Cornell University Library Technical Services (LTS) provides a number of services to the Cornell Library community, to libraries outside of Cornell, and to customers outside the library community. These services include MARC record sets for some of the Library's collections and technical services consulting.
LTS Acquisitions and Cataloging staff provide MARC record sets for a number of our collections of digitally scanned materials, including works from the Witchcraft Collection and Making of America project.
In keeping with its mission, LTS provides enhanced access to information resources via state-of-the-art infrastructure and innovative services to our community and strives to improve and expand the Library's technology infrastructure for patrons who expect increasingly sophisticated digital tools for scholarship.
LTS fields an organization of information professionals who lead the way in providing innovative services to our patrons, keep pace with current technology, and pursue initiatives to increase the visibility of our unique collections. To these ends, LTS staff will:
Metadata Design and Operations provides expert metadata guidance and services to our Cornell University Library colleagues, and consultations to the wider Cornell University community, other academic libraries, non-profit organizations, agencies, and journal publishers.
Requests for New E-Resources: Priorities and Expectations, a guide for selectors and other stakeholders.