CUL in the News
Shelf Life: a weekly Cornell Chronicle column about recent happenings at the Library
December 2011
Video: Framing the 19th-Century Photograph (CornellCast, Dec. 22)
Beinecke among world's most beautiful college libraries (Yale Daily News, Dec. 15)
Library celebrates 100th anniversary of Chinese book gifts (Cornell Chronicle, Dec. 15)
The 25 most beautiful college libraries (Flavorwire, Dec. 15)
Survey: Resource-sharing 'opens up doors' to Cornell & Columbia libraries (Cornell Chronicle, Dec. 12)
Building Harvard's Library (Harvard Gazette, Dec. 12)
Things to Do: College century (Cornell Chronicle, Dec. 8)
Papers to stay here in Albany (Albany Times-Union, Dec. 5)
New shuttle will offer late-night trips (Cornell Daily Sun, Dec. 2)
Live from the libe (Cornell Daily Sun, Dec. 2)
Interview with Marty Schlabach (Biodiversity Heritage Library, Dec. 2)
Interview with Mary Ochs (Biodiversity Heritage Library, Dec. 2)
Question 10: Librarians! (Dear Uncle Ezra, Dec. 1)
The climax of the semester (Cornell Daily Sun, Dec. 1)
November 2011
Digitizing a best-kept secret: Cornell's coin collection (Coin Week, Nov. 30)
Building a better campus (Cornell Daily Sun, Nov. 29)
Right-sizing academic law library print collections (Law Librarian blog, Nov. 23)
As law faculty increases, school plans expansion (Cornell Daily Sun, Nov. 22)
Building project will expand Cornell law school (ABA Journal, Nov. 22)
New winter break program seeks to assist PhD students (Cornell Sun, Nov. 21)
Portraits & power: Library exhibition unpacks America's earliest photographs (Cornell Chronicle, Nov. 21)
Digitizing a best-kept secret: Cornell coin collection (R&D Mag, Nov. 16)
Cybertools streamline language research (Cornell Daily Sun, Nov. 16)
Digitizing a well-kept secret: Cornell's coin collection (Cornell Chronicle, Nov. 16)
The dawn of photography (Cornell Chronicle's Things to Do, Nov. 10)
Health Watch: Fair focuses on local food, fiber and energy (Ithaca Journal, Nov. 15)
Prof. Schneider '75 donates a first edition of 'Catch-22' (Cornell Daily Sun, Nov. 14)
'Catch-22' gift rounds out WWII stories and images collected in Cornell library (Cornell Chronicle Nov. 9)
Cornell researcher explores eating dirt (Cornell Daily Sun, Nov. 9)
Library digitizes interviews with international mathematicians (Cornell Chronicle, Nov. 8)
Charleston Conference: Big ideas, big challenges (Library Journal, Nov. 8)
Professor delves into gender history (Ithaca Journal, Nov. 4)
Mann Library hosts food and fiber fair (USAgNet, Nov.3)
Ed Wood sleaze paperbacks (Cool Hunting, Nov. 2)
Library helps PhD humanities students (Cornell Chronicle, Nov. 2)
October 2011
Cybertools will help analyze languages (Cornell Chronicle, Oct. 31)
Tioga schools get Cornell computers (Cornell Chronicle, Oct. 27)
Grant will help arXiv e-print management go worldwide (Cornell Chronicle, Oct. 27)
Grant to support development of stable governance structure for arXiv scientific repository (Library Journal's Digital Shift, Oct. 26)
Cornell releases only known images of extinct woodpecker (Associated Press, Oct. 26)
Cornell issues film of extinct woodpecker (New York Times, Oct. 26)
Cornell Library gets grant to plan arXiv governance model (Digital Koans, Oct. 26)
Building arXiv's self-sustaining future (InfoDocket, Oct. 25)
Neutrinos find a place in debate and pop culture (New York Times, Oct. 25)
Governance and the not-for-profit publisher (The Scholarly Kitchen, Oct. 24)
College CIOS want more power in negotiations with vendors (Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 24)
Occupy Olin Library (Cornell Daily Sun, Oct. 21)
Today's case: Problem-based learning (Cornell Daily Sun, Oct. 20)
