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Contact Our Experts at Mann

Here's a list of subject areas we can help you with--feel free to contact the listed Mann library staff member directly, or email Jim Morris-Knower and he'll forward your question to the right person to give you an expert answer.

Agricultural Data Sources, USDA
Description: Sources of agriculture / agricultural data - international and domestic USA, USDA system
Coverage: consultations, research support and course help
Contact: Ashley Shea ald52@cornell.edu; Tom Ottaviano tjo65@cornell.edu

Bloomberg, DataStream
Description: Financial technologies & market data sources
Coverage: Workshops, consultations, research support and course help
Contact: Tom Ottaviano tjo65@cornell.edu

Business Research
Description: Market research, business news, company research, business plans and interview preparation
Coverage: Workshops, consultations, research support and course help
Contact: Tom Ottaviano tjo65@cornell.edu

Census Data
Description: finding and using demographic data from US Census
Coverage: consultations and general support
Contact: Tom Ottaviano tjo65@cornell.edu; Keith Jenkins kgj2@cornell.edu; Erica Johns emj73@cornell.edu

Copyright
Description: questions regarding copyright & library resources
Coverage: consultations
Contact: Cornell Copyright Information Center copyright.cornell.edu;Michael Cook mnc2@cornell.edu

Current Awareness Tools
Description: keeping current with news and research via Google Reader, delicious.com, diigo, Connotea, RSS feeds in general.
Coverage: workshops, consultations and general support.
Contact: Camille Andrews ca92@cornell.edu; Erica Johns emj73@cornell.edu

Datasets
Description: locating datasets
Coverage: consultations
Contact: Keith Jenkins kgj2@cornell.edu; Erica Johns emj73@cornell.edu

Education
Description: Usage of proprietary and free education and curriculum resources including ERIC
Coverage: Workshops, Consultations, and general support
Contact: Amelia Kallaher aak98@cornell.edu

Citation management software
Description: Citation management software programs
Coverage: Workshops, Consultations, and general support
Contact: Jim Morris-Knower jpk15@cornell.edu 

Environmental Data
Description: environmental sciences data
Coverage: consultations and general support
Contact: Erica Johns emj73@cornell.edu

Excel
Description: Beginner and intermediate excel, especially for business students
Coverage: Workshops and consultations (limited support)
Contact: Amelia Kallaher aak98@cornell.edu

Geospatial data sources
Description: help finding data for use in GIS
Coverage: consultations, general support
Contact: Keith Jenkins <kgj2@cornell.edu> (primary contact); Jeff Piestrak - jmp36@cornell.edu

GIS: ArcGIS, Manifold, QGIS
Description: GIS (Geographic Information System) software programs
Coverage: workshops, consultations, and general support
Contact: Keith Jenkins kgj2@cornell.edu (primary contact); Jeff Piestrak - jmp36@cornell.edu

Life and Health Sciences Research
Description: help with agriculture, microbial ecology, bioinformatics tools, & introductory genomics
Coverage: Workshops, Consultations, and general support
Contact:Kate Ghezzi-Kopel kwg37@cornell.edu

Macro-economic data and research
Description: Macro-economic data sources and scholarly resources
Coverage: Consultations, research support and course help
Contact: Tom Ottaviano tjo65@cornell.edu

Mann Equipment Support (e.g. cameras, recorders, GPS)
Description: Equipment loans and use (and associated software)
Coverage: Consultations and general support
Contact. Matt Ryan mrr15@cornell.edu

Social Sciences Research
Description: Social sciences research strategies in the subject areas of business, economics, policy analysis & communication
Coverage: Consultations, research support and course help
Contact: Amelia Kallaher aak98@cornell.edu

Special Collections
Description: help with questions about Mann's special collections of rare and archival materials
Coverage: consultations
Contact: Deborah Cooper dsc255@cornell.edu

Video editing
Description: basic camcorder/video capture & editing (iMovie, etc.)
Coverage: consultations and general support
Contact: Matt Ryan mrr15@cornell.edu