scholarly journals Ernst Wolff. Mongameli Mabona: His Life and Work. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2020. Distributed in North America by Cornell University Press; also open access. 202 pp. References. $25.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-9462702554.

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Peter Limb
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
North America ◽  
Cornell University

scholarly journals Collections, Compilations, and Convolutes of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in North America before ca. 1900

Fragmentology ◽  
10.24446/dlll ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 73-139
Author(s):  
Scott Gwara
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
North America ◽  
The United States ◽  
New York University ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Private Collections ◽  
Public Exhibition

Using evidence drawn from S. de Ricci and W. J. Wilson’s Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, American auction records, private library catalogues, public exhibition catalogues, and manuscript fragments surviving in American institutional libraries, this article documents nineteenth-century collections of medieval and Renaissance manuscript fragments in North America before ca. 1900. Surprisingly few fragments can be identified, and most of the private collections have disappeared. The manuscript constituents are found in multiple private libraries, two universities (New York University and Cornell University), and one Learned Society (Massachusetts Historical Society). The fragment collections reflect the collecting genres documented in England in the same period, including albums of discrete fragments, grangerized books, and individual miniatures or “cuttings” (sometimes framed). A distinction is drawn between undecorated text fragments and illuminated ones, explained by aesthetic and scholarly collecting motivations. An interest in text fragments, often from binding waste, can be documented from the 1880s.

A Migratory Cariboo Convention

1981 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 285-300
Author(s):  
N. D. Bankes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Open Access ◽  
North America ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Operative Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Yukon Territory ◽  
Gas Drilling ◽  
Barren Ground ◽  
The Creation

Over the last decade several proposals have been made for the creation of an international wildlife range between northeast Alaska and northern Yukon Territory, and for a convention between Canada and the United States to regulate the Porcupine caribou herd. The herd, one of the largest barren ground caribou herds in North America, regularly migrates across the United States-Canadian boundary. It is harvested in both countries by Indians and Inuit. Since the vitality of the caribou herd may be affected by developments on either side of the border, such as overharvesting, construction of pipelines or highways, influx of tourists, open access hunting policies, and oil and gas drilling, the herd requires co-operative management.

scholarly journals Realigning liaison with university priorities: Observations from ARL Liaison Institutes 2015–18

2018 ◽  
Vol 79 (8) ◽  
pp. 420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Vine
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Future Scenarios ◽  
Academic Administrators ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Association Of Research Libraries ◽  
User Groups

Since 2015, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has designed and delivered eight2 one-to-two day liaison institutes to participants from a dozen ARL libraries across North America. Modelled on the 2015 institute held at Cornell University,3 institutes are designed for liaison librarians, functional specialists, and managers who engage regularly with faculty, students, and academic administrators. Participants work in small groups to understand the changing landscape of librarian-faculty engagement by examining possible future scenarios for research libraries by placing themselves “in the shoes” of specific user groups to understand their needs and challenges. Through those insights, they consider new and needed ways to advance teaching and research excellence at their local institutions.

A New Braconid from Mexico

1952 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-31
Author(s):  
John C. Martin
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Economic Importance ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
North America North ◽  
The U.S

In revising the genus Triaspis Haliday, as found in North America north of Mexico, the author studied an undescribed species from Mexico. This form is a parasite of Apion godmani Wagner, a weevil of economic importance. This paper provides a name and a description for this new parasite.The author is most grateful to Dr. V. S. L. Pate of Cornell University for his helpful criticism of the manuscript, and also to Mr. C. F. W. Muesebeck of the U.S. National Museum for the loan of material, and to Dr. Arthur C. Smith of Cornell University for the specimens collected while he was studying the biology of the host in Mexico.

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