Cornell University adopts Serials Solution Summon discovery service (Digital Journal, Oct. 20)
Cornell police investigate flasher in Olin stacks (Cornell Daily Sun, Oct. 19)
Cornell University: Library digitization projects span multiple millennia (InfoDocket, Oct. 19)
Bike-sharing program adds bikes, locations (Cornell Daily Sun, Oct. 18)
Cornell University adopts Serials Solutions Summon discovery system (PRWeb, Oct. 18)
Library digitization projects span multiple millennia (Cornell Chronicle, Oct. 12)
Architect remembered for key designs (Cornell Daily Sun, Oct. 12)
Library digitization projects span multiple millennia (ECN Mag, Oct. 12)
Resource fair shows local teachers how Cornell can help (Cornell Chronicle, Oct. 11)
McCue authors intro to outdoors classic (Cornell Chronicle, Oct. 11)
CU book series takes up potatoes (Ithaca Journal, Oct. 10)
NYC library salon pays tribute to birth of photojournalism (Cornell Chronicle, Oct. 7)
Book talk: The Complete Book of Potatoes (USAgNet, Oct. 7)
New book is all about growing potatoes (Cornell Chronicle, Oct. 5)
New law library head adapts to change (Cornell Daily Sun, Oct. 5)
Book publishers and patron-driven acquisition: Announcing a research project (The Scholarly Kitchen, Oct. 4)
September 2011
On its 10th birthday, Library's Chats in the Stacks series branches out (Cornell Chronicle, Sept. 30)
Miller left his mark on Ithaca's skyline (Democrat and Chronicle, Sept. 30)
The arXiv at 20: a global resource (Cornell Chronicle, Sept. 27)
Chemist honored anew for his enzyme breakthroughs (Cornell Chronicle, Sept. 27)
Hotel school receives $3M to transform library and lounge (Cornell Daily Sun, Sept. 27)
Book talk: Popular culture in Egypt's 1919 uprising (Cornell Chronicle, Sept. 27)
Electronic Television Center: Refocusing (Rhizome, Sept. 26)
Book talk: Popular culture in Egypt's 1919 uprising (Cornell Chronicle, Sept. 26)
The fight over the future of digital books (The Atlantic, Sept. 23)
'Divine or monstrous love': Alexandridis on bestiality in ancient Greece (Cornell Chronicle, Sept. 23)
Human Sexuality Collection receives gay-related photographs (Scientific Computing, Sept. 16)
Human Sexuality Collection receives gay-related photographs (ECN Mag, Sept. 15)
Tom Clausen '73 writes hiaku, biked from NY to Guatamala (Cornell Daily Sun, Sept. 15)
Cornell Library receives gay-related photograph collection (Cornell Chronicle, Sept. 15)
Femi Cadmus named new head of law library (Library Journal, Sept. 14)
Cornell Library adopts orphan works project (Cornell Chronicle, Sept. 15)
The Library is a-changin' -- in some ways (Cornell Chronicle, Sept. 6)
Libe Cafe renamed (Cornell Daily Sun, Sept. 1)
August 2011
A pioneer's legacy: Endowment boosts Mann's limnology collections (Ezra update, Aug. 31)
Move by universities creates new problem for Google Books deal (PaidContent.org, Aug. 30)
Duke, Cornell, Johns Hopkins and Emory to offer orphan works electronically (Law Librarian Blog, Aug. 29)
Duke to expand e-books (News & Observer, Aug. 29)
Kernals below Libe (Cornell Daily Sun, Aug. 26)
Four universities and UC Libraries join orphan works project (Digital Koans, Aug. 25)
Orphaned books to be made available (Cornell Chronicle, Aug. 25)
4 more universities join orphan works project (Inside Higher Ed, Aug. 25)
Universities band together to join orphan works project (Peter Scott, Aug. 25)
Four universities join 'orphan works' project (TeleRead, Aug. 25)
Cornell, Duke, Emory, Johns Hopkins join HathiTrust's orphan works project (InfoDocket, Aug. 24)
Major libraries join controversial project to put orphan works online (Chronicle of Higher Education, Aug. 24)
