Did you know? Thanks to a joint initiative between Cornell unit libraries faculty, staff and students now have full access to DocuSeek2, the new academic streaming source for top quality documentary films. With this acquisition, current Cornellians can select from 1,200+ documentaries in all major disciplines—from environment to health economics—to view directly online or embed in learning management systems for class-related use. And even better: The license associated with Cornell’s use of this collection covers group screenings as well, allowing student organizations and any other Cornell program to host public viewings of any film found in the DocuSeek2 library—once we can all get back to the gatherings that make Cornell campus life so vibrant. This will take care of copyright concerns that student groups may have faced in the past when trying to show documentary films at their events (though we should note they’ll still be on the hook for their own popcorn.) And until then, as we all ride out the wave of national COVID-19 mitigation work together, using your own home computer to view some of the world’s best documentaries on subjects vital to the health and well-being of society and planet is a great way to turn a long stint of “sheltering in place” to protect public health into a pretty amazing mind-opening experience as well. Check out the collection at bit.ly/doc-film-collection—and enjoy!
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Recording a Lecture with Slides: Easier Than You Think!
We’ve all become keenly aware: preparing lectures for remote presentation has suddenly become fundamentally essential to higher education and research collaboration, here at Cornell as elsewhere around the world—but maybe you’re still a bit of a novice in the process. You’ve created a presentation using PowerPoint and now you’d like to record the lecture that goes with it. The Zoom virtual meeting platform would be one relatively easy way to do that. But how exactly?
If you find yourself feeling a bit stumped by that question—don’t worry. You’re not alone, and we’ve put together something that we think could help: a set of step-by-step instructions provided below and an accompanying tutorial video (available at vimeo.com/405070626) that will give you illustrations to go along with it. We think this gives the Zoom novices among us here at Cornell enough guidance to produce a lecture-with-slides video successfully.*
But if you do end up with questions, don’t hesitate to be in touch—after all, that’s what the Chat button on the right of this screen is there for, right? Consultants at the Cornell Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) are also available for drop-in sessions for help on remote teaching; just drop in at teaching.cornell.edu/teaching-resources/planning-remote-teaching/online-drop-sessions. Finally, you can also also book Zoom-based one-on-one consultations with Mann librarians with expertise in your field here–we’d be happy to hear from you.
*Please note, faculty members using Canvas to connect with their students for a course can record a lecture using Zoom from within Canvas; for instructions on that, go to teaching.cornell.edu/resource/zoom-guides-information
Using Zoom to record a lecture with slides (see accompanying video for illustrations):
- To use Zoom to record a lecture with slides, you’ll need a computer, an internet connection and a webcam.
- Open your PowerPoint presentation on your screen.
- Open your browser and navigate to cornell.zoom.us.
- Select the Host a Meeting button, then click on With Video On. You will then need to log in using your Cornell credentials (net ID, password, dual & authentication required)
- In the next pop-up, select the Open Zoom Meetings button, then to select the Computer Audio option at the top of the next window, and then hit Join with Computer Audio.
- At the bottom of the screen that comes next (a full view of yourself as captured by your computer camera), you’ll find a navigation bar at the bottom. Click on the Share Screen button in that bar. (Note: you may need to hover over the bottom of the Zoom view with your mouse to get that navigation bar to show up).
- The next screen will show you options of the different screen views you can share. Click on the PowerPoint screen option and then hit the blue Share button on the bottom right. (As you share your screen, you’ll note that a thumbnail-sized picture of you being captured by your computer camera will continue to be visible in the top right corner of the screen for the duration of the recorded lecture. This will take up some “real estate” in the slides that you show as part of your recorded lecture, so you’ll want to be mindful of that as you put together your slides).
- Now start the slideshow in PowerPoint, which will then display your first slide in presentation mode. You’re ready to start recording.
