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. With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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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" With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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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 <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 be participants</span><span style="color: #1f497d">.</span>
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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) that aims to arrive at a sustainable business model for monograph publishing in the humanities thereby addressing the university's commitment to excellence in the humanities during a period of critical and difficult transition. With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Library Intervention Strategies for Doctoral Students in the Humanities: A pilot study on library intervention strategies for doctoral students in the humanities. In collaboration with our 2CUL partner, the Columbia University Libraries, and with funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, 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. The 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. All the books are in the public domain, printed before 1923 mainly in the United States and covering 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 promote the publication of data and high quality metadata to both discipline‐specific data centers and Cornell's own institutional repository (eCommons), developed with funding from the National Science Foundation. CUL'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, examples of such user groups include Barbara Lust's Virtual Center for Language Acquistion, to share a library of audio recordings among colleagues, and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, which 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 NSF's new requirement all for Data Management plans for all submitted proposals, we expect that the demand for these services will increase dramatically.
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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.