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Green Library closed for maintenance June 19 and June 26

To support mandatory, scheduled electrical work, Green Library will be closed to both staff and patrons on Wednesday, June 19, 2024 and Wednesday, June 26, 2024.

https://library-hours.stanford.edu/?week=2024W25

Li & Ma Science Library congratulates student staff member Ben Zuzi, who graduates this year!

Hear more from Ben on his time at Stanford Libraries:

"I am a senior studying Engineering Physics here at Stanford University who has worked at the Robin Li and Melissa Ma Science Library since the beginning of my Sophomore year. I have thoroughly enjoyed working at the library: it’s very quiet, the natural lighting is amazing, and the staff is so loving and understanding. The flexibility is great as well, as it provides me with the perfect environment to keep up with school while also maintaining the library at the circulation desk. I’ve also had a blast connecting not just my fellow student co-workers but with the student patrons as well who come from all sorts of disciplines and different walks of life. It’s a joy to see recurring faces come at their usual times and new faces who are always impressed by what the library has to offer.

After commencement, I will remain at Stanford to finish my final quarter in the fall and I intend to pursue work in quant finance or tech, particularly in software/data/AI engineering. I am incredibly grateful to have worked here and to have received so much love, support, and care from my co-staff!"

photo credit: Jeff Bartee

Peter A. Sturrock papers now available

As academic year 2023-2024 winds down, we’d like to highlight one of our student processing assistants Isac Fernandez and his work with noted physicist Peter A. Sturrock’s papers, which were recently donated to the Archives.

https://library.stanford.edu/news/peter-sturrock-papers-now-available

Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collection presents an exhibit honoring the LGBTQIA+ voices in our community in a celebration of Pride Month! 🌈

See our spotlight on q***r ecology, a growing subfield of environmentalism aiming to break the binaries that influence the way we think about and interact with the natural world. 🌿

This month’s map exhibit "Here, There, Everywhere" highlights q***r geographies, locally in the Bay Area, across North America, and around the world showing how q***r spaces, history, and culture are all around us. 🗺

https://www.instagram.com/p/C72t1ijv_fi/?img_index=1

Stanford University Libraries' Strategic Directions

After a collaborative effort to identify the areas of greatest future impact, the Libraries adopted four Strategic Directions:

-Innovate to address the changing scholarly landscape.
-Deliver collections to address current and future needs.
-Promote open, FAIR (Findable/Accessible/Interoperable/Reusable) and equitable access to information.
-Strengthen staff diversity, collaboration, and well-being.

These four directions form a stable core of priorities that will serve the Libraries for many years to come.

Stanford University Libraries' Strategic Directions | Libraries Stanford FacebookStanford TwitterStanford LinkedInForward EmailPrint ArticleMay 27, 2024 | Philip SchreurStrategic planning is common to many organizations. It is used to set institutional priorities and common goals, to focus resources, and to establish desired outcomes. The strategic plan itself,....

Book Display: Pride Month

Come to Green Library and check out our book display celebrating Pride Month. Find a title you like? Check it out at the Circulation Desk!

https://events.stanford.edu/event/book-display-pride-month

Keep calm and create at Bowes Art & Architecture Library

Feeling stressed? Take a break in Bowes with origami, puzzles, and coloring books. Available until 6/15. M-Th 9-7, F 9-5, Sun 12-6.

https://events.stanford.edu/event/keep-calm-and-create-at-bowes-art-architecture-library

The Department of Special Collections is thrilled to announce the recent hire of Cali Vance who joins us as one of the assistant archivists for the Dianne Feinstein Senatorial papers on June 10th.

Assistant Archivist for the Feinstein Papers | Libraries Stanford FacebookStanford TwitterStanford LinkedInForward EmailPrint ArticleMay 29, 2024 | The Department of Special Collections is thrilled to announce the recent hire of Cali Vance who joins us as one of the assistant archivists for the Dianne Feinstein Senatorial papers on June 10th.Cali received...

Kaitlynn Norton is a Master of Arts candidate in History who while an undergraduate at UCLA studied topics such as contemporary responses to witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and the social repercussions of the Black Death. Her research at Stanford focuses on court culture and etiquette in Medieval to Early Modern Britain. In this conversation, Kaitlynn shares her thoughts about the Manuscript Description Project.

https://library.stanford.edu/news/describing-medieval-manuscripts

The Stanford University Libraries are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Anh Ly as Assistant University Librarian for External Relations. After a national search, Dr. Ly will be joining the Stanford University Libraries on Monday, 3 June 2024.

