Management Library

The Management Library has a webpage with information on course reserves for Johnson School classes as well as information available at the circulation desk.

The Library Catalog has links to course reserves for other Cornell classes.

For information about your library account, select the My Account link in the top menubar of the Management Library website. Any questions that you have about your account can be directed in person to the circulation staff in the library, by e-mail (mgtcirc@cornell.edu) or telephone (607-255-3389).

All electronic books are included in our catalog. In addition collections may be searched by publisher:

• Springer
  Access over 10,000 books in the SpringerLink subject collection, including business, economics, management, finance, logistics and marketing.
• EBSCO
  Books on many topics, including a wide array of popular business books.
• Safari Books Online
  Books published by O'Reilly for programmers and IT professionals. Covers the last three years only.
• Books24x7.com
  Books on many information technology topics, including networking, programming, languages, desktop applications, and the web.
• DjVu Reader
  Having trouble accessing an e-book? Are you not able to access all the pages in NetLibrary or another e-book repository? Try downloading the plugin DjVu Reader. Many users who have reported initial problems accessing e-books from our collections have been able to resolve them by using DjVu Reader.

Cornell-based Collections

• eCommons@Cornell
  The eCommons Digital Repository is powered by DSpace and is open to anyone affiliated with Cornell University as a place to capture, store, index, preserve and redistribute materials in digital formats that may be useful for educational, scholarly, research or historical purposes.
• Google Book Search Library
  Cornell University Library has partnered with Google Inc. to digitize approximately 500,000 materials from its collections and make them available online using Google Book Search Library.
• BookSurge
  Cornell has partnered with BookSurge, a subsidiary of Amazon.com to make approximately 6,000rare and non-copyrighted books available for purchase as paperback editions. These include historical works in science and mathematics.
• The Library has a libguide that contains the latest developments regarding our eBook collections.

Cornell University Library offers a free service that obtains books or provides copies of articles from other libraries. Requests are made using the electronic forms found in the Cornell University Library Catalog by clicking on the “Borrow Direct or Worldcat Libraries” button in the item’s record or via the Library website listed under Library Services>Borrowing and Delivery. These services require extra time to locate and receive the books, etc. Please speak with a library staff member if you need assistance. NOTE: Borrow Direct is usually able to obtain books more quickly than interlibrary loan and must be used instead of interlibrary loan if there is an item available through Borrow Direct.

• Library Catalog: Search all of the books, periodicals, databases, and audio-visual materials owned by the Cornell University Library
• Summon: Search that draws from many full-text and article-indexing databases as well as digital repositories from colleges, universities, research centers, and other open-access archives on the web.
• Database Names: Enter the larger collection of Cornell Library resources and identify databases for different subject areas, such as the sciences, engineering, human resources and economics.
• E-journal Titles: Identify databases containing the full-text of the journals you wish to read online
• Images: Search for images in our specialty subscription collections and learn more about what tools can help.
• Experts: Browse or search for information about Cornell faculty and staff across all disciplines, departments and colleges.

• Each database is tagged with subject terms that refer to what topics is most useful for researching. See also the individual database description pages for more information.
• We also provide our Top Business Databases arranged by subject, so that you can pick the appropriate database based on the type of research you need to do (market research, finance, job search, etc.)
• Researching a particular topic? If so, check out our Career and Industry Guides. Each guide is put together by Management Library librarians and will direct you to the best resources for your job search, writing a business plan, researching a market, and more.
• Ask our research team for additional assistance. Visit us at the reference desk, send us e-mail, phone (255-3389), or schedule a consultation.

There are study carrels on both floors of the library. 24-hour access to the Marin Reading Room (restricted to Johnson School students) is available via the second floor hallway door across from the Help Desk. Access to the third floor will be available mid-September.

Search the Library Catalog using the Advanced Search option and limit the Format to the type that you want.

Non-Cornell individuals may borrow Cornell materials through Interlibrary Loan. To initiate this process, individuals should contact the reference staff at the academic or local public library with which they are affiliated.

Cornell dissertations may be purchased from University Microfilms International (UMI). Unbound photocopies of older dissertations not available through UMI may be purchased through Cornell's Interlibrary Loan department.

You can either go to the holding library to check out the book or you may request to have the book delivered to the Management Library by clicking the “Request Item” link in the catalog record and selecting the options to have the book delivered.

Search the Library Catalog for the particular book. The catalog record will indicate which campus libraries hold that book. Some books will be part of the collections of several libraries on campus. 

For example, if you want to see if the Cornell library has Dale Carnegie’s 1936 classic book How to Win Friends and Influence People, simply type in the title of the book into the search box. You'll see that this publication is available in several editions and languages at various Cornell libraries. To find out which libraries, select the title link or “View all editions and formats” link under the title that interests you. Select the edition of your choice and write down the call number given by the Catalog; you will need this to find the book.