Editing Cornell University Library (section)

==History==
The Cornell University Library system initially was a collection of 18,000 volumes stored in Morrill Hall. [[Daniel Willard Fiske]], Cornell's first librarian, and [[Andrew Dickson White]], Cornell University's first president, both willed their entire estates to Cornell University following their deaths. Under Fiske's direction, Cornell's library introduced a number of innovations, including allowing undergraduate students to browse through the books and check them out.

By 1885, the library had installed electric lights and stayed open 12 hours per day (instead of only a few hours per week&mdash;as most other libraries at American universities did at the time&mdash;just enough time for faculty to check out and return books), which allowed students to use it as a reference library.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/FALL12/cover.html|title=The library that never sleeps|first=Gwen|last= Glazer|magazine=Ezra|volume=V|number=1|date=Fall 2012|publisher= Cornell University|access-date=March 4, 2015}}</ref>