Concierge 40: "Data Stories"
[updated] Concierge 40: "Data Stories (from the trenches)"
Please join us for this Concierge session that kicks off the new academic year!
Blog topic: Events
East Asia Library hosts discussion on "Reflections on American Sinology and Sinologists"
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.
Reminder: Upcoming Concierge Tours
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:
- Wednesday, June 21, 10:00-11:00AM
- Thursday, June 22, 2:00-3:00PM
Tours will meet at the entrance to the Sapp Center for Science Teaching and Learning.
Bing Wing Facade Restoration Project
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.
Concierge: Tours of the Robin Li and Melissa Ma Science Library
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.
Personal Digital Archiving Hackathon scheduled for March 31 - April 1, 2017
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.
Rare Japanese book on display at Cantor Arts Center
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.
A productive week at Geo4LibCamp 2017
Geo4LibCamp is a hands-on meeting to bring together those building repository and associated services for geospatial data to share best practices, solve common problems, and address technical issues. We met at Stanford University for the second Geo4LibCamp unconference from January 30 until February 3, 2017. Nearly 50 attendees from 30 institutions participated in the main three day event, and about 20 attendees for the two day post-conference working sessions. The institutions were primarily academic research libraries -- Alberta, Arizona State, California State, Chicago, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State, Colorado at Boulder, Connecticut State Library, Cornell, Data Curation Experts, Mapzen, Michigan, Minnesota, Moss Landing Marine Labs, Nebraska at Lincoln, New York U, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Princeton, Purdue, Rice, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Riverside, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz, UCLA, Wisconsin – Milwaukee, and Yale.