TABLE OF CONTENTS
City of New York, Office of Collective Bargaining Decisions
The Martin P. Catherwood Library at Cornell's School of Industrial & Labor Relations, by special arrangement, makes collective bargaining decisions from this New York City agency available full-text in a searchable archive. The Office of Collective Bargaining is an impartial, tri-partite agency created by local law as authorized by the New York State's Taylor Law. It was established by the City of New York after negotiations and agreement with unions representing City employees. The OCB provides assistance to management (the City), and labor (unions representing city employees) in resolving their differences.
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/e_archive/nysgov_reports/nyc_ocb/search_decisions.html
Death Penalty Web Site
In collaboration with the Cornell Law School Death Penalty project, the Law Library makes available a variety of resources devoted to the subject.
http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library
EAD/XML Finding Aids
The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections has begun a major effort to convert several thousand paper and electronic finding aids to Encoded Archival Description (EAD), encoded in XML. It builds on local encoding standards developed under an earlier experiment with EAD delivery options using XSL http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/xml/. Most of the conversion is expected to be completed in-house. For delivery, XML encoded finding aids will be converted to HTML using XSL style sheets. Currently this is done in batch, but dynamic conversion is being explored. Further work will add guide navigation functionality and collection-wide search capability.
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/ead/
E-Archive
The Martin P. Catherwood Library at Cornell's School of Industrial & Labor Relations collects key materials on workplace issues by special arrangement with government offices, commissions, task forces, and non-governmental associations. The Electronic Archive has established itself as a unique repository for materials that encompass any and all aspects of the employer-employee relationship. Many items, like the Glass Ceiling Commission materials, are officially archived at this site. Researchers can rely on these items remaining available for years to come. Access is free to the public.
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/e_archive/
HeinOnline
The Law Library collaborates with Cornell Information Technologies and the Hein Publishing Company in making historical law reviews available over the Internet, both in image form for authenticity, as well as uncorrected OCR text to allow for manipulation of the text.
http://heinonline.org
International Court of Justice Web Mirror Site
In partnership with the International Court of Justice, the Cornell Law Library created the first official Web site for the Court, and was instrumental in the Court starting its own official Web site. The Law Library makes available for the Americas complete and simultaneous access to the full-text decisions, documents, and other materials produced by the World Court. The Law Library captures this information twice a year in order to archive the entire Web collection as presented at a given time. This ensures permanent
access in Web format in a way similar to the various editions of a print publication.
http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library
International Labor Organization Web Mirror Site
In partnership with the International Labor Office in Geneva, Switzerland, the Cornell Law Library makes available for the Americas complete and simultaneous access to the full text reports, documents, and other materials produced by this distinguished organization. The Law Library intends to capture this information twice a year, in order to archive the entire Web collection as presented at a given time. This ensures permanent access in Web format in a way similar to the various editions of a print publication.
http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library
Permanent Court of Arbitration Web Site
The Law Library cooperates with the Permanent Court of Arbitration, in the Hague, the Netherlands, in making several of their documents available.
http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library
UN21 Interest Group Newsletter
The Law Library publishes and archives the newsletter from the American Society of International Law.
http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library
USDA Report System
The USDA Economics and Statistics System contains nearly 300 reports and datasets from the economics agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. These materials cover U.S. and international agriculture and related topics. Most reports are text files that contain time-sensitive information. Most data sets are in spreadsheet format and include time-series data that are updated yearly. This system complements the Cornell Library's USDA Reports by Subscription service.
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/mor_start.html
Workplace Issues Today
The Martin P. Catherwood Library at Cornell's School of Industrial & Labor Relations established Workplace Issues Today (WIT) in 1999 as a selective news center where faculty, students and interested public could go for the late breaking news on workplace issues. All news items are placed in a searchable archive in the hope that it can represent, in an abbreviated form, a chronology of workplace issues of major concern to the public. In addition, it should give some guidance to the researcher about the who, what, when, where, and how of the workplace over time. One can subscribe to the free e-mail service and get vital news about the workplace delivered to the desktop. WIT is published Monday through Friday mornings, except University holidays. Access is free to the public.
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/wit/
Beautiful Birds: Masterpieces from the Hill Ornithology Collection
Beautiful Birds traces the development of ornithological illustration in the 18th and 19th centuries and highlights the changing techniques - from metal and wood engraving to chromolithography - during that period. This site highlights Cornell University Library's Hill Ornithology Collection, which chronicles the pre-1900 development of ornithology as a science, and depicts the growth of bird illustration as an art form, with particular concern for comprehensiveness in North American ornithology.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ornithology/
The Contemporary African Artists Database
This database is the result of a Rockefeller and Ford Foundation funded initiative designed to document and disseminate contemporary African art, as well as promote networking between African artists and art institutions. The computerized database will also be used to generate a series of bio-bibliographic dictionaries. The bio-bibliographic information is stored on a Cornell University Library Macintosh server; artists' images are stored on a Cornell Institute for Digital Collections image server. Currently, the database is accessible only to authorized personnel. For assistance contact us at afrartists-mailbox@cornell.edu.
http://rmc2.library.cornell.edu/contemporaryafricanart/options.htm
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
15,000 images of works of art contained within the Johnson Museum of Art are currently available for viewing using Luna Insight's Browser Insight(r) II software which allows for several search options in database access. Cornell's art repository includes paintings, prints, sculptures, and published graphical images (woodcuts, etc.). By putting the collection on-line, students, faculty, visitors, and users on the Internet will be able to electronically explore and research the collection from their home, office, or one of the workstations in the museum. Users can learn about artists and their works, and use Insight tools to view high quality images and groups of images.
http://insight.library.cornell.edu/insightbrowser2/launcher.asp
GloPAC, the Global Performing Arts Consortium
The Global Performing Arts Consortium is a group of organizations and individuals committed to providing interactive, multimedia and multilingual tools to enable people everywhere to explore the diversity and depth of the world's performing arts. Two Performing Arts Databases (PADs) are under construction: a global database (GPAD; formerly DRAMMA) and a Japanese database (JPAD, formerly HANA). The databases include images, sound and video clips with detailed descriptions in standardized formats to enable effective cross-cultural searching. Funding is being sought now to further the work in metadata definition and database development.
http://www.glopac.org/
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
A multimedia online exhibit that presents original documents on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of March 25, 1911 in New York City, in which 146 factory workers, mostly immigrant women, met their untimely and tragic death due to poor safety conditions within the factory. The incident triggered outrage and protests that resulted in the enactment of labor protective legislation in New York State. The exhibit gathers news reports, photographs, letters, interview audio files, monograph excerpts, investigative reports, political cartoons, and other documentation. Includes a list of victims and survivors and a bibliography. Presented by the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at Cornell University in cooperation with the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE).
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/