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[DISCOVER|http://drsg.cac.cornell.edu] : As part of this Provost-funded project, the Library is working with the Center for Advanced Computing and astronomy professor Jim Cordes to inventory campus cyberinfrastructure needs and to develop capacity and services to address research data storage, discovery, and computational needs across Cornell.
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Tsinghua University Library Partnership :a collaborative relationship with the [Tsinghua University Library|http://www.lib.tsinghua.edu.cn/english/] aimed at enhancing scholarship and learning at Cornell&nbsp;. A formal partnership agreement was signed on October 29, 2009.&nbsp; Tsinghua purchased duplicate titles from Uris Library and the proceeds from that sale have been used to set up an endowment netting $40,000 per year that is supporting the acquisition of books in the humanities.&nbsp; Tsinghua has been instrumental in introducing&nbsp; [Euclid|http://projecteuclid.org/] to Chinese research libraries by assisting in the preparation of <span style="color: #1f497d">introductory</span> materials and by hosting a Chinese Euclid trial. <span style="color: #000000">We anticipate subscription negotiations will begin with interested Chinese subscribers in fall 2010 and we hope to attract Chinese publishers to&nbsp;be participants</span><span style="color: #1f497d">.</span>&nbsp;
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Example of section with recent grant proposals and grants received

Recent Proposals

The Use of Digitized Books in Support of Humanities Scholarship.  Co-Principal Investigators: Oya Rieger (CUL) and Bill Arms (Information Science) - 2/2/10A proposal to the Institute of Museum and Library Services to study how the application of computer science to digitized books can benefit the humanities. A central goal of this project is to study how to align the scholarly needs and practices of humanists from various disciplines with the affordances of digitized collections and modern computer science.