Dr. Ly began her career as a grant writer, supporting arts, cultural and youth organizations before joining the public university systems in California twelve years ago.

https://library.stanford.edu/news/anh-ly-phd-appointed-assistant-university-librarian-external-relations

De-Stress at Stanford Libraries 2024
DIY calming jars • Ice cream • Dog petting • Succulents • And more!

Wednesday, June 5, 2024
12pm to 4pm PT

https://events.stanford.edu/event/de-stress-at-stanford-libraries-2024

French automobile promotional literature circa 1900-1901, including many electric cars.

See more at the Stanford Libraries Special Collections Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C7SQSy8SS39/?img_index=7

Barbara Krupa, Newspaper Digitization Project Manager, recently edited the latest issue of “The Studies into History of the Book and Book Collections”, Vol. 17, No. 4 (2023), published at the University of Warsaw. This is a Polish scholarly journal devoted to the history of the book and archival collections.

https://library.stanford.edu/news/polish-scholarly-journal-devoted-history-book-and-archival-collections

Take a break, paint a rock, grab a coffee!

Thursday, May 30, 2024
10am to 2pm PT

Take a moment to relax while painting a rock or just stop by the Branner Earth Sciences Library for free coffee, tea, and snacks. We’ll have origami and Lego stations too!

Help us reduce waste, bring a covered mug!

https://events.stanford.edu/event/take-a-break-paint-a-rock-grab-a-coffee-spring-2024

The Helena Brandt Visiting Scholar Program Inaugural Lecture - May 23 at 5:30pm

Sofi Oksanen is the internationally-acclaimed, best-selling author of a number of works of historical fiction, including the novel Purge (2008), a tale of three generations of Estonian women and human trafficking, as well as Stalin’s Cows (2003) and When the Doves Disappeared (2012). During her visit to the Bay Area, Ms. Oksanen also will be debuting a new opera at the San Francisco Opera, Innocence.

https://events.stanford.edu/event/the-helena-brandt-visiting-scholar-program-inaugural-lecture

Carpentries @ Stanford: Introduction to R - May 28

This virtual workshop is an introduction to the R programming language for those who have never (or barely) programmed in R, and especially for those who are new to programming in general.

https://events.stanford.edu/event/carpentries-stanford-introduction-to-r-s24

EXHIBITION - Victoria Yau: “I slept in the mountain cloud”

Sponsored by Stanford Libraries, the East Asia Library, and the Center for East Asian Studies. Organized and guest curated by Beryl Zhou, graduate student, Center for East Asian Studies, and Ellen Huang, Ph.D, distinguished practitioner at the Center for East Asian Studies and associate professor of art history and material culture at ArtCenter College of Design.

https://events.stanford.edu/event/victoria-yau-i-slept-in-the-mountain-cloud

Looking Slowly at Early Modern Maps

Maps are incredibly rich documents that only reveal some of their secrets after slow and deliberate study, and it is precisely this aspect of maps that we will explore in this two-hour workshop. Chet Van Duzer will analyze several early modern maps and provide examples of important characteristics of them that can only be appreciated and understood through slow looking.

https://events.stanford.edu/event/looking-slowly-at-early-modern-maps

The Department of Special Collections is thrilled to announce the recent hire of Sabrina Gunn who joined us as the digital archivist for the Dianne Feinstein Senatorial papers on May 13th.

Sabrina comes to Stanford with experience working with several large digital collections. Most recently as the Junior Fellow at the Library of Congress. There she implemented digital preservation workflows for digitized and born digital audiovisual materials for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting collection. She also worked with a few digital collections during her internships at the Center for Sacramento History and the American Film Institute.

https://library.stanford.edu/news/sabrina-gunn-joins-special-collections-digital-archivist-dianne-feinstein-senatorial-papers

Linnea Shieh became the Head of Terman Engineering Library in March 2024. Linnea had been serving as the Acting Head of Terman since October, while also serving as the Engineering Librarian for Data and Collections and Curator for Linguistics.

