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The library is administered as an academic division; the University Librarian reports to the university provost.The holdings are managed by the Library's subdivisions, which include 16 physical and virtual libraries on the main campus in Ithaca, New York, a storage annex in Ithaca for overflow items, the library of Weill Cornell Medical College, and the archives of the medical college and of ...
William H. Miller, who studied architecture under Cornell President Andrew D. White, also employed the Romanesque Revival style in the design of Uris Library (dedicated 1891), which has grown to iconically represent Cornell. Uris Library was expanded from its original cross shape twice—first to expand the library stacks in 1937 and to add ...
The Martin P. Catherwood Library, commonly known as the Catherwood Library or simply the ILR Library, serves the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. One of over a dozen libraries within the Cornell University Library system, the Catherwood Library is considered the most comprehensive resource of its ...
The library is a component of the Cornell University Library. It was started with an endowment by Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., who was associated with E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company from 1909 until his retirement as their chairman of the Board in 1962. Carpenter was a member of the Cornell mechanical engineering class of 1910 and also served ...
The reading room in Uris Library at Cornell University. The United States contains some of the largest academic libraries in the world. Among the most notable collections are those at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, Yale University, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and Columbia University. Many others were ...
McGraw Tower is a masonry clock tower located on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.The tower was known as Library Tower when it was first built but was renamed in 1961 in honor of either John McGraw, one of Cornell's original donors, or his daughter Jennie McGraw, the philanthropist in whose honor the tower and its adjacent library were originally commissioned by Henry W. Sage.
Traying down Libe Slope: Undergraduates were known to smuggle trays from the dining options in Willard Straight Hall or from the dormitory dining halls and use them to sled down Cornell's Libe Slope, a 100-foot hill stretching from Cornell West Campus to Uris Library, the undergraduate home of the Cornell University Library. [4]
A list of significant buildings and facilities, existing or demolished, owned by or closely associated with Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.Several buildings were on the National Register of Historic Places, including Bailey Hall, Caldwell Hall, Computing and Communications Center (formerly Comstock Hall), East Roberts Hall (demolished), Fernow Hall, Morrill Hall, Rice Hall, Roberts ...