This Wednesday come to the Engineering Library for the first in what could be a series of Roving Library Ref Forums. Learn about new information sources and updates to your favorites.
Monday, November 18, 2013
Stanford University Libraries announced the launch of the second Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries (SPIRL), a prize to recognize and celebrate innovation through programs, projects, and/or new or improved services that directly or indirectly benefit readers and users. The goal of the prize is to single out for community attention and to celebrate functionally significant results of the innovative impulses in libraries anywhere in the world that support research.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
The Rare Book School (RBS) at the University of Virginia announced that it has received a second grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand the reach of an ambitious fellowship program that is reinvigorating bibliographical studies within the humanities. In the press release, Hannah Marcus, a Stanford doctoral candidate in history and an inaugural fellow in the program, states: “My RBS courses have given me a deep understanding of how books are and were made. This informs my daily research on censorship since I’m often considering how books were destroyed. Understanding format, binding and printing – bibliography in a word – helps me to systematically notice and understand when books have been altered by censors.” Marcus co-curated with John Mustain the recent “Writing in Books” exhibition in Green Library.
http://news.virginia.edu/content/rare-book-school-receives-mellon-founda...
What: Rare Maps Workshops: The Lives and Maps of John Speed (1552-1629) and John Ogilby (1600-1676), English Cartographers
When: 10:00 am, Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Where: IC Classroom, Green Library
Followed by map viewing at 11:00 am at the Barchas Room, Special Collections, Green Library
