865 6,140 2,971 20,390 356

Physical Sciences 87 78,987 18.2 14 2 15,795 200 36 479 31

Rare & Manuscript Collections

44 with Olin with Olin 3 0 24,952 n/a n/a 10,079 134

Uris 139 614,372 88.4 130 32 120,565 1,683 346 5,020 with Olin

Veterinary 94 63,046 13.4 12 3 11,679 136 9 650 22

Total 146* 3,940,155 539.7 742 182 1,266,144 25,772 4,873 78,294** 1,376

* Combined total longest hours a user could physically access at least one library during a typical academic week. See full report for measure caveats.** This chart does not include central services. The total reference sessions count is available on page 62.

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Citations added, 647,990: The number of references users added to RefWorks (citation management software). Through RefShare, users can dynamically share their RefWorks folders with anyone on the Web.

Unit Libraries Up Close: Holdings, Facilities, Expenditures, and Staffing

Over 7 million Web sessions: CUL provides access to many of its resources and services through its main Web presence (library.cornell.edu). There are consistently over 7 million sessions per year on the Library’s core Web pages.

Behind the scenes: In 2007/2008, the Library added 128,624 new volumes, cataloged 112,751 titles, provided 58,613 in-house conservation treatments, and bound 22,639 volumes.

Collections expenditures

Totalexpenditures

Staff (FTE)excl. students

$16,883 $85,570 1.5

$27,948 $195,503 2.5

n/a $239,506 6.0

with Olin with Olin 9.2

$920,748 $1,588,588 8.3

$203,390 $594,099 6.1

$223,840 $363,179 3.0

$236,744 $725,174 7.6

$483,047 $1,985,806 23.5

$1,452,158 $3,158,244 21.9

$367,821 $887,592 7.5

$2,366,451 $8,656,777 50.6

$333,840 $564,484 2.0

$1,743,515 $4,270,513 31.1

n/a $86,680 2.0

$141,525 $468,812 2.9

$7,049,592 $13,385,740 72.7

$806,687 $1,372,487 8.1

$735,872 $2,429,462 19.6

with Olin with Olin with Olin

$453,360 $985,835 6.7

$17,563,419**.. $42,044,052** 293**

*Includes shelving dedicated to print materials only.** This chart does not include central services (e.g. administration, technology, technical services, etc.). Total expenditure and FTE counts are available on page 62.

Library Volumes Seating Linear feet of shelving

Net squarefootage

Adelson (Lab of Ornithology) 13,568 23 1,508 1,939

Africana 22,927 29 2,476 3,078

Annex 2,683,562 9 335,722 79,454

Asia Collections 816,890 179 74,542* 36,619

Engineering 244,886 215 27,757 23,815

Fine Arts 125,799 168 15,325 20,657

Geneva Experiment Station 52,410 17 8,997 4,396

Hotel 28,911 102 3,189 8,094

Industrial & Labor Relations 180,562 261 42,754 67,903

Law 542,912 430 91,702 68,700

Management 53,524 138 5,181 9,710

Mann/Entomology 469,562 1,139 70,399 127,505

Mathematics 67,117 104 8,617 9,438

Medical College 190,806 236 6,155 26,633

Medical Archives 2,458 6 6,548 4,769

Music 148,256 161 16,655 22,674

Olin 1,784,568 1,092 252,529* 187,227

Physical Sciences 74,160 154 13,004 14,584

Rare & Manuscript Collections

226,326 26 66,470 26,372

Uris 170,744 1,005 20,306* 56,769

Veterinary 43,200 191 7,607* 11,728

Total 7,943,148 5,685 1,077,443 812,064

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Circulation Up CloseTotal checkouts and renewals by type, 1,266,144:893,290 general collections, 146,448 course reserves, 101,184 lap-tops, and 125,222 other equipment (such as laptop peripherals, cam-eras, polling devices, etc.)

Staff: 49,412

Library card holders: 7,894

Loans to other institutions: 49,483

Faculty: 56,115

Other (manual, carrels, department): 53,099

Grads: 170,167

Undergrads: 344,475

Checkouts by user group (Ithaca/Geneva only): 730,645

Web Site Usage Snapshots

Type of checkout by user group (Ithaca/Geneva only)

Laptop

Equipment

Reserve

Collections

0 60,000 120,000 0 60,000 120,000 0 60,000 120,000

Faculty Grads Undergrads

One month’s sessions on the Library’s central Web site: 1,727,044

Digital collections hosted by Library

Licensed resources via Library Web site

Library Catalog

Core Library Web pages

20%

12%4%

64%

One day’s sessions on the Library’s central Web site by location of viewer

30,000

25,000

20,000

15,000

10,000

5,000

0

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Core Library Web pages

Digital collections hosted by Library

Licensed resources via Library Web site

Library Catalog

On Ithaca campus On Weill & Qatar campuses

Off-campus Ithaca/U.S.

