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This spring Stanford Libraries celebrated student book collecting with of the Wreden Prize for Collecting Books and Related Materials. The biennial Wreden Prize showcases the creative and passionate love of book collecting by undergraduate and graduate students at Stanford. Participating students each submit a bibliography of items in their collection, along with an essay detailing the history and significance of the collection.

In this guest blog, former Archive of Recorded Sound Project Archivist and current Stanford Libraries Special Collections Associate Archivist Gurudarshan Khalsa writes about two San Francisco Bay Area Jazz collections he worked on at the Archive of Recorded Sound: the Burt Bales Collection and the Dave Radlauer Jazz Collection.

ACS in Focus ebooks are: 

• Four to eight hour primers for beginning and seasoned scientists that need a quick start to a topic outside of their expertise.
• Topics include emerging and cross-disciplinary subjects not traditionally taught in an undergraduate chemistry curriculum.
• In an instructional setting, these works bridge the gap between textbooks and literature.
• Digital-only to take advantage of hyperlinks, pop-up glossary, videos, and animations.
• eReader is part of ACS Publications content suite and enables the reader to learn when it suits them, on or offline.

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