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A new change of guard @ Mann

Three leadership generations @ Mann: l to r, Janet McCue (1997-2008), Mary Ochs (2008-2020), Sara Wright (2020)

Posted on February 24, 2020March 25, 2021

Students studying at Mann — Under Sara Wright’s management of Mann’s learning spaces, Mann facilities have been enhanced with a variety of furnishings to fit a variety of study styles and needs.

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.

Photo of Mary Ochs and Paul Wester — Mary Ochs (retiring Director, Mann Library) and Paul Wester (Director, National Agricultural Library)

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

Posted on December 6, 2019March 25, 2021

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.

TEEAL computer with CDs and the mini-computer — The original TEEAL containing 172 CDs vs. TEEAL today, a palm-sized Mini-ITX computer

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.”

Users access TEEAlL from computer — TEEAL subscribers are able to make successful use of online resources thanks to increasingly reliable internet capabilities at their home institutions

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

Posted on December 4, 2019September 10, 2024

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.

Listen, Share: Race & Empathy in the Mann Lobby

Posted on December 4, 2019October 20, 2021

Fri Sep 23, 2016

As part of the Cornell Council for the Arts Biennial of 2016, Professors Corinna Loeckenhoff (Dept. of Human Development), Anthony Burrow (Dept. of Human Development) and Francois Guimbretiere (Dept. of Information Science) have created an installation for the Mann Library lobby—the Race & Empathy Project—that invites the Cornell community to reach across boundaries, share stories and find empathy.

In collaboration with the Intergroup Dialogue Project at Cornell,Professors Loeckenhoff, Burrow and Guimbretiere conducted a series of interviews capturing a range of race-related experiences and perspectives on the Cornell campus to serve as starting points for further conversation. Interview excerpts have been gathered together for a listening booth that has been set up in the Mann Library lobby. In the privacy of the softly enclosed and sound-buffered booth, Cornell community members can retrieve and listen to the stories these interviews present, record a response or share their own story.

The focus of the 2016 CCA Biennial is on the cultural production of empathy. There is growing evidence documenting a racial empathy gap in American society. The national news of the past couple of years has highlighted in especially stark and painful terms the social, political and civic divisions that exist across racial identities in the United States. As many studies have also shown, interracial conversations can be experienced as particularly stressful, creating another difficult barrier to dialogue and understanding. The Race & Empathy project originates with the knowledge that powerful stories of racial empathy do exist, and when shared, can provide opportunities to celebrate basic human emotions—joy, happiness, suffering and grief—together. The project aims to help create space on the Cornell campus where this kind of sharing can be experienced and fostered.

A talk with the project’s contributing artists took place at 11AM on Saturday, September 24 in the Mann Lobby. The listening booth will be in place in the Mann Library lobby through Friday, November 11th. All members of the Cornell community are welcome to stop by, listen to a story or two (or more!), and tell one of their own.

On Goldenrod…and Honeybees

Posted on December 4, 2019September 10, 2024

Wed Sep 28, 2016

September is National Honey Month, which has had us thinking about an unsung hero of our fall viewscape—the common goldenrod. Often mistakenly accused of causing relentless fits of hay fever in humans (ragweed is the real culprit there!), goldenrod and other late-blooming plants burnishing large swathes of the North American landscape at this time of year are known to provide to the honeybees of our local food system a major source of pollen. And particularly notable this year: Following an extraordinarily dry summer in many parts of New York and other states, the goldenrod of fall has become especially important to colony survival in the long winter months ahead. For honeybees and the beekeepers who nurture them in the drought-stricken parts of the American Northeast, the goldenrod bloom that has finally set in after the long-awaited late summer rains signify a vital last chance to play some serious catch up after a very long stretch of slim pickings.

For this month’s Vaults of Mann feature, we celebrate this key relationship by drawing from both the botanical and the apicultural sections of Mann’s rare book collection. Featured in our Tumblr post for September are images from a splendid late 19th century British gardening guide, Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse (1896)by Edward Step and William Watson and from an American beekeeping classic, L.C. Root’s Quinby’s New Beekeeping of 1879. If for Step and Watson goldenrod is an easy if “coarse” and space-hogging garden plant, suitable really only for the cottage garden or shrubbery, for astute practical beekeeper the likes of Lyman Root, it is a bit of a star, providing “valuable forage” that helps bees replenish combs depleted by summer honey harvests, or, in the case of wild bee colonies, by the food requirements of an active and growing colony.