Linnea brings a wealth of experience in engineering librarianship, instruction in various disciplines, data analytics in the tech industry, and branch library management to this role.

https://library.stanford.edu/news/linnea-shieh-promoted-head-terman-engineering-library

The Stanford University Libraries is pleased to present the shortlist for the eleventh William Saroyan International Prize for Writing (Saroyan Prize), a Prize intended to encourage new or emerging writers and honor the Saroyan literary legacy of originality, vitality and stylistic innovation. Winners and finalists will be announced in late summer/early fall.

https://library.stanford.edu/news/shortlist-announced-2024-william-saroyan-international-prize-writing

Take a break, pet a dog

The Terman Engineering Library is pleased to have therapy dogs again this quarter. Please join us in the Y2E2 Courtyard on Wednesday, June 5 from 3-4pm.

Take a break, pet a dog The Terman Engineering Library is pleased to have therapy dogs again this quarter. Please join us in the Y2E2 Courtyard on Wednesday, June 5 from 3-4pm. Dog and owner teams from Pet Partners will be providing relaxation and stress relief. In the event of rain, look for us under the covered walkway.....

EXHIBITION - Branner Library Monthly Book & Map Exhibit: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

This month, Branner Library AAPI Heritage Month through books and maps highlighting the migration, journeys, and routes of people, cultures, and more around the Asia Pacific region.

Books and a selection of maps are displayed on the library's main floor. Additional maps are displayed on the library mezzanine exhibit wall (access from within the library).

https://events.stanford.edu/event/branner-library-monthly-book-map-exhibit-AAPI-2024

Russia's War in Ukraine and its Implications on European Security: Why should America care?

Wednesday, May 29, 2024
12pm to 1pm PT
Hohbach Hall, Green Library

Russia's War in Ukraine and its Implications on European Security: Why should America care? Join us for an engaging discussion with Ambassador of Estonia to the U.S. Kristjan Prikk and Director of the Freeman-Spogli Institute Michael McFaul on: Russia's War in Ukraine and its Implications on European Security: Why should America care? More than ten years into Russia's war against Ukraine a...

Book Display: Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Come to Green Library and check out our book display on Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Find a title you like? Check it out at the Circulation Desk!

https://events.stanford.edu/event/book-display-asian-american-pacific-islander-heritage-month

Join us on Thursday, May 9, 2024 from 4:30p-7:30p for a fun afternoon of board games and card games at the library or just drop by for a quick card game. Jig-saw puzzles are also available. Snacks will be served!

https://events.stanford.edu/event/game-night-branner-library-spring-2024

Tabletop Tuesdays: Rising Waters

Join us as we explore how board game designers are creating games like Rising Waters to help educators teach historical events in the classroom. Rising Waters is a cooperative game where players experience the Mississippi flood of 1927 through the lens of the local African-American population. The game is deliberately designed to foster difficult conversations about the Jim Crow South by having players confront two forces at the same time–racism and nature.

Tabletop Tuesdays: Rising Waters Join us as we explore how board game designers are creating games like Rising Waters to help educators teach historical events in the classroom. Rising Waters is a cooperative game where players experience the Mississippi flood of 1927 through the lens of the local African-American population. The g...

EXHIBITION - Special, Unique, and Rare returns to Green Library with MONEY

Drop in to see highlights from the Libraries' collections that foreground money in every sense of the term. Selections range from the literal to the symbolic, from the substantial to the immaterial and explore questions of ideology, social relations, morality, aesthetics and notions of value. May 7th, 2-4PM, in Hohbach 123 (Silicon Valley Archive classroom, Green Library).

https://events.stanford.edu/event/special-unique-and-rare-money

Winter campus closure hours, starting Dec. 21, 2023

-Green Library will be open for six select days during closure.
-All other branches will be closed. No in-person services will be available, including item pick-up and consultations. SearchWorks and our e-resources are always available.

Stanford Libraries' intersession and winter closure hours 2023–2024 | Libraries Stanford FacebookStanford TwitterStanford LinkedInForward EmailPrint ArticleDecember 13, 2023 | Kelly FieldsThe Stanford Libraries will have reduced hours during the upcoming intersession and winter campus closure periods (Dec. 16, 2023 - Jan. 7, 2024). Please consult the Libraries' hours webpage if...

Exhibition at the East Asia Library - The Joys of Winter: food, leisure reading, games, movies, travel!

Come be inspired by books and objects from the East Asia Library’s collections related to the joys of winter, such as food, games, movies, travel, and, of course, leisure reading!

The Joys of Winter: food, leisure reading, games, movies, travel! Come be inspired by books and objects from the East Asia Library’s collections related to the joys of winter, such as food, games, movies, travel, and, of course, leisure reading!