The Cornell Police were included to ensure that the Blue Light Escort Service would accommodate an anticipated increase in late night travelers. CIT is a partner with the library in operating the computer labs in Uris, both of which will remain open on the new schedule. For the past three academic years, Willard Straight Hall has provided 24-hour study areas. If usage declines, the service may be discontinued. The Map Collection has added a new spatial data and graphics workstation which includes a large format color flatbed scanner, a recordable CD player, Adobe Photoshop image editing software, ArcView GIS software, and a powerful computer well capable of working with such taxing graphics applications.
Many students use cartographic imagery in their design and multimedia projects.
The convenience of this new workstation will really help boost their productivity and enhance their creativity. The scanner and editing software allow images from our extensive collections of historic and contemporary maps to be presented in many ways. A recent project scanned maps of New York City s harbor dating from the 1600s through 1999. Layers from the maps were reconfigured in Photoshop and used to add a visual context in time and place to a student s harborfront park design. Another project prepared image files from maps of Simeon DeWitt s original 1790 survey for the New Military Tracts around present-day Ithaca and used this as an image layer over contemporary local land use data and aerial photography.