The California Map Society and David Rumsey Map Center are happy to announce that Arman Kassam has won the fourth annual David Rumsey Map Center/California Map Society Essay Contest 2019-20. Congratulations, Arman!
On Monday, August 3, repairs will commence on the East Asia Library elevator. The repairs are expected to take approximately three weeks, during which time patrons will be unable to access the basement stacks.
"Thank you for you & the team making beautiful fabric masks for all of us. We are deeply grateful!" -- Crystal Hsu
Stanford Libraries is pleased to share it Values Statement with our users, supporters, and colleagues. You will find the statement below, and in its permanent home on our library website.
In mid-June news reports about Mexico’s National Council to Prevent Discrimination (Consejo Nacional para Prevenir la Discriminación or CONAPRED) hinted about the agency’s possible closure. Created in 2003, it has published numerous reports on gender discrimination, Indigenous rights, and LGBT issues in an effort to bring awareness to Mexican society on issues of social inclusion. The Stanford Libraries have a few publications I gathered over the years while attending the Guadalajara International Book Fair. Often the book fair stand for the agency carried only a display copy, and I was told that many more resources were available for downloading online…until they were not.
The Stanford Libraries’ Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research is proud to announce that two of its members have been elected to senior leadership positions within the principal professional societies supporting the digital humanities.
Need to create 3D CAD models or 2D CAD drawings? As a current Stanford student, staff, or faculty member, you can now get access to SOLIDWORKS Education 2020-2021. Visit the Terman Engineering Library website to get access today.
At the Archive of Recorded Sound we have all been adapting to working in a variety of situations ranging from wearing masks all day to child care while nursery schools are closed. With the shift to working from home the Archive of Recorded Sound staff transitioned from processing physical collections and helping researchers in person to virtual office hours and the digital collection description backlog.
