CIDC In The News

January 24, 2002

• Cornell Receives Grant to Digitize Political Americana Collection

May 10, 2001

• Notables: Peter B. Hirtle, co-director of the Cornell Institute for Digital Collections at Cornell Library since 1996, has been elected as the next vice president and president-elect of the Society of American Archivists.

January 5, 2001

• Cornell University Library, Report to the Digital Library Federation

READ 2000: Report for Library Associates

• "Did my mother's great-grandfather fight in the Civil War? What were the hottest new fashions in the summer of 1850?   What did Thomas Edison himself have to say in 1878 about the phonograph, one of his most famous inventions? These questions are now easier to answer thanks to Cornell University Library's Making of America (MOA) Digital Collection." Read the full article here: http://www.library.cornell.edu/friends/read/moa.html.

READ 1999: Report for Library Associates

• Digital Deeds: Cornell University Library has been a national and international leader in developing and testing new digital technology and standards, in implementing these advances, and in studying the impact of the use of this new technology on teaching, learning, and scholarly communication. Described here are just a few of the many digital library projects and initiatives currently under way within CUL and under the leadership of the Cornell Institute for Digital Collections (CIDC). Read the full article here: http://www.library.cornell.edu/friends/read/digital.html.

March 11, 1999

• Library project studies ways to preserve electronic records

Cornell Univeristy Library Annual Report 1998-1999

• The Cornell Institute for Digital Collections (CIDC) partnered with the Johnson Museum in the Museum Online Project, a complex undertaking to capture digital images of a broad selection of the Museum's 27,000 objects and to make them accessible for teaching and research in the Cornell community.

December 10, 1998

• Library information technology added to Hickerson's responsibilities

January 27, 1998

• Cornell's Johnson Museum launches $680,000 effort to put permanent collection on the World Wide Web More than 27,000 objects, from sculpture to paintings, will be digitally photographed

January 29, 1998

• Museum launches project to put permanent collection on the web

October 30, 1997

• $2 million in private grants support new Institute for Digital Collections