While sheltering in place, the Rare Books Division of Special Collections has been working with colleagues around the country to produce content related to our collections or using technologies that allow sharing digital images across institutions. Here are three recent webinars from that effort:
Peter will work closely with Stanford librarians, archivists, and curators across all library units, including metadata specialists and other technical staff, to identify, collect, remediate, and describe web content for discovery, access and preservation. ...
I would like to share the behind-the-scenes story of a recent project at Stanford Libraries: we received a sizable coin collection from the Cantor Arts Center and have been working over the past year and a half to make it accessible for use. In honor of its origins, this collection is called the Cantor Arts Center collection of ancient coins and it contains approximately 8,700 coins from the ancient world. Currently there are circa 300 coins fully cataloged that feature digital images online and three preassembled study sets for use in the Barchas Room in Special Collections at Green Library.
The Department of Special Collections & University Archives is pleased to welcome Gurudarshan into a continuing position in our Redwood City branch, taking over from Malgorzata Schaefer who is retiring as of March 31st. I am doubly pleased with this outcome, as Gurudarshan has been working on a series of term and grant-funded positions at Stanford Libraries since 2014 – in both Special Collections and the Archives of Recorded Sound.
Records of your experience will support current and future students, faculty, and others who will want to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has uprooted our community and transformed our work and lives.
Special Collections is excited to welcome Annie Schweikert as our new Digital Archivist! Annie has been working with us at our Redwood City facility as our Born Digital Forensics Lab Assistant since last September, and we are thrilled to have her here full time. Annie has a strong background in audio-visual preservation with a MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation.
The ePADD project team is excited to announce the release of ePADD version 7.2! This latest version of the software includes bug fixes that improve the performance of the indexing of email attachments in the Appraisal module.
If you're interested in transportation, San Francisco Bay Area history, or old photographs, you're sure to get lost in this new exhibit of scanned images from the William Gardiner Transportation Collection, accessible here: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/gardiner-sfba.