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2.2K views · 55 reactions | Sunday is Nobel Prize Day! Nearly 60 Cornell scholars have been awarded Nobel Prizes, and the University Archives in the Cornell University Library - Rare and Manuscript Collections preserves important material associated with their research -- including two Nobel Prizes. | Cornell University Library | Facebook

1.3K views · 78 reactions | Sunday is William Shakespeare's 453rd birthday -- and it also marks the 401st anniversary of his death. Cornell University Library - Rare and Manuscript Collections has has all four of Shakespeare's first folios -- take a look! | Cornell University Library | Facebook

Can’t wait for Star Wars? Cornell University Library has plenty of Star Wars material, from movie DVDs to soundtrack CDs to journal articles to pop-up books! (Below, a page from our copy of Matthew Reinhart’s “Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy,” published in 2007 by Orchard Books.) The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections doesn’t just collect old books, but items representing today’s pop culture -- they’re important in our time, so we understand the need to document them for the fut