Available: Cornell Hockey Library

[Trotsky]

I am moving.  And when you move, you make painful decisions.

I have Cornell hockey stuff.  A lot of it.  A LOT of it.  45 years of curation.

I would prefer it go to a happy home, but I am willing to drop a lighted match, close the door, and walk away.  It doesn't have to go home, but it can't stay here.

What I would most dearly desire, however:

To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high

So here is the offer.  You get it all, free and clear.  I will pay all shipping costs.  All you need do is take delivery and at least tell me it remains safe.  For this you get many, many, many, many years of:

Cornell programs
Cornell media guides
Cornell ticket stubs

ECAC tournament programs and t-shirts for Cornell years
ECAC media guides since 1982

NCAA tournament programs and t-shirts for Cornell years
NCAA Ice Hockey Guides since 1964

Print outs of box scores of almost every Cornell game since Lynah Rink was built

Miscellaneous books with tons of college hockey importance

All in very good condition.


Estimated retail value: well, $ billions, obviously.  Estimated shipping cost to me: I dunno, a lot, but I hope less than if I moved it again, at least psychically.

Cost to you: bupkis.

These are the chains I forged in life.  Who wants to own one of the greatest private Cornell hockey repositories ever assembled?

(Offer also open to Cornell itself, but those fuckers gotta pay shipping if they want it.)

[Trotsky]

Oh shit, also video stuff. Not as much, but some, including DVRs of two Cornell NCAA games from the Harkness Era, and assuming I can find them DVDs of important Cornell games from the 80s and 90s.  Although those latter are take what you can get on quality --not sure how well a 40-year DVD has held up.

[Swampy]

You can donate your collection to the Cornell Libraries and take a tax deduction, at least while der fuhrer allows tax deductions to universities not named Hillsdale College.

[Jim Hyla]

I am moving.  And when you move, you make painful decisions.

I have Cornell hockey stuff.  A lot of it.  A LOT of it.  45 years of curation.

I would prefer it go to a happy home, but I am willing to drop a lighted match, close the door, and walk away.  It doesn't have to go home, but it can't stay here.

What I would most dearly desire, however:

To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high

So here is the offer.  You get it all, free and clear.  I will pay all shipping costs.  All you need do is take delivery and at least tell me it remains safe.  For this you get many, many, many, many years of:

Cornell programs
Cornell media guides
Cornell ticket stubs

ECAC tournament programs and t-shirts for Cornell years
ECAC media guides since 1982

NCAA tournament programs and t-shirts for Cornell years
NCAA Ice Hockey Guides since 1964

Print outs of box scores of almost every Cornell game since Lynah Rink was built

Miscellaneous books with tons of college hockey importance

All in very good condition.


Estimated retail value: well, $ billions, obviously.  Estimated shipping cost to me: I dunno, a lot, but I hope less than if I moved it again, at least psychically.

Cost to you: bupkis.

These are the chains I forged in life.  Who wants to own one of the greatest private Cornell hockey repositories ever assembled?

(Offer also open to Cornell itself, but those fuckers gotta pay shipping if they want it.)

I'll take anything that you want to get rid of. Certainly no matches, please!

And I'll pay half of the shipping. Only seems fair.

I'm finally putting my stuff in some reasonable order. So this would add to a "fun filled summer."

[George64]

You can donate your collection to the Cornell Libraries and take a tax deduction, at least while der fuhrer allows tax deductions to universities not named Hillsdale College.

You should contact the University Archivist, Evan Earle (efe4@cornell.edu).  I'm pretty sure that Jim Hyla donated some hockey memorabilia a while back.

[Jim Hyla]

You can donate your collection to the Cornell Libraries and take a tax deduction, at least while der fuhrer allows tax deductions to universities not named Hillsdale College.

You should contact the University Archivist, Evan Earle (efe4@cornell.edu).  I'm pretty sure that Jim Hyla donated some hockey memorabilia a while back.

No not yet. I did contact him, but my wife's illness/death cramped my style.

That's why I said "I'm finally putting my stuff in some reasonable order."

[Trotsky]

It's all yours, Jim.  PM me your mail address and up it all goes.  Only makes sense to turn two big piles into one huge one!
 

[Jim Hyla]

It's all yours, Jim.  PM me your mail address and up it all goes.  Only makes sense to turn two big piles into one huge one!

Thanks.

My first job is to inventory everything and put together a list. I'll bet that yours is better put together than mine.

Once inventoried, publish a list of items and if others have items, they could be added.

Then decide if some things would be best at CU.

For example, have CU make available online the "Intercollegiate Hockey Newsletter". I think it's really the best and easiest way to look up old, old (sort of like me) seasons.

At one time, long, long ago, I had my ultimate goal thought out.

Have  online listing of every CU game, with box scores and either copies of, or links to newspaper articles (Cornell Programs, the Sun and IJ to start with. Add Boston Globe and others as time goes on.)

