April is National Arab-American Heritage Month and to celebrate, Cubberley Education Library has a display of books on the Arab American experience and more broadly on Islamic traditions. To find more, check out our guide to Children's books with and Islamic theme.
In Spring 2016 Anthropology Professor Krish Seetah partnered with the Stanford Libraries to develop an interactive, digital repository of 3D osteological objects to serve as the materials for his teaching.
Join UNESCO in celebrating World Poetry Day today March 21.
Cubberley Education Library has a new guide on Immigrants and refugees in books for children and young adults. These books which are part of our Curriculum Collection are available to be checked out by members of the Stanford community.
How can we best make sense of the digital strands and data that comprise a 21st century life? Explore innovative solutions to this challenge and others facing both individuals in the digital age, and scholars in the cultural heritage and digital humanities sectors, at the Personal Digital Archiving (PDA) 2017 Hackathon. The Hackathon is sponsored by Stanford University Libraries and will be held from March 31 - April 1, 2017 at the Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center on the Stanford University campus.
The tree in the courtyard : looking through Anne Frank's window by Jeff Gottesfeld and illustrated by Peter McCarty tells the story of Anne Frank and her family from the point of view of a tree outside their hiding place. This deeply moving book is meant for children in grades two to four. Check out other Children's books with a Jewish theme in Cubberley Educati
November is picture book month and we invite readers of all ages to check out the display of picture books in Cubberley Library. Picture books are enchanting to look at, creating lifelong readers and instilling literacy skills from an early age. There is a website dedicated to encouraging everyone to celebrate literacy at http://picturebookmonth.com.
Celebrate Dizzy Gillespie's birthday with a wonderful new children's book at Cubberley Library about his collaboration with Charlie "Bird" Parker and the birth of bebop: Golio, Gary, and Ed Young. 2015. Bird & Diz. "BEBOP! Like riding a musical roller coaster, it'll make your head spin."