- With your mouse, hover over the green button showing the Zoom session ID that appears at either the top or the bottom of your screen. This will trigger a pop-up navigation bar, and on the very right of that bar, hover again over the More option.
- Click on the Record on this computer option. This will launch the recording function.
- Proceed with your lecture, clicking through your slides as you would for a normal presentation using PowerPoint.
- When you’re finished with your lecture and would like to stop recording, again hover over the green session ID button, then over More and then click on the Stop recording option in the pop-up menu.
- In the next screen (which at this point will have reverted to the full image of you as recorded by the computer camera), find and click on the End Meeting button on the lower right hand corner of the screen.
- You will then see Zoom automatically converting the recorded lecture to an .mp4 video file.
- Zoom will then ask you where to save the file. It’s easiest to stick with Zoom’s default option, which is your Documents folder. Zoom will save your .mp4 file in a subfolder that includes your name and the current date.
- The final .mp4 file that is created will have the name zoom_0. To make that file more easily findable in the future, rename the file accordingly (e.g. [YourName]_[LectureTitle]_[CurrentDate]).
- Your file is now ready to upload to a shared drive, storage device or YouTube.
Congratulations on your recorded lecture! And remember, if you have feedback or questions for us, we’re here for you. Just shoot us an email at mann_outreach@cornell.edu.
Additional resources for preparing remote lectures and teaching remotely:
From the Center for Teaching Innovation: teaching.cornell.edu/teaching-resources/planning-remote-teaching;
From Cornell University Library: guides.library.cornell.edu/remoteteaching.
More eBooks & Electronic Resources Than Ever Before!
We are really pleased to announce that in response to the urgent challenge of COVID-19 mitigation, Cornell University Library is presently able to offer a significantly extended level of access to online resources. This is happening several ways:
1. Extended open access to large collections of high-quality digitized literature is being made available for the COVID-19 emergency period via
- HathiTrust (Cornell logon required; this expansion is providing online access to over half of the Cornell Library collection for the duration of COVID-19 mitigation)
- JSTOR
- Internet Archive National Emergency Library.
2. The Library now also has temporary free access to over 85,000 additional e-books available through our existing subscription to ProQuest’s eBook Central library through mid-June. This almost doubles the number of e-books that Cornell faculty, students and staff can access from eBook Central via the Library catalog – and each title has unlimited access. If you’d like to get a sense of some of the titles involved, check out this page of the library catalog.
3. Finally, also extremely helpful have been the publishers who have stepped up to offer free access directly to the materials that they have released in electronic format. Publishers who’ve joined this line up that may be of particular interest to CALS and CHE faculty include:
- JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) video collection
- ScienceDirect textbooks
- World Scientific
- MIT Press
- Burleigh Dodds Science ebooks
- Emerald ebooks (includes business, accounting, social sciences)
- EBSCO (ebooks now allow unlimited user access)
- ALEKS (mathematics, accounting, statistics, and chemistry)
Up-to-date information extended access to materials can be found at “Published Free” libguide. (Please note, publishers are generally providing extended free access is only for the duration of COVID-19 mitigation period, so access rules are subject to change over the coming months).
For further information about ebooks available through the Cornell University Library—including tips on how to find available ebooks most efficiently — check out our ebook libguide.
Still can’t find an ebook version of the book you need via a search on the Cornell University Library catalog? You can recommend a purchase here and we’ll get on it to see if we can’t order it fast for you!
As always if you end up with questions or need further assistance from a librarian, you can get in touch with us multiple ways, including:
- Hitting the blue “Chat With Us” button visible on the far right of the Mann Library website (new feature!);
- Booking a consultation (presently Zoom-based) with Mann librarians who have expertise in your field of research
- Shooting us an email at mann_outreach@cornell.edu.
One way or the other, we’ll be there for you when you need us—don’t hesitate to reach out.
