
"Answers from the Great Beyond": Halloween Open House in Green Library
Image: Spirit photographs from the Stanford Family Collection (SC0033D). Department of Special Collections and University Archives.
Image: Spirit photographs from the Stanford Family Collection (SC0033D). Department of Special Collections and University Archives.
Guest post co-authored by Christian Brickhouse, Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics.
Please join us on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, October 14, 2019, in El Centro Chicano (at the front of Old Union, on the Stanford campus), between 10am and 4pm, for a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon focusing on indigenous languages.
“PARALLEL/parallel” will be this year’s thematic focus for the 4th annual Green Library celebration of the Tag der Deutschen Einheit (Day of German Unity).
Stanford University is a member organization of The Carpentries, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching foundational skills for research computing skills. This partnership is managed by Dr. Amy Hodge of the Stanford University Libraries, and is open to the entire campus community. Over the past few quarters the Stanford University Libraries have offered the popular two-day Software Carpentry workshops as an open enrollment to anyone on campus. Other campus organizations have also run and will continue to run similar versions of these workshops.
In May, 2019, three colleagues launched an exhibit to mark the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death by celebrating the books and ideas that shaped his world. Leonardo's Library: The World of a Renaissance Reader will be on display through mid-October in the Green Library Bing Wing. The three colleagues, Prof. Paula Findlen, John Mustain (Emeritus Curator of Rare Books), and Elizabeth Fischbach (exhibits designer and manager for Stanford Libraries Special Collections), brought a wealth of knowledge, expertise, and experience to a real blockbuster demonstration of what can be accomplished when Stanford faculty, libraries, and a team of exceptional students come together to tell a story with our collections. We're happy to announce a new online exhibit, https://exhibits.stanford.edu/leonardo, to parallel and augment the physical experience and preserve a memory of this event for posterity.
On October 10-12, the Rumsey Map Center will be hosting the second biennial Ruderman Conference on Cartography. While the first conference, in 2017, was an open event focused on emerging research in the history of cartography, this year has a specific, prescient theme: gender and sexuality.
At 12:00-2:00PM in the Tierney Room of Green Library we will be viewing the first two matches of the quarter-finals on Thursday, June 27, and Friday, June 28, and the semi-finals on Tuesday, July 2, and Wednesday, July 3. Join us and show your support for the tireless teams in the FIFA Women's World Cup in France.