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Table of Contents VOL. 5 NO. 1, FALL 2012

THE ESSENTIALS

The Essentials

Groundbreaking planned for Big Red Bands' new home, Cornellians in the summer Olympics, Human Ecology's media wall, celebrating M.H. "Mike" Abrams' 100th birthday and more. Read more

COVER STORY

The library that never sleeps: 24/7 access

Today, a visit to a Cornell library, whether in person or online, provides a level of customization that would have been unthinkable half a century ago, when the massive card catalog ruled and students filled out carbon-copied punch cards to request items. Read more

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Salons highlight the role of research libraries

Enhancing the "life of the mind" while promoting Cornell University Library's rich historical offerings beyond its physical walls is the driving force behind library salons for alumni and friends. Read more

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Library-managed 'arXiv' spreads scientific advances rapidly and worldwide

The e-print arXiv of scientific publications, managed by Cornell University Library, started as an effort to "level the playing field" for researchers. Read more

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You can make it happen: At the Library

A look at ways to give to Cornell University Library, from purchasing e-books and archival files to endowing a position for a student worker. Read more

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Big Red matchmaker?

During Ithaca's dreary winters, romance can bloom in unexpected places -- like at Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. Read more

ARTS & HUMANITIES

Enthusiasm for professor's ideas sparks new organization

An interview English professor Satya Mohanty gave to the South Asian Review has created an explosive reaction and a new organization, the Global South Cultural Dialogue Project. Read more

ARTS & HUMANITIES

New views of Klarman Hall's planned design

Klarman Hall, Cornell's new humanities building, will be constructed between Goldwin Smith Hall and East Avenue. Read more

PEOPLE

Researcher explores worlds small and large through hobbies

From the microcosmos to the cosmos, Cornell researcher Jarek Pillardy's hobbies allow him to understand different worlds. Read more

RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

Diagnostic labs analyze anything from bugs to toenails

Found an odd bug in your closet? Rhododendrons inexplicably wilting? Need a toenail analyzed? There's a lab for that. Read more

NEW YORK CITY

NYC tech campus ramping up with key hires

With the tech campus now firmly planted in Manhattan, leaders are busy with efforts to get academic programs up and running. Read more

CORNELL NOW

Cornell Now -- 2015

Law School receives $25 million gift, new professorship honors Robert Langer, calligraphy fellow endowed and other campaign news. Read more

CAMPUS LIFE

Tatkon Center: Hub of support for first-year students

The Carol Tatkon Center serves as an umbrella for the hundreds of events, programs and resources. Read more

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CORNELL IN ITHACA

Celebrating Ithaca Silent Movie Month

The city of Ithaca's role in early filmmaking history -- and Cornell's part of that story -- will be celebrated this fall during Homecoming Weekend and through October. Read more

CORNELL HISTORY

Cornell's first sesquicentennial event: The Morrill Land Grant Act turns 150

Cornell University's sesquicentennial is three years away, but let the festivities begin: This July marked the 150th anniversary of the Morrill Land Grant Act. Read more

WORTH SUPPORTING

$20 million boosts aid initiative

This year, Arthur Wolcott '49, his wife, Audrey, and the Seneca Foods Foundation made a $20 million commitment in support of Cornell's Award Match Initiative. Read more

WORTH SUPPORTING

$500K gift supports CALS Faculty Renewal Initiative

George Mueller '54 has made a $500,000 gift to support the hiring of a faculty member in Farm Business Management. Read more

WORTH SUPPORTING

You can make it happen: Fall 2012

A look at ways to give to Cornell University, from supporting the Equine Hospital to enhancing undergraduate life with a music practice room in Keeton House. Read more

FACULTY

Global dean: Dutta leads Johnson

Soumitra Dutta, the 11th dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, is the first Cornell dean to be recruited from abroad. Read more

FACULTY

Faculty Legends: Flora Rose

A beloved teacher and co-director of Cornell's College of Home Economics (now the College of Human Ecology), Flora Rose (1874-1959) served Cornell for 33 years. Read more

FACULTY

Faculty Legends: Alexander de Lahunta

Looking back on his 45 years at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Alexander de Lahunta, DVM '58, Ph.D. '63, believes he "just happened to be at the right place at the right time." Read more

LET'S GO BIG RED

40 years forward -- Title IX at Cornell

Women's athletics at Cornell was still in its infancy in 1972 when Title IX was signed into law. Read more

WE CORNELLIANS

'We Cornellians' was student's illustrated look at Cornell and its history, ca. 1940

In 1940, the Cornell Cooperative Society published an illustrated look at Cornell, past and present, wholly written and illustrated by then-undergraduate student Steve Barker '41. Read more

END NOTE

Kenney shares library's philosophy: 'Think locally, act globally'

Cornell's librarian chatted with Ezra magazine recently about Cornell University Library's changing roles, the vast reach technology has made possible and what the future may hold. Read more


From The Publisher

Tommy Bruce

It is a tsunami of change that has swept over academic libraries, Cornell's in particular: No longer just information repositories, they are now facilitators of research, teaching and inquiry. Read more