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Tamar Barzel, new head of the music library at Stanford

New Head of the Stanford Music Library and Archive of Recorded Sound

July 14, 2021
by Matt Marostica
Music

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.

Logo for the Lighting the Way project

July 27 webinar on the Lighting the Way project

July 13, 2021
by Mark A. Matienzo
Emerging tech
Events
News

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.

New Conservation staff member Kimberly Kwan

Conservation welcomes Kimberly Kwan

July 12, 2021
by Kristen St.John
Preservation

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. 

Vanessa Kam with students

Vanessa Kam to return to Canada

June 29, 2021
by Matt Marostica
Art

After almost five years as Head of the Bowes Art & Architecture Library, our wonderful colleague Vanessa Kam is leaving Stanford for the role of Electronic Resources Librarian at Emily Carr University of Art and Design (ECUAD) in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she shares a home with her husband Tonel, an artist, curator and writer from Cuba. At ECUAD, Vanessa will liaise with the faculty of design and dynamic media.  Founded in 1925, ECUAD is one of British Columbia’s oldest post-secondary institutions and one of only four art institutions of its kind in Canada. 

Matthew Seutter's map, "The Attack of Love"

This is the best map

June 28, 2021
by Andrea Renner
Maps

Stanford Libraries has so many maps in its collection, but not enough Yelp reviews to help you figure out which ones you should look at. We are here to help.

Lydia Wei's fantastical campus map

Lydia Wei's "Stanford: Campus of the Unknown"

June 28, 2021
by Andrea Renner
Maps

What was it like to be a freshman this year, this strangest of years? Learning remotely from her home in Maryland, Stanford freshman Lydia Wei began to feel a bit like Medieval mapmakers, who had to imagine far-off lands that they never visited. In this spirit, she spent her winter break creating a map of the Stanford campus.

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