While the goldenrod may have yet to shake its reputation as an unruly intruder to the finely cultivated garden, among beekeepers and other advocates for pollinators of today it continues to earn a high rank among top plants to nurture for the sake of healthy pollinator populations. As this under-rated, genetically diverse fall flower proves itself this year to be a kind of famine food for the honeybee populations in New York State and other drought-stricken regions of the United States, we’re reminded again of the resilience that’s supported by a botanically and biologically varied landscape–a lesson no doubt well worth taking to heart in a changing global climate.

In addition to enjoying our online Vaults feature for the month, please be sure to stop by the Library to browse through the fall book display we’ve prepared in conjunction with this spotlight on the symbiosis found between bees and the plant world around us. For the month of honey, it’s a relationship worth celebrating!

Select titles from the book display:

100 Plants to Save the Bees: Provide and Protect the Blooms That Pollinators Need to Survive and Thrive. North Adams, MA: Storey Publishing, 2016.

Biggle, Jacob. Biggle Bee Book: A Swarm of Facts On Practical Bee-Keeping, Carefully Hived. Philadelphia: W. Atkinson co., 1909.The Queen Must Die

Blaylock, Iris T., and Terresa H Richards. Honey Bees: Colony Collapse Disorder and Pollinator Role In Ecosystems. New York: Nova Science, 2009.

Davis, Ivor, and Roger Cullum-Kenyon. The BBKA Guide to Beekeeping. Second edition. London, UK: Bloomsbury Natural History, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015.

Dowden, Anne Ophelia, The Clover and the Bee: A Book of Pollination. New York: T.Y. Crowell, 1990.

Droege, Sam, and Laurence Packer. Bees: An Up-Close Look At Pollinators Around the World. Minneapolis, MN: Voyageur Press, an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group, 2015.

Green, Rick. Apis Mellifera: A.k.a. Honeybee. Boston: Branden Books, 2002.

Holm, Heather, Pollinators of Native Plants: Attract, Observe and Identify Pollinators and Beneficial Insects with Native Plants. Minnetonka, MN: Pollination Press LLC, 2014.

Ilona., and Ed Readicker-Henderson. A Short History of the Honey Bee: Humans, Flowers, and Bees In the Eternal Chase for Honey. Portland: Timber Press, 2009.

Kirk, William D. J., and F. N Howes. Plants for Bees: A Guide to the Plants That Benefit the Bees of the British Isles. Cardiff: International Bee Research Association, 2012.

Lee-Mäder, Eric, Attracting Native Pollinators: Protecting North America’s Bees and Butterflies : the Xerces Society Guide. North Adams, MA: Storey Pub., 2011.

Lovell, John Harvey, The Flower and the Bee: Plant Life and Pollination. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1918.

Pundyk, Grace., and Grace Pundyk. The Honey Trail: In Pursuit of Liquid Gold and Vanishing Bees. 1st U.S. ed. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2010.

Richards, A. J. The Pollination of Flowers by Insects. London: Academic Press for the Linnean Society of London, 1978.

Robinson, Richard Knox, The Beekeepers. New York: Cinema Guild, 2009. [DVD]

Rosenbaum, Stephanie. Honey: From Flower to Table. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2002.

Shepherd, Matthew., and Edward S Ross. Pollinator Conservation Handbook. Portland, Or.: Xerces Society in association with Bee Works, 2003.

Stevens, Ken. Alphabetical Guide for Beekeepers. Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge: Northern Bee Books, 2012.

New Faces at Mann – Fall 2016 Edition

Posted on December 4, 2019December 4, 2019

Wed Oct 5, 2016

Here are some staff you should know who’ve joined the library since last spring.

Sarah Kennedy ’10 started at Mann in July as the Collection Development & Digital Collections Librarian. She coordinates the library’s book selection process (both print and electronic) and serves as the coordinator for liaison services to the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station community in Geneva, NY. Sarah is also the liaison to two departments (Entomology and Food Science). Sarah comes to us from the University of West Virginia, where she was the Agriculture, Natural Resources, Design, and Extension Librarian. Sarah’s net id is sek45.

Kate Ghezzi-Kopel is the Applied Health Sciences Librarian at Albert R. Mann Library. She serves as liaison to the Cornell department of Human Development and the Division of Nutritional Sciences. Kate holds a B.A. in English from Ithaca College and a M.S. in Library and Information Sciences from Syracuse University. Her interests include health information literacy, systematic reviews, social media in libraries, and promotion of evidence-based research practices. Prior to joining Mann Library, Kate was Research Assistant at The Center for Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University and Intern at the SUNY Upstate Health Sciences Library. She also spent several years in academic publishing developing and acquiring content in the fields of biology, communication studies, mathematics, and clinical medicine. Kate’s net id is kwg37.