Getting Your Course Reserves Right for Remote Teaching
Along with the rest of the Ithaca area, the Cornell campus is doing a great job of the social distancing required to mitigate coronavirus-19 transmission successfully. And with that—as much as we love you all, and as much as the Library doesn’t feel like a library with all this distance between us—Mann also remains closed to physical access for both staff and the public. But rest assured, we’re still 100% here for our patrons. As Cornell faculty start finalizing their preparations for successful rest-of-semester remote teaching, we want to make sure everyone is fully informed of the support and resources available for getting their course materials all set up.
To begin, when it comes to organizing course reserves for your remote students, the first and probably most important general resource for Cornell faculty to keep in mind is this web page: bit.ly/course_reserves_guidance. It’s part of the Cornell University Library’s Support for Remote Teaching Libguide and it gives a comprehensive overview of all the different things to keep in mind as you finalize your course reserves line-up.
And just to pluck out just a few of the key points:
- Students will be accessing electronic reserves under the “Course Reserves” menu link on their course’s Canvas site.
- To get started on (or for questions about) making course reserve materials accessible to your remote class, CALS and CHE faculty should contact: mann_reserve@cornell.edu
- Electronic items, including items found in course packets, must meet copyright or have the permission of the copyright holder for this type of use, and the library staff will work with you regarding permissions. One nicely positive thing to keep in mind here: Faculty will likely be relieved to know that Cornell Copyright Information Center is recommending that scanned course material may be made available to students in amounts that may exceed customary fair use limits under normal circumstances. Fair use provides somewhat greater flexibility during these exigent circumstances. For full info on this, see: NEW COPYRIGHT GUIDELINES FOR COVID-19.
- Faculty (and their students!) will also likely be happy to know that students can gain access to online course materials. The Cornell Store has partnered with VitalSource and leading publishers to launch VitalSource Helps, a program offering free access to ebooks for students. A student can use their cornell.edu email address to freely borrow up to seven (7) now through May 25, 2020. For more detailed instructions about this, please refer back to the CUL course reserves info page noted above.
We think that covers the main scoop on course reserves in the time of COVID-19 for now. We’ll update this page with any changes that come up. And as always, if you run into any questions or problems that you could use some one-on-one help with, please don’t hesitate to contact your Mann Library research support team or email us at mann_outreach@cornell.edu. We’ll get back to you right away. Stay safe and well, friends!
The Library Is Open Virtually
Over the past week, Cornell University Library staff have been working hard to make sure that Cornell libraries can continue to support teaching, learning and research at Cornell as we transition to virtual environments and remote work. The urgency of COVID-19 mitigation requires that all Cornell libraries stay closed to physical visits by the public until further notice. In compliance with the “New York State on Pause” Executive Order presently in effect, there are currently no library staff on site on the Cornell campus. However, we continue to operate a strong virtual presence to meet the needs of our faculty, staff and students.
We will be more posting detailed updates and guidance about available services and resources on the Mann Library news page over the coming days and weeks, but for now, we offer a broad overview, especially for faculty.
Access to library materials
All Cornell libraries are currently closed for physical visits by patrons and no staff are on site until further notice. Book paging and pick up as well as scanning services are also suspended for now. But Cornell University Library’s online collections are extensive, and although we are, at this time, unable to obtain physical materials or supply scanning services for items held in the Cornell Library, we are still able to supply many chapter or article scans electronically to active Cornell faculty, students and staff. Please first use the library catalog to identify resources that are available to you online. If you find you cannot get electronic access to the resource you need via the catalog, you can ask the library to purchase an ebook via the online purchase request, or you can contact library staff in a variety of ways, including via a Zoom session with a Mann librarian, and we will help you get to what you need. If you wish to connect with your favorite licensed resources directly, please remember to use Passkey to get through the paywalls.
Research support
We have a strong online help presence through the Ask-A-Librarian service, including e-mail reference and chat reference; chat services currently are available 24/7.
