History @ CUL

Digital Grants Program for Cornell Faculty

Is there something that would aid your teaching or research if it were in digital form?  Dean Lepage has just announced the 2011 Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences.  You don’t need any technical expertise – just a good idea.  Just send a brief email by 4 February that expresses initial interest […]

NY State Census volumes

From 1790 to 1821, the state of New York conducted six censuses of electors, separate from the U.S. Federal census.  Starting in 1825 until 1925, the state conducted its own census of inhabitants.  The Library has many, but not all, of the printed statistical reports prepared from these censuses. Recently the New York State Library […]

Upcoming Olin changes

Some of the upcoming changes necessitated by the Olin Fire Safety project may have an impact on historians: The periodical room will be relocated to the Willis Room in Uris Library on Jan. 26th and the space will be closed to the public until early April. The 4th floor will close to the public on […]

Full-text books via HathiTrust

Last Fall, the Cornell University Library joined over 50 other libraries in membership in the HathiTrust Digital Library.   HathiTrust brings together the immense collections of partner institutions in digital form, preserving them securely to be accessed and used today, and in future generations.  HathiTrust currently has over 4 million digitized titles, and the number is […]

New African American History Resources

Eric Kofi Acree, Director of the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library, sends along the following news: I just wanted to announce the following databases new to Cornell University Library: 1.       HistoryMakers, https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=7100596&DB=local This database contains videotaped oral interviews with at least 100 African Americans. For example, included is a 2001 interview with a then State […]