Chris Johns is our new Lending Coordinator in Mann Interlibrary Loan. Chris has over 15 years experience in the service industry, and has been the owner of Dog Man pet-sitting business since 2011. Chris attended the Finger Lakes School of Massage after moving to Ithaca in 2014 and is a certified massage therapist. As our Lending Coordinator, Chris will be responsible for coordinating all tasks involved with interlibrary lending and Document Delivery services at Mann, and will be the point person for the delivery of library-to-library, Borrow Direct, and interlibrary loan items to the Geneva campus. He will also be working regular shifts on the circulation desk, assisting patrons with their borrowing and poster printing needs. Chris’ NetID is cmj84.

Mary Lee “Mel” Jensen was hired as a part-time reference assistant at Mann Library. She has experience as the Head of Instructional Services and as an Assistant Professor at Kent State University. She was also the Instruction Coordinator at Lakeland Community College in Kirtland, Ohio. Mel will be working the front lines as a reference assistant where she will help manage reference desk operations, and help triage and answer the thousands of annual questions we get at the reference desk. Her hours will be 8:15am – 1:15pm, Monday through Friday. Mel’s NetID is mj533.

Megan Benson started as another new part-time reference assistant In July. Before coming to Mann, Megan worked in the Orange County Library System in Orlando Florida, and as an Adjunct Professor at Valencia College in Orlando. Megan will also be helping to manage reference desk operations, and helping to triage and answer our volumes of reference questions. Her hours will be 12:00 – 5:00pm, Monday through Friday. Megan’s NetID is mlb459.

Deborah Cooper joined Mann’s Collection Development department as our new Collections Specialist on September 29th. Deborah comes to us from Digital Scholarship and Preservation Services (DSPS) in Olin where she has worked on the arXiv repository team. Previously she worked at the SUNY Cortland Memorial Library where she had reference and collection development duties. She also has Special Collections experience from an internship at the Rakow Library at the Corning Museum of Glass and has done volunteer archival work for Historic Ithaca. Deborah earned an MLIS from San José State University and has a BA in History from Leeds University, U.K. Her net id is dsc255.

Become a Life Sciences Research Master!

Posted on December 4, 2019December 4, 2019

Thu Dec 15, 2016

This coming spring semester, Mann librarian Sarah J. Wright will again collaborate with the Office of Undergraduate Biology to offer BIOG 3020: Seminar in Research Skills for Life Sciences.

Developed for undergraduates involved in laboratory research, and especially relevant to those considering graduate school, the course will introduce skills used in all fields of life sciences research and cover topics such as researching the primary literature; data management and analysis; and writing research and grant proposals.

After taking this course, students will be prepared to submit an honors thesis proposal and/or a proposal for undergraduate research funding

For more information, feel free to contact Sarah at sjw256@cornell.edu. You can also read about the course on the Class Roster.

Winter Break @ Mann

Posted on December 4, 2019December 4, 2019

Wed Dec 21, 2016

It’s Cornell winter break and the campus is settling into some deep winter quiet. Too quiet for you? Wondering how you might be able to fill your time until the start of the spring semester? Please allow us to name you a few ways Mann can help you with that:

Winter hours: Mann will be closed for the holiday between the years, starting 5pm Friday, December 23, but we open again on January 3—with all hands on deck to help you get a start on new projects or wrap up any old ones that may still be on your plate from 2016. Visit Full Hours for Mann’s hours; visit Cornell University Library-wide hours of operation

Winter reading: Everyone knows there’s no better time than cozy winter to catch up on good reading. But did you know that Mann has a fabulous collection of popular literature on topics ranging from beekeeping to black holes? We recommend an in-house browse through our Ellis collection or a virtual browse through the Cornell University Library new book listing for some promising options. And then look for our “Name Your Winter Read” raffle in January! We’ll be asking you to share what you’ve read this winter (any genre) for a chance to win some delicious Manndible hot chocolate.

Winter photography: January in the frosty Finger Lakes can give us nature at some of its most stunningly beautiful. What better time to hone your photography skills?! We have a fabulous suite of camera equipment that we will resume loaning for still and moving photography come January 3rd. As you head out for your next January stroll across the winter-wonderland of Cornell campus, drop by Mann first to pick up a loaner camera and maybe even a new career in the visual arts.