Whatever happened to the John Brown Bell? (Charleston Gazette, Aug. 20)
Paul Ginsparg reflects on arXiv anniversary (Phys.org, Aug. 15)
The arXiv turns 20 (Symmetry Magazine, Aug. 12)
Ginsparg reflects on arXiv anniversary (ECN's Cutting Edge, Aug. 12)
Online archive founder reflects on future of Internet scholarly publishing (Cornell Chronicle, Aug. 12)
Paul Ginsparg reflects on arXiv anniversary (R&D Magazine, Aug. 12)
arXiv at 20 (Nature, Aug. 11)
The first free research-sharing site turns 20 (Chronicle of Higher Education, Aug. 10)
Interview with Peter Hirtle (American Libraries, Aug. 10)
Cornell librarian builds community through books (Ithaca Journal, Aug. 5)
Interview with Peter Hirtle (Here and There blog, Aug. 4)
July 2011
Wordswoman: Obituary for Anne LaBastille (Adirondack Life, July/August issue)
Microsoft fellowship could help create a worldwide camera (Cornell Chronicle, July 19)
Triangle Factory Fire 100 years later (Archival Outlook, July/August issue)
Cornell and Columbia expand library partnership (Inside Higher Ed, July 18)
Cornell & Columbia team up (Ithaca Journal, July 17)
2CUL expands partnership (Cornell Chronicle, July 15)
The war comes to Galveston (New York Times, July 1)
Campus mural artist discovered in new book (Ezra magazine, summer issue)
June 2011
Gift for visual resources program will help build Library's future (Ezra magazine's June update)
Library's reunion lecture with Doug Antczak (CornellCast, June)
Teachers learn how to spice up classes with ideas from global food customs (Cornell Chronicle, June 29)
Project Euclid receives 2011 PAM Division Award (Against the Grain, June 27)
Library's Project Euclid wins association award (R&D Magazine, June 25)
Library's Project Euclid wins association award (Scientific Computing, June 25)
Cornell Library's Project Euclid wins association award (Cornell Chronicle, June 24)
Project Euclid receives 2011 PAM Division Award (Peter Scott's Library Blog, June 24)
Euclid receives division award (Duke University Press News, June 23)
The sound of silence (The Economist, June 21)
2010 top 10 trends in academic libraries (College & Research Libraries News, June 2011)
Research libraries and publishers stake out positions on international ILL (Library Journal, June 14)
Antczak entertains alumni with tales of hybrids and chimeras (Cornell Chronicle, June 14)
Olin Library celebrates its 50th birthday (Cornell Chronicle, June 13)
Putting the economic pieces together (Genessee Country Express, June 9)
2CUL expands Southeast Asia collaboration (Cornell Chronicle, June 8)
Library hosts fly fishing talk (Ithanca Journal, June 5)
For alumni classes '1s and 6s,' a Reunion marked by firsts (Cornell Chronicle, June 2)
Celebrating Olin @ 50 (Cornell Chronicle's Things to Do, June 2)
Femi Cadmus appointed Cornell's law librarian (Law Librarian Blog, June 1)
The ivory tower opens its treasure chest (The Economist, June 1)
May 2011
Literacy in the digital age (Inside Higher Ed, May 28)
2011 Senior Class Campaign: Big, but outside the box (Cornell Chronicle, May 28)
Library helps with digitization plan for Nigerian archive (R&D Magazine, May 24)
My library story (The Ardent Adventure blog, May 20)
Finding more founders (New York Times, May 20)
Library helps scholar digitize books that help 'reconstruct humanity' (Cornell Chronicle, May 19)
Pop artist Edward Ruscha's rare books come to Cornell's library (Cornell Chronicle, May 19)
Grants cap decade of Human Sexuality research (Scientific Computing, May 19)
Leveraging the Semantic Web (NCRR Reporter, Winter/Spring 2011)
Grants cap decade of Human Sexuality research (Cornell Chronicle, May 18)
