Find Digital Documents at Catherwood, on page 3 of IWS Briefing, Winter 2009, Volume 9, Issue 1

The following is found on page 3 of IWS Briefing, Winter 2009, Volume 9, Issue 1
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1053&context=briefs

Find Digital Documents at Catherwood

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR INFORMATION about veterans’ benefits or backdating of options? How about global employment trends for women or international labor migration in Asia? Maybe you need data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 1888 or a study of the minimum wage issued by the AFL-CIO in 1995.

Not to worry; a few clicks on your keyboard will retrieve these documents and then some. The Key Workplace Documents collection on the Catherwood Library website contains a trove of useful reports. Stuart Basefsky, information specialist and instructor at the library and director of the IWS News Bureau, posts documents that are “born” in digital form and need a permanent home so students, researchers, practitioners, and citizens can access them now and into the future. Mr. Basefsky carefully selects the most compelling workplace-related documents from among the non-copyrighted materials issued by the U.S. and state governments, international organizations, labor unions, and law firms.

Key Workplace Documents (http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/keydocs/) are just one component of DigitalCommons@ILR (http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/). This repository also houses digital copies of published articles and working papers by ILR faculty, the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, collective bargaining agreements, conference proceedings and speeches, and newsletters. All told, DigitalCommons contains more than 7,000 documents. The repository is easy to navigate and enables the user to customize email alerts and full-text searches, and to personalize saved searches.

Mr. Basefsky may be reached at smb6@cornell.edu or (607) 255-2703. ■