- Research Support is available via email or Zoom
- You can request online library instruction
Library support for remote teaching
Cornell librarians stand ready to help Cornell faculty teach remotely successfully.
Cornell librarians stand ready to help Cornell faculty teach remotely successfully.
- We have created a library guide providing a host of information for faculty preparing to teach remotely. Please check out Library Support for Remote Teaching Guide to check out the info we have there (and if you see anything missing, let us know!)
- As you identify materials that need to be moved into digital format, please use your usual channels to place requests including email to culreserves-l@cornell.edu or contacting your liaison.
- Guide to working off-campus provides helpful tips for anyone digging into work from an off-campus location.
- Recommend a purchase can be used to obtain electronic versions of books that you find to be unavailable at Cornell. This may not be possible with all titles, but as Cornell Library has significantly increased its e-book purchasing capacity in response to the current situation, you may well find an e-version of your requested book can in fact be made available.
As everyone is likely keenly aware, the COVID-19 situation remains fluid and quickly changing. To stay as up-to-date as possible on any changes in services and resources that we are able to offer to Cornell faculty, students and staff, please check the Cornell University Library COVID-19 Library Services Update page. And please be in touch and let us know what questions and concerns you have, as well as your suggestions for moving forward: mann_outreach@cornell.edu
OER Tools Help Faculty Teach and Students Learn More Affordably
Interested in lowering textbook costs for your students? Or perhaps you’re working on creating a new learning resource to help students get a better grasp of class material? We have some nice news with you in mind!
Faculty at Cornell and across the world are joining the Open Education Resources (OER) movement to save students money, take control over course materials, and improve learning. OER includes e-books, online learning modules and other course content created by teaching faculty across the world that is openly licensed and can be reused by other instructors that are hoping to assign high-quality low-cost or no-cost options to their students.
To start exploring OER repositories and learn more, check out the new OER LibGuide that Cornell librarians have created. Whether you’re interested in adopting OER into your class or in creating a new resource to share with others, the guide offers you helpful sources, tools and tips as well as contact info for getting further assistance.
An Important Chapter in Black History, Now Off the Shelf
Mann Library has digitized and made available to the world the early 20th century magazine The Modern Farmer. Published by the National Federation of Colored Farmers (NFCF) from 1929 to 1949, this unique treasure was one of the only serial publications published in the Depression-era United States that was aimed at African-American farmers. The NFCF was an organization that formed local chapters of buying and selling distribution cooperatives for African-American farmers and their goods at a time when prevailing Jim Crow laws made such efforts dangerous. James P. Davis, The Modern Farmer’s editor and president of the NFCF, served as a Head Field Officer of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and was also a member of President Roosevelt’s “Black Cabinet,” the group of African Americans who served as public policy advisors to the President and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Mann Library’s copies of The Modern Farmer are the only known copies of this important record of 20th century history. The online collection can be found at digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/chla with a search for “Modern Farmer.”
For more information on the history of this remarkable publication, see our February “Vaults of Mann” blog.
A new change of guard @ Mann
As some in the upper campus community may have already heard: There’s a new library director in town.
In late January, Cornell University Library welcomed Sara Wright as the Interim Director of Mann Library, following the retirement of Mary Ochs ’79, who led Mann Library from 2008 until January 2020. A January 27th reception celebrated Ochs’ many achievements and contributions to the Cornell University and global scholarly community, and in one of the numerous highlight moments of the occasion, Mann’s leadership torch — well, our bouquet of ceremonial corn — passed from Ochs to Wright to mark Mann’s newest dynamic transition.
Sara Wright is no stranger to Mann Library and the mission of land-grant scholarship at Cornell. Having earned a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from Drexel University, Wright joined Mann Library’s staff in 2011 to manage the services offered to library patrons via the Stone Computing Classroom and other public computing facilities at Mann. In the following years, Sara assumed a number of other leadership positions in the Library, including Academic Technology Librarian, Head of User Services and Engagement, and Head of Learning, Spaces and Technology. Thanks to Sara’s stewardship in these roles, Mann has seen a number of important, widely acclaimed facilities and service improvements that have greatly enhanced the library’s learning spaces with new tools, state-of-the-art technology, and dynamic furnishings to support the wide variety of research needs and styles represented among the students and researchers who learn and work at Cornell today.
