Slope Day at the Library
May First is Slope Day!
Library schedules for Slope Day, including hours for Olin & Uris, Libe Cafe & more …
RefShare Opens Doors
Citation management software – a means of sharing publications – can make researchers’ lives easier, and for one group in the College of Human Ecology it has expanded research support nationally.
New exhibit in Uris Marks WST Takeover 40 Years Ago
Two exhibits documenting the 40th anniversary of the Willard Straight Hall takeover are currently on display in the Uris Library lobby and in the Africana Library.
Finding Guide for Archival and Other Materials
Digital Literacy Contest!
Compete to find information online. $200+ in cash prizes. Free food for everyone. Hosted by the Cornell Univeristy Library on Thurs Apr 9 from 4:30 – 6:00pm.
More details & online sign up…
Information competency initiative
Cornell University Library starts undergrad information project to get students beyond Google…
In the digital age, research changes at the speed of broadband.
It’s nothing new for librarians to help people learn research skills, but the Internet revolution demands more than a chat at the reference desk. That is why the Cornell University Library has launched the Cornell Undergraduate Information Competency Initiative…
Olin/Uris Librarian Lance Heidig discusses an exercise during the Information Competency Institute with faculty partner Jami Carlacio, a lecturer in the Department of English.
Research Minutes
How to Identify Scholarly Journals: our most popular video on YouTube (over 7000 hits!!)
Experiment underway…
This is a designated laboratory space for flicks, tweets & feeding frenzies. If you have a dire need for further information, send us a tweet @ OlinLib
or if you must, an e-mail.
Historical Statistics of the United States
Print and Online [Online access for Cornell users]
Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present.
Millennial edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 5 volumes.
(Olin Library Reference HA 202 .A385 2006 + and online)
Historical Statistics of the United States began in 1949 with 3,000 statistical time series. Each subsequent addition added more and more data, culminating with the 12,500 series in 1975’s 2-volume Bicentennial Edition, which was double the size of its predecessor and has served as the standard resource for US historical data for decades. But now, thirty years on, we have the Millennial Edition and yet another doubling in size, this time to five large volumes, each dedicated to a specific statistical sphere: Population; Work and Welfare; Economic Structure and Performance; Economic Sectors; and Governance and International Relations. Where the earlier edition offered 120 pages of population data, the new one presents an entire 715-page volume’s worth. Though “many” data series from the prior editions are included here, the editors are careful to point out that some of the data have been revised. Also, some older material was not reproduced because it was deemed unreliable or obsolete. The prefatory texts supply context and has been updated to include contemporary concerns such as household production and labor force participation by sex and race. As has always been the case, the original data sources are fully cited and annotated. [Fred Muratori]
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