New antiquarian acquisition for music special collections
Guest post by Christina Kim
Virgin and Child with St. Anne (1584) is a recent aquisition that complements the Encomium musices set of engravings.
Blogs
Stanford Libraries 2023 #ColorOurCollections
Calling all Artists! The Stanford Libraries #ColorOurCollection2023 digital coloring book is here. Get creative and put your personal spin on thirteen exemplary images from our collection. Organized by the New York Academy of Medicine, libraries, archives, and cultural institutions from across the world have turned their most compelling images into free downloadable coloring books.
Presenting “Digitization Exemplars”: a new resource for SUL staff and our collaborators
Digital Library Systems and Services (DLSS) has published a new reference resource about the work we produce in digitization services: Digitization Exemplars. This exhibit features an array of examples of each of the kinds of materials that we digitally reformat in our various labs.
A conversation across time: Digitizing the Sylvia Prager Mathon papers
This is a guest blog post by digitization lab assistant Abigail Watson, who has been with Stanford Libraries' Digital Production Group since March 2021.
Content warning: this blog contains mentions of the Holocaust, death, and trauma.
Special, Unique, and Rare! Passion on February 7th
It's February - the month of romance. Tuesday, February 7th, from 2-4PM in the Hohbach Seminar Room (126) stop by our latest pop-up exhibit to find your PASSION.
ePADD version 10 now available
The Integrating Preservation Functionality into ePADD (or ePADD+) project has officially concluded, and the project team is pleased to share these final announcements.
Exploring Alessandro Grandi's 1625 Celesti Fiori
Guest blogger: Zachary Haines
In 1619, there was a great theft in the city of Venice. Over the course of two to three years in St. Mark’s Basilica, a singer named Leonardo Simonetti likely heard and sang the beautiful music of his colleague, Alessandro Grandi. In secret, Simonetti acquired the drafts of these songs and edited them into a collection of motets which were then printed under the title Celesti Fiori.