CUL Committee on Distributed Learning: An Interim Report

This is a PDF Web Archive of http://www.library.cornell.edu/staffweb/CouncilLibs/Distributedreport080900.htmlThe University Librarian appointed a committee, chaired by Gordon Law, director of the Catherwood Library, in February 2000. In its interim report dated August of this year, the committee sought to clarify some of the issues relating to distance learning and make recommendations for a CUL framework for providing information services and products. "Distributed learning" is a type of distance learning which relies heavily on technology, and increasingly web technology, to deliver an educational experience anytime and anywhere on the globe

CORC at Cornell Project: Final Report

This is a PDF Web Archive of http://www.library.cornell.edu/staffweb/CORCFinalReport.htmlCORC?the Cooperative Online Research Cataloging project?is a collaborative research initiative of the OCLC Office of Research and about 150 participating institutions, including Cornell. It provides Web-accessible shared databases and automated tools to help libraries manage and provide intellectual access to the massive amount of material becoming available on the Web. The "CORC at Cornell" project was undertaken by a small, cross-functional research team of seven people. We worked on the project from mid-May to mid-November 1999. In the approximately 400 hours we spent on the project, we: (1) selected and cataloged about 120 new resources for the library catalog and Gateway; (2) experimented with a new workflow in which selectors, reference staff, and catalogers collaborated to create metadata; (3) gained practical experience with Dublin Core; (4) explored the features of CORC for creating subject guides (a.k.a. pathfinders); (5) evaluated the functions and features of the CORC system; (6) enhanced our abilities to select, manage and control electronic resources for the library