Please join us for two Concierge Tours in December 2017!
The Hoover Institution will be hosting tours to show us their recently-finished space. Please sign up for one of the two times below. Tours are limited to 15 participants and will begin in the Hoover Courtyard.
A new exhibit about the role of the Stanford University School of Medicine in WWI is now on view in Lane Library, marking the 100th anniversary of the US entry into the war. The exhibit examines the split that occurred within the university and the country over the proper role of the US when war broke out in 1914, as well as the varied ways that the School of Medicine faculty, students, and facilities eventually became involved. The exhibit features historical photographs and documents from the Stanford Medical History Center, located in Lane Library.
Eugene Wu, the first East Asian curator at Stanford’s Hoover Institution Library and now 95 years old, was honored for his leadership in assembling the “crown jewel” collection at the University of Washington Libraries.
Read "Celebrating Eugene Wu and the crown jewel of UW libraries," The Daily of the Univesity of Washington.
The November issue of the Science Library Newsletter has just been published. The monthly newsletter brings you news you can use from the Robin Li & Melissa Ma Science Library. We announce workshops, seminars, and other events; highlight useful tools and resources; and alert readers to changes in collections and services. Recent articles cover:
The 2017 winter close will be from Monday, December 25, 2017, through Friday, January 5, 2018, with the following dates designated as University holidays: Monday, December 25, 2017, Tuesday, December 26, 2017, and Monday, January 1, 2018. Regular operations will resume on Monday, January 8, 2018. Except where operations must continue, all areas of the University are asked to close during this two-week period. Any decision to keep a department open must be approved by the Dean, Vice President, or Vice Provost overseeing the department.
When Mexican graphic artist José Guadalupe Posada died in 1913 he could not have imagined that his satirical calaveras or skulls would become such a ubiquitous presence around Halloween, which happens to coincide with Mexico’s Day of the Dead or Día de muertos, mistranslated as Día de los Muertos and horrifies language purists.
In conjunction with the ongoing exhibition at the East Asia Library, entitled Words in Characters: Books as Vehicles, the library will host a conference on Friday, October 13 featuring talks given by several of the artists whose works are included within the exhibit.
Please note that parking bicycles inside any main campus building is strictly prohibited unless an area is designated for specifically for that purpose. Currently, buildings owned by Stanford University Libraries (SUL) do not have areas or rooms designated for indoor bike parking.