The Martin P. Catherwood Library is rich in the print and electronic resources you need to understand the workplace as it was yesterday, as it is today, and as it may be tomorrow. The library also offers an array of services to help you find answers to your questions. Please visit the home page to connect with the library's resources and services, including the Kheel Center Archives.
ILR Library Resources
“My life is deeply touched by this tragedy.”
—Andrea Hatler, 14, on the Triangle Fire Web Exhibit
Catherwood Library
Catherwood Library is the most comprehensive resource of its type in North America. With a collection of more than 226,000 books, journals, pamphlets and related materials - complemented by extensive access to electronic resources from around the world - Catherwood supports education and research in nearly every aspect of the workplace.
Kheel Center Archives
The Kheel Center is a rich repository of manuscript and media archival material on the history of labor relations. Holdings include an estimated 27 million manuscript pages of archival material, more than 350,000 photographic images, and 1,500 films and videos.
Catherwood Highlights
ILR Research Portal
The Research Portal is a starting point for the research needs of faculty, students, practitioners, and the general public as they seek the best information in fields related to the workplace.
DigitalCommons@ILR
This document repository offers access to a selection of research and scholarly materials produced by individual departments, centers, institutes, and programs within ILR. Key Workplace Documents, a unique repository for materials that deal with aspects of the employer-employee relationship, is included.
Catherwood Internet Guides
Catherwood Subject Guides are topical collections of key links that provide an overview of issues, data, and developments related to the workplace. Course Guides are developed by reference staff and professors in support of ILR courses. Collection Guides includes summaries of special collections.
Workplace Issues Today
WIT is a FREE email service that provides vital news about the workplace and delivers it to your desktop. We also offer an online searchable database of past issues.
Ask A Librarian
Ask A Librarian offers in-person, phone, and e-mail reference assistance. Extensive research or specialized services are also available through ILR Access, Catherwood's Fee-Based Information Service.
Kheel Highlights
Online Finding Aids
The Kheel Center makes available online an alphabetical listing of Finding Aids describing a portion of the collections in its holdings.
Conversations in Working Life and Culture
Each semester the Kheel Center hosts an interdisciplinary lecture series, which presents informative talks by individuals whose original research explores the history of workers and the economic, social, political, and cultural dimensions of their lives.
The Kheel Center Online Photo Database
This searchable database includes a continually-growing number of images selected from the center's 350,000 photographs that document workers in a variety of unions and industries, predominantly during the 20th century.
Triangle Factory Fire Web Exhibit
The Triangle Shirt Waist Company fire in New York City more than 90 years ago claimed the lives of 146 young immigrant workers. The online Triangle Fire Web Exhibit depicts one of the worst disasters since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
Related Destination
- Sanford V. Lenz Library, New York City
An information center specializing in labor relations and work-related issues. Open to ILR Faculty, staff, and students.
Catherwood Library, Ives Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, 607-255-5435, ilrlib@cornell.edu
