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Mann Library Welcomes New Director We are pleased to announce that Dr. Ye Li joined Cornell University Library as the Director of the Science and Agriculture Libraries on July 29. New Student Exhibits at Mann Mann Library has two new student exhibits that will be up through August: Bycatch by Charlotte Tysall ’26 and Portal by James Parker. Reunion 2024 @ Mann Library Mann Library welcomed Cornell alums and their families back on campus and in the library throughout the weekend’s festivities. Right to Read Events Cornell University Library invited the campus community to a series of special events titled “Right to Read,” to honor and promote diversity of thought and expression found in books of all kinds. The Nature-Study Idea by Liberty Hyde Bailey: Panel Discussion & Book Celebration In The Nature-Study Idea, Liberty Hyde Bailey articulated the essence of a social movement, led by ordinary public-school teachers, that lifted education out of the classroom and placed it into firsthand contact with the natural world. 2024 Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon This year, our theme was Solidarity, with a focus on artists/art/art movements affected or displaced by violence. Events Celebrate Nabokov as Butterfly Scientist A giant of 20th century literature known for such novels as Lolita and Pale Fire, Russian émigré and former Cornell professor Vladimir Nabokov was also a prodigious lepidopterist who collected and studied butterflies since the age of five. Sustainable Agriculture Student Film Series Last fall, students in Professor Matt Ryan’s class Soil & Crop Sciences class, PLSCS 1900 “Sustainable Agriculture: Food, Farming, and the Future”, created short documentaries addressing a topic of their choice related to sustainable agriculture. Black Plant Scientists: A Traveling Exhibit from the Plant Cell Atlas (PCA) Initiative In February, the Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS) and Mann Library hosted a month-long exhibit recognizing ground-breaking discoveries made by four Black pioneers in the study of plants and human well-being. |
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Workshops |
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Book Talks |
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All Mann Chats in the Stacks book talks are at 4:30pm in Mann Room 160 and livestreamed on Zoom. The Future of India's Social Safety Nets: Focus, Form, and Scope, Prabhu Pingali and Andaleeb Rahman (Tata-Cornell Institute) September 26, 2024 The Social Lives of Land, Wendy Wolford (Global Development) October 17, 2024 Wildlife Disease and Health in Conservation, Robin Radcliffe (Veterinary Medicine) and David Jessup (University of California, Davis) November 7, 2024 Piping-Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners: 20 Mysteries of Honey Bee Behavior Solved, Thomas Seeley (Neurobiology and Behavior) November 21, 2024 |
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Special Events |
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Ada Lovelace Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon October 8, 2024, 11am-5pm CALS Zone (Mann 112) Indigenous Perspectives in Higher Education: Reflecting on the Past to Inform the Future, panel discussion with Meredith Palmer (Tuscarora of Six Nations at Grand River; University at Buffalo), Lynda Xepoleas (Kent State University), Adam Hoffman and Renata Leitao (Cornell College of Human Ecology) November 4, 2024, 4pm Mann 160 followed by exhibit reception in the Mann Lobby at 5pm Divisible: A Redlining Documentary, film screening and conversation with Neil Lewis (Communication) and Lizzy Barrett (Equity Media) December 3, 2024, 4pm Mann 102 |
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Exhibits |
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From Nabakov's Net: Nabokov’s Contributions to Butterfly Science & the Cornell University Insect Collection Mann Gallery through November 4, 2024 No Mere Curios: Finding Nabokov's Lepidopterist Inspiration in the Rare Books of Entomology Mann Lobby through November 4, 2024 Messages from a Watershed, work by Anna Davidson and Anna Mehlhorn (Natural Resources and the Environment) Mann Gallery, November 24, 2024 - January 25, 2025 Redressing Histories of Early Hodinǫ̱hsǫ́:nih Women at Cornell, 1914-1942 Online and Mann Lobby, November 4, 2024 - March 31, 2025 Opening celebration with panel discussion & reception November 4 |
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Webcasts |
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Mann Library is pleased to announce the publication of several book talk webcasts as part of the library's collection. Growing Pains: The History of Human Development, Kathleen McCormick (CHE History of Home Economics Fellowship recipient) Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos, Lisa Kaltenegger (Astronomy) The Consciousness Revolutions: From Amoeba Awareness to Human Emancipation, Shimon Edelman (Psychology) |
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