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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

FEATURED

• “Frances Perkins and the New Deal” Online Exhibit: This exhibit focuses on Frances Perkins, the first woman cabinet member as Secretary of Labor, fought for the rights of working people. She is credited with the establishment of minimum wage, shorter work weeks, Social Security, and improving workplace safety. It highlights her time as a visiting professor at Cornell ILR School teaching on different topics related to labor history.
• “In Celebration of France Perkins and Her Legacy:” Oral History with Telluride Alum who lived with Frances Perkins during her time teaching at Cornell, at Telluride House, August 17, 2024.
• Highlights from Cornell’s Photography Collections: Labor and Work Set 
• “Fellow Travelers: From Popular Front to Cold War” Online exhibit featuring materials from the International Workers’ Order (IWO) 
• IWO Online: 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.
• CBAS Online: 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.