We are pleased to announce that Stanford Libraries has released a redesigned My Library Account. Library borrowers can now:
using a mobile-friendly and completely updated application. Designed and developed by Digital Library Systems & Services staff, the new My Library Account shares the look and feel of other Stanford Libraries applications.
On Thursday, July 18, students in the popular culture course at the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Institute visited the Department of Special Collections to view materials from the Fielder Collection of American Sheet Music.
From micro-published contemporary poetry to advanced reader’s copies to illustrated fairy tales, Stanford Libraries celebrates the creativity of student book collecting through its administration of the biennial Wreden Prize for Collecting Books and Related Materials. This year was no exception as students submitted collections on topics ranging from California’s religious history to editions of Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare. Each student enters the prize competition by submitting an essay about his or her collection and an annotated bibliography of its contents.
The National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC) held its first in-person meeting of the year on June 11-12, 2019 in Washington, DC. The full report of the meeting is available on the NGAC website. The NGAC is a Federal Advisory Committee that reports to the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC). Our role is to provide advice and recommendations related to the national geospatial program and the development of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI).
Please join me to send a warm welcome to Brian Kerrick, who joined Stanford Libraries as the new associate director for facilities and capital planning on July 8th. A former Seattleite, Brian earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Washington where he continued working in Facilities Services & Planning.
Jane Yolen's award-winning Owl Moon tells the story of a young girl and her father off to find the Great Horned Owl. Now that girl (Heidi E Y Stemple) is all grown up and has written her own book Counting birds : the idea that helped save our feathered friends that tells the story of the first Christmas bird count meant to replace the annual competition
Dads wearing socks with sandals, singing aloud (really loud) with your favorite songs, racing to beat your older sister at collecting all the letters of the alphabet from road signs, moms taking pictures, a favorite pillow forgotten at the motel, brothers silently poking you in the backseat, or the best BLT in the world from a small town diner.