Maps in the News
Describing the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford Libraries as “a cross between a library and a laboratory, replete with leather-bound atlases, spinning globes, enormous high-definition touchscreens and several virtual reality stations,” the San Francisco Chronicle interviewed David Rumsey and G. Salim Mohammed, head and curator of the center.
Watsonville Strawberry Campaign
Six new galleries spotlighting farm workers and immigrants in The David Bacon Photography Archive are viewable online along with a new essay by the photographer about the images depicting the seminal events of the Watsonville Strawberry Campaign of 1996.
The Hollywood System
“The Spyros P. Skouras papers, 1917–2012 is one of the Stanford Libraries’ archival jewels. A robust 137-box collection, it documents the career and multi-faceted activities of one of the founders of the Hollywood System,” wrote Ilias Chrissochoidis in a guest blog about Skouras’ intersections with American music.
Staffing News
New staff at Stanford Libraries include Marlo Longley, a digital library software developer, and Erin Thajudeen, a curatorial assistant for the Humanities and Area Studies Resource Group.
Video Game Dispute
“Academics want to preserve video games. The game industry is fighting them in court,” reported The Washington Post in an in-depth analysis of the dispute. Interviewed for the article, Henry Lowood of Stanford Libraries stated, “Game history is part of general culture as well as intellectual and media history. It’s not possible to include a full history of any of those topics without including games from the 1970s forward.”
Virtual Tribunals
New staff member Lauren Sorensen will serve as the Digital Projects and Data Manager for the Virtual Tribunals program, a collaboration between Stanford Libraries and the Stanford Center for Human Rights and International Justice to compile a comprehensive database of international criminal tribunal records from the post-WWII cases through the contemporary tribunals.
Mining The New York Times
Stanford-affiliated researchers can now apply text data mining methods to three million articles published by The New York Times with access provided by Stanford Libraries to The New York Times TDM Archive (1980-2020).
Archival Additions
Assistant University Archivist Hanna Ahn reported on recently processed collections, including the John Rickford Papers and significant additions to the Herant A. Katchadourian Papers, the Douglas Engelbart Symposia recordings, the Richard Foster Jones Papers, the Lawrence Berman Papers, and the Philosophy Talk Collection.
Estonian Scholars in Residence
Stanford Libraries and Tallinn University of Technology announced that Dr. Anu Masso, Dr. Anna-Maria Osula, and Dr. Jaan Raik have been awarded the 2022 Global Digital Governance Fellowship at Stanford University for Estonian Scholars.
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