Phyllis Moen Acquisition Fund

Professor Emerita Phyllis Moen (Human Development) has earned international recognition for her policy insights about work and family life. In April 2004, a conference on “Rethinking Work, Family and the Life Course” honored Dr. Moen’s far-reaching legacy. It also marked the birth of a new endowment at Mann Library, created with generous gifts from the friends and colleagues of Dr. Moen and matching funds from the College of Human Ecology. The fund is helping Mann Library to purchase materials in human development and life course studies.

Thanks to this new resource, Mann Library will be able to build a leading collection of materials that support high quality research on work and life course issues. During the past year, for example, the Fund allowed the purchase of several new books:

• Handbook of the life course, edited by Jeylan T. Mortimer, Michael J. Shanahan. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2003.
• The life course: A sociological introduction, by Stephen Hunt. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 228 p. Call Number HQ799.95 .H865 2005
• A new youth?: Young people, generations and family life, edited by Carmen Leccardi and Elisabetta Ruspini. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006. Call Number: HQ796 .N49 2006

The impact of the Moen Fund will keep growing as it continues to support the library’s acquisitions of new resources. This is one more way that students and scholars at Cornell will benefit directly from Dr. Moen’s legacy as they pursue research on work and family life connections—and gain new insights that may ultimately help shape important new government and workplace policies ahead.