American history collections opened fall 2013
Processing is now complete for the following manuscript collections. Guides are available at the Online Archive of California.
Blog topic: New acquisitions
Archives works with CS faculty to create collection of white papers for NSF summit
The University Archives recently collaborated with faculty in the Computer Science Dept. to create a collection in the Stanford Digital Repository of white papers for an upcoming NSF summit on the future of computer science education.
Archives acquires papers of Martin Hellman
The University Archives is pleased to announce that it has acquired the papers of Martin E. Hellman, emeritus professor of electrical engineering at Stanford and a recent inductee into the select group of eminent faculty and alumni known Stanford Engineering Heroes.
New reference titles at the Swain Library
Noteworthy online reference works of potential interest include:
- Comprehensive enantioselective organocatalysis: Catalysts, reactions, and applications
- Encyclopedia of membrane science and technology
- Stereoselective synthesis of drugs and natural products
- UV/Vis+ Spectra data base
The Tom Law San Francisco Bay Area Punk and Rock Handbill and Poster Collection
The Tom Law San Francisco Bay Area Punk and Rock Handbill and Poster Collection was recently acquired and is housed in Special Collections, Green Library. It contains approximately 1400 original posters of Punk Rock Band performances in the San Francisco Bay area. You can find a description and information about use of the collection in the collection's catalog citation.
East Asia Library acquires Song Dynasty Biographies of Eminent Monks
The East Asia Library at Stanford recently acquired from Zojoji Temple in Japan a copy of the twelfth-century printing of the tenth-century Chinese work called the Song Dynasty Biographies of Eminent Monks 宋高僧傳. With over five hundred biographies, it is an invaluable source of historical information on monks from about 700 to 900. Stanford now holds the only copy of this text in North America, and perhaps the only complete copy of the text outside of a single extant version in this temple in Japan.
Buenzle Naval History Collection Now Available
In 1886, a sixteen-year-old named Fred Buenzle did what many boys had dreamed of: joining the Navy and sailing the high seas. Recognizing that the Navy was changing rapidly, he took note of the stories and lore of old salts and devoted himself to chronicling his own adventures; training in the Caribbean, briefly leaving the service in China, and in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. A stenographer who rose in rank to Chief Yeoman, Buenzle was the court reporter for the investigation of the sinking of the U.S.S.
