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6th Floor of Olin is closing

As part of the fire safety improvement project, the 6th floor of Olin Library will close to the public on Tuesday, 28 Sept. 2010. The projected completion date of that floor is 19 Nov. 2010. The affected call numbers are A, F, and P-PG. Note that F includes the local history of the Americas. As […]

Library’s September update to faculty

The September report to faculty from University Librarian Anne Kenney and Mary Beth Norton, chair of the Library Faculty Advisory Board, is available at http://www.library.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/LibraryUpdatetoFaculty_090210.pdf. It provides updates on the Olin Life Safety Project and the Unit Library reviews (including a report on the Fine Arts Library).

Ulysses S. Grant Digital Collection

The Library recently added a catalog record for the freely-accessible Ulysses S. Grant Digital Collection. The broad collection, which is housed at Mississippi State University Libraries, consists of some 15,000 linear feet of correspondence, research notes, artifacts, photographs, scrapbooks, and memorabilia and includes information on Grant’s childhood from his birth in 1822, his later military […]

CUL PassKey: A great off-campus time-saver

If you know about CUL Passkey, you can stop reading now. If you don’t, read on for a tip on how to get easier access off-campus to licensed library electronic resources. A little while ago, while working at home, I came across links to the current issue of Historically Speaking and its roundtable on “How […]

7th Floor of Olin closing, 30 Aug – 19 Oct.

From the Olin Library Fire Safety Improvement Project: 8/30/10 Update Published on August 27, 2010 in Uncategorized. Closed Phase 4 construction (7th and 8th floors), including asbestos abatement on each floor, begins on Monday, August 30th. The 7th floor will close to the public on Tuesday, August 31. Call number ranges B-CT will be inaccessible […]

Electronic Enlightenment

Thanks to the efforts of a consortium of selectors, the Library has been able to purchase a subscription to the Electronic Enlightenment, the database of 17th, 18th, and 19th century letters distributed by Oxford University Press.  The database consists of almost 60,000 interconnected letters from almost 7,000 correspondents across Europe, the Americas, and Asia.  It […]

The History @ CUL blog

History @ CUL has been created to report on developments in the Cornell University Library that may be of interest to the large community of historians at Cornell.  It will include announcements of new print and electronic resources that may be of interest, other recent acquisitions, trial access to licensed historical databases, software tools of […]