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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 21^st 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"

[DISCOVER|http://drsg.cac.cornell.edu]&nbsp;: 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.
\[Use [http://drsg.cac.cornell.edu/images/DISCOVER-banner2.jpg] for the thumbnail image\]

[2CUL|http://2cul.org/sites/default/files/zen_classic_logo.jpg] : An innovative partnership with Columbia University Library to 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.that could enable collaborative collection development, acquisitions and processing.\+
\[Use [http://2cul.org/sites/default/files/zen_classic_logo.jpg&nbsp;for] the thumbnail image\]