RCL Elections

Elections for the Representative Committee of Librarians [RCL] will be held this December 2007! If you are interested in running for RCL please contact an RCL committee member or the Library senators [Kathleen Kehoe and Karen Green]. For more information on RCL see the RCL page on SWIFT. Kathleen M. Dreyer Chair of RCL […]

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NY State Grant Supports Preservation

The Preservation and Digital Conversion Division received a $32,450 grant from the NY State Conservation Preservation Program to provide custom-fitted clamshell boxes constructed of archival-quality materials for 400 rare and special volumes. Several other NY universities, as well as the NY Public Library, will participate in the project, which will begin November 2007 and run […]

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Digital Scriptorium

Work on the third phase of the Digital Scriptorium, under an NEH grant of $300,000, has been completed. Digital Scriptorium is an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources into a tool for teaching and scholarly research. http://scriptorium.columbia.edu Columbia, in partnership with Oxford and Harvard, is now preparing a new grant […]

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Mellon Foundation: Collection Building for Web Resources

In partnership with the University of Maryland Libraries, CUL submitted a proposal to the Mellon Foundation requesting $156,122 for a planning project to figure out ways to incorporate web content into research library collections. If granted, CUL will focus on the subject area of human rights, exploring variations in the digital content available and how […]

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