Stanford's libraries house an extensive collection on various aspects of Chilean culture. The personal library of Fernando Alegría, leading exile figure and Stanford professor for over 30 years, gives it in-depth humanities coverage with over 2900 unique titles of chapbooks, first editions and other literary publications. Items are located in the circulating collection with the more rare/unique placed in Special Collections. In addition, the 100 boxes containing Alegria's literary archive document many of the country's socio-political and cultural events before the 1973 coup as well as the exile years. The Hoover Archives also hold several collections from these years.
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At a small ceremony held in the East Asia Library on Thursday, September 8, 2016, Dr. Moses Li, Stanford alumnus, CEO and President of the CUA (Holding) USA LLC, CUA (Holding) HKG Ltd., the Sino-America Medical Foundation, and Moses Li Medical Education Foundation, donated the first 13 volumes of the forthcoming series of Transcripts of the Collection of President Chiang Kai-shek: Chronological Events.
In recent years, there has been an increase in research interest on Chiang Kai-shek and modern Chinese history. East Asia library’s extensive collection pertinent to Chiang Kai-shek and archival materials such as Chiang Kai-shek diaries held in the Hoover Library & Archives have attracted many scholars from around the world. However, previously published Chiang Kai-shek’s Chronological Event Transcripts is a scanned edition. Many scholars have found them difficult to use since Chiang’s handwriting was often illegible and without punctuation, with marks or notes on original documents. The Moses Li Medical Education Foundation sponsored and supported its re-editing and publishing project. Dr. Moses Li also serves as the chief editor of the new series. When the project is completed, anticipated in 2 years, the series will consist of more than 250 volumes.
Dr. Jidong Yang, the head of East Asia Library, received the donation and acknowledge Dr. Li’s generosity and contribution to scholarship.
The Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound is pleased to announce the appointment of Frank Ferko to the position of Sound Archives Librarian. Recently, Frank served as the Metadata Creation Professional in Music and Media at UC Berkeley.
The Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound is pleased to announce the appointment of Erin Hurley as Project Archivist for the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation Collection project. Erin will be processing this collection, creating the finding aid, and selecting materials for digitization to make this jazz collection accessible.
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