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Monday, November 19, 2012

Dr. Jidong Yang, newly appointed Head of East Asia Library at Stanford

We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Jidong Yang has accepted our offer to become the new Head of the East Asia Library at Stanford University.

Dr. Yang is currently the Head of the Asia Library at the University of Michigan, where collections, services, and staff morale have flourished under his leadership.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

We are pleased to announce that Mieko Mazza has joined the East Asia Library as a Japanese Technical Services Librarian. In this position she will be responsible for cataloging Japanese language materials, and supervising Japanese acquisitions workflows.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

The California as an Island Maps workshop will feature maps from the Glen McLaughlin Map Collection, each focusing on maps depicting California as an Island.

When: Thursday, November 15, Noon - 1 pm
Where: Barchas Room, 2nd Floor of Green Library; Access is through the Lane Reading Room seen here at: http://bit.ly/lanereading. No food or drink is allowed in the Barchas Room. A limited number of lockers available, these are located near the entrance to the Field Reading Room seen here: http://bit.ly/fieldreading. You can get a locker by asking for one at the special collections room (Field Reading Room) reference desk.

For more information contact G. Salim Mohammed, Digital and Rare Maps Librarian, gsalim@stanford.edu.

Stanford’s central course management system, administered by the Libraries’ Academic Computer Services (ACS) department, was the subject of a two-part series in The Stanford Daily. ACS director Rich Holeton, interviewed for the series, estimated that ninety percent of current Stanford students have used CourseWork.

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