Dance with Death at Green Library on Oct. 31, 2022
In celebration of Halloween–and to encourage us all to look up from our phones and laptops–Green Library was visited by several skeletons on Monday, October 31, to bring to life the Dance of Death.
Blog topic: Fun facts
Stanford Libraries 2022 #ColorOurCollections
Attention all artists and coloring book enthusiasts! The Stanford Libraries 2022 #Color our Collections coloring book is here. Culled from digitized images from Stanford Digital Repository, the coloring book consists of 14 sheets that highlight an eclectic range of subjects and styles from our collection.
HOWLoween 2021: Celebrating Wolf Awareness Week at Stanford Libraries on Oct. 18-22
We love Halloween at Stanford Libraries!
Metal, paper, glass: maintaining the experience of the object
Welcome to Part 3 of our blog post series, Metal, paper, glass.
Metal, paper, glass: the devotional object and the challenges of interpretation
Welcome to Part 2 of our blog post series, Metal, paper, glass. As Elizabeth Ryan noted in her blog post, subtitled Perspectives on a stained glass panel and other objects in Stanford Libraries Special Collections, we were inspired by this striking stained-glass object to explore how we each interact with a variety of unusual materials in our collections, and to share our different perspectives.
Masquaraders to the rescue!
"Thank you for you & the team making beautiful fabric masks for all of us. We are deeply grateful!" -- Crystal Hsu
New cuneiform tablet acquired by Special Collections
The Stanford Libraries recently acquired its second cuneiform tablet. The acquisition was in response to the high level of use of the first tablet held by the Libraries, a Sumerian cuneiform tablet from 2056 B.C.E. which was a gift of David C. Weber in 1990 (https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4083797).
Students find it in the stacks: Plantasia
“Play nice music for plants. Be confident. Get to know your plants better. Don’t worry too much about them. Relax! Read and learn as much as you can. Plants are very understanding.” Listening to the space-age sounds of Plantasia, there’s nothing to do but relax.
For this blog the Archive of Recorded Sound invited one of our student workers to write about an item in the archive. Read on and find out about the soothing sounds of Plantasia as written by guest blogger and student worker extraordinaire Jonah. -Nathan Coy