The East Asia Library is pleased to announce a new exhibition entitled "Words in Characters: Books as Vehicles." Located in the entrance hall display cases, this exhibition explores intersections between art and language in contemporary Chinese culture.
[updated] Concierge 40: "Data Stories (from the trenches)"
Please join us for this Concierge session that kicks off the new academic year!
On May 30, 2017, the East Asia Library hosted a public discussion entitled "Reflections on American Sinology and Sinologists," featuring author Susan Chan Egan and Dr. Ronald Egan, Chair and Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
Concierge tours of Li Ma Science Library and the Digitization Lab & Imaging Space take place this week and next. While the tours of the Digitization Lab have reached capacity, there's still room in the Li Ma Science Library tours.
Li Ma Science Library tours:
Tours will meet at the entrance to the Sapp Center for Science Teaching and Learning.
As part of its ongoing preservation and renovation programs, Stanford's department of Lands, Buildings & Real Estate (LBRE) has initiated a project to repair and clean the exterior facade of the historic Bing Wing of Green Library. This will be a three-year project, taking place in the summer of each of the next three years.
Please join us for the Concierge Tours of the Robin Li and Melissa Ma Science Library located in the Sapp Center for Science Teaching and Learning. Tours of this beautiful new library will be hosted by the library staff at the Li Ma Library, Grace Baysinger, Michael Newman, Aparna Sharma and Bob Schwarzwalder.
Please sign up for one of the two times listed below. Both tour session dates will be limited to 30 sign ups on each day.
See details about the library.
How can we best make sense of the digital strands and data that comprise a 21st century life? Explore innovative solutions to this challenge and others facing both individuals in the digital age, and scholars in the cultural heritage and digital humanities sectors, at the Personal Digital Archiving (PDA) 2017 Hackathon. The Hackathon is sponsored by Stanford University Libraries and will be held from March 31 - April 1, 2017 at the Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center on the Stanford University campus.
A Japanese book from the East Asia Library's collection of rare books is currently on display at the Cantor Arts Center as part of the exhibit entitled "A Mushroom Perspective on Sacred Geography," curated by Phoenix Yu-chuan Chen, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art and Art History.