Scholarly Practice, Participatory Design, and the eXtensible Catalog (ACRL Insider, May 10)
Cornell University Librarian visits Peking University (PKU News, May 7)
Western Kentucky University libraries join online collective (Associated Press, May 6)
Six iPhone apps for nature lovers (Reader's Digest, May 6)
Generation Tech: From shhh to click (Cornell Alumni Magazine, May 6)
You've seen her murals around campus -- now she's rediscovered in a new book (Cornell Chronicle, May 5)
Cornell artist rediscovered in new book (Cornell Chronicle, May 5)
arXiv seeking funds for second year of collaborative support (Library Journal, May 4)
Cornell law library restores, digitizes trial pamphlet collection (Cornell Daily Sun, May 4)
Bike-share program gives Cornelians a free ride (Cornell Chronicle, May 3)
CIT will require NetID for access to computers (Cornell Daily Sun, May 3)
Professional book-lovers discuss careers for English majors (Cornell Chronicle, May 2)
April 2011
Ingram announces new library ebook access model (Library Journal, April 25)
Letter to the Editor: How Bambaataa really went down (Cornell Daily Sun, April 25)
DeKok presents gripping view into Ithaca's 1903 typhoid outbreak (Ithaca Times, April 20)
Rare books in the press: The Trojan Horse vs. Godzilla at Cornell Library (ILAB, April 20)
Monster smackdown (BookTryst, April 19)
A legend, a letdown (Cornell Daily Sun, April 18)
Cornell library rescues early U.S. trial records (Ithaca Journal, April 17)
Library lauds top student employees (Cornell Chronicle, April 15)
Periodicals price survey 2011 (Library Journal, April 14)
Whatever happens with Google Books, HathiTrust will keep books online (Cornell Chronicle, April 14)
Library rescues early American pamphlet collection (Cornell Chronicle, April 13)
Entire Cornell website to be archived (Cornell Daily Sun, April 13)
New York Times paywall raises questions for university libraries (Cornell Daily Sun, April 12)
Hip hop symposium coming to Cornell (Ithaca Journal, April 11)
Editorial: Full disclosure on university contracts (Cornell Daily Sun, April 11)
Hip hop pioneers return to Cornell (Cornell Chronicle, April 7)
Library receives historic video art collections (Cornell Chronicle, April 6)
Afrika Bambaataa heading Cornell symposium on hip hop (Ithaca Times, April 6)
Discussing Cornell's stand on nondisclosure agreements (WHCU, April 6)
Cornell Library stands up to publishers (Cornell Daily Sun, April 6)
When institutional buyers step up to the plate (Law Librarian Blog, April 5)
Nixing the Google Library (Cornell Daily Sun, April 4)
Cornell Library's digitization project unaffected by Google ruling (Cornell Daily Sun, April 1)
March 2011
This week in Cornell History (Cornell Chronicle, March 25-April 1)
Remembering New York's deadliest factory fire (NPR's "Tell Me More," March 25)
Unofficial sources (Idaho Mountain Express, March 25)
Cornell rejects nondisclosures on journal pricing (Techdirt, March 23)
Bronx may soon spice up welcome signs (YourNabe.com, March 23)
Cornell Library takes stand against nondisclosure agreements (Library Journal, March 23)
Quick Takes: Cornell Library will make journal prices public (Inside Higher Ed, March 23)
A century after Triangle Fire, unions face uncertain future (Pew Research Center, March 23)
Library calls for contract transparency (Cornell Chronicle, March 23)
Cornell Library stands up to publishers' policies (Scientific Computing, March 23)
Cornell rejects nondisclosure clauses in publisher and vendor agreements (Law Librarian Blog, March 23)
Cornell University: "That's tt!" to library vendor NDAs (Media Law Prof Blog, March 22)
