If you're interested in transportation, San Francisco Bay Area history, or old photographs, you're sure to get lost in this new exhibit of scanned images from the William Gardiner Transportation Collection, accessible here: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/gardiner-sfba.
In celebration of Jenny Lind’s bicentennial, Stanford Libraries is pleased to make available to the public the manuscript scores and letters contained in the Jenny Lind Collection, one of the largest extant collections of primary source materials once belonging to Lind.
Memorial Library of Music, MLM 955
I am sad to announce that Malgorzata Schaefer will be retiring at the end of March after working for Stanford Libraries for 30 years.
Guest post from Manuscripts processing assistant Lucayo Casillas
The Stanford Libraries recently acquired its second cuneiform tablet. The acquisition was in response to the high level of use of the first tablet held by the Libraries, a Sumerian cuneiform tablet from 2056 B.C.E. which was a gift of David C. Weber in 1990 (https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4083797).
Last year, I had the pleasure of processing one of the most fascinating collections I’ve had the opportunity to work on: the Gary D. and Myrna R. Lowe Collection of Big Tree materials. As the title suggests, the Lowe Collection by and large consists of photographs, prints, postcards, ephemera, pamphlets, government reports, periodicals, and souvenirs related to ‘Big Trees’ -- the original vernacular term for the awe-inspiring redwoods we know today as giant sequoia trees.
Memorial Library of Music, MLM 454