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Known in the library trade as hidden collections, unique materials awaiting cataloging and digitization can remain undiscoverable to researchers for months or years. In this conversation, curators Ryan Perkins and Pauline Lewis bring to light important rare books and manuscripts located among Stanford Libraries’ unprocessed Middle Eastern holdings as examples of why it is critical now to make collections accessible quickly. https://mailchi.mp/stanford/oct2020hiddencollecti...ons #hiddencollections #middleeast

We are pleased to announce that Thib Guicherd-Callin has accepted the continuing role of Assistant Director and Program Manager for LOCKSS. Thib brings unsurpassed experience and skills to this role. He joined the LOCKSS Program as a Summer intern in 2005 and has been with it since then. In his own words, he is the intern who never left! He worked his way from software engineer to manager of the software engineering team, and contributed to momentous milestones in the Program's history, including the pilot and inception of the CLOCKSS Archive, the rise of Private LOCKSS Networks, and most recently the launch of the LAAWS (LOCKSS Architected As Web Services) initiative. https://library.stanford.edu//thib-guicherd-callin-assista

Popular Science Book Club - December 3 We invite Stanford students, staff, and faculty to join us for a discussion all about The Horse Boy. This documentary follows a couple and their son, Rowan, who was diagnosed with autism at two-years-old. Traditional medicine has offered little assistance to quell Rowan's outbursts, and his parents are seeking an alternative path to healing. https://library.stanford.edu/ev/popular-science-book-club-7

It's Election Day, and Stanford has an election support site geared toward staff, faculty, students, and postdocs. It includes information about how to vote on campus as well as insightful articles on healthy elections, voter fraud, polling data, and dealing with election stress. https://election.stanford.edu/ #election2020 #ElectionDay

Starstuff: science meets art, print meets photography, Galileo meets Linda Connor In recent years, Prof. Elizabeth Kessler’s American Studies course, StarStuff: Space and the American Imagination, brought students into our Special Collections Barchas Room for hands-on viewings of antiquarian astronomy texts, 19th century lithographs and planispheres, scientific literature, and contemporary fine art photography. https://library.stanford.edu//starstuff-science-meets-art-

It's #spookyseason, and Stanford Libraries has a host of spooky items to explore. The Dance of Death (or Danse Macabre) is often featured in literature and music. "Imagines mortis" ... https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4802294 "Icones mortis" https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9855484 "Heures a lusaige de Romme toutes au long sans rien req[ue]rir nouuellement i[m]primees, es quelles va plusieurs hystoires de la bible, la dance macabre, & plusieurs aultres nouuellement adiouteez" https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/2204015 "The dance of death; painted by H. Holbein, and engraved by W. Hollar" https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/6499151 "Danse macabre" https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/11587379 #halloween2020 #spookystanford

ORCID : Important tool for your professional career Having an ORCID ID enables you to distinguish yourself from others who may have the same name. An ORCID ID is a persistent identifier that supports your efforts when you change positions or institutions. https://library.stanford.edu//orcid-important-tool-your-pr

It's #spookyseason, and Stanford Libraries has a host of spooky items to explore. #spookystanford #devil #halloween2020 Throughout history, the unknown is often linked with the devilish. Also frequently used to slander those whose viewpoint differs from the writer. Among the many works about the devil in our collections:... "Faust" by Goethe: https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/3967543 "Satans stratagems, or The devils cabinet-councel discovered" by Aconcio: https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/918942 "Paradise Lost" by Milton: https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/11852497 "The history of the devil, as well antient as modern: in two parts ... In which is included, a description of the devil's dwelling, vulgarly called Hell" by Defoe: https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/2186284

It's #spookyseason, and Stanford Libraries has a host of spooky items to explore. 1. Gran Baile de Calaveras (Grand Ball of the Skeletons) - Always making fun of death Mexican artist Jose Guadalpe Posada reminds that we can have grand ball at a very special place 2. La Gran Calavera de Emiliano Zapata - Even Emiliano Zapata did not escape Posada's satire, calling the iconic revolutionary hero a "gran maton" or big thug.... 3. Calvera Bolshevik (Bolshevik Skull) - An image used with many other themes here noting the recent Russian revolution on the other side of the world. 4. La Calavera de Don Quixote -Literary heroes Don Quixote and Sancho Panza going after all sorts of liars. These images and more are digitized and can be found in in the Stanford Digital Repository: https://purl.stanford.edu/nm835sq5103 and https://purl.stanford.edu/ft091mw3077 #SpookyStanford #calaveras

Popular Science Book Club November 5, 2020 7:00pm to 8:00pm... We invite Stanford students, staff, and faculty to join us for a discussion all about chapters 7 through 16 of Odd Girl Out: My Extraordinary Autistic Life. Author Laura James, a successful journalist and mother-of-four, is diagnosed with autism in her forties. In this work, Laura tells the story of the year in her life following her diagnosis. https://library.stanford.edu/ev/popular-science-book-club-6

It's #spookyseason, and Stanford Libraries University Archives has a host of spooky items related to Stanford's past. 1. Spirit photographs collected by Thomas Welton Stanford, Leland Stanford's brother. "The Spirit of Professor Denton, taken Shepherd's London, by Mr. Boursnell, Psychic Photographer, July 1909". https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/zb333fs0872 2. A slate containing a message purportedly composed by the spirit of Leland Stanford, Jr. to his uncle, Thomas Welt...on Stanford. The message appeared at a séance led by Fred Evans, a then famous spiritualist who claimed to channel messages from departed souls straight into chalk sentences scrawled on closed (sometimes locked) slates. https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/kn378rd2598 3. Event poster for Fiesta de los Muertos: a Tribute to our Heroes, October 29, 1999, sponsored by El Centro Chicano y Latino, Casa Zapata, MEChA, Familia, and Expresión. https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/vr279np0562 Not pictured, two more Dia de los Muertos posters from 2007 and 1985: https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/xd071yx6505 https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/qj891zn2892 Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives #SpookyStanford #halloween2020

Mapping Indigenous Land: Native Land Grants in Colonial New Spain November 6, 2020 2:45pm to 4:15pm... Ana Pulido Rull is an Associate Professor of Latin American Art History at the University of Arkansas. She is originally from Mexico City and has a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her research focuses on indigenous maps from pre-Columbian and colonial Mexico, especially those designed for and used as legal evidence in colonial courts of law. In her book, Mapping Indigenous Land. Native Land Grants in Colonial New Spain, she examines how maps produced by indigenous cartographers helped communities defend their lands from the Spanish colonizers’ land requests. Sponsors: Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University, Stanford University Libraries, David Rumsey Map Center https://library.stanford.edu//mapping-indigenous-land-nati #maps #Mexico #precolumbian #colonial

David Rumsey Map Center was having a bit of fun with empty maps over on Twitter. https://twitter.com/rumseymapcen/status/1318643121282973696 Follow them for more fascinating maps!

New LibGuide showcases the history of the Asian and Asian American community at Stanford The University Archives is pleased to announce the publication of a new LibGuide to support research into the history of the Asian and Asian American community at Stanford. This time we enlisted Jessica Cebra, Metadata Management Librarian, who works on metadata projects for content in the Stanford Digital Repository. Follow the link to learn about Jessica's experience compiling content ...for the guide: https://library.stanford.edu//new-libguide-showcases-histo