Catherwood Library

07/24/2024

Congratulations to the Catherwood Library research team! Its Collective Bargaining, Labor Relations, and Labor Unions Guide was selected by an American Library Association committee for its Best Business Reference Websites list! https://bit.ly/3LAdUpZ

11/21/2022

Our librarians love to help researchers find info they need. And when we get thanked, it’s icing on the cake.

But, recently, our librarians at Library got a literal sweet note of appreciation.

Cornell University ILR School master’s student Alejandra Quintero baked flan for librarians Jim DelRosso and others who’ve helped her in her research on non-profit organizations involved in helping migrant workers.

Alejandra recalls one research session among many: “We were trying to get some information from the National Labor Relations Board data and, at that point, he asked one of his colleagues for support. So there was a moment with him on his computer with two monitors, I’m on my laptop, and his colleague had her laptop, and we were all just trying to find this information. It just reminded me of the power the collective and how nothing that we ever do or accomplish is ever done alone.”

If you need any help with research, just ask our librarians. No flan required! We just love to help. library.cornell.edu/ask

03/30/2022

Such an honor for our Kheel Center's Triangle Fire website! Cornell University ILR School Cornell University Library AIHA - American Industrial Hygiene Association

A virtual exhibit of items illustrating the tragedy that had a huge impact on workplace regulations won an award from the American Industrial Hygiene Association.

12/15/2021

It is with profound sadness that we share that former Harriet Morel Oxman Director of Catherwood Library, Gordon Law, passed away this month at the age of 76. A great sense of the importance of service drove everything that Gordon did. He was first and foremost a gentleman, approaching everyone and everything with utmost civility and geniality. His greatest achievement at Cornell was overseeing the design and construction of the present Catherwood Library. Gordon will be missed.

https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/23336916/gordon-t-law-jr

09/14/2021

Our 21st annual Catherwood Cookie Day has begun! Stop by for free cookies, water, and books! All cookies are individually wrapped for grab-and-go, and we have vegan and gluten-free options. Cornell University ILR SchoolCornell ILR School Graduate Programs Ithaca Bakery

09/10/2021

This weekend we're remembering all the lives lost at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. This collection of hardhats from various unions in the building trades including those worn at Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks. The ILR School partnered with the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York to create a building trades support network for members who were impacted by their recovery and cleanup efforts. The program includes educational workshops on stress and anxiety, special events for workers and their families, and referrals for additional support services.

These helmets are from our ILR School Jeffrey Grabelski Memorabilia Collection. After 9/11, Jeffrey Grabelsky represented the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York on the World Trade Center Emergency Project Labor-Management Partnership. He began his career in the labor movement working and organizing in the steel industry in 1973, has been a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) for thirty years, and is the former national organizing director of the Building and Construction Trades Department (AFL-CIO).
#911

08/27/2021

Welcome to campus, ILRies! As the fall semester gets underway, remember that we are here to help you. Please do not be shy about seeking our help, that is our job and we love doing it! We are open M - R 8 am - 8 pm and F 8 am - 5 pm with after hours access to our first floor spaces.
We have a wide variety of study spaces to meet your study and research needs. Reserve a space by clicking on "Room Reservations" under the "Use the Library" tab on our home page catherwood.library.cornell.edu

06/17/2021

Thanks to the hard work of Cornell University Library and Cornell University ILR School colleagues past and present, ILR publications are now available digitally on HathiTrust Digital Library. The collection dates back to the earliest days of the school and covers a wide range of topics related to industrial and labor relations, from unions and collective bargaining practices to disability accommodations in the workplace.

Scholars studying the shifting landscape of work can now dig deep into more than a half-century’s wealth of knowledge from the ILR School’s digitized publications available on HathiTrust Digital Library, a vast collection of digitized content from libraries around the world.

05/03/2021

Videos are now available from the 2020 webinar conference series "Di Linke" which discussed the importance of the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order (JFPO). The JFPO archives are housed in our Kheel Center and are partially digitized. Cornell University Library Cornell University ILR School Jewish Studies - Cornell University

The archives of the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order (JPFO), which flourished for two decades before the Cold War, are now housed at Cornell’s Kheel Center, Catherwood Library. Videos from a December 2020 conference focused on the archives are now available online.

03/16/2021

Another local article featuring our Kheel Center materials, this time about Coretta Scott King. Research archivist Steven Calco calls her work in the labor movement “a hidden chapter in her life’s legacy.”

“It is plain that we don't care about our poor people except to exploit them as cheap labor and victimize them through excessive rents and consumer prices.”

03/10/2021

There is still plenty of time to join the Toni Morrison quilting project. Cornell and Ithaca community members are invited to participate by making and donating quilt blocks and small quilts. Even non-sewers can join in by creating paper blocks!
Read more about this project organized in part by Cornell University Library.

LibGuides: Toni Morrison Quilting Project: Home

02/22/2021

Captivating article about research archivist Steven Calco and his personal connection to our Kheel Center archives - includes advance notice of an upcoming exhibit of archival material featuring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East. Cornell University Library Cornell University ILR School

Many of us read about the history of labor in school. Steven Calco learned it growing up in a family of laborers. By the time he went to school he