Cornell Tech Library Services

The Cornell Tech Library Services team looks forward to working with you on research and instructional needs. Our services include, but are not limited to:

• Research consultations: Work with a librarian to find resources to support your research, long-term project, startup idea, or anything in between. Email us to set up an online consultation at library@tech.cornell.edu.
• Instruction: We have extensive experience leading workshops on library resources, effective research strategies, working with complex datasets, and other valuable information skills. We invite faculty and course instructors to email us to learn more.
• Citation management: Get personalized help with supported software, such as Mendeley and Zotero, to organize citations and PDFs and create bibliographies for your papers.
• ORCID: Turn to us to implement your Open Researcher and Contributor ID, increasingly required by publishers and funders.
• Data management: Learn best practices and different solutions for managing, storing, and sharing data at any stage of the research process.
• Evidence synthesis: Answer new research questions by building search strategies and performing comprehensive syntheses of existing studies, with the help of librarians who are experts in systematic reviews. E-mail systrev_help@cornell.edu
• Collections development: What would you like to see added to the library? Recommend a purchase, and we’ll do our best!

Library Resources to Advance Your Career

The Cornell Tech Library Services team works with Career Management at Cornell Tech to support you in all stages of your job or internship search.

Wherever you are in the process, we can show you how to use library resources to explore different career paths, gain industry insights, and do in-depth interview preparation to stand out from other candidates.

Career Exploration

• Screen for potential employers and explore different career paths.
• Use our company and industry databases to help you break into a new field or better understand where you are.
• Find companies with relevant opportunities, beyond the ones everyone has heard of.

Industry Insights

• Access company annual reports, peer comparisons, key developments, industry reports, call-prep questions, and executive insights. 
• Learn how to be efficient in getting the information you need with limited time.

Interview Preparation

• Dedicated resources for technical and case interviews.
• Save time getting specialized resources not available elsewhere.
• Use company databases, SWOT analyses, and industry reports to develop insightful responses specific to each employer.

Networking

• Use the library’s information resources alongside platforms like LinkedIn to make valuable connections and find new opportunities.  

International Students

• Find companies with experience sponsoring international candidates from Cornell.

Career Guide

For more information, please explore our newly expanded career guide for Cornell Tech. 

Contact Us

We offer career support over email and Zoom. To get help or to schedule consultation, e-mail us at library@tech.cornell.edu. We usually respond to all messages within the same business day (or the next business day if you reach us after hours).

The Cornell Tech Library Services team can help you gather and evaluate information from credible resources with valuable, hard-to-find data, and support your information needs at any point throughout the startup lifecycle. No question is too complex or too simple.

Our librarians are committed to supporting Cornell founders and can help with

• idea generation
• pitch decks
• researching patents
• new and niche markets
• emerging technologies
• business and market research
• industry and company research
• customer discovery and user research
• finding funding (private equity, foundations, grants)

E-mail us at library@tech.cornell.edu  to get help or to schedule a consultation with a librarian. We will respond within 24 hours Monday to Friday, or the next business day if you contact us over the weekend.