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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"

DISCOVER : 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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2CUL : 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.
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Creating and Sustaining Digital Collections at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) : 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" .
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Tsinghua University Library Partnership :a collaborative relationship with the Tsinghua University Library aimed at enhancing scholarship and learning at Cornell . A formal partnership agreement was signed on October 29, 2009.  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.  Tsinghua has been instrumental in introducing  Euclid to Chinese research libraries by assisting in the preparation of introductory materials and by hosting a Chinese Euclid trial. We anticipate subscription negotiations will begin with interested Chinese subscribers in fall 2010. 

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