Cornell U. Library takes a stand with vendors: Prices will be made public (Chronicle of Higher Education, March 21)
Triangle Fire: A half-hour of horror (New York Times, March 21)
Triangle fire inspired safer workplaces (Ithaca Journal, March 21)
Remembering an American tragedy (CBS News, March 20)
Where to go: Civil War websites to start your search (Columbia Daily Tribune, March 20)
'Triangle' author says fire's tragedy remains relevant to unions (NJ.com, March 20)
'Columbia, NYU, and NYPL collaboration opens up research collections (Library Journal, March 17)
Larger than life: Animal legends and their legacies (Cornell Daily Sun, March 15)
Entire Cornell Web space will be archived (Cornell Chronicle, March 15)
'Man Up,' activists say (Cornell Chronicle, March 14)
Remembering the Triangle Fire, 100 years later (New York Times, March 14)
Literature about animals inspires debate about love and the afterlife (Cornell Chronicle, March 8)
The Triangle centennial and why it matters today (Huffington Post, March 8)
Socks, shirtwaists and saving the union (Huffington Post, March 8)
Policy on policies (Inside Higher Ed, March 4)
Six Triangle Fire victims identified (R&D, March 3)
February 2011
Six Triangle Fire victims identified (ECN Magazine, Feb. 25)
Uris Library included in "Great Libraries of the World" list (ALA Direct, Feb. 23)
Bike-sharing program coming to Cornell after spring break (Ithaca Journal, Feb. 23)
The future of ebooks (WHCU Morning Newscast, Feb. 22)
Ever mindful of black history (Tompkins Weekly, Feb. 21)
100 years later, the roll of the Triangle fire dead is complete (New York Times, Feb. 20)
Ithaca businesses creating mobile applications (Ithaca Times, Feb. 16)
Sports legend revealed: Did Nabokov work an actual baseball headline into 'Pale Fire'? (Los Angeles Times, Feb. 16)
Kheel Center commemorates Triangle fire (Cornell Chronicle, Feb. 16)
Cornell working to archive golf legend's work (YNN, Feb. 13)
A bird in the hand... (The Daily Item, Feb. 12)
New technology displays math problems on browsers (PhysOrg, Feb. 12)
Digitization grants open for second year (Cornell Chronicle, Feb. 2)
January 2011
More books come to CU library (Cornell Chronicle, Jan. 31)
CU gets 20 million more books through library (ECN Magazine, Jan. 31)
Books that bite (Cornell Daily Sun, Jan. 31)
Drastic measures in defense of books (Albany Times-Union, Jan. 30)
Cornell gains access to millions more volumes (Cornell Daily Sun, Jan. 28)
Meet the library personalities (Cornell Daily Sun, Jan. 26)
Harvard shares books with Ivies (Harvard Crimson, Jan. 26)
Harvard joins Borrow Direct (Yale Daily News, Jan. 26)
Harvard, MIT to join Borrow Direct system (The Dartmouth, Jan. 25)
Harvard Library joins Borrow Direct (Harvard Gazette, Jan. 24)
MIT joins Borrow Direct partnership (MIT News, Jan. 24)
New technology shows 'beautiful math' online (Cornell Chronicle, Jan. 11)
New technology displays math problems in browsers (R&D Magazine, Jan. 11)
Playing catch-up in the digital library race (New York Times, Jan. 8)
'Practice Babies' show adoption's dark history (ABC News, Jan. 7)
Famed golf course designer's records donated to Cornell (Syracuse Post-Standard, Jan. 7)
Cornell takes custody of Robert Trent Jones Sr.'s work (Bettor.com, Jan. 7)
Cornell gets Robert Trent Jones collection (Associated Press, Jan. 6)
Cornell to get papers from famed golf course designer (Ithaca Journal, Jan. 6)
Cornell to receive Robert Trent Jones papers (Golf Digest, Jan. 6)
Project Euclid's MathJax implementation creates 'beautiful math' online (ResourceShelf, Jan. 4)
Vegging in: Moosewood archives come to Cornell (Cornell Alumni Magazine, Jan. 4)
For 2010's media mentions, visit CUL in the News 2010.
