Guides

Course- and topic-based guides to collections, tools, and services.

  1. History of science and technology

  2. Children's & young adult literature

  3. Iranian Studies

  4. Standards, codes, methods, and protocols

  5. Film and Media Studies

  6. Black Graphic Design History Collections Initiative

  7. Theater and performance studies

  8. Streaming Media Collections

  9. How It Feels: [exhibit by Ava DeConcini in Green Library]

  10. Stanford University Archives

  11. Stanford Archives Reference and Research Guide

  12. Teaching with Special Collections

  13. Map collections and resources

  14. ARCHLGY 134: Museum Cultures: Material Representation in the Past and Present (ARCHLGY 234, ARTHIST 284B)

  15. Video Games

  16. Map collections and resources

  17. Mathematics and statistics

  18. Using Special Collections and University Archives

  19. Black students at Stanford University

  20. Chicana/o-Latina/o-Latinx community at Stanford University

  21. Asian and Asian American community at Stanford University

  22. African American studies resources in Special Collections

  23. LGBTQIA+ community at Stanford University

  24. Native American Studies

  25. Asian American Studies

  26. Newspaper and News Sources

  27. Literature in English

  28. Anthropology & Archaeology Research Guide

  29. Jewish Studies

  30. Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies

  31. Buddhism and Asian religions

  32. Before the Model Minority: South Asians in the US

  33. DDR Artists Book Scene in the 1980s and Beyond

  34. Ernest Houston Johnson Scholars Program Course Guide

  35. Still Waters Run Deep, Troubling the Archive with Filmmaking and Photography

  36. Guide to open access resources for art history

  37. American History

  38. Photography research guide

  39. LGBTQ + Studies

  40. Finding images

  41. U.S. Latinx art

  42. Slavic, East Central and Southeast Europe, and Eurasia Studies

  43. Guide to Chinese special collections at the East Asia Library

  44. Fashion and other disasters

  45. Archival sound recordings online and tools to find them

  46. Search tools

  47. Classics

  48. Geochemistry

  49. French Studies

  50. Journalism

  51. Stanford Geospatial Center resources for education & research

  52. Iberian & Latin American Literatures

  53. History 209S: History of Capitalism

  54. Activism, Demonstrations, Protest

  55. Art history beginning research

  56. Tips for finding online materials

  57. Cairo and Istanbul: Urban Space, Memory, Protest

  58. Middle Eastern Studies

  59. British History

  60. History of education

  61. Mysteries for children and young adults

  62. Latin American Studies

  63. Introduction to Islamic Art History

  64. Library Scavenger Hunt

  65. Gustave Gimon Collection on French Political Economy

  66. Film studies research guide

  67. That's Entertainment! The Rhetoric of Hollywood's Inequities

  68. Resource Guide for Program in International Relations Honor Thesis Research

  69. Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences

  70. Jewish education

  71. Asian education

  72. Resource Guide for CISAC Honor Thesis Research

  73. Islamic and Muslim education

  74. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

  75. Marine Sciences and Aquatic Biology

  76. ITALIC: immersion in the arts: living in culture

  77. Curriculum studies

  78. Oceanography

  79. African Historical Photographs

  80. Architectural history research guide

  81. Italian Studies

  82. Colonial states and African societies

  83. SLE painting assignment guide

  84. Researching contemporary art

  85. Virtual Reality: Possibility and Peril of Immersive Artwork

  86. Chinese Studies

  87. The 1947 Partition of South Asia

  88. Germanic Studies

  89. The Thomas S. Mullaney East Asian Information Technology History Collection

  90. Japanese Studies

  91. Stream music

  92. ProQuest TDM Studio Quick-Start

  93. PWR1 SBB: Rhetoric of Robots and Artificial Intelligence

  94. PWR: Rhetorics of Health, Illness, and Medicine

  95. PWR 1SPA: Character, Consequence, Conversation: Writing and Ethics

  96. LexisNexis Web Services API

  97. Korean e-resources

  98. Janos Frecot Collection at Stanford Libraries

  99. Biology

  100. PWR 1El: Watch now: rhetorics of film and television

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Library website

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Library info; guides & content by subject specialists

  1. Special collections: East Asia

    The Stanford East Asia Library holds robust special collections of rare Chinese, Japanese, and Korean materials. Learn more about our collections and how to access them, including procedures for using the reading room.

