Early Engineering Student Publications
The Crank, 1887-1891
Sibley Journal, 1892-1935
Cornell Engineer, 1935-1994
Early references to Engineering Library in Sibley Hall, 1888
References are from early engineering student journal The Crank. This and other issues can be seen online via Cornell Historical Monographs Collection, ebooks.library.cornell.edu/c/cdl
Lincoln Hall Library, 1890 (civil)
Sibley Engineering Library, 1938 (mechanical)
Additional libraries at the time were located in Franklin Hall (for electrical engineering) and Olin Hall (for chemical engineering).
1957
Carpenter Hall & circulation desk
1960
Engineering library reading room, including card catalog
1977
Using the Engineering Library card catalog
Carpenter Hall takeover, 1972
125 anti-war demonstrators camped in library for 5 days:
April 26 –May 1, 1972
Demands:
- Divest from Cornell Aeronautical Lab (begun
during WW2, Cornell had been trying to sell since
1968) - Conversion of CAL to non-defense research.
- End to ROTC at Cornell
- Cornell to help force Gulf Oil out of Angola in
Africa
1990
Note graphing calculators on table and heavy use of paper.
2005
Note clamshell Apple iBook, ca. 1999-2006.
Library at this point had 1,500 print journals and 150,000 books on site.
2016
Physical collection, including reference collection consolidated with Uris Library and Library Annex in 2011.
- Laura Linke and Evan Earle, Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University
- The Crank, Sibley Journal of Engineering, Cornell Engineer and Cornell Alumni News
- Images courtesy of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University and Jill Powell, Engineering Library