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Roman Republic, imperatorial issue by Julius Caesar, silver denarius, 48–48 BC, military mint moving with Caesar. Obverse: CAESAR; elephant r., trampling snake.

Stanford Libraries and the Cantor Arts Center collection of ancient coins

April 15, 2020
by Glynn Edwards
Digitization
Manuscripts
News

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.

ANSI

ANSI releases select standards for COVID-19 support (UPDATED)

April 3, 2020
by Zac Painter
Emerging tech
Engineering
Government information
News
Open source
Science

Several librarians across the United States have been petitioning ISO and ANSI to release or open up access to several critical standards in the response efforts to the COVID-19 pandemic. ANSI has announced a portal that contains several of these important standards, including standards for the fabrication of ventilators and standards for incident management response, released to the public. At this time, 31 of these ISO standards have been released, and you can access them by visiting the following links.

Consulting an instructor, image by Amy Hodge CC BY 2.0

Virtual R support this quarter

April 2, 2020
by Claudia A. Engel
CIDR
News
Open source
Science

Below are some ways for you to stay connected and get help with R this quarter.

Virtual R Lab

Starting next week (April 8) the weekly R Lab will be online. This is a collaborative space to get started with R, to troubleshoot and connect.
Time: Wednesdays 2-4pm from April 8 to May 27
Location: Zoom link

Special Collections Redwood City welcomes Gurudarshan Khalsa (for real)

April 1, 2020
by Glynn Edwards
Manuscripts
News

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.

Logo for the Lighting the Way project

Lighting the Way Forum presentations now available for viewing and downloading

March 27, 2020
by Mark A. Matienzo
Born digital
Digital library
Events
News

Presentations and recorded question and answer sessions from Lighting the Way: A National Forum on Archival Discovery and Delivery are now available for viewing and downloading from the Stanford Digital Repository. All videos can be streamed and downloaded, and presentations also include source slides for download. To view the presentations, please visit the Presentations page on the Lighting the Way Forum site, or see the collection in SearchWorks.

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