Come take a look at the beautiful new Istanbul poster exhibition in the lobby of Green Library's East Wing. The posters feature photographs and text by students who went to Istanbul last August for a three-week Bing Overseas Seminar with Professor Ali Yaycioğlu of the History Department. There's a corresponding book display highlighting materials about Istanbul from our collection.
The Istanbul poster exhibition will be on display in the lobby of Green East until March 15, 2013.
Today's the birthday of Bay Area resident and writer Michael Pollan, born on this date in 1955. Pollan is the author of four New York Times bestsellers: The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World (2001); The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006); In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (2008); and Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual (2010). In his In Defense of Food, Pollan sums up his approach to nutrition with the following seven words: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
Take a look at SearchWorks for further titles by Michael Pollan available in the libraries.
On Thursday night at 6:30 in Annenberg auditorium there will be a screening of "American Meat" , a documentary about sustainable meat filmed from a farmer's perspective, preceded by food at 6:00. This will be followed at 8:00 by a panel discussion, featuring Maisie Greenawalt (Bon Appétit), Rosamond Naylor (Stanford's Center on Food Security and the Environment, Vasile Stanescu (Stanford, and Journal of Critical Animal Studies, and David Evans (Marin Sun Farms), moderated by Professor Debra Dunn (d.school).
Academic Charts Online: International Popular Music (ACO:IPM)
ACO is a new subscription database which includes over 60 years of popular music charts from the Americas, Europe and some Asian territories. Data is provided by Billboard, The Official Charts Company, Aria Charts and other similar sources.
Searching is possible by artist, single or album title, date, label, and chart position. Sophisticated tools then allow you to interpret, graph, analyze, compare and contrast musical trends and interactions. For instance you can chart the performance of Adele’s album 21 in the US, UK, and Australia. You are also able to superimpose graphs from different artists, countries and formats and display them in absolute or relative time. The instructional videos on the web site may be useful in learning how to use the graph function.
Most tracks and albums have audio samples.
In late December, we surveyed Stanford faculty in the Schools of Humanities & Sciences, Engineering, Education, and Earth Sciences about the “many kinds of resources that might be important to your research”. We are still working on a full analysis of all the data generated by the survey, but wanted to go ahead and start sharing some initial results.
The first set of questions asked faculty “How important are the following types of scholarly materials for your research?”, following by a list of various types of resources. Response choices were: Very Important, Important, Somewhat Important, Not Important. Below are some general results from those questions, broken down by Humanities & Arts faculty, Social Sciences faculty (including Graduate School of Education), and Science & Engineering faculty (including School of Earth Sciences).
We also asked several open-ended questions about how faculty accessed resources and what might improve their access to resources that are important to them. We asked similar questions about a variety of tools (e.g. the library website, SearchWorks, bibliographic management software), and expertise (e.g. subject librarians, data specialists). We will post results from those questions soon, as we continue to work on a full analysis of the data.
"The Beethoven Project is a large-scale celebration acknowledging Bing Concert Hall as the new home of the Stanford Symphony Orchestra and Stanford Philharmonia Orchestra. These ensembles, under the baton of Jindong Cai, will devote the season to the performance of all nine Beethoven symphonies, as well as all five of the composer’s piano concerti featuring Van Cliburn Gold Medal–winning pianist and Stanford alumnus Jon Nakamatsu.
Richard Blanco—son of Cuban immigrants and civil engineer—will be the poet at the second inauguration of President Barack Obama on January 21. Blanco joins the list of inaugural poets that includes such names as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou.
There are three titles of Richard Blanco's poetry available in the libraries:
Directions to the Beach of the Dead
Did you know that all seven streaming audio databases offer selections of Christmas music that you can stream to your home or work computer, or your smartphone? Just search “Christmas” in each database to start browsing.
Access is restricted to Stanford users.
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