“Negro All Comics” Article?
I’m looking for a 1947 issue of Time Magazine with an article on “All Negro Comics.” I looked up Readers Guide to Periodical Literature but to no avail. I was also told to look for All Negro Comics in Readers Guide but I couldn’t find anything under the subject “Negro.”
Your instincts are dead-on. Readers Guide Retrospective online (through Database Names on the library home page) is the right place to check. And like you, I didn’t find an article called “All Negro Comics.” So I googled a bit to see if I could find some clues. I found a blog entry http://mercurie.blogspot.com/2007_08_12_archive.html that talked about a July 1947 Time Magazine article that mentioned All Negro Comics. That led me to redesign my search and find this citation below:
Title: Ace Harlem to the rescue
Journal Name: Time
Source: Time v. 50 (July 14 1947) p. 75
Database: Readers’ Guide Retrospective
Time Magazine has an online archive for this period: http://www.time.com/time/archive and the article above is here:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,779181,00.html
Enjoy!
Olin Library Reference
Archival reproductions
I wonder if I may have copies of the contents of :
box 10 folder 14
box 10 folder 16
relating to general macdonald from the rare& manuscript collection. Thank you.
Thank you for your reproduction inquiry. I have forwarded your email to our Reproductions Unit, who will be in contact with you within the next
couple of weeks. Please note that our library will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday from Thursday through Saturday of this week.
Regards,
Ana
ED NOTE: More information about obtaining archival reproductions
can be found at http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/services/reproductions.html
Information on arbitration cases
Where can I find information on Arbitration Cases dealing with Union Employees and unreasonable production expectations?
Unfortunately, labor arbitration decisions are usually not available for free on the Internet. There are several commercial databases and legal publications that provide indexing and full text of labor arbitration decisions. These resources are described at http://www.llrx.com/features/adr.htm#Arbitration%20Awards, within the excellent guide, LLRX: Researching Labor Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution in Employment by Suzanne Thorpe, Professor of Legal Research Instruction and Laura J. Cooper, Stewart and Mario Thomas McClendon Professor in Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution, University of Minnesota Law School.
The Catherwood Library subscribes to many of these databases and publications, but use is limited to the Cornell Community and visitors to the library in Ithaca, NY. Please check with your local library for resources available in your vicinity. Good luck!
Susan LaCette
ILR Library
Library to Library Book Delivery
Question:
I am trying to make a request (retrieve book from Africana, bring it to Olin) but the system is not work. How should I do this?
Answer:
The way to make a request is to go to the top of the record, in the purple tab, and hit on the “request” button.
It will then bring up three definitions (hold, recall and book delivery service) and you will choose “book delivery” service from the drop down menu. You then follow the instructions for putting in the library that is most convenient for you to pick the book up.
If you have followed these steps and it is still not allowing you to complete the request, then kindly phone the circulation desk to inquire what the problem is. It may be that the material is on reserve, or non-circulating, or that you own a fine which will block you from making this transfer. A list of circulation desks with their contact information can be found here: http://www.library.cornell.edu/services/circ_email.html
Kindly,
Olin Library Reference
Where can I find this dissertation?
Dear Librarian,
I couldn’t find this dissertation. Is it possible for me to get it somewhere? Thanks a lot.
title: Select issues concerning the Geneva Uniform Law on Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes, Article 3 of the Uniform Commercial Code and the United Nations Convention on International Bills of Exchange and International Promissory Notes and methods of unification of the law of international trade
author: Villamar, Barbara Elisabeth, S.J.D., The George Washington University, 2005; AAT 0388443
Greetings,
Some dissertations are available full text through the database Proquest Dissertations, but the title below is not available through that means. You’ll need to borrow it through Interlibrary Loan which can be used for items that Cornell does not have in any form.
If you haven’t used Interlibrary Loan before, first you’ll need to register, then you can request the loan of an item: https://cornell.hosts.atlas-sys.com/nonetid/home.html
Please let us know if you have any other questions.
Best of luck with your research,
Olin Library Reference
E-Book from ILL?
I tried to order an electronic copy of a chapter but the web page didn’t work after I added my faculty account number. Can you help? The chapter I am hoping to read is:
Charles, Maria and Karen Bradley (2006). “A Matter of Degrees: Female Underrepresentation in Computer Science Programs Cross-Nationally.’ Pp. 183-203 in Joanne McGrath Cohoon and Bill Aspray, eds. Women and Information Technology: Research on the Reasons for Underrepresentation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Hi,
If you tried ordering the book chapter through interlibrary loan, the request failed because we have the book here at Cornell. The title is actually Women and information technology: research on underrepresentation. Though the print copy is checked out, there is an online version available at https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=6177650&DB=local . Click the “Connect to full text” link and then the book title to access it. You can print out individual pages but can’t download the chapter.
