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Anne Kenney
Interim University Librarian

Featured Library

Adelson Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

The Adelson Library contains a rich array of historical and contemporary ornithological materials, including an extensive collection of monographs and journals.

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Featured Exhibit

Lafayette: Citizen of Two Worlds

Drawn from Cornell's extensive Lafayette Collection, the largest of its kind in America, this exhibition celebrates the 250th anniversary of the birth of the famous 18th-century French general. Best...

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Featured Book

Chasing Cool

By Noah Kerner '99; Gene Pressman

Kerner, CEO of the marketing agency Noise, and his co-author believe that chasing after cool is a bad idea. They interview artists, designers, musicians, and filmmakers—people who "pursued a vision...

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News Highlights

Mann Library Reopens After Major Renovation

Mann Library Reopens After Major Renovation

The original Mann Library building reopened at the start of the fall semester, marking the near-completion of a 4-year renovation project and the end of 7 years of operation in the adjacent library...

New Law Library Web Site Offers Resources for All

New Law Library Web Site Offers Resources for All

The Cornell Law Library has launched a new Web site with easier access for students and faculty, as well as the public, to its resources and services.

Cornell Library Joins Google Book Search Project

Cornell Library Joins Google Book Search Project

Cornell University Library is partnering with Google Inc. to digitize materials from the library's collections and make them available online through Google Book Search. About 500,000 volumes from...

Former Library Student Worker Authors Best-Selling Children's Book

Former Library Student Worker Authors Best-Selling Children's Book

Would Cornell allow a lion in any of its libraries? Perhaps, if it were like the kind-hearted lion brought to life by Michelle Knudsen '95 in her children's picture book, "Library Lion." Knudsen...

Law School Gives Library Collection to French Court

Law School Gives Library Collection to French Court

Cornell's Law School has given a collection of 13,000 volumes of American case law, duplicate materials from the Cornell Law Library, to the Cour de cassation--France's highest civil and criminal...

"Welcome to the Unfinished Business": President Emeritus Rhodes Inspires Library Audience

"Men and women of Cornell, sons and daughters, all, of Ezra Cornell, welcome to the unfinished business." The surge of applause and ovations that pursued Cornell President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes...

From Computerized Cataloging to Hand Stamping, New Books Get Special Treatment

From Computerized Cataloging to Hand Stamping, New Books Get Special Treatment

Each day, more than 450 new books destined for the 18 campus libraries on the Ithaca campus arrive at the loading dock behind Uris Library to begin a highly organized journey into the library system...

$16 Million a Year in Purchases Keeps Cornell Library Up-to-date

$16 Million a Year in Purchases Keeps Cornell Library Up-to-date

If you read about a book in the New York Times, chances are Cornell University Library has it on its shelves -- or will in a few days. If you found a citation to an article in the Journal of Really...

Alumni Gifts of Comic Collections Provide New Research Material (and more than a few chuckles)

Alumni Gifts of Comic Collections Provide New Research Material (and more than a few chuckles)

From Cicero's Cat to Joe Palooka, and Wonder Woman to the Swamp Thing -- recent gifts of comic art from two members of Cornell's Class of 1992 are providing important new primary sources for scholars...

Former Daily Sun Editor-in-Chief Funds Digitization of Paper's First 50 Years

Former Daily Sun Editor-in-Chief Funds Digitization of Paper's First 50 Years

A Cornell Daily Sun alumnus who went on to a fruitful journalism career has made it possible for the university to add the student newspaper's earliest years to its digital collection. Keith...

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The Ezra Files: A Bicentennial Celebration

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Ezra Cornell's birth -- and to offer an insight into the man and how his visions for the university evolved -- this weekly column in the Cornell Chronicle explores...

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