Off-campus international

Interlibrary Lending and Reference Collection Growth and Material Expenditures

Traditional versus Borrow Direct interlibrary borrowing for Library patrons (Ithaca/Geneva only)

Borrow Direct enables Cornell faculty, staff, and students to search the combined library catalogs of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn, Princeton, and Yale universities—a collection of over 40 million volumes—and directly request expedited delivery of circulating items. The loan period has been increased to 42 (from 28) days.

20,000

15,000

10,000

5,000

0Borrow Direct requests filled Traditional interlibrary

loan requests filled

18,569

5,630

Types of reference sessions

60,000

50,000

40,000

30,000

20,000

10,000

0

In person, via phone, snail mail E-mail Online chat

56,010

14,089

2,558

Note: Excludes counts that could not be reported separately by type.

Media includes: Maps, films, videos, DVDs, slides, filmstrips, sound recordings, and comput-er files.

Rate of growth: Media items, printed volumes, manuscripts, and microforms

Media pieces Printed volumes Archival and manu-script materials

Microform pieces

14%

12%

10%

8%

6%

4%

2%

0%

Rate of growth: networked electronic resources (Ithaca/Geneva only)

250%

200%

150%

100%

50%

0%

Full-text e-journals E-books, indexes, Web sites, etc.

Serial titles: The Library provides access to an estimated 93,000 current journal and serial titles, more than half of which are available electronically to the Cornell com-munity.

Material expenditures:The Library spent an estimated $7,041,326 on electronic materials and $8,801,921 on non-electronic materials in 2007/2008 (Ithaca/Geneva only).

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All electronic resources

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

User Satisfaction

Princeton Review In Princeton Review’s 2009 Best 368 Colleg-es’ Rankings, Cornell Li-brary is rated 5th based on students’ responses to the question, “How do you rate your school’s library facilities?”

2005 Cornell University Faculty Work-Life Survey Mean satisfaction with aspects of work and qualities of work life by gender (Ithaca/Geneva only)

Source: Institutional Research and Planning (2005), dpb.cornell.edu/IP_E_Faculty_Work_Life.htm

3 = neither satisfied nor dissatisfied; 4= somewhat satisfied; 5 = very satisfied

2006 Quadrennial Cornell Senior SurveyCornell seniors rate the quality of library facilities and resources:Satisfaction with quality of campus services and facilities (Ithaca/Geneva only)

Source: Institutional Research and Planning (2006), dpb.cornell.edu/IP_E_Senior_Survey.htm

Library facilities and resources

Computer facilities and resources

Classrooms

Food services

Registrar’s office

Computer services and support

Student housing facilities

Financial services (bursar, etc.)

Lab facilities and equipment

Career services

Campus security office/campus police

Student health services

Athletic facilities

Student housing office/services

Student employment offices Administration’s responsiveness to concerns

Financial aid officeForeign language facilities

Your financial aid awardPsychological counseling services

% of Seniors reporting: 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Very satisfied Generally satisfied

59.3 38.4

43.1 49.6

25.4 66.8

35.8 52.0

18.9 65.1

31.4 52.5

16.8 62.7

15.7 60.6

23.6 50.1

24.3 47.1

19.6 51.1

17.2 49.9

19.5 45.6

11.3 53.3

18.0 38.8

9.3 47.1

10.8 34.8

13.5 31.1

14.1 26.0

10.2 15.9

The Library has consistently received high user satisfaction ratings from both students and faculty, as exemplified by the following surveys.

Best 368 Colleges’ Best College Library

1 Harvard College

2 Princeton University

3 Duke University

4 College of New Jersey

5 Cornell University

6 Brigham Young University

7 Loyola University

8 College of William & Mary

9 University of Chicago

10 Columbia UniversitySource:www.princetonreview.com/college/college-rankings.aspx

Being a faculty member

Aspects of appointment

Current rank

Current salary

Benefits

Office space

Clerical support

Library

Computer resources

Access to quality grad students

Advising responsibilities

Committee responsibilities

Qualities of work life

Intellectual stimulation of work

Opportunities to immerse oneself

Opportunities for collaboration in unit

Opportunities for collaboration around Cornell

Opportunities for collaboration outside Cornell

Opportunities to affect students’ lives

3.00 3.50 4.00 4.50 5.00

Men Women

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Grants

L’Année Philologique Online: $22,425 from the American Philological

Association to enhance electronic access to its Web site by improving the Open

URL linking.

Digitization and Indexing of the Donovan Nuremberg Trials collection:

$15,000 from the Nathaniel Lapkin Foundation to expand access through

digitization and indexing to the Donovan Nuremberg Trials collection,

consisting of nearly 150 bound volumes of Nuremberg trial transcripts and

documents from the personal archives of General William J. Donovan (1883-

1959).

Digitizing and Cataloging the Vicos Collection: $10,000 from the Herman

Goldman Foundation to expand access through digitization and cataloguing

of material from the Vicos Collection, consisting of photographs, maps and

documentation from the Cornell-Peru Project conducted by the Cornell

Anthropology Department in Vicos, Peru, in the 1950s.