Of course, new leadership at Mann Library has some big shoes to fill. As the speakers at Mary Ochs’ retirement reception on January 27 made clear, Mary leaves a strong and lasting legacy at Mann Library and wider Cornell. Her leadership has advanced some critical progress in widening the accessibility of world class collections for researchers at Cornell and the world beyond, especially in the developing world. And under Mary’s encouraging watch, Mann took on a pioneering role in exciting new areas for academic libraries, such as the development and application of methodologies for the systematic review of already published research literature to help realize stronger returns on emergent research initiatives. As Kathryn Boor, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, summarized, over the course of her tenure as director of Mann Library, Mary Ochs proved herself a fearless leader in the Cornell community. And it’s no secret: In a time of rapid, near-constant change for libraries in the 21st century, fearlessness is indeed an invaluable quality for effective library management.
As Interim Director, Sara Wright will bridge the time until a new director of Mann Library is formally appointed. A national search to fill the position will begin shortly. Library and University stakeholders, including faculty of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Human Ecology will have an opportunity to meet and provide feedback about short-listed candidates. Any questions about the process may be directed to Search Committee members Danianne Mizzy (CUL Associate University Librarian / Search Committee Chair) and Ashley Shea, (Head of Instruction Services, Mann Library). It’s anticipated that an update on the results of the search process will be available in a few months time. And in the meantime, with Sara Wright at the helm, we can all also rest assured—Mann Library remains in excellent hands.
TEEAL Wraps Up
This past March, The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library project at Mann Library released the latest and final upgrade to its iconic “Library in a Box,” a digital collection of top-quality life sciences journals produced for agricultural research and teaching institutions in developing countries around the world since 1999. This release marked both the 20-year anniversary of the TEEAL project and the onset of sunset operations to bring the project to a formal close. With the wrap-up, TEEAL’s partners are shifting towards the use of AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture), a large online database of agricultural science developed by an international consortium known as Research4Life—and Mann Library is celebrating the fruitful conclusion of a landmark Cornell initiative in purpose-driven scholarship for human well-being around the world.
Supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and other funders, TEEAL has been stewarded over the past two decades by a dedicated project staff under the leadership of three Mann Library Directors—Jan Olsen (1987-1999), Janet McCue (1999-2008) and Mary Ochs (2008-present). During this time, the project evolved dramatically. In 1999, the inaugural “Library in a Box” that was shipped to TEEAL’s very first subscriber, the University of Zimbabwe, was made up of two large towers containing 172 compact discs storing a collection of articles from about 100 agricultural life science journals. Today, a palm-sized yet powerful Mini-ITX computer running Ubuntu provides access to a fully searchable collection comprised of over 600,000 articles in more than 500 high-research journals issued by over 100 publishers. TEEAL’s scope too has expanded significantly since inception to keep up with the increasingly interdisciplinary approach to solving problems in food and fiber production: In addition to agriculture, it now also covers fifteen related life science fields.
For the project’s final phase, TEEAL staff have been working with colleagues at Research4Life to ensure that researchers in partner institutions across the world can successfully move from retrieving journal articles from TEEAL’s “Box” to accessing materials online. Recent surveys and correspondence have confirmed that more and more TEEAL subscribers are able to make successful use of online resources thanks to increasingly reliable internet capabilities at their home institutions and AGORA’s widening availability. But the project has also been taking into account those institutions where internet infrastructure is more underdeveloped. With our colleagues at the Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa (ITOCA), we identified a significant subset of subscribing institutions eligible to receive free final TEEAL upgrades. These partners—190 institutions in 58 countries where, geography and institutional need still pose significant obstacles to high-speed internet access for now—will be able to count on a fully subsidized and updated TEEAL collection and hardware to help bridge their eventual full transition to using online resources. Notes current Mann director Mary Ochs, “TEEAL proved wonderfully effective in using a self-contained digital library to connect agricultural researchers at our partner institutions to the highest quality life sciences information and data available. As the past two decades have seen more robust internet infrastructures established in many countries of the developing world, we are happy to now be moving forward with our partners into the even more promising future of accessible information made possible by fully online resources like AGORA.”
