Cornell University Library
Cornell University Library | |
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microfiches, more than 71,000 cubic feet (2,000 m3) of manuscripts, and close to 500,000 other materials, including motion pictures, DVDs, sound recordings, and computer files.[2] | |
Size | 8 million (2014) |
Other information | |
Budget | US$19 million (2023) |
Director | Elaine L. Westbrooks |
Employees | around 300 total (2020)[3] |
Website | www |
The Cornell University Library is the
Structure
The library is administered as an academic division; the University Librarian reports to the university
The
History
The Cornell University Library system initially was a collection of 18,000 volumes stored in Morrill Hall.
By 1885, the library had installed electric lights and stayed open 12 hours per day (instead of only a few hours per week—as most other libraries at American universities did at the time—just enough time for faculty to check out and return books), which allowed students to use it as a reference library.[8]
Initiatives
The library plays an active role in furthering online archiving of scientific and historical documents. It provides stewardship and partial funding for arXiv.org e-print archive, created at Los Alamos National Laboratory by Paul Ginsparg. arXiv has changed the way many physicists and mathematicians communicate, making the eprint a viable and popular form for announcing new research.
The Project Euclid initiative, named after Euclid of Alexandria, is a resource joining commercial journals with low-cost independent journals in mathematics and statistics. The project is aimed at enabling affordable scholarly communication through the Internet. Besides archival purposes, a primary goal of the project is to facilitate journal searches and interoperability between different publishers.
The Cornell Library Digital Collections are online collections of historical documents. Featured collections include the Database of African-American Poetry, the Historic Math Book Collection, the Samuel May Anti-Slavery Collection, the Witchcraft Collection, and the Donovan Nuremberg Trials Collection.
Rare holdings
The library houses several rare manuscripts. It houses one of the five copies of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1863)—the only such to be privately owned and the only one accompanied both by a letter from Lincoln transmitting the manuscript and by the original envelope addressed and franked by Lincoln.[9] The library houses cuneiform tablets; a major collection of medieval books and witchcraft trial records; thousands of pamphlets produced during the French Revolution; and the correspondence between Jefferson and Lafayette.
It also holds a copy of
The Rare and Manuscript Collection is housed in the Cornell Library System’s Carl A. Kroch Library. With more than 500,000 printed volumes and 20,000 cubic feet of manuscript materials, the collection is vast and useful to the faculty and staff of Cornell University, as well as the public who can access any of the collection that has been digitized. The collection dates back to the university’s founding in 1865, by the first president of the university Andrew Dickson White. In 1891, the collection received its founder’s 30,000-volume collection. Specifically, the Department of Rare Books was founded in 1951 and was absorbed into the Rare and Manuscript Collection in 1992, the year the current physical location opened its doors. [15] The 14 main collections within the Rare and Manuscript Collection are the: American History & Culture, Architecture & City Planning, Asian History & Culture, Cornell University Archives, Digital Collections, European History & Culture, Food, Wine, and Culinary History, Icelandic History & Culture, Literature & Theater, Moving Images & Sound Recordings, Music, Photographs, Science & Technology, and Sexuality & Gender. [16] The Rare and Manuscript collection houses the largest collection on the French Revolution outside of Paris, the largest collection in North America on European witchcraft, America’s founding collection on the abolitionist movement, and the second largest William Wordsworth Collection.[17]
Significant collections
Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art is a research repository for
General Collection
The archive's collections include
The general collection consists of various material about audio, sound art, eco and bio art, exhibitions, artist compilations, installations, interactive narrative, poetry, online listserv, internet art journals, performance, theory, video art, and cinema. Among the artists whose work can be found in the general collection are
Special Collections
Apart from the general collection, the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art houses many special collections and fellowship competitions. Some of them are the following:
The Renew Media Fellowships in New Media, an annual competition for interactive dynamic media, was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation in New Media Art from 2002. The Goldsen Archive serves as the repository for the digitized copies of this competition material, such as the proposals, slides, artists' portfolios, other supportive material, etc. from 2003 to 2008.[21]
The Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant-Garde Art, a collaboration among the Goldsen Archive, the
The Yao Jui-Chung Archive of Contemporary Taiwanese Art contains the Taiwanese artist Yao Jui-Chung's portfolio, 8,000 images of Contemporary Art Exhibition Postcards and Taiwan performance art.[24]
The "ETC: Experimental Television Center Archives"
Net Art: The Goldsen Archive provides access to a number of
Preservation
Because of the fragility and the complexity of the artworks,
Other collections
- Agriculture collections
- The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture[33]
- Asia collections
- Cornell Hip Hop Collection[36]
- Fiske Icelandic Collection[37][38]
- Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History (HEARTH)[39]
- Human Sexuality Collection[40]
- Kinematic Models for Design Digital Library (KMODDL)[41]
Movies and photos of hundreds of working mechanical-systems models at Cornell University. Also includes an e-book library[41] of classic texts on mechanical design and engineering. - Making of America Collection[42]
- Ornithology collection
- Race and Religion Collection[43]
- The Rose Goldsen Archive of New media Artserves as a repository for many special collections and fellowship competitions, such as:
- The Repository[44] of the Experimental Television Center
- Foundation Fellowships in New Media Art[21]
- The Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant-Garde Art[45]
- The Lynn Hershman Leeson archive[46]
- Samuel May Anti-Slavery Collection[47]
- Witchcraft Collection[48]
- Other digital collections[49]
Units
- Adelson Library (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
- Africana Library (Africana Studies and Research Center)
- Industrial and Labor RelationsLibrary)
- Engineering Library (Carpenter Hall)
- Geneva Experiment Station Library
- Kroch Library: Asia Collections and Rare and Manuscript Collections
- Law Library
- Management Library (Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Sage Hall)
- Mann Library
- Mathematics Library (Malott Hall)
- Medical Library (Weill Cornell MedicalLibrary)
- Mui Ho Fine Arts Library (Rand Hall)
- Music Library (Lincoln Hall)
- Nestlé Library (School of Hotel Administration Library)
- Olin & Uris Libraries
- Physical Sciences Library (virtual)
- Veterinary Library (Flower-Sprecher Veterinary Library)
References
- ^ "The Cornell Public Library". Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections - Cornell University Library. Archived from the original on May 22, 2011. Retrieved March 7, 2010.