I might have to pay CU students to work on that compilation?? Especially since CU is looking for ways to make up for a little money they recently had taken away.

Finally ultimately decide what to do with this once I die, I'm otherwise not planning on moving.

If anyone has other ideas (Not about my death), feel free to let me know.

Like Greg, I'm sure, I don't think we should lose our past.

[pfibiger]

This is awesome, Jim.

I think there are a couple interesting questions that'll need to be answered:

1) Does CU want the physical media?
2) Who can digitize everything (I'm happy to chip in, either converting video, scanning with a phone, or sending some $ to pay a service)?
3) Where is the media stored/hosted? At CU or elsewhere online?
4) Where is the index/archive of all this awesome stuff hosted (if CU buries everything inside library systems, it'd be really nice to have a hockey focused public index site)

Depending on how much the CU Library is going to take on, I'm happy to help with any of 2-4.

[Bahnstorm]

The main Cornell Hockey Archives listing can be seen here: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMA03590.html
This includes the carefully curated and thoughtfully donated Mintz collection. There are other hockey related items living in other collections within the Archives, such as other standalone photo collections.
The Archives accepts physical media and digitizes on demand for $ either in an in house media lab or using a preservation quality vendor (not those memory box quick digitization places you see advertised, different processes) Born digital content or content digitized by others is also accepted. There is a fair amount of digitized media, but it is not currently online, you can scroll to the series Video in the guide and see listings of what has been digitized. In time more content should be available online, but there are quite a number of check boxes to go through these days before modern digital content is allowed to be hosted publicly by the Library. The Archives has traditionally relied heavily on others (collectors, enthusiastic alumni, etc.) to assist with making sure history is not lost. Generally the Archives is equipped to house paper and flat materials, but other objects of significance are occasionally accepted, things like shirts and memorabilia. Archival storage is expensive so duplicate items are usually not accepted or are sorted out for sending elsewhere after receiving. Contact the Archives here: universityarchives@cornell.edu for any questions.

[stereax]

Like Greg, I'm sure, I don't think we should lose our past.

100%. Absolutely down to help out however I can

[billhoward]

If no one else, Scott Pesner '87 is a rabid Cornellian and hockey fan, also current president of Cornell hockey association.

If you DIY: Your best recipient has a big house and also the skills to digitize all the photos and printed material. You want an Epson FF-680W to scan standalone prints and documents of any length up to 8-3/4" wide (back side as well), fabulously quick, 20-30 sheets or prints a minute, about $400. For bigger stuff, an Epson Epson Expression 13000XL (current model) or earlier such as 12000XL tabloid scanner, one sheet/print at a time, over $3000, used earlier models work perfectly fine but still may top $1000. Also I'm pretty sure Cornell libraries have them.

Tip: If there are slides, it's cheaper to send the work out.  The cameraphone scanners, I don't think they'll be satisfying except for snapshots. Scanning B&W negatives is hugely time consuming while color slides & negs are pretty easy because any slide scanner has an infrared element that sees and eliminates dust from the film/slide surface but it does not work for most all b&w negatives. The apps that scan to PDF for expense account receipts, they're okay.

I am still working my way through 50,000 photos of our family going back to 1875, and I promised Gwen no more pro bono stuff until the backlog is done. Messing around take hockey and lax photos from the stands is the exception. So, I'd love to see this collection but they're better in someone else's hands.

Might check with Ned Dykes of the vet school who does the photos for Cornell Hockey Assn members. He may know who else is collecting photo and document history. Don't want to duplicate effort.

Be good to have the archive of Cornell Sun stories, which have been scanned already. Because copyright, the best may be story specific links.

[CornellLonghorn]

Would be interested in the NCAA or ECAC tournament shirts am a current student and would love to wear to games

[billhoward]

BTW if you attend Cornell Club or regional events, sometimes there's a Cornelliana auction and sometimes it includes team jerseys. Circa 2000 at a Philadelphia event, there was a signed-by-players jersey and I got it with a $100 bid.

You know the real jerseys run quite large? In Lake Placid in March, I saw a middle age person of girth wearing another team's real jersey and, jeez, it was pretty snug on him.

[adamw]

For example, have CU make available online the "Intercollegiate Hockey Newsletter". I think it's really the best and easiest way to look up old, old (sort of like me) seasons.

I know that New Hampshire has the Charlie Holt Archives these days that I believe has all of these - but they're not online, alas. That would be great.

I'd also be interested in seeing those NCAA Guides - I have a few of them from the 50s and 60s - but would love to see more. Any idea when they were published through?

And perhaps most curious to see what Video/DVD games you have - if they're any that I don't have or ever seen. I've been dying to get my hands on the entire 1996 Regional in Albany - not just the Cornell game - but I've never been able to find it. Even saw a whole documentary Vermont did, and there was no footage of its game there either.