Cornell will acquire a new addition to the University library system soon — Hans Albrecht Bethe’s Nobel Prize medal. Bethe’s family has donated the medal to the Carl A. Kroch Library 55 years after he ...

Librarians have long complained about the nondisclosure agreements, or NDA’s, that some publishers and vendors require them to sign, making it difficult to share information about how much they pay to ...

From 2005 to 2010, the median increase in funding for digital and print collections for the top 10 research libraries in the U.S. was 35.6 percent. At Cornell, however, funding for these expenditures ...

A rare collection of James Baldwin’s literary works can now be explored by the public in a new exhibit at the Carl A. Kroch Library on the campus of Cornell University. Titled “Know Whence You Came: ...

Cornell University Library announced today that it wants the top institutional users of arXiv.org to help pay for the online scientific repository. “Keeping an open-access resource like arXiv ...

Grate job, guys! The open-air flooring of the new Cornell Fine Arts Library has traded sightlines for privacy issues. (image by and courtesy of © Lukas Schaller) The ...