The Challenge - Stanford University Libraries & Academic ...

2006—2007 

Report 

Stanford University Libraries 

and Academic Information 

Resources

Seeking Information, 

Educating Readers 

The Challenge 

When Stanford University announced a multi-year campaign called The Stanford 

Challenge in October 2006, it also enunciated a transformative, long-term strategic 

agenda for the university based on: human health, environment and sustainability, 

international issues of peace and stability, multidisciplinary research, improving 

education at all levels, and fostering the arts and creativity. In the words of university 

president John L. Hennessy, “Our goal for The Stanford Challenge is nothing short of 

building a university for the 21st century and beyond: A university that will better serve 

the world through the quality, impact, and vision of its research, and through the 

new generations of leaders it will produce.” 

Stanford University Libraries 

and Academic Information 

Resources 

© 2007 

by the Board of Trustees of the 

Leland Stanford Junior 

University. 

2006—2007 

Report 

library.stanford.edu 

Cover 

Students studying 

in the Lane Reading 

Room of the 

Bing Wing of Cecil H. 

Green Library. 

Above 

The Bing Wing of Cecil 

H. Green Library (the 

former Main Library) 

is the oldest and stateliest 

library structure 

on campus. 

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Opposite Top 

A “TopicMap,” from 

the HighWire Press 

Web site, is a special 

Java applet designed to 

allow researchers the 

ability to navigate topics 

in a graphical form 

to give one a sense of 

context while navigating 

a large, tree-structured 

database. 

Right 

Michael A. Keller 

catches up with recent 

acquisitions. 

From the University Librarian 

We in the Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources have seen 

many noteworthy achievements and milestones during the past year. Among these The 

Stanford Challenge, without question, will have a profound impact on our future as a 

library, an academic computing service, and a congeries of publishing services in the 

21st century. 

The pace of innovation and intellectual growth around campus historically and 

presently has motivated the Libraries to advance the cutting edges of our professions. The 

Stanford Challenge is cranking up that pace, and the Libraries are redoubling their efforts 

in order to meet that mandate, providing an ever-expanding array of services and 

resources in every possible medium and in myriad domains. While this is a daunting 

challenge indeed, I am delighted with the response of our staff, and we all take justifiable 

pride in our work, some aspects of which are showcased in this report. The vignettes 

included here will illuminate the strategic collaborations of multidisciplinary and globally-focused 

scholars that could not take place without the diverse assemblage of talented 

and energetic specialists, wide-ranging and deep collections, well-tuned services, 

attractive facilities, and easy-to-use technologies that constitutes the Libraries (in our 

expanded definition of the term). 

Your responses to this report are earnestly solicited. 


The Ida M. Green University Librarian 

Director of Academic Information Resources 

Publisher, HighWire Press 

Publisher, Stanford University Press 

Opposite Bottom 

Venerable volumes 

in Branner Earth Sciences 

Library: Bulletin 

of the Seismological 

Society of America date 

back to 1911, when it 

was published by the 

Stanford University 

Press. 

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The Initiative on Human Health 

The study of global human health has myriad connections at Stanford, ranging from the 

clinical disciplines, through the basic sciences, to cultural, political and policy matters. 

The Libraries support all these connections, of course, most obviously through the science 

branches. However, many of our collections and subject specialists have a significant 

hand in this initiative, as these examples attest. 

Global Tobacco-Free Research Initiative The Global Tobacco-Free 

Research Initiative is an ambitious project at Stanford to help 

nations move into a tobacco-free world. Cigarettes remain the 

world’s leading preventable cause of death. A billion people 

could die from tobacco-induced diseases in the 21st century, 

with the majority of these deaths in middle- to lower-income 

countries and a higher concentration in Asia. The problem 

is global even though the tobacco industry is based in just a 

few countries, including the United States. Researchers are 

studying how to reduce government reliance on taxes, overcome 

deceptive advertising, and address the medical issue 

of addiction. To support the project, the East Asia Library is 

assembling a broad, multi-lingual range of research materials 

in many formats, such as microfilms, e-books and serials. 

Dongfang Shao 

Head, East Asia Library 

Medical Discovery Resources: A Joint Effort Swain Chemistry and 

Chemical Engineering Library’s collecting scope includes resources 

on medicinal chemistry and drug discovery, part of an 

ongoing collaboration with Lane Medical Library and Falconer 

Biology Library. The Libraries work closely together to make 

sure that core materials are available to campus researchers, 

online whenever possible. Online resources originating in 

many fields are critical to effectively and efficiently locating 

information needed by both clinical and laboratory investigators 

and students across campus. Stanford students and 

researchers have access to databases on the Web that address 

complex, interdependent fields ranging from the highly 

applied, such as pharmacological technology, to the most 

advanced basic sciences, such as molecular and chemical biology. 

Collaboration and coordination is not limited to library 

resources: services such as reference help and database search 

assistance – to target these many resources effectively – are 

supported jointly by staff in Lane, Swain, and Falconer. 

Grace Baysinger 

Head, Swain Chemistry and 

Chemical Engineering Library 

Historical Literature of the Life Sciences The Falconer Biology 

Library coordinated purchase of the BIOSIS and Zoological 

Record Archives. These purchases greatly expanded access at 

Stanford to the historical literature of the life sciences from 

1864 to the present. Together, they cover taxonomy, population 

biology, biodiversity, veterinary biology, cell biology, 

biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, basic biomedical 

sciences, neurobiology, plant and animal biology, ecology, 

evolutionary biology, population biology, and related subjects 