Cornell University Library Technical Services
110 Olin Library, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853

Library Technical Services (LTS) creates and maintains content used by the Library's online catalog, e-resource discovery systems, and numerous searching and delivery tools for all collections. We keep the collections vital and current by licensing and purchasing new materials, describing and organizing them for convenient use, and preparing items for preservation as necessary. We also support bibliographic access to special collections, rare, and archival materials, making these unique resources available for scholars worldwide.

Working collegially with other Library units, we define policies and practices that assure responsive and timely access to the Library's rich and varied collections of print and digital materials. Further, we make Cornell's world-class collections known to students, scholars and researchers all over the world by contributing our online catalog records to the OCLC bibliographic database.

Licensing, managing, and troubleshooting access to the Library's ever-expanding collection of networked e-resources is a technical services growth area. Another growth area is metadata consulting and production services, which increase the value of digital collections inside and outside the Library by making these collections easier to find, use, and share.

Technical Services consists of the following divisions:

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