By the project’s final close, TEEAL will have provided final upgrades to about 230 institutions. The response received from these partners thus far has been inspiring. Evelyn Anambo, the College of Veterinary Science (CAVS) Librarian at the University of Nairobi (Kenya), wrote that TEEAL has been “a gem to our users.” Dr. Jean Mbomba of the Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques et Vétérinaires (FSAV)) at Loyola University of Congo in the Democratic Republic of Congo let TEEAL staff know that the new fully-subsidized TEEAL machine has been particularly timely. It will help meet the growing demand for access to teaching and research materials that came with the recent merger of several different institutes to form the new Faculté. And in the words of Ugandan agricultural librarian Onan Mulumba, who witnessed TEEAL’s full “CD tower to mini-computer” evolution at the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences of Makerere University:
“We shall always be grateful to Cornell University’s Albert R. Mann Library (and the entire staff), to ITOCA, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The TEEAL project has really contributed a lot to academic and Research triumph at Makerere University. The office where I am sitting right now has a collection of hundreds of TEEAL compact disks, the initial form through which TEEAL was instituted. I will always remember TEEAL every time I look at them and [the] current database.”
For Everybody and for All Time: National Parks @ 100
Wed Jul 6, 2016
They’ve been called our country’s best idea, a space to connect with each other and something bigger than ourselves, a remarkable expression of democracy, preserving for everybody and for all time some of the earth’s most breathtakingly beautiful wilderness. And this year our national parks are being celebrated for a major milestone: The 100th anniversary of the U.S. national park system.
Formally, the National Park Service came into being with legislation signed by President Woodrow Wilson on August 25, 1916. But the roots that nurtured the birth of the NPS reach much deeper into U.S. cultural history, fed by earlier legislation (such as the 1864 act signed by Abraham Lincoln to protect Yosemite Valley) and values and visions shaped by generations of thinkers, writers, scientists, and artists–James Fenimore Cooper, George Catlin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir, Ferdinand Hayden, Fredrick Law Olmsted, to name a few.
As with any big idea, the story of America’s national park system has many perspectives, some inspiring, some that conflict with each other, some that have yet to be told. A new summer book display at Mann Library puts a spotlight on this multi-faceted history. As the life sciences library at Cornell, Mann’s collection in the areas of conservation, natural resources, and park management is particularly strong. We invite you come browse and explore a little of the philosophies, social and political forces, struggles, achievements, and hard, slogging work that brought America’s national parks into being. In line with the National Park’s Service celebration theme this year, we hope the browse will inspire our audience to go “find your park.” And maybe we’ll take it even a little further by invoking the words of Ken Burns, who observes in his acclaimed 6-part documentary: Through the national parks of this country, Americans are all “co-owners of some of the most spectacular scenery on earth.” As the filmmaker reminds, it behooves us all to take care of our property and be mindful of what needs to be done to safeguard its availability for our future generations.
Selected titles featured in the display:
- Albright, Horace M, and Robert Cahn. The Birth of the National Park Service: The Founding Years, 1913-33. Salt Lake City: Howe Bros., 1985.
- Albright, Horace M, and Marian Albright Schneck. Creating the National Park Service: The Missing Years. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999.
