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ALA Midwinter 2009
ALCTS CMDS CHIEF COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS DISCUSSION GROUP
submitted by John Saylor
Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources and Special Colle= ctions
After several years of interim arrangements, the Library's senior leader= ship team is finally in place. The Library Executive Group is made up of
In January 2009, Kent Fuchs, former Dean of the Cornell College of Engin= eering was appointed as the 15th Cornell University Provost replacing Carol= yn (Biddy) Martin. http://www.news.co= rnell.edu/stories/Oct08/provostFuchs.html
Our new University Librarian negotiated a 6% increase for 2008/9 and the= n a 7% increase the following year in the materials budget. I t remains to = be seen what happens with this negotiation with the impending budget cuts. = In light of the recent worldwide economic downturn President Skorton has an= nounced that "we (the university) must face up to a 10% correction in our a= nnual operating budget over the next few years." The details of how t= hat will impinge on the library are not yet known.
Digitized Books
in June of 2008, Microsoft suddenly ended the Microsoft Live Book project.=
Shortly after this the Google digitization effort with CUL got under=
way, with 12,000 volumes now being shipped for scanning per month.
Cornell University Library entered into an agreement with Amazon's print= production subsidiary, BookSurge (On Demand Publishing LLC) in 2006. = The Amazon/BookSurge Project currently makes ~5,900 public domain titles f= rom the Library's digital collections available through Amazon.com and Amaz= on.co.uk sites. Digitized assets (~90,000 titles) from the Microsoft = Live Book Search Project will be submitted to Amazon for PoD retailing this= spring.
Our portal to the collection is available at: http://book= store.library.cornell.edu
In October, arXiv.org hit a major milestone when it reached half a= million e-print postings. The primary daily information source for hundred= s of thousands of physicists and other researchers worldwide, arXiv has bee= n at the forefront of the open-access movement and served as the model for = many other initiatives, including NIH=E2=80=9As PubMedCentral.
Cornell University Library and the Society for the Humanities at Cornell=
cosponsored a Forum on Academic Publishing in the Humanities, which was he=
ld November 7-8, 2008, in Ithaca, New York. Speakers included: Milad Doueih=
i (University of Glasgow), John Guillory (New York University), N. Katherin=
e Hayles (UCLA), Peter U. Hohendahl (Cornell), Joseph S. Meisel, (The Andre=
w W. Mellon Foundation), Peter J. Potter (Cornell University Press), Oya Ri=
eger (Cornell University Library), Naoki Sakai (Cornell), Donald J. Waters =
(The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), and Lindsay Waters (Harvard University P=
ress).
In the summer we announced the Cornell Library's Division of Rare and Ma= nuscript Collections had acquired a collection on hip-hop/rap music, d= ocumenting its emergence in the Bronx in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Fe= atured in the book Born in the Bronx: A Visual Record of the Early Days= of Hip Hop (Rizzoli November 2007), http://www.amazon.com/Born-Bronx-Visual-Record-Ear= ly/dp/0789315408thecollection contains approximately 1,000 sound record= ings (primarily LP records), hundreds of flyers by Bronx artist Buddy Esqui= re and others, 950 photographs by Bronx photographer Joe Conzo, Jr, along w= ith original art work and textiles, manuscripts, and more than 200 books.&n= bsp;
This acquisition of the Born in the Bronx Hip Hop archive was celebrated=
this fall with a groundbreaking conference on the origins of hip-hop cultu=
re, featuring both the pioneers of the movement and academics studying it. =
A Cornell Daily Sun editorial said it all: "Cornell staked a claim in=
hip hop history this weekend, and Kroch library just gained some serious s=
treet cred."
Cornell University Library, the Cornell East Asia Program, and the Assoc= iation of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States (ACPSS= ) co-sponsoried the 14th ACPSS international conference, which was held&nbs= p;in conjunction with the 90th Jubilee of Cornell's Wason Collection on Eas= t Asia. The conference's theme was "East Asia Studies: Challenges of Comple= x Realities in an Era of Globalization and Digitization."
Scholars and librarians from across the United States and China came to = Ithaca for the three-day event held November 7-9, 2008. Concurrent wit= h the conference, an exhibition featuring the history of the Wason Collecti= on and the rare materials from the collection was on display in the Olin/Kr= och Library corridor, the Severinghaus Asia Reading Room and Kroch Library'= s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.
"This conference is a historical event that honors Wason's noble i=
deal of bringing China and the United Statesinto closer intellectual relati=
ons," said Liren Zheng, curator of the Wason Collection. "I believe this co=
nference will create opportunities for academicians and librarians to work =
together in the pursuit of excellence in East Asia studies."
In 2007 Cornell alum Kevin Vanginderen sued the university for libel, cl= aiming $1 million in damages for making available online the 1983 issue of = the Cornell Chronicle that reported he had been charged with third degree b= urglary. The Chronicle was digitized and made available through the library= . The United States District Court, Southern District of California, = granted Cornell's motion to strike Vanginderen's complaint on the basis of = free speech and, on the last day of 2008, ordered him to pay partial compen= sation for Cornell's attorney's fees. Vanginderen's appeal is pending= as is a second suit against the university. These cases may prove crucial = in determining the rights of libraries and other parties to digitize and ma= ke accessible older materials. The court documents and rulings can be found= on the Justia.com web site
Charles Darwin
Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections= will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin with a= n exhibition opening February 12, 2009. "Charles Darwin: After the Origin" will explore Charles Darwin's life and work in the twenty-two= years of his life following the publication of the Origin of Species= em>in 1859, the years during which he most fully developed his views on evo= lution. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Library and Cor= nell's Museum of the Earth at the Paleontological Research Institution.&nbs= p; Both venues will feature an exhibition and associated lectures and event= s.
Abraham Lincoln
Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were both born on February 12, 1809.&= nbsp; In October 2009 the Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collect= ions will celebrate Lincoln's 200th brithday with the exhibition "The Linco= ln Presidency: Last Full Measure of Devotion." The exhibition will fe= ature Cornell's significant Lincoln and Civil War collections, includi= ng one of five existing copies of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln's hand,= and manuscript copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and 13th Amendment.=