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ATTENTION:

The Kheel Center will pause acceptance of new scan requests beginning December 22, 2025. You will not be able to request scans from December 22, 2025–January 19, 2026.

The Kheel Center will be closed to the public December 22, 2025–January 9, 2026. During this time, staff will have limited access to the building and collections and may not be able to respond to questions within our usual timeframe. Thank you for your patience. 

You can now search through Kheel Center collections HERE

*See our Finding Resources Guide to learn more about requesting materials for scanning and to view at the Kheel Center.

What Do You Want to Do?

• Visit
• Get research help
• Request copies
• Borrow materials for an exhibit
• Donate
• Cite the collections

Research

• Search finding aids
• Overview of collections
• Research guides
• Digital collections & exhibits

Services

• Research assistance
• Duplication
• Instruction
• Public programs

New library guides available:

• Kheel Center: Finding Resources guide
• Kheel Digital Collections guide
• Digital Labor Collections Across the US
• Frances Perkins guide
• Kheel Center Labor & Management Microfilm Collections
• Kheel LatinX Labor Collections Guide
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Primary Sources at Kheel guide
• Jewish Left guide
• Kheel Center Genealogical Resource Guide

New digitization projects

• About 10,000 pages of documents from the Kheel Center’s collection of International Workers’ Order records have been digitized, thanks to a Cornell Library Arts and Sciences grant. Newly digitized materials can now be accessed on Cornell’s Digital Collections page.

• With support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the Kheel Center has digitized and made available online more than 2,800 Collective Bargaining Agreements. The digitized contracts were added to DigitalCollections@ILR.