Uris Library Activity
This is a quick update on what has been going on in Uris Library.
As you are probably aware, in October of 2009, the Board of Trustees approved design development and enabling work for a fire safety improvement project in Olin Library. The construction work is scheduled to begin in May-June, 2010 and be completed in the fall of 2011. It will require the temporary relocation of around 100,000 volumes of the Olin collection. At the end of the project, the Olin/Uris collections will be re-mapped to facilitate better discovery and easier maintenance. We’ll be working on the re-mapping of the collection with the faculty Humanities Research Collections Council. For more information on the fire safety project, please visit our site at https://blogs.cornell.edu/firesafety/. It is still very much under construction but we’ll be populating it with more information, as it becomes available.
In the meantime, the formal collaboration agreement with Tsinghua University in China, which CUL signed in the fall, as you probably know, also includes the sale of 95,000 duplicate volumes from the Uris collection to Tsinghua University. The money from the sale will be used to increase the Cornell University Library’s collections acquisition budget. Further information on the sale of the Uris duplicative collection can be found at http://www.library.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/TsinghuaSale.pdf.
As patrons come back for the spring semester, they will notice a lot of changes in Uris. The first shipment to Tsinghua will have happened and we are now preparing for the relocation of 100,000 volumes from Olin to the Uris stacks. This will take the whole spring semester and will begin with the A.D. White Library, which will house a “History of the Books” collection. We’ll be updating both the fire safety web site and the Olin/Uris site with the specifics of what call numbers are where, we we move material.
We expect a certain amount of disruptions but we will do our best to minimize them. If you get any patron questions, please don’t hesitate to direct them to any of the service desks in Olin/Uris or to me.
If you yourselves have any other questions or comments, please feel free to contact me.
Thanks.
Kornelia Tancheva
Director of Olin and Uris Libraries
255-3774