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Exhibitions

…a mental health professional—often referred to as “the mother of media psychology”—who sought to do the most good for the largest number of people. The professional advice she offered to…

Preserving Cornell University History

…organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations, transactions or other activities. Records that have an institutional or legal necessity need to be retained for a certain number of years, and sometimes…

Finding Materials

…held, the collection number or call number, a brief description or abstract of the collection contents, creator of the materials, the size and extent of the collection, and language(s) represented…

The Cornell Wordsworth Collection

…Coleridge. Also worthy of special notice are a substantial number of literary manuscripts of both poets, a large number of letters written to and about them by their friends and…

Contact Us

…or to their college libraries. Additional Contact Information Mailing Address: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 Phone: 607-255-3530 Fax: 607-255-9524…

Making a Gift to RMC

…gift, please contact: Michelle Houle Hitz ’98 Director of Development, Library Alumni Affairs and Development Cornell University 130 E. Seneca Street, Suite 400 Ithaca, NY  14850 Phone:  610-731-6299 E-mail: mmh11@cornell.edu…

Donating to the HSC

…their older records with us. The donations have lined the shelves in our climate-controlled vault with over 600 cubic feet of manuscripts, 100 international and 900 U.S. periodicals, and over…

Finding Transgender & Intersex In the Library

…1973; and Paris: J. Gay, 1862. Cowell, Roberta. Roberta Cowell’s Story: An Autobiography. NY: British Book Centre, 1954. International Foundation for Gender Education [networked resource]. Intersex Awakening. Decatur, Ga.: American…

25th Anniversary

…Kroch Library San Francisco–based antiquarian book dealer, collector and historian Gerard Koskovich discovered some of the gems of our current exhibition “Speaking of Sex” and is responsible for a number

European History & Culture

…that number in the thousands of volumes, along with a unique gathering of materials on the Rhaeto-Romance language. Fiske also established the library’s 37,000-volume Icelandic Collection. The collection contains virtually…