Throughout the years since graduation, our class has made important contributions to keep the Cornell Library at the forefront of the digital revolution. Since equipping one of the first computer classrooms in Uris during the 1980s, we have created a Class of 1979 Library Endowment fund that the library uses for developing access to electronic holdings housed at Cornell and elsewhere. These projects are making unique library resources available to a broader world of researchers, Cornell students, and alumni.

HarpWeek so frequently that they have a bookmark pointing directly to the resource."

The University Library and the Sun have invested in technology to provide an online archive of the newspaper's historical files. Ultimately, the contents of each issue will be indexed and a database created to allow article searches by subject, writer, or date. Through the Library Endowment, the class has raised enough to convert the entire 1978-79 volume of the newspaper, which is now available on the Digital Daily Sun website! We would like to be the first class to underwrite our entire four undergraduate years of the Sun digital archive (maybe we can convince some architects to donate the fifth year). This project will require approximately $20,000 in additional gifts to the Class of 1979 Library Endowment. Once you take a look at the results, you just might get hooked on it, and if you do, you can designate this project on the Cornell Fund online gift form.

A recent letter from Sarah Thomas, university librarian, explains the benefits of the class's endowment in enabling Cornell to subscribe to the electronic archive of Harper's Weekly, known as HarpWeek. Quoting Sarah, "HarpWeek was accessed 893 times in 2006 [exclusive of] those people who may use

Be sure to choose 'Cornell U. Library' in the first dropdown box and enter 'Class of 79 Library Endowment'

in the other gift designation

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