Resources
Primary Sources
George Lincoln Burr Papers, #14-17-22. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Andrew Dickson White Papers, #1/2/2. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Cornell Alumni NewsAvailable through Cornell University's eCommons@Cornell . Searchable through Google: Search on the phrase (in quotation marks) “Cornell Alumni News” and [enter your own keywords]. See especially: January 1963 edition, Cover Story: “Second Youth for a Library.”
Cornell Daily Sun [Keith R. Johnson, Class of 1956, Digital Archive] See especially: October 10, 1962 issue.
Cornell University Digital Archives Andrew Dickson White. The Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White. New York: The Century Co., 1905. Available in electronic format through Project Gutenberg: Vol. IVol. II
Susan Lang. “Behind the McGraw Tower chimes is a story of love and legal wrangling.” Cornell Chronicle, February 11, 1999. Online access: http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/99/2.11.99/McGraw.html
Secondary Sources
Morris Bishop. A History of Cornell. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1962.
Cornell University Library History: Cornell’s Ten Librarians (electronic exhibition)
Mark Dimunation and Elaine D. Engst. A Legacy of Ideas: Andrew Dickson White and the Founding of the CornellUniversity Library. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Library, 1996. Available online via Cornell University’s eCommons@Cornell
Elaine D. Engst, “Cornell University”
Waterman T. Hewitt. CornellUniversity: A History. New York: University Publishing Society, 1905.
Carol Kammen. Cornell: Glorious to View. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Library, 2003. Selected text available through Cornell University’s eCommons@cornell.
Marikar, Sheila Yasmin, ’05 “A Piece of Tradition: Cornell Chimes” Connecting with Cornell: News from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research
Ed McKeown. TheCornell Chimes: In Celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of McGrawTower. Ithaca , N.Y. : Cornell University , 1991.
Kermit Carlyle Parsons. The Cornell Campus: A History of Its Planning and Development. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1968.
Katherine Reagan, “Founding Collections: Andrew Dickson White,” from: In the Founders’ Footsteps: Builders of the Cornell University Library (electronic exhibition).
Katherine Reagan, “Founding Collections: Arthur H. Dean & Mary Marden Dean” from: In the Founders’ Footsteps: Builders of the Cornell University Library (electronic exhibition).
Albert W. Smith, ed. The Bells of Cornell. Ithaca , N.Y. : Cayuga Press, 1930.
Ronald John Williams. Jennie McGraw Fiske: Her Influence Upon CornellUniversity. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1949.
Web Sources
Cornell United Religious Work: Sage Chapel
Cornell University Virtual Tour: Libraries
Library Limbo: Study-time cycles in Uris Library with 1920’s style animation. A student project made at Cornell University in Lynn Tomlinson’s Film 325 summer course.
Andrew Dickson White Library, Uris Library
Images
Historic photographs of the Cornell University campus, from the Cornell University Archives, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Alumni Affairs & Development's Photo Library