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Science Library Newsletter, May 2019
The Science Library Newsletter publishes ten issues per year and brings you news from the Robin Li & Melissa Ma Science Library. Sign up to receive issues via email as they are published. Contents of the May 2019 issue:
Digital library services news - spring 2019
Digital Library How-to Guides
SDR Deposit of the Month: All in the Family
By many measures, Stanford is a big place. Two typical measures: the historic campus (6th largest in the US) stretches across 8,180 acres, and is home to over 31,000 students, faculty, and staff this academic year. A random measure: for the JSTOR database subscription provided by the Libraries, Stanford's institution classification level is “very large".
But some days, Stanford feels like a small, close-knit town where degrees of separation between community members rarely exceed two or three.
Open House on Trains and Railroads on May 10th, 2019
Friday, May 10th, marks the sesquicentennial of the Golden Spike, the ceremonial completion of the first transcontinental railroad. In honor of the occasion, curators Eitan Kensky, Kathleen Smith, and Ben Stone are organizing an Open House in Green Library from 11:00am to 3:00pm. In addition to material documenting the American transcontinental railroad and railroads in the United States, this event highlights stories of other significant trains and transportation networks around the world.
Spotlight on the transcontinental railroad
The completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869 marked an important milestone in the history of the United States with the joining of the populated east with the growing cities and towns of the west. Stanford University, with its connection to Leland Stanford and Timothy Hopkins, holds in its libraries an impressive array of materials related to this monumental achievement including the often overlooked contributions of the Chinese railroad workers.
Julie Sweetkind-Singer
Assistant Director of Geospatial and Cartographic Services
Head of the Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections
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