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New Request System in RMC

Margaret Nichols from the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC) sends word of an important change in procedures:

A few minutes past 8:00 am on Thursday, January 10, the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections inaugurated a new online registration and request system. The new system will allow patrons to do most of the registration process online, and to request materials from the collections online as well, instead of having to fill out request slips by hand. It will also improve RMC’s ability to handle the many requests it receives, to host classes and exhibitions, to process reproduction orders, and to analyze how our collections are being used and how we can best focus our efforts to provide access to them. In implementing the new system, which uses Aeon software from Atlas Systems, Cornell joins a distinguished group; Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the New-York Historical Society, the American Antiquarian Society, and the University of Texas at Austin, among others, are all in the growing community of Aeon libraries.

In order to register in the new system, all users will need to register online, even those who have recently registered by manually filling out a registration card in RMC. Fortunately, the online registration takes only a few minutes. Simply go to https://rare.library.cornell.edu.  Once registered, you will be able to request the delivery of RMC holdings electronically.

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