BYOB!
Starting 12/7 all 1 week items circulate until 1/6*. (That's right! All DVDs, VHS, videogames, CDs, etc.) And there's no limit to how many!
So come on down and pick up your "gifts" early. Curl up in front of a fire with BackDraft! Or try to figure out why Die Hard is now considered a Christmas classic... ;)
The Stanford Libraries will be operating on a reduced schedule during the winter intersession and winter closure periods: Saturday, December 14 through Sunday, January 5, 2020.
***Please note: Some libraries will be closing early for a staff event on Wednesday, December 18. Please see the Library hours web page for details.***
Closures and reduced library hours for:
The US government produces a LOT of statistics in the course of its daily work. There are 13 official "federal statistical agencies" that provide essential statistical information for use by governments, businesses, researchers, and the public:
Engineers don’t just design things, they also need to build and sell them! This week, Linnea Shieh from the Terman Engineering Library gives us a tour of databases that focus on markets and finance for entrepreneurial engineers and their companies.
All libraries are closed Thursday, November 28 and Friday, November 29. Many libraries have reduced hours on other days during Thanksgiving week.
See the Libraries' hours page for hours during Thanksgiving week.
Stanford University Libraries invites archives, library, and technology workers and those in related fields to self-nominate as participants for Lighting the Way: A National Forum on Archival Discovery and Delivery, funded by IMLS grant LG-35-19-0012-19. The forum event will take place over two and a half at Stanford University in Stanford, California from February 10-12, 2020, with approximately 50 participants. Grant funds will allow us to fund partial to full travel costs, meals during the event, and lodging for most participants.
To apply, please complete the application form. A 
PDF version of the application form is available for your reference.
The initial call for participation will be open from November 13 to December 15, 2019. The application form requests information about you, your responsibilities, and your work related to focus of the project. Our project team will be reviewing the nominations on a rolling basis, and will respond no later than January 10, 2020. Information gathered in the application form will be used to select participants for the Forum, to inform Forum planning, and to identify opportunities for the project team to follow up with you. Your responses will not be shared beyond the project team and its participant advisors.
Lighting the Way: A National Forum on Archival Discovery and Delivery
Monday, February 10 to Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Stanford University, Stanford, California
Call for participation opens November 13, 2019
Our wonderful friend and colleague, Paul Zarins, has retired after 24 years at the Stanford Libraries. Many of us have worked with Paul in his role as Digital Collections Librarian. In that role, Paul singlehandedly developed a framework for licensing electronic resources that is of enormous benefit at SUL and across the Stanford community.