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Stanford Libraries welcomes Laurence Cefalu

October 19, 2020
by Brian Kerrick
News

I am pleased to announce Laurence Cefalu started today as the facilities specialist for maintenance and security and will report to Jacob Cohn. Laurence graduated from Arizona State University in 2018 with a degree in political science and a certification in applied business data analytics. Laurence also earned his certified associate in project management from the Project Management Institute. After graduating from ASU, he served as the Administrative Coordinator with the Haas Center for Public Service.

Chinese Non-Governmental Organizations Web Archive Collection

October 12, 2020
by Peter Chan
Web archiving

We are pleased to announce that 170 archived websites have just been added to the Chinese Non-Governmental Organizations Web Archive Collection. A total of 367 archived websites are now available in SearchWorks (https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/jt898xc8096). This content is also featured in online exhibit, Recording Civic Action in China (https://exhibits.stanford.edu/chinese-ngos).

Pandemic pivot: Digitization services for course reserves

October 9, 2020
by Dinah Handel
Digitization

The COVID-19 pandemic poses many challenges to libraries, including the accessibility of physical materials in support of teaching and learning. In a more typical quarter, faculty would place books on reserve, so that students could come to the library and check them out for a designated window of study. With most students off campus for remote instruction, colleagues across the library have adapted to the new remote learning conditions of the pandemic in a variety of ways. 

 

Cropped contact sheet of photos of Don Knuth.

Don Knuth email collection now available for research

October 8, 2020
by Annie Schweikert
Born digital
Digital preservation
Emerging tech
Open source
University Archives

Stanford Libraries’ Department of Special Collections and University Archives is pleased to announce that the email collection of Don Knuth has been processed. This collection consists of email from January 1999 through January 2019. Users can preview Knuth’s email corpus via Stanford's ePADD discovery website. The full text of the emails is only accessible on a workstation in the Field Reading Room, which is open to all members of the general public.

Mayacamas 3 by Bernice Bing

Announcing the Archive of Visual Artist Bernice Bing

September 24, 2020
by D. Vanessa Kam
Art

The Bowes Art & Architecture Library and the Department of Special Collections of the Stanford Libraries are pleased to announce the acquisition of the archive of visual artist, community activist, and Beat Generation proponent Bernice Bing.  Bing (1936–1998) overcame numerous obstacles in her life to create paintings combining elements of New York and Bay Area abstraction with Chinese calligraphy and landscape painting practices.  Her dynamic amalgamation of Eastern and Western aesthetics and philosophies led to unique abstract and gest

Bracero letters, 1943

Undelivered 1940s Mexican letters to Pacific Northwest relatives

September 23, 2020
by Adan Griego
University Archives
Mrs. Fidencia Abila was probably relieved that her son Salvador looked plump (“estas muy gordo”) in the photos (“retratos”) he sent from the United States. He was part of the Bracero Program enacted through several bilateral agreements signed by United States and Mexico between 1942 and 1964. The program brought thousands of Mexican men as short-term workers, primarily in agriculture, contributing with their “brazos” (arms) to the overall war effort as our country made a full commitment to World War II and later the Korean War.
 
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Expert Research Consulting

September 22, 2020
by Amy E. Hodge
Engineering
Geospatial
Science

Stanford's Science & Engineering Libraries' Experts will be offering 1:1 Research Consulting appointments via Zoom during the fall quarter. These appointments will focus on assisting grad students and other scientific researchers with software, coding, and data issues and questions related to research projects.

The service will be staffed by the following librarians and staff from our Science and Engineering Libraries:

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