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Stanford Libraries collect widely in Native American studies, acquiring materials in all formats to support teaching and research in Native American studies at Stanford, as well as providing reference services and bibliographic instruction.

“Victoria Yau: ‘I slept in the mountain cloud’” is an exhibition on display at the Stanford East Asia Library from April 24 - October 31, 2024, curated by Beryl Zhou, a graduate student at the Center for East Asian Studies, and Dr. Ellen Huang, Ph.

October is American Archives Month and over the last month, we took to social media to highlight our indispensable and thoughtful team! We posed three questions to our 3 project archivists and 1 project librarian and we want to (re)introduce you to them by sharing their answers with you.  Why archives? Eilene Lueck / Stanford Libraries Eilene Lueck (Project Archivist): I love history, especially from an archaeological perspective.

The Stanford Disability and Disability Rights Advocacy Timeline was started in the summer of 2023 with funding and support provided by the Stanford Historical Society (SHS) and the Stanford University Archives.  The timeline builds on the oral histories conducted in 2020-2023 through the Disability at Stanford Oral History Project .

Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collection presents an exhibit celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!   This month, Branner Library AAPI Heritage Month through books and maps highlighting the migration, journeys, and routes of people, cultures, and more around the Asia Pacific region.

Our collection Stanford University Libraries’ holdings encompass hundreds of thousands of rare books as well as dozens of medieval and early modern manuscripts, cuneiform tablets, and papyri. There are numerous personal and corporate archives to explore (including materials by Buckminster Fuller, Apple Inc.

In celebration of Pride Month, this month’s session featured some LGBTQIA+ games such as Gay Monopoly (1983), the  Drag Match Memory Game  (2021),  Drag Match (2021), Stonewall Uprising (2022), and others. Topics of discussion included the use of terms such as "queer" and "LGBTQIA+" in marketing and commercial contexts; what exactly defines a "LGBTQIA+ game" and where those definitions originate; and how such categories/definitions/perspectives change according to time period, as well as location.

National Wolf Awareness Week takes place on the third week of October and is intended to "celebrate the unique place of wolves in the animal kingdom and learn more about their threatened place in the natural world today.

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Courtesy Jean Jonassaint Jean Jonassaint. © Institut d'études avancées de Nantes/Nantes Institute for Advanced Study Jean Jonassaint, Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Syracuse University and co-founder and co-editor of HDN digest , a multilingual cybermedia, has established an endowment at Stanford Libraries in honor of anthropologist Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain and for the advancement of Haitian Studies in Haiti and abroad.