Winter exhibits: Here’s your chance to explore the fascinating intersection of science, history, and art found in our “Exploring a Sea of Glass” exhibits in the Mann Lobby, the Top Shelf Gallery, and the Mann Gallery. Check out the Cornell events calendar for more info, and or take a quick virtual peek at one spotlight we have trained on the story of the Challenger expedition,widely regarded as the first major oceanographic expedition in modern science. Then come see the exhibits for yourself at Mann Library!

Just-in-time-for-winter-break book talk videos: What’s the next best thing to reading a good book? Watching the author talk about one! If you’re still hoping to catch any of the Mann Library book talks you might have missed during the fall semester, they are all viewable on Mann’s Youtube channel:

Rodney Dietert, The Human Superorganism: How the Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life (Dutton, 2016)
Tom Seeley, Following the Wild Bees: The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting (Princeton University Press, 2016) [In connection with this one, you may also be interested in seeing Prof. Seeley’s video “how to” primer on successful wild bee hunting].
Drew Harvell, A Sea of Glass: Searching for the Blaschkas’ Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk (University of California Press, 2016)
Corinna Loeckenhoff, Emotion, Aging and Health (American Psychological Association, 2016)

Come chat with us: Itching to start exploring a possible new project? Thinking about stepping into the rapidly evolving world of possibility that makerspaces can offer? January is a great time to schedule a consultation with our experts on any topic or making idea. Give us a shout at Request a Consultation for research help (or email cul-makerspace-admin-l@cornell.edu about making and 3D printing) to set something up. All of which to say, friends, Mann Library is here for you, in various ways, regardless of the season. We’re looking forward to seeing you in 2017, and in the meantime, we warmly wish you a happy, restful, and refreshing winter break!

Covidence for systematic reviews and literature searches

Posted on December 4, 2019December 4, 2019

Wed Jan 10, 2018

Picture this: You’re working on a systematic review or literature search and you’ve come up with 1,000+ citations. Great! But now what? It takes time to read and select relevant articles, coordinate decision making with your collaborators, and organize your results. When you’re doing a review, this article-screening process can quickly become a daunting task.

But you’re in luck! Through November 2018, Cornell University Library is piloting an unlimited license to Covidence, giving Cornell faculty, students and staff free access to a web-based software platform that streamlines the production of systematic reviews. Covidence makes citation screening easy, and supports many other aspects of the systematic review process like full text review, risk of bias assessment, extraction of study characteristics and outcomes, and the export of data and references.

To learn how to use Covidence, register for our workshop on January 22nd from 9-11am at Mann Library hosted by CUL’s Systematic Review Service. You can start using Covidence any time by signing up with your Cornell email address, and visit our resource guide for answers to Covidence FAQs.

Have questions about systematic reviews and other forms of evidence and literature synthesis? Interested in learning more about library services that can help you in these tasks? Contact us at systrev_help@cornell.edu, or submit a request form to our Systematic Review Service Team.

New lecture videos now available!

Posted on December 4, 2019December 4, 2019

Wed Jan 24, 2018

New book talk & lecture videos now available: youtube.com/mannlibrary — Photo by Daisy Wiley

Finding yourself with a sad feeling you may have missed a great talk at Mann Library last semester? No need to mourn. We’re happy to announce some fresh new additions to Mann Library’s “Chats in the Stacks” book talk and special lecture video line up. Visit our Youtube channel for links to:

Agriculture and Rural Development in a Globalizing World: Challenges and Opportunities
Prabhu Pingali (Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management / Tata-Cornell School of Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI)

Cohabitation Nation: Gender, Class, and the Remaking of Relationships
Sharon Sassler (Department of Policy Analysis and Management)

(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work
Brooke Erin Duffy (Department of Communication)

Something for Nothing: Arbitrage and Ethics on Wall Street
Maureen O’Hara (Johnson Graduate School of Management)

Himalayan Mobilities: An Exploration of the Impact of Expanding Rural Road Networks on Social and Ecological Systems in the Nepalese Himalaya
Robert E. Beazley and James P. Lassoie (Department of Natural Resources)

Sound and Feather: How New Media Specimens Are Revolutionizing the Study of Ornithology
Michael Webster (Department of Neurobiology and Behavior / The Macaulay Library, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology)

And do scroll through the playlist for videos of other talks presented at Mann over the years—you’ll find insights from Cornell researchers on topics ranging from monarch migration to child language acquisition. Enjoy!

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