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Eveline Ferretti, Ellen Marsh, Ed Weissman

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Statement of purpose (draft 5/21/10)

Partnerships & Initiatives Page on the CUL Website <http://www.library.cornell.edu/aboutus/partners>

Purpose:

  • To demonstrate that
    • CUL is a vibrant, innovative entity that is critically important  to the mission of the university
    • CUL is a wonderful partner for faculty, students, foundations, corporations, other cultural institutions and libraries, helping each achieve their goals while advancing our own
    • CUL is a worthy recipient of gifts from donors
    • a 21st century library is "not just books" 
  • Intended audience:
    • Cornell faculty,students and administrators
    • Prospective library employees, faculty and students
    • Foundations and corporations
    • Donors and friends of CUL
    • Other cultural institutions and libraries

Description of "projects" [rev. 7/27]

DISCOVER : A collaborative project to create an inventory of campus cyberinfrastructure needs and to develop Cornell's capacity and services to meet research data storage, discovery, and computational needs across the university. [More information]:  The Library is working [how?] with the Center for Advanced Computing and astronomy professor Jim Cordes on this this Provost-funded project.
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2CUL: A partnership with Columbia University Library to improve the quality and efficiency of library services. [More information]:  Collaborative activities will improve the quality of collections and services offered to campus constituencies, redirect resources to emerging needs, make each institution more competitive in securing government and foundation support, and generate additional revenues. With funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Creating and Sustaining Digital Collections at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU): A partnership with the HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) Alliance, a coalition of HBCU library deans and directors, to foster the research and teaching of scholars specializing in African-American Studies, the American South, American Democracy, cultural pluralism and other related discipline. [More information:]  The Cornell Library has trained HBCU library staff at dozens of historically black colleges and universities across the country to build and promote sustainable digital collections from their institutions' archives resulting in. "A Digital Collection Celebrating the Founding of the Historically Black College and University" With funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Tsinghua University Library Partnership: A formal partnership agreement with the Tsinghua University Library signed on October 29, 2009 covers joint opportunities for collection building, including digitization, the sharing of library and technology practices, and working on behalf of each other in negotiating with vendors and others to expand access to materials and services.  [More information:] The partnership will enhance scholarship and learning at Cornell and Tsinghua. Tsinghua has 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 for the acqusition of books in the humanities.  Also, Tsinghua has been instrumental in introducing  Euclid to Chinese research libraries by assisting in the preparation of <span style="color: #000000">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 as participants</span><span style="color: #1f497d">.</span> 
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Sustaining the Specialized Monograph: A University Publishing Partnership for Scholarship in German Studies.  Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought, a new book series co-published by CUL and Cornell University Press in electronic and print-on-demand formats in collaboration with Professor Peter Hohendahl (German Studies and Comparative Literature) aims to arrive at a sustainable business model for monograph publishing in the humanities during a period of critical and difficult transition in publishing. [More information:] With funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Library Intervention Strategies for Doctoral Students in the Humanities: A pilot study, in collaboration with our 2CUL partner, the Columbia University Libraries, on library intervention strategies for doctoral students in the humanities. [More information:] This study will assess humanities doctoral students needs to determine what academic libraries can do to help lower their attrition rates and improve time-to-completion. Wwith funding provided by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. The Cornell Graduate School and Columbia's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are providing additional support.  
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Cornell Library in the Internet Archive: In order to make its materials globally accessible, Cornell University Library is sharing nearly 80,000 of its digitized books with the Internet Archive where they are freely available for use. [More information:] All the books are in the public domain.  Printed before 1923, mainly in the United States, these books cover a host of subject areas, including American history, English literature, astronomy, food and wine, general engineering, the history of science, home economics, hospitality and travel, labor relations, Native American materials, ornithology, veterinary medicine and women's studies.
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DataStaR: A data staging repository and services to help faculty and researchers publish data and high quality metadata in both discipline‐specific data centers and Cornell's own institutional repository (eCommons).  [More information:] Cornell Library''s data librarians are fielding inquiries from Cornell researchers who are required to include data management and/or sharing plans in grant proposals. In the past year, librarians have contributed text for four grant proposals to the National Science Foundation, and one to the US Environmental Protection Agency. All of these requests specified use of the DataStaR platform as a part of the data management/sharing plan. Cornell researchers are also planning to use DataStaR as a collaboration space. For example, Barbara Lust's Virtual Center for Language Acquistion will use DataStaR to share a library of audio recordings among colleagues.  The Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology plans to use DataStaR as a temporary workspace for volunteers entering data from decades' worth of nest box data cards. The DataStaR team continues to assist researchers with the publication of data sets to discipline-specific repositories, as well as Cornell's digital repository (eCommons). With the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) new requirement all for Data Management plans for all submitted proposals, we expect that the demand for these services will increase dramatically.  Developed with funding from the National Science Foundation. 
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Example of section with recent grant proposals

