Preservation welcomes Emilye Lewin
This month the Preservation department welcomes our new staff member, Emilye Lewin, to the position of Collection Care Lead.
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Anna Cristina Lee appointed as Photography Curator for Special Collections with the Stanford Libraries
The Department of Special Collections of Stanford Libraries has appointed Anna Lee as its Photography Curator. She will begin her new assignment September 13, 2021.
New Head of the Stanford Music Library and Archive of Recorded Sound
I am thrilled to announce that the Stanford Music Library has a new Head Librarian, Tamar Barzel. Tamar arrived at Stanford on July 1 after having spent the last three years as Assistant Research Scholar at New York University Libraries where she developed the music holdings in the Downtown Collection. Prior to arriving at NYU, Tamar was on the music faculty at Wellesley College, where she directed the ethnomusicology program and taught courses in jazz, popular music and field methods.
SUL joins international partnership to digitize and make available Chinese rare books
Stanford Libraries is embarking on an exciting collaboration with the National Central Library of Taiwan (NCL) to digitize a selection of Chinese rare books in the holdings of the East Asia Library and the Bowes Art & Architecture Library. The scanned titles will be added to the NCL’s Rare Books and Special Collections online database, a significant research resource open to the world for the study of Chinese history and culture.
Congratulations to Lorna Corbetta in her new role as library specialist 3 for Art and SSRG!
We are very pleased to announce that Lorna Corbetta has accepted the Student & Evening Supervisor/Head of Reserves, Art & Architecture Library and Collection Development Support, Social Sciences Resources Group (SSRG) Library Specialist 3 position.
July 27 webinar on the Lighting the Way project
The Lighting the Way project team is pleased to announce a webinar on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 at 8:00 AM PDT as part of Works in Progress: An OCLC Research Occasional Webinar Series. The webinar is free to attend and open to all with advance registration. This webinar will be of interest to library and archive workers, those who manage and allocate resources to special collections, and those who are considering new modes of meeting facilitation and collaboration.
Conservation welcomes Kimberly Kwan
Conservation Services staff are delighted to welcome Kimberly Kwan to our lab in Stanford Redwood City. Kimberly joins us as a Book Conservator starting on July 12, 2021.
Stanford Libraries acquires the personal library of renowned Estonian scholar Jaan Puhvel
The Puhvel library consists of over 13,000 books and periodicals pertaining to Estonian and Baltic history, culture, society, politics, and economy. As such, the library makes a tremendous addition to Stanford Libraries' Estonian and Baltic collection.