{"id":1081,"date":"2012-10-22T11:27:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T15:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2012-10-22T13:44:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T17:44:20","slug":"special-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2012\/10\/22\/special-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Our special collections and a future Rare Book Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After last week&#8217;s blog posting about the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2012\/10\/17\/farewell-to-the-rare-book-room\/\">Farewell Reception<\/a> in the Rare Book Room, we received several inquiries about the future of our rare books and other special collections.\u00a0 We have good news:\u00a0 These collections will still be easily accessible.\u00a0 Certain materials will stay here at the law school in a secure, climate-controlled room.\u00a0 Most of the collection will be temporarily housed near the Cornell apple orchard in the <a href=\"http:\/\/annex.library.cornell.edu\/\">Cornell University Library Annex<\/a>, which provides 24-hour turnaround access to materials.\u00a0 The Annex is well equipped for storing material of this kind; in fact, it already houses some of Cornell University Library&#8217;s Rare and Manuscript collections.\u00a0 Users of our rare books and other special collections will continue to request these materials from and use them in the Law Library.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">And we have more good news &#8212; our library director, Femi Cadmus, has been working closely with the architects for Phase II of the Law School&#8217;s renovation project on a new rare book room.\u00a0 We&#8217;re looking forward to having a new, even better space to show off our treasures like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawschool.cornell.edu\/library\/WhatWeHave\/SpecialCollections\/Scottsboro.cfm\">Scottsboro Train<\/a>, pictured below.<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawschool.cornell.edu\/library\/WhatWeHave\/SpecialCollections\/Scottsboro.cfm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1082  aligncenter\" style=\"margin-top: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2012\/10\/scottsboro_train.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2012\/10\/scottsboro_train.jpg 520w, https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2012\/10\/scottsboro_train-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After last week&#8217;s blog posting about the Farewell Reception in the Rare Book Room, we received several inquiries about the future of our rare books and other special collections.\u00a0 We have good news:\u00a0 These collections will still be easily accessible.\u00a0 Certain materials will stay here at the law school in a secure, climate-controlled room.\u00a0 Most <a href='https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2012\/10\/22\/special-collections\/'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4537],"tags":[338,334,340],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}