Join me in congratulating Dinah Handel on her promotion to Digital Library Services Manager!
Dinah has served as Digitization Services Manager on the Product and Service Management (PSM) team in Digital Library Systems and Services (DLSS) since January 2018. Over the past five years, Dinah has steadily developed into a high-performing member of the team and an active contributor to a number of emerging SUL initiatives.
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.
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.
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.
The Department of Special Collections is thrilled to announce the hire of two new staff members into continuing appointment positions as processing archivists. The positions are funded by the Harold Hohbach Program Endowment, which was created from a gift by the Harold C. and Marilyn A. Hohbach Foundation. These positions will focus on making available collections highlighting the history of science, technology, and those that document changes and developments in Silicon Valley and further afield.
On June 22, 2022, in the midst of a power outage on the historic campus, a core group of staff working on the Virtual Tribunals program met on the Redwood City Campus for a half-day long discussion regarding next steps on the project and in particular, the longer term vision and goals for the next 2-3 years.