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- Educating the New Generation of E-Scientists through Developing a Data Information Literacy Curriculum STABLE URL?
Cornell University Library is in partnership Sent to Jenn C-D to add to "recent grants" tableCornell University Library is partnering with Purdue University (lead), the University of Oregon, and the University of Minnesota in a two-year project to develop a model for designing and implementing a data information literacy (DIL) instruction program for graduate students in STEM disciplines. Five project teams composed of a data librarian, a subject librarian, and a faculty researcher from a science or engineering discipline are working to develop a DIL program with defined learning goals, educational interventions and metrics for assessment. The direct Direct collaboration with researchers ensures that the resulting instruction is relevant to their students. Outcomes from the project teams' experiences will be used to draft a model for other academic librarians to develop data information literacy programs of their own. The Cornell team includes Cliff Kraft, Associate Professor in the Department of Natural ResourcesResource
- Strengthening the Academic Library to Enhance Agriculture Education: STABLE URL? Sent to Jenn C-D to add to "recent grants" table
- With funding from USAID awarded to the Cornell University International Programs at the College of Agriculture of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Mann Library and the Banaras Hindu University Library (BHU) in Varanasi, India are partnering to help support libraries of state agricultural universities in India involved in the Agricultural Innovation Partnership (AIP) consortium. Mann and the BHU library will share expertise in managing digital information resources, an area of particular strength for Mann, in order to expand active cyber literacy skills widely in the research, extension and farming communities. Two Indian librarians will be at Cornell in July and August 2012 to be immersed in information literacy and public computing training, and a larger group of Indian librarians will come for similar training in summer 2013.
- Ahead of the Curve: Mentoring for Emerging Careers in eScience Librarianship STABLE URL? Sent to Jenn C-D to add to "recent grants" table
Cornell University Library (CUL) is partnering with the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University (SU) to support its support its eScience Fellows Program by developing through a mentorship program for enrolled students. The partnership program provides students with opportunities to be exposed to for involvement with world-class science libraries , as well as and innovative eScience projects. The eScience Librarianship program, a specialized curriculum within SU's MS in Library and Information Science program, is designed to prepare students for professional roles supporting scientific practice and communication in eScience environments. Curriculum components include scientific data management, data and collaboration technologies, data services, workflows, and metadata for scientific data sets. The overarching goals of the mentorship program are to provide students with the opportunity to :
• gain exposure to the practice of science and eScience librarianship, and
• develop career skills and professional contacts. - National Cooperative Collections for South Asian Libraries STABLE URL? Ed contacting Bronwen
Wiki Markup Cooperative collecting at the US national level for South Asian Studies. It definitely does "enhance opportunities for researchers nationally and globally." \[Waiting for description from Bronwen Bledsoe\]
- Remove "Creating and Sustaining Digital Coolections (HBCU)
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- arXiv (move from Partnerships with Cornell Faculty and programs" page) DONE
The world's premier repository for scientific papers in physics, math, computer science, and related disciplines. Used by hundreds of thousands scientists worldwide as a way to share and access research before it is published. Cornell University Library provides operational support and stewardship for arXiv. In January 2010, Cornell University Library (CUL) undertook an effort to establish a long-term sustainable support model for arXiv. This effort aimed to reduce arXiv's financial burden and dependence on a single institution, instead creating a broad-based, community-supported resource. As a three-year interim strategy for 2010-2012, CUL initially established a voluntary institutional contribution model and invited pledges from 200 libraries and research laboratories worldwide that represent arXiv's heaviest institutional users. The ultimate goal has been developing a long-term business and management plan by summer 2012. A planning grant from the Simons Foundation enabled CUL to develop a strategy to transition arXiv from CUL's exclusive initiative to a collaboratively governed, community-supported resource.http://arxiv.org
- Cornell Geospatial Information Repository (CUGIR) DONE
An active online repository in the National Spatial Data Clearinghouse program. CUGIR provides free geospatial data and metadata for New York State, with special emphasis on those natural features relevant to agriculture, ecology, natural resources, and human-environment interactions. For over a decade, CUGIR has been one of the major providers of geospatial data for New York State, with over 1 million datasets downloaded ranging from wetlands and elevation to land cover and agricultural districts.
http://cugir.mannlib.cornell.edu/
Use image from top of CUGIR page - ARTstor Shared Shelf Image Management System Which image to use? The page I get to at http://catalog.sharedshelf.artstor.org/login.html only gives me the image of a laptop--seems random to use that one; or do I have to log in? Ran out of time to figure this out. DONE
Cornell University Library is collaborating with ARTStor and eight other institutional partners and an initial group of early subscribers to develop Shared Shelf, a cataloging and image management system, that allows institutions to manage and share collections across departments at their own campus, with other institutions, or on the open Web without requiring local technical infrastructure or administration. Shared Shelf developed out of ARTstor's pilot hosting program, which concluded in December 2010 (former ARTstor Hosting Advisory Group Members). During the pilot period, more than 2 million images from 150 colleges, universities, and museums were uploaded to the ARTstor Workspace software platform, providing seamless integration and cross-searching with the ARTstor Digital Library's 1.4+ million images. The ability to bring together institutional and the Digital Library's collections through a single Workspace proved invaluable to scholars and teachers in many different academic fields. The partners are contributing significant staff knowledge, time, and investment funds to develop this common software platform. Cornell is represented on the Shared Shelf Steering Group which advises on the development of Shared Shelf based on the expressed needs of their staff and end users. The shared vision is to develop innovative solutions to image management by leveraging the collective knowledge and expertise of our community. http://www.artstor.org/shared-shelf/s-html/shared-shelf-home.shtml Use image from Shared Shelf page http://catalog.sharedshelf.artstor.org/login.html - Collective Bargaining Agreements - U.S. Department of Labor and the New York State Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) Stable URL? DONE
The Catherwood Library has reached arrangements with both the U.S. Department of Labor and the New York State Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) to make full-text, searchable versions of the collective bargaining agreements these agencies collect freely available through DigitalCommons@ILR through DigitalCommons@ILR. <http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cba/>
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