The Sun sits down with the one and only Sexy Sax Man of Cornell.

Cornell Information Technologies will require Cornell affiliates to sign on with their NetIDs when using CIT-operated computers beginning in the 2011-2012 academic year.

The Cornell and Columbia University Libraries will begin implementing a collaboration agreement and sharing their Slavic and East European collections this school year. Under the announced plan, the two universities will expedite inter-library loaning and coordinate their acquisitions. The project is the first step toward greater partnership between the two libraries.       

Several University divisions took the first step in May in a three-year project to develop a book publishing model that will sustain academic research and publishing in an increasingly turbulent market.

In response to budget strain and the rising use of electronic resources, by June 2011 the Engineering library will have all of its print collections relocated into other University libraries. Its electronic collections, which represent 99 percent of the library’s materials used by students, will be enhanced to maximize their use for learning and research.

The University has turned a new page for several campus libraries: by 2012, all the print collections of the Hotel School and Johnson School libraries will be relocated to the ILR School’s library as part of the University’s larger strategic planning process.

To the Editor:

Re: “Rippling Beyond Sibley,” Editorial, March 12.

Dean Kleinman,

As a former employee of Cornell University and as the former Assistant Director of the Knight Visual Resources Facility, I am writing to you to express my deep concerns over the recent decision by the College of Architecture, Art and Planning to shut down the Knight Visual Resources Facility.

I will attempt to write this column without sounding whiny, hostile or patronizing, but I can’t make any guarantees: It has become painfully obvious to me that our generation’s sense of social decorum is sorely lacking, particularly as it pertains to our behavior in the library, and that someone needs to address it.

From the private works of James Joyce to a copyrighted periodical of an aspiring chemist, thousands of unique books and manuscripts from the Cornell Library collection will be digitized and made available to the world through an expanded partnership between the University and Amazon.com.

The program allows anyone to purchase copies of the materials through Amazon’s BookSurge Print-on-Demand service.

Even with the growing development of e-book technology, Anne Kenney, Carl A. Kroch university librarian, believes that the printed word will always be around because people “still hold an abiding love for [printed] books.”

Yesterday The Washington Post printed the last edition of its eminent Book World, the weekly insert that stood as one of the country’s best book reviews. The story is what we’ve come to expect from print media today: plummeting subscription, faltering ad revenue, disappearing profits. Considered alongside the recent deaths of the Los Angeles Times’ and Chicago Tribune’s print book reviews, this seems to be the death knell for the form.