The Library will be closed on Thursday, December 25th, 2025 in observance of Christmas Day and Thursday, January 1st, 2026 in observance of New Year's Day. The 24/7 Space will still be accessible to students, residents, and clinical fellows during each holiday.
Happy Holidays from the Samuel J. Wood Library!
Each day, a portion of the 24/7 space will be inaccessible overnight to allow cleaning staff to work efficiently and safely. The closure will also give the affected area time to dry.
Please join us for an engaging group conversation on The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine by Ricardo Nuila. Reading all or most of the book is encouraged. Those unfamiliar with the book, but interested in the book's topic, are also welcome to attend. The author of the book will not be present.
When reusing an image in a presentation or publication, please remember to cite its source; images in some of the following resources may be copyrighted. (See the Library's page on resources relating to copyright and fair use.) If you are searching Google Images, the "Usage Rights" filter can help you identify images licensed for reuse.
The Library will be closed on Thursday, November 27th and Friday, November 28th, 2025 in observance of Thanksgiving. Regular hours will resume on Monday, December 1st. The 24/7 Space will still be accessible to students, residents, and clinical fellows during the holiday.
To contend with overall budgetary changes, Cornell University Library has decided to unbundle some of its “Big Deal” packages as well as streamline existing access to journals as a cost-savings effort and a way to secure sustainable access to online journals for the Cornell community. Currently, the Library is reviewing journal packages with Oxford University Press (OUP) and Elsevier; and are reducing the number of journals we access through Wiley and Taylor & Francis.
Join Cornell University Library representatives and learn about why we are planning to unbundle our “big deal” package with publishing company Elsevier. Cornell licenses a considerable amount of online content from Elsevier, including the ScienceDirect journal collection and it is no longer a sustainable option for our campus to maintain a “big deal” package. This session will include background information on the rising costs of access to these journals, timeline on unbundling, as well as our plans for engagement with campus stakeholders during this process.
Please join the Heberden Society on Wednesday, November 12, 2025 at 1 PM EST for "Roaming Around the City:” Tuberculosis, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Disease in 20th Century New York City."
Please visit the Library Homepage or reach out to infodesk@med.cornell.edu with any questions.
Please join us for an engaging group conversation on The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life by Rachel Clarke. Reading all or most of the book is encouraged. Those unfamiliar with the book, but interested in the book's topic, are also welcome to attend. The author of the book will not be present.