Recent Proposals

The Use of Digitized Books in Support of Humanities Scholarship.  Co-Principal Investigators: Oya Rieger (CUL) and Bill Arms (Information Science) - submitted 2/2/10. A 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.

Conservation and Digitization of the Trials Pamphlet Collection at Cornell University Library. Barbara Eden, PI - submitted 5/21/10.  A Save America's Treasures proposal to the National Park Service to conserve and digitize the 321 pamphlets in the Trials Pamphlet collection at the Cornell University Law Library.  The pamphlets range in date from the late 1600s to the late 1800s. As a collection, these trial pamphlets are a unique resource that captures a formative period in American history from the early years of the republic, through the turmoil of the Civil War, to the emergence of the United States as a leading industrial nation in the late 1800s. Because cases were not officially reported on until the 1830s, the collection is one of the few ways to research trials from the 18th and early 19th centuries.  If funded the project will ensure access to the original artifact at Cornell and provide free of charge worldwide access to the collection via the Internet.

The Family and Social Change in New York: A Collaborative Approach: Elaine Engst, PI - submitted 7/26/10? A collaborative proposal with our 2CUL partner the Columbia University Libraries to the Council on Library and Information Resources to



Eveline's revised blurbs (as of July 21, 2010):


For "Partnerships with Cornell Faculty" page:
eClips, is a video collection of interviews with leaders in business, government, & nonprofits that brings the authentic voices of entrepreneurship, business and leadership into the classroom. Created by faculty and staff in the Cornell Department of Applied Economics and Management Staff, eClips runs on a web-based infrastructure and interface design developed by staff from Mann Library and Cornell University Library's DCAPS division, who continue to work with project staff to maintain and update the capabilities of the eClips service.

Partners in Animal Health, Still needs work! is a collection of resources that veterinary experts at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine have created for veterinarians and pet owners. Need more info here on what the library involvement has been

For "Partnerships with Cornell Programs" page:
VIVO: Research and Expertise Across Cornell (http://vivo.cornell.edu) is a web-based search service that connects researchers and resources across Cornell University and facilitates the discovery of who does what, where and how in all areas of research and scholarship. Librarians and information technology professionals from Cornell University Library developed the technology underlying VIVO, work with Cornell faculty and administrators to sustain currency and extend coverage, and have been collaborating with several U.S. and Australian universities and the Chinese Academy of Sciences to expand the VIVO technology for use in national networking for scientific research.

For "Partnerships with Universities and University Libraries" page:
VIVO:Enabling National Networking of Scientists (http://vivoweb.org) is a two-year project funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to facilitate the discovery of researchers and promote collaboration among scientists and other researchers. Software developers, ontologists, librarians, and outreach specialists in the Cornell University Library work with colleagues from the University of Florida and Indiana University to enhance the VIVO software and support implementations at four additional institutions: Weill Cornell Medical College, Ponce School of Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, and Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. VIVO uses innovative Semantic Web technologies to provide simple and standardized access to updated information on research for interdisciplinary interaction and national networking of researchers across U.S. institutions of science.

For "Partnerships in Global Engagement" page:
TEEAL, makes the full text of 149 agricultural journals available at on a low-cost, palm-sized external hard-drive to universities, agricultural research organizations and government ministries in eligible low-income countries. In cooperation with over 50 major scientific publishers, societies, and index providers, staff at Cornell's Albert R. Mann Library oversee production, distribution, outreach, and marketing of the library and works with the South Africa-based Information and Training Outreach Center for Africa (ITOCA) to provide training on its use. New grant funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is helping Mann to expand TEEAL's distribution throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

AGORA, enables developing countries to gain web-based access to an outstanding digital collection of full-text articles from over 1,275 journals in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. Derived from the TEEAL collection at Cornell's Mann Library, and the World Health Organization's online HINARI resource, AGORA is led by the Food and Agriculture Organization in partnership with major scientific publishers, Mann Library and others.
 

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