If you want the print copy you can recall it from the faculty member who has it (they will have ten days to get it back before we start charging them) or you can order it through Borrow Direct.
I hope this helps and please let us know if you have any questions.
-Mann Library Reference
Trying to find historical NYS Department of Labor publications.
I am an author trying to locate data on NY State employment or unemployment during the years 1928 through 1940. I understand that New York was one of the first states to systematically collect such data, during the governorship of Franklin Roosevelt and when Frances Perkins was NY Secretary of Labor. Staff at the NY Department of Labor indicated that some older records of this type were transferred to the Catherwood Library about ten years ago.
The collection from the New York State Department of Labor is housed in the Kheel Center. I am attaching a listing of the publications that comprise the collection.
In addition, the Catherwood Library and other Cornell libraries have many publications from the New York State Department of Labor. You can find these by using a Guided Keyword search in the Classic Catalog, http://catalog.library.cornell.edu. Search New York State Department of Labor (as a phrase) and limit the search by date to pre-1940. This search, while not perfect, will give you an idea of the publications that could contain unemployment data.
Since the catalog records are not so specific as to describe the actual content of these historical publications, finding the data you need would be quite difficult. Librarians here at Cornell can assist you if you can visit us. Some of the publications might also be available in a library closer to where you live. Try searching the titles you find in http://www.worldcat.org.
I hope this information is useful. Please contact me via telephone, 607-255-9178 or the Kheel Center, 607-255-3183, if you need more information.
Susan LaCette
ILR Reference
Is there any way to correct data in ISI Web of Knowledge?
Hi! I found a paper in the ISI Web of Knowledge which does not have the correct author listed. Is there any way to correct this?
Data change request can be submitted through the Thomson Reuters website; just click here to be taken to the request form. If you are one of the authors of the work in question, it would probably be best for you to submit the change.
I hope this helps!
Mann Library Reference
Can you help me find copies of 19th century labor speeches and periodicals?
I am looking for periodicals or speeches from 1820-1840 that would be what a working man would have read. Also Tristam Burges writings in the same years, and the speeches of William Heighton. I am interested in the race relationship of free blacks and white workers during those years. I was told that Catherwood library at Cornell University has microfilm editions of New Harmony Gazette (1825-1828), The Mechanics Free Press (1828-1831), and The Working Man’s Advocate (1829-1835) on Microfilm. Is there a possibility of inter-library loan to anywhere in Northern NJ? I am desperately trying to find these archive documents but haven’t found any source yet. Does your library actually have this? Can you please help me?
Hello,
The Catherwood Library does have the three periodicals on microfilm, but we do not loan microfilm. I think, though, that I have a good option through which you can get access to the periodicals. The American Periodicals Series, an electronic full text source from ProQuest, contains full text in .pdf format of both the New Harmony Gazette and Working Man’s Advocate. The Cornell University Library subscribes to APS as do several other libraries. For instance, it is available through Rutgers University. Rutgers also has some holdings of the Mechanics Free Press. Information from Rutgers about access to its libraries’ materials is available here .
You can find what other libraries subscribe to APS or to the journals themselves by searching WorldCat.org, an interlibrary catalog. If you decide to visit our library to use our materials, please let us know beforehand. At least some of the microfilms are located in our archival collection, the Kheel Center. We will have to check their availability and completeness.
I hope this information is useful and that you can get the materials you need close to your home. Good luck with your research.
Susan LaCette
ILR Library
Future of MyContents service?
Q: I’ve heard that the MyContents service is going to change and/or go away in the future. What’s really going to happen?
A: The MyContents Table-of-Contents (TOC) service [which provides customized, emailed copies of the TOCs of newly published journal issues], has indeed be phased out as of June 30, 2009. A variety of alternative services are available for those who still want to be kept abreast of current journal issues, however. They can be found at the Current Awareness page of the CU Libraries: http://www.library.cornell.edu/resrch/current. On that page are Current Awareness services for both tables of contents as well as new books. A number of these services can interface directly with Web 2.0 and social networking sites so that you can get information about new issues or books that way.
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