- ^ "Collections - Cornell University Library". www.library.cornell.edu.
- ^ "Staff". Cornell University Library. Retrieved August 18, 2023.
- ^ "Collections - Cornell University Library". www.library.cornell.edu.
- ^ "The Nation's Largest Libraries: A Listing By Volumes Held". July 7, 2006.
- ^ Mian, Anam; Roebuck, Gary (July 7, 2022). "ARL Statistics 2020". Association of Research Libraries.
- ^ a b "Southeast Asia Collection (Echols) - Kroch Library, Division of Asia Collections - Cornell University Library". asia.library.cornell.edu.
- ^ Glazer, Gwen (Fall 2012). "The library that never sleeps". Ezra. Vol. V, no. 1. Cornell University. Retrieved March 4, 2015.
- ^ "The Gettysburg Address". RMC website. 2013. Retrieved March 4, 2015.
- ^ A., White, Jeanne (June 10, 1999). "Ornithology Collections in the Libraries at Cornell University: A Descriptive Guide". rmc.library.cornell.edu.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Flood, Alison (January 6, 2012). "World's most expensive book, Birds of America, set to fetch $10m". The Guardian. Retrieved June 9, 2013.
- ^ "Origin of Species". Cornell University Library. Retrieved March 4, 2015.
- ^ "Book of Mormon". Cornell University Library. Retrieved October 11, 2011.
- ^ "Pride and Prejudice". Cornell University Library. Retrieved March 4, 2015.
- ^ https://rare.library.cornell.edu/ [bare URL]
- ^ "Collection Highlights – Rare and Manuscript Collections".
- ^ "Collection Overview – Rare and Manuscript Collections".
- ^ Murray, Tim. "Bio of Tim Murray". Society for the Humanities. Cornell University. Retrieved June 16, 2015.
- ^ a b "Narrative Section of a Successful Application" (PDF). National endowment for the humanities, Division of Reservation and Access. National endowment for the humanities. Retrieved June 16, 2015.
- ^ Murray, Timothy. "About the project". Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art. Cornell University Library. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
- ^ a b Renew Media: Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships in New Media Art, 2003-2008. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- ^ "Chinese Avant Garde Art Archive". Chinese Avant Garde Art Archive. Cornell University. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
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- ^ a b "Video library and archives of the Experimental Television Center (ETC)". ETC, Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art. Cornell University Library. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
- ^ Murray, Timothy. "NEA Collaboration Grant: Turbulence + Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art". HASTAC:Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory. HASTAC. Archived from the original on February 27, 2015. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
- ^ Kroker, Arthur; Kroker, Marilouise; Murray, Timothy. "About the journal". CTHEORY MULTIMEDIA. Cornell University Library. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
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- ^ About the fragility of digital media see:"Preservation 101: Media Preservation". Independent Media Art Preservation (IMAP). IMAP c/o Lehman College. Retrieved June 18, 2015. and "EAI Online Resource Guide for Exhibiting, Collecting & Preserving Media Art:Preservation". Electronic Art Intermix. Electronic Arts Intermix. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
- ^ "Digital Art History Databases: Preservation and Documentation Strategies- Archives". Ingo Studio: Paul Hertz. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
- ^ "Media art needs global networked Organisation & support – International Declaration". Media Art History. Archived from the original on June 20, 2020. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
- . Retrieved April 24, 2022.
- ^ Cook, Michael (June 1, 2004). "Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA)". chla.library.cornell.edu.
- ^ "Asia Collections - Kroch Library, Division of Asia Collections - Cornell University Library". wason.library.cornell.edu.
- ^ "Kroch South Asia Collections". Archived from the original on August 25, 2002.
- ^ "The Cornell University Hip Hop Collection". rmc.library.cornell.edu.
- ^ Fiske Icelandic Collection
- ^ Mitchell P. M. 1978. Halldór Hermannsson. Ithaca N.Y: Cornell University Press.
- ^ "Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History (HEARTH)". hearth.library.cornell.edu. March 31, 2003.
- ^ "Human Sexuality Collection - Rare and Manuscript Collections". rmc.library.cornell.edu.
- ^ a b "Kinematic Models for Digital Design Library (KMODDL) - Engineering Library". Cornell University Library. Retrieved April 24, 2022.
- ^ "Cornell University Library Making of America Collection". cdl.library.cornell.edu.
- ^ "Race, Ethnicity and Religion - Cornell University Library". racereligion.library.cornell.edu.
- hdl:1813.001/8946249.
- ^ "Chinese Avant-garde Art Archive". asia.library.cornell.edu.
- hdl:1813.001/7761936f. Archived from the originalon September 30, 2022. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
- ^ "Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection". www.library.cornell.edu.
- ^ "Cornell University Library Witchcraft Collection". Archived from the original on November 6, 2003.
- hdl:1813.001/8930519.
See also
- Google Books Library Project