  2. Special Collections and University Archives’ Access to Personal Health Information Policy

  3. Maps

    Stanford Libraries' large collection of historical and contemporary maps, globes, and atlases circulates from the Branner Earth Sciences Library. The David Rumsey Map Center also holds over 16,000 historic maps and cartographic objects.

Exhibits

Digital showcases for research and teaching.

  1. Arthur Tress Photograph Collection

    A Stanford Libraries Special Collections Exhibition

  2. Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection

    A growing collection of digital scans from the late 1400s to the 1950s.

  3. Jarndyce 19th Century Novel Collection

    A demonstration exhibit for full text search

  4. Stanford Historical Society Collections

    Publications, Oral Histories, and Program Recordings

  5. Stanford Historical Photograph Collection

  6. Stanford Geological Survey Collection

    100 years of field mapping

  7. William Gardiner Transportation Collection

    Oakland and San Francisco transit history in photographs

  8. Wang Jingwei and Lin Baisheng Photograph collection

  9. Bassi-Veratti Collection

    The digital Bassi-Veratti archive

  10. The San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation Collection

    The Charles N. Huggins Project

  11. Douglas Menuez Photography Collection

    At the Stanford Libraries

  12. The Maria Jesús Casado García-Sampedro Piano Roll Collection

    by Esther Burgos-Bordonau, Ph.D.

  13. Hohbach Featured Collections

    An Archive of Images Displayed in Hohbach Hall

  14. Hanna House Collection

  15. Warren Heckrotte Map Collection

  16. Renaissance Exploration Map Collection

    Maps and Atlases from the Renaissance Period

  17. Eadweard Muybridge Collection

  18. Medieval Collections at Stanford

    Resources for Research and Teaching

  19. The Burke Collection of Early Italian Miniatures

  20. R. Buckminster Fuller Collection

    Architect, Systems Theorist, Designer, and Inventor

  21. Collecting in Life and Death

    The Curatorial Legacy of Leland Stanford Jr.

  22. The Monterey Jazz Festival Collection

    Archive of the world's longest running jazz festival

  23. Stanford Oral History Collections

  24. French Revolution Images

    Iconography from the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France

  25. Maps of Africa: An Online Exhibit

    A digital collection of African Maps at the Stanford University Libraries

  26. The Urban Legacy of Ancient Rome

    Photographs from the Ernest Nash Fototeca Unione Collection

  27. Automobility Archive

    Connecting the past, present and future of the automobile through the Road & Track collection

  28. Beautiful Books

    A collection of some of Stanford’s rare and antiquarian books

  29. California as an Island in Maps

    Maps from the Glen McLaughlin Collection of California as an Island

  30. Herbert Matter: Modernist Photography and Graphic Design

    A Stanford University Special Collections Exhibition

  31. "The First Hebrew City"

    Early Tel Aviv through the Eyes of the Eliasaf Robinson Collection

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EarthWorks

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Geospatial content, including GIS datasets, digitized maps, and census data.

  1. Warren Heckrotte Map Collection

    The Warren Heckrotte Map Collection includes over 150 maps primarily of the American West. The collection has a strong focus on maps from the Cali...

  2. Caroline Batchelor Map Collection

    Batchelor, Caroline, Arrowsmith, John, Bartholomew, John, 1805-1861, Bonne, Rigobert, 1727-1794, Migeon, J, Moll, Herman, -1732, Petermann, A. (August), 1822-1878, Wyld, James, 1812-1887, Justus Perthes (Firm : Gotha, Germany), and Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)

    This collection of primarily maps with a few prints and books portrays the continent of Africa as well as detailed maps of different regions and co...

  3. The Frank Lee Map Collection

    A collection of eleven maps from the Frank Lee Map Collection, including the Complete Map of the Everlasting Unified Qing Empire. [Jiaqing, 1796-18...

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