Blogs

Special Collections welcomes two new archivists this month: Chris Doan & Chloe Pfendler

August 8, 2022
by Glynn Edwards
Born digital
Digitization
Manuscripts
News

The Department of Special Collections is thrilled to announce the hire of two new staff members into continuing appointment positions as processing archivists. The positions are funded by the Harold Hohbach Program Endowment, which was created from a gift by the Harold C. and Marilyn A. Hohbach Foundation. These positions will focus on making available collections highlighting the history of science, technology, and those that document changes and developments in Silicon Valley and further afield.

Picture of Ikuyo Lehman

Stanford Libraries welcomes Ikuyo Lehman

August 5, 2022
by Bernadette Liu
News

Please join me in welcoming Ikuyo Lehman to Stanford Libraries, who joins the organization on Wednesday, August 10th as our new Associate Director of Finance.

Welcome to Lindsay King

August 3, 2022
by Julie Sweetkind-Singer
Art

It is my great pleasure to welcome Lindsay King to Stanford Libraries as the new Head of the Bowes Art & Architecture Library.  Lindsay's first day was Monday, August 1st. Prior to joining Stanford, Lindsay served as the Associate Director for Access and Research Services at the Robert B.

New exhibition: CODEX comes to the Art Library, new acquisitions 2022

August 3, 2022
by Katharine A Keller
Art

Climate change, covid and textile design are some of themes explored in this exhibition. Our collaboration continues with Prof. Gail Wight as her labels not only describe the unique features of each work but include how these objects will be used in teaching and learning.

Making ePADD better together: community testing of Version 9.0 Alpha release

July 22, 2022
by Sally DeBauche
Born digital
Digital preservation
Emerging tech
Open source

Following the first Version 9.0 Alpha release from the ePADD+ project, a volunteer group of community testers assembled to exercise the new features and offer feedback on bugs, potential enhancements, and documentation. In past ePADD releases, users were openly invited to use the most recent release and report back through Github issues.

Working with students on library collections as data

July 20, 2022
by Catherine Nicole Coleman
Artificial intelligence

Library collections provide exciting opportunities for students — particularly those interested in computational linguistics, computer vision, machine learning and data science — to apply methods they are learning in their classes to real world problems. Stanford's world-renowned AI institute, HAI, and interdisciplinary data science program, Stanford Data Science, attract students from around the world to learn about the latest computational techniques applied to a mind-bending array of projects.

Bradley Strauss, student employee, assisting the University Archives remotely from Chicago, IL!

Guest blogger: Bradley Strauss (University Archives student employee)

July 18, 2022
by Hanna Ahn
University Archives

The contemplative life, or the active one? It’s the age-old debate on what the best approach to life is. Should we be spending our limited time pursuing more real and tangible achievements, such as engineering significant structures or producing medicine that slows aging? Or, conversely, is discussion and exploring what it means to be a human more valuable?

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