DISCOVER: $622,415 from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research to

establish the DISCOVER Research Service Group to facilitate data-driven

science at Cornell by developing cross-disciplinary data archival and discovery

tools. The Library and the Department of Astronomy, in partnership with the

Cornell Center for Advanced Computing will work closely with DISCOVER

research groups from multiple disciplines along with core data management

and curation staff to provide accessible paths for the curation, preservation,

and mining of scientific data.

East Asia: Challenges of Complex Realities in an Era of Globalization

and Digitization: $29,235 from 15 donors to support the conference,

“East Asia: Challenges of Complex Realities in an Era of Globalization and

Digitization,” held at Cornell Nov. 7-9, 2008, in conjunction with the 90th

anniversary celebration of the Library’s Wason Collection on East Asia.

New York State Archives Digitization: $44,594 from the New York

State Department of Education to scan photos, slides, manuscripts,

broadsides, and other materials in the New York State Archives collections.

Protecting Future Access Now: Developing a Prototype Preservation

Model for Digital Books: $50,000 from Portico to collaborate in the

development of a prototype service that will provide a practical model for

the preservation of digitized books.

Provision of The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL) for

Local Area Networks: $162,500 from the Alliance for a Green Revolution

in Africa to provide the Alliance with upgraded local area network versions

of TEEAL for distribution to African institutions, along with training and

support.

Special Legislative Project: $12,500 New York State Legislative Grant

sponsored by Senator Michael Nozzolio ’73, to support the acquisition of

research materials in the area of industrial and labor relations.

Towards Interoperable Preservation Repositories (TIPR): A

Demonstration Project: $179,941 from the Institute of Museum

and Library Services to develop a proof of concept for the exchange of

information between digital preservation repositories, in partnership with

the Florida Center for Library Automation and the New York University

Libraries.

Updating Cornell University Library’s Serial Holdings in OCLC:

$9,100 from the South Central Regional Library Council to correct and

update Cornell University Library’s holdings in the Online Computer Library

Center’s WorldCat database. This will enhance bibliographic access to

Cornell’s collections for regional, national, and international users.

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Far Above…The Campaign for Cornell will empower the univer-sity to lead and be a model for higher education in the 21st cen-

tury. To maintain the depth and excellence of the collections and services that sustain Cornell’s outstanding academic

and research programs, Cornell University Library must:

� Provide students, faculty, and researchers with easy access to outstanding collections, often through inno-vative digital solutions.

� Acquire new material and deepen existing collec-tions to support new faculty members and emerging areas of teaching and research.

� Teach students to develop information competency as they explore, analyze, and use extensive print, digi-tal, and multimedia resources.

� Remain a time-honored place where students, fac-ulty, and visitors come every day to dig deeper, make discoveries, and give birth to new ideas and thoughts.

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Far Above…The Campaign for Cornell

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Ann E. Berman ‘74 & Samuel S. Spektor

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Prof. James R. Cooke

Stephen G. Eckhaus ‘72

Dr. Amy Fendrich-Graff ‘81

Bernard Gartlir ‘38 & Shirley Gartlir ‘40

Jeffrey A. Gelfand ‘72

Babak Ghalili

Harry M. Gittelson ‘77

Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation

Denison H. Hatch ’71 & Wendy A. S. Hatch

IBM Corporation

Mary S. Jaffe ‘37

L. William Kay ’51 & Brit L. Kay

Dr. Cheryl F. Newman ’70 & Leon S. Newman Jr.

Joel I. Picket ‘60 & Joan Picket

William B. Provine

Robert A. Rosevear ‘37

Gail G. Rudin ’56 & Stephen I. Rudin

Dr. Hussain Shaukatullah ‘78

Michael T. Sillerman ‘68

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Dr. Thomas E. Talpey ‘47 & Elizabeth A. Talpey ‘48

Arnold B. Tofias ‘44 & Gloria Tofias

Washington Mutual Foundation

Gurdon B. Wattles ‘57 & Kathleen K. Wattles

Howard J. Weg & Karlene K. Weg

Dr. Ian R. Wetherly ‘61 & Janet C. Wetherly

$100,000+The Estate of Lorna Bennett ‘31

Nicholas H. Noyes Jr. Memorial Foundation

$50,000-$99,999Marilyn F. Friedman ’66 & Thomas Block

Herbert J. Hawley ‘46

Pauline S. Lee ‘79 & Daniel J. Zubkoff ‘79

Stephan M. Loewentheil JD ’75 & Beth M. Farber ‘77

The Estate of Margaret B. Rice

$10,000-$24,999Stephen B. Ashley ’62 & Janice G. Ashley

Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond Charitable Foundation

Lida Greenburg Exstein ’81 & Michael B. Exstein

Stuart B. Goldman ‘57 & Alice Goldman

Joyce G. Jordan ‘49

Luxury Catalogs.Com, Inc.

Fred W. McLafferty ’50 & Elizabeth C. McLafferty

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Barry M. Cass ’70 & Eileen M. Cass

The Estate of Margaret F. Knox ‘43

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Cornell University Library thanks its donors for their extraordinary financial support.

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