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[Creating and Sustaining Digital Collections at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)|http://contentdm.auctr.edu/cdm4/credits.php] : A project to foster research and teaching of scholars specializing in African-American Studies, the American South, American Democracy, cultural pluralism and other related discipline by building and promoting sustainability for the production of digital collections at dozens of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) across the country. Since 2005, Cornell University Library has partnered with the HBCU Alliance, a coalition of HBCU library deans and directors working to strengthen the role of libraries on historically black campuses and expand access to their resources. CUL trained HBCU library staff in building digital collections focusing on the archives of 20 HBCUs resulting in. "[A Digital Collection Celebrating the Founding of the Historically Black College and University|http://contentdm.auctr.edu/index.php]" .
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[Tsinghua University Library Partnership|http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov09/CULChinaCollab.html] :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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