Just Wheeled into the Lab: The Matt Herron Photography Archive
This post was written by Mark Jefferson, Lab Assistant at Stanford's Born-Digital Preservation Lab.
Blog topic: Digitization
Stanford Libraries launches Taube Archive of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 1945-46
The Taube Archive of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 1945-1946 (IMT) is now available as the result of a partnership between the Stanford Libraries and the Stanford Center for Human Rights and International Justice. This online archive makes available to the global audience digitized versions of the original, unpublished, and complete official record of the IMT.
Dinah Handel promoted to Digital Library Services Manager
Join me in congratulating Dinah Handel on her promotion to Digital Library Services Manager!
Dinah has served as Digitization Services Manager on the Product and Service Management (PSM) team in Digital Library Systems and Services (DLSS) since January 2018. Over the past five years, Dinah has steadily developed into a high-performing member of the team and an active contributor to a number of emerging SUL initiatives.
Stanford Libraries 2023 #ColorOurCollections
Calling all Artists! The Stanford Libraries #ColorOurCollection2023 digital coloring book is here. Get creative and put your personal spin on thirteen exemplary images from our collection. Organized by the New York Academy of Medicine, libraries, archives, and cultural institutions from across the world have turned their most compelling images into free downloadable coloring books.
Presenting “Digitization Exemplars”: a new resource for SUL staff and our collaborators
Digital Library Systems and Services (DLSS) has published a new reference resource about the work we produce in digitization services: Digitization Exemplars. This exhibit features an array of examples of each of the kinds of materials that we digitally reformat in our various labs.
A conversation across time: Digitizing the Sylvia Prager Mathon papers
This is a guest blog post by digitization lab assistant Abigail Watson, who has been with Stanford Libraries' Digital Production Group since March 2021.
Content warning: this blog contains mentions of the Holocaust, death, and trauma.
Estonian visiting fellows talk about their 2022 Stanford fellowships
Stanford University Libraries, along with The Europe Center and The Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies, recently launched two new fellowship programs that brought five Estonian scholars to Stanford in 2022. The Short-Term Research Fellowship at Stanford University for Estonian Scholars and The Global Digital Governance Fellowship at Stanford Un
Special Collections welcomes two new archivists this month: Chris Doan & Chloe Pfendler
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.