Faraway Stanford
Andrea Renner wrote about a remarkable student-created map, Stanford: Campus of the Unknown: “What was it like to be a freshman this year, this strangest of years? Only hearing about campus, and experiencing its ‘life’ through Zoom and other online platforms, Stanford freshman Lydia Wei began to feel a bit like Medieval mapmakers, who had to imagine far-off lands that they never visited. In this spirit, she spent her winter break creating a map of the Stanford campus.” Renner and Andria Olson also created a fullscreen StoryMap experience about one of Stanford’s most unusual maps, The Attack of Love by Matthäus Seutter (1735).
El Palo Alto
In “The Unlikely Survival of the 1,081-Year-Old Tree That Gave Palo Alto Its Name,” The New York Times described how in Stanford’s early days students held an annual contest to fix their class flag to the top of the tree, and in the 1970s students created the Stanford Tree mascot whose past costumes are stored by University Archives in a climate-controlled room in Green Library.
Science Books for Summer Reading
Staff of Stanford Libraries’ Science and Engineering Resource Group compiled a list of twelve recommendations for summer reading. Their list includes six fictional novels with scientific protagonists or settings, and six nonfiction works including biographies and scientific studies of timely topics.
Cartography Conference in October
The David Rumsey Map Center announced the speakers and themes for the third Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography. Alex Hidalgo of Texas Christian University, Mishuana Goeman of UCLA, and Eric Anderson and Carrie Cornelius of Haskell Indian Nations University will deliver the keynote lectures for the three themes, all pertaining to indigenous mapping. Registration is ongoing for the conference, which takes place on October 20-22.
Taiwanese Rare Book Database
Stanford Libraries is digitizing a selection of Chinese rare books in the holdings of the East Asia Library and the Bowes Art & Architecture Library for inclusion in the National Central Library of Taiwan’s Rare Books and Special Collections online database. Of the 29 printed and manuscript titles selected for the project, the majority are traditional woodblock printed editions from the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty. The NCL database, containing 11,500 titles from numerous contributing institutions, is a significant research resource open to the world for the study of Chinese history and culture.
Complex Emotions and Joyous Imagery
Dinah Handel published a library guide to LGBTQIA+ resources available in Special Collections and University Archives and commented: “Some of my favorite collections highlighted in the guide include personal narrative about the complexity of emotions queer people have in exploring their identity and place in the world (the Richard William Weiland papers), fun and colorful graphics and joyous imagery (the Queer Resources center), and audiovisual works that feature interviews with LGBTQIA+ identified students (Stanford Pride Oral History collection, Out on the Farm, Gays and Lesbians in the residencies).”
Youth Day in Cape Town
“Stanford University’s Special Collections Library has published a website featuring Emer Prof Gavin Younge’s 1977 exhibition, curated in honour of the 92 Cape Town youth who lost their lives on 16 June 1976,” reported University of Cape Town News. “I am gratified by the sheer resourcefulness of Laura Wilsey and Glynn Edwards at Stanford University Libraries in California, for first locating and later reimagining the 92 slates on which I had chalked all these names and the date on which these young learners had been killed,” Younge said.
Dar ul Ilm Early Asian Print Collection
The Summer 2021 issue of Digital Library Services News featured the Dar ul Ilm Early Asian Print Collection, the Stephen M. Cabrinety Collection in the History of Microcomputing, and a new app and recent enhancements for depositing materials in the Stanford Digital Repository.
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