Save the date! An opening reception for Mann Library’s spring 2023 exhibits will take place in the Mann Library Gallery on Thursday, March 23, at 4:30 pm (remarks to start at 4:45pm). Come find out about and explore our new installations that celebrate the fiber arts and highlight efforts being made towards sustainable fashion. Threading the Needle: Weaving Traditions into Contemporary Textile Art Mann Gallery, 2nd Floor Using needle and thread, warp and weft,…
Cornell University Library is calling for submissions of original artwork to adorn the first-floor elevator doors in Mann Library and Olin Library. Winners will each also receive a Cornell Store prize, valued at $100 (with gift receipt). Our theme and prompt this year is “backstory,” which Merriam-Webster dictionary defines as “a story that tells what led up to the main story or plot (as of a film).” What backstory has defined your life, or…
Check out our spring semester workshop schedule and learn about all the ways you can level up your research skills! Click the links below to register for these in-person workshops. To see the full list of Cornell University Library spring semester workshops, visit bit.ly/workshops-cul. And be sure to check out our Workshops page for our full listing of pre-recorded workshops, including help with searching and literature reviews, citation management software (Zotero, Mendeley, and EndNote),…
Looking for love this Valentine’s Day? Let Mann Library’s matchmaking service help you meet the book of your dreams! From Monday, February 6 through Tuesday, February 14, we’ll be matching book lovers with a “blind date” selected from our Edith A. Ellis Collection. This collection is full of popular nonfiction titles on topics ranging from people and planet, food and fiber, town and country, home and cosmos, and much, much more! Just fill…
Get out your calendars and mark the dates of our spring semester book talks! All our Chats in the Stacks this semester will be held in-person in Mann Library 160 and livestreamed. You can find all recordings of our past Chats in the Stacks on our YouTube channel. March 2, 2023, 4pm Mann Library, Room 160 and livestreamed Character Trouble with John Doris Human character has less of an influence on action than both…
The Spring 2023 semester is off to a snowy start, and we’re happy to welcome Cornell students back to the library! You may have noticed some changes since the end of last year, including the large area cordoned off on the 1st floor. Please be mindful and avoid the atrium area as you enter and exit the building. We have a construction project beginning in February that we hope will only last a couple months,…
Cornell University Library is starting the new year off with an exciting announcement: we have a new website! Our newly redesign site has all the great features of our previous website – such as our search box for the library catalog front and center on the home page – along with some great new functionality to make navigation easier and more efficient for our users. Some notable features include: A new cross-unit Find a Space…
As the Cornell Ithaca campus begins to wind down and we approach the winter break, we wanted to take this opportunity remind our patrons that our hours will be slightly different over the next few weeks, so please plan accordingly! We will close early on Friday, December 23, at 2pm. Mann Library will be closed from Saturday, December 24 – Monday, January 2. We will reopen on Tuesday, January 3, 2023. Please note that our…
Humans have explored only about five per cent of our blue planet’s ocean habitat, but even that bit of progress has much to do with a sea voyage launched one hundred and fifty years ago. On December 21, 1872, the HMS Challenger, a re-tooled British naval ship outfitted with some of the most sophisticated scientific equipment of the times, sailed out of harbor at Portsmouth, England. The Challenger’s circumnavigation of the globe lasted 3-1/2 years…
On December 13, the system supporting Borrow Direct will be replaced with a new software called ReShare Returnables developed by Project ReShare, a community of libraries, consortia, software developers, and open-source advocates. Launching simultaneously with our Ivy Plus peers, this library-community developed software is meant to advance resource sharing among our partners, and—with continuous improvements over time—offer patrons an improved catalog, more robust searching, and greater access to library materials. What does this mean for you? The Borrow…