- Albright, Horace M, Marian Albright Schenck, and William C Tweed. The Mather Mountain Party of 1915 and the Founding of the National Park Service. Three Rivers, CA: The Sequoia Natural History Association, 2014.
- Bach, Orville E Tracking the Spirit of Yellowstone: Recollections of 31 Years As a Seasonal Ranger. Morristown, TN: Blue Willow Press, 2005.
- Campbell, Carlos C Birth of a National Park In the Great Smoky Mountains: An Unprecedented Crusade Which Created, As a Gift of the People, the Nation’s Most Popular Park. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993.
- Farabee, Charles R.”Butch” National Park Ranger: An American Icon. Lanham, MD: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 2003.
- Florentine Films.The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. [United States]: PBS Home Video, 2009.
- Frank, Jerry J Making Rocky Mountain National Park: The Environmental History of an American Treasure. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2013.
- Frome, Michael Rediscovering National Parks: In the Spirit of John Muir. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2015.
- Harmon, Rick Crater Lake National Park: A History. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2002.
- Heacox, Kim The National Parks: An Illustrated History. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2016.
- Howkins, Adrian, Jared Orsi, and Mark Fiege. National Parks Beyond the Nation: Global Perspectives On “America’s Best Idea”. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016.
- Kaufman, Polly Welts National Parks and the Woman’s Voice: A History. Updated ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006.
- Keiter, Robert B.To Conserve Unimpaired: The Evolution of the National Park Idea. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013.
- Machlis, Gary E, an d Donald R Field. National Parks and Rural Development: Practice and Policy In the United States. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2000.
- Miles, John C. Wilderness In National Parks: Playground Or Preserve. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009.
- Miller, Rod John Muir: Magnificent Tramp. New York: Forge, 2005.
- Muir, John Our National Parks [S.l.]: [s.n.], 1901
- Muir, John The Yosemite. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986.
- Muir, John, Robert Engberg, and Donald Wesling. To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings From the Years 1863 to 1875. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1999.
- Nabokov, Peter, and Lawrence L Loendorf. Restoring a Presence: American Indians and Yellowstone National Park. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.
- National Geographic Society (U.S.). National Geographic Guide to National Parks of the United States. Eighth edition. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2016.
- Olmsted, Frederick Law, Charles E Beveridge, and Carolyn F Hoffman. Parks, Politics, and Patronage 1874-1882. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
- O’Reilly, Angus, and Doran Murphy. National Parks: Biodiversity, Conservation and Tourism. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010.
- Prato, Tony, and Dan Fagre. National Parks and Protected Areas: Approaches for Balancing Social, Economic, and Ecological Values. Ames, Iowa: Blackwell Pub., 2005.
- Rockwell, David B Glacier National Park. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
- Ross-Bryant, Lynn Pilgrimage to the National Parks: Religion and Nature In the United States. New York: Routledge, 2013.
- Runte, Alfred National Parks: The American Experience. Fourth edition. Lanham, Maryland: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2010.
- Runte, Alfred Trains of Discovery: Railroads and the Legacy of Our National Parks. 5th ed. Lanham [Md.]: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 2011.
- Sellars, Richard West Preserving Nature In the National Parks: A History,with a New Preface and Epilogue. [New ed.] New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2009.
- Smith, Jordan Fisher Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight Over Controlling Nature. First edition. New York: Crown, 2016.
- Stevens, Stan Indigenous Peoples, National Parks, and Protected Areas: A New Paradigm Linking Conservation, Culture, and Rights. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2014.
- Tilden, Freeman, and R. Bruce Craig. Interpreting Our Heritage. 4th ed., expanded and updated Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
- Tilden, Freeman The National Parks: What They Mean to You and Me. [1st ed.] New York: Knopf, 1951.
- Williams, Terry Tempest The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks. First edition. New York: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
- Wright, R. Gerald, and John Lemons. National Parks and Protected Areas: Their Role In Environmental Protection. Cambridge: Blackwell Science, 1996.