Library Resources
The Cornell Library offers outstanding collections and specialized staff dedicated to international studies. Among the library's 7,000,000 volumes are some 1,800,000 that directly support international studies. One million of these concern Asia, the remainder Africa, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Latin America, and the Middle East. These materials, written primarily in vernacular languages and published in every corner of the globe, comprise a formidable store of primary texts, graphic images and numerical data. Microforms, videos and, increasingly, digital information sources enrich traditional paper collections.
Digital materials offer possibilities for international studies scholarship never available when information resided only in ink on paper. Electronic bundles, such as the 673 Chinese papers in the China Core Newspaper Databases, allow scrutiny of huge amounts of information in a short time. Cornell libraries have also pioneered techniques of converting paper collections to digital formats and of compiling electronic information in imaginative ways. The Echols Collection is currently at work on "Visions of Southeast Asia," a compilation of early European travelers to the region.
For the past decade, the Cornell University Library has offered formal instruction in professional practice abroad. Through Fulbright and Soros fellowships, Cornell librarians have taught classes through universities in Ecuador, Greece and Poland. Preservation specialists have been instrumental in rescuing the documentary heritage of Southeast Asia, as well as training counterparts in that region of the world. And the Library's award-winning Digital Preservation Workshops have attracted participants from five continents. These Library-initiated contacts have been instrumental in disseminating the best practices of information management and in opening doors for Cornell scholars working abroad.
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Cornell Library
This Gateway is the central electronic access point to the more than 7,000,000 volumes, 7,000,000 microforms, 65,000 cubic feet of manuscripts, and 400,000 other materials held by Cornell University Library that place it among the ten largest academic research libraries in North America. Cornell acquires all books published by university presses in the English-speaking world, the output of some 140 American trade publishers, complete sets of thousands of scholarly series from around the world, and more than 60,000 periodical and newspaper titles.
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Africa
John Henrik Clarke Africana Library
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Africa
The Africana Studies and Research Center houses the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library, a core collection of over 18,000 volumes focusing on the social and political dimensions of the history and culture of peoples of African ancestry. Holdings include basic books, complete collections of works of important writers, and highly selective research materials that complement the collections housed in Cornell's research libraries. The Africana Library's documentation collection contains valuable primary source materials, including copies of rare monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, and journal publications on microfilm and microfiche.
Asia
Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia
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Asia
STARTED OFFICIALLY IN 1918 with a donation of around 9,500 books, 1600 pamphlets and 550 manuscripts, the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia (http://asia.library.cornell.edu/ac/) is among the top East Asian library collections in the country. Originally named the Charles W. Wason Library on China and the Chinese, the backbone of the collection began as the private library of the late Charles W. Wason (Cornell class of 1876), a railroad magnate based in Cleveland. Over the years, the Wason Collection, now consisting of over 550,000 items in many formats, has expanded its focus to include materials from Japan, Tibet, Manchuria and Korea, offering superb and often unique resources for research and teaching.
Echols Collection on Southeast Asia
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College of Arts and Sciences
Region:
Asia
As a premier resource on Southeast Asia, the Echols collection annually adds more than 7000 volumes to its collection. It is the most comprehensive body of material on a global region in the Cornell Library system and the largest collection on Southeast Asia in the United States and in the world.
South Asia Collection
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Asia
South Asian material is spread throughout the campus, not only in central library collections, but in unit libraries to support research in areas such as law, labor history and labor relations, architecture and planning, geology, music history and South Asian music, and physical sciences. In addition to more than a quarter of a million volumes, the collection includes over 23 newspapers, 465 videos and films, 838 maps and 2,080 sound recordings and cassettes.
Europe
Icelandic Collection
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Europe
The Fiske Icelandic Collection, located in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, is the largest repository of works on Iceland and on Nordic medieval studies in North America. The collection, which Cornell University Library acquired in 1905, contains over 32,000 titles in a variety of European languages and in diverse media, from vellum and paper manuscripts to CD-ROMs. The Fiske Icelandic Collection is particularly rich in printed works of contemporary Icelandic belles lettres, medieval sagas, and literary criticism of the latter.
Slavic and East European Collections
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Europe
The Slavic and East European Collections contain over 300,000 volumes, both in vernacular languages of the area and in Western European languages. East European language holdings are about 56% Russian, 13% Polish, 8% Czech and Slovak, 10% Serbian, Croatian, and Serbo-Croatian, 5% Ukrainian and Belorussian. The remaining 8% consists of Bulgarian, Hungarian, Romanian, and other Eastern European languages. The overall collection grows by more than 10,000 items per year.
Latin America and the Caribbean
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
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Latin America and the Caribbean
The Cornell University library system subscribes to CIAO, a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. Because this is a subscription service, it is restricted to users who access the database from computers connected to the Cornell network.
Latin American and Caribbean Government Document Project
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Latin America and the Caribbean
This project organizes and describes the many Latin American and Caribbean official documents appearing on the Internet. It consists of tables that group similar kinds of information, briefly summarize their content, and provide appropriate links.
Middle East
Middle East and Islamic Studies Collection
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College of Arts and Sciences
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Middle East
The Collection includes materials published both in the Middle East and in Western Europe and the United States about the Middle East and Islam, including over 40,000 books, serials, government documents, and audiovisual materials, housed mainly in Olin Library.
Miscellaneous
Catherwood Library: International Research Portal
Unit:
School of Industrial and Labor Relations
The International Information links from this Portal are designed to lead the researcher and practitioner to the most reliable and fundamental information sources available in matters related to Industrial and Labor Relations. To assist in this process some sources have been grouped into categories such as Best Regional Sites, including Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, and Key State Department Sites.
Cornell Library
This Gateway is the central electronic access point to the more than 7,000,000 volumes, 7,000,000 microforms, 65,000 cubic feet of manuscripts, and 400,000 other materials held by Cornell University Library that place it among the ten largest academic research libraries in North America. Cornell acquires all books published by university presses in the English-speaking world, the output of some 140 American trade publishers, complete sets of thousands of scholarly series from around the world, and more than 60,000 periodical and newspaper titles.
International Business Research
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Johnson Graduate School of Management
International Veterinary Information Service
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College of Veterinary Medicine
International Veterinary Information Service (IVIS) is a not-for-profit organization that provides information to veterinarians, veterinary students, and animal health professionals worldwide. The IVIS website provides free access to original, up-to-date publications organized in electronic books edited by highly qualified editors, proceedings of veterinary meetings, short courses, continuing education, an international calendar of veterinary events, image collections, and much more, all with the help of private and corporate sponsors.
Library International Business FAQ
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Johnson Graduate School of Management
Library Reference Services
The Reference Department and Instruction Division is a team made up of librarians, reference assistants, and support staff working together to provide effective services to the Cornell community. They assist users in finding information, recommending sources for research, suggesting research strategies, and helping users navigate a wide array of electronic and print resources.
Map Collection
The Map and Geospatial Information Collection houses a geographically comprehensive collection of over 240,000 maps, 3,200 books and atlases, 500 compact disks, and many other related research materials.
Rare and Manuscript Collections
The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections includes 300,000 printed volumes, more than 70 million manuscripts, and another million photographs, paintings, prints, and other visual media documenting the history of the written word from ancient clay cuneiform tablets to an extensive representation of works by 20th-century authors. The collections support research in fields such as medieval and Renaissance studies, the Reformation, 18th-century France and England, American history, Anglo-American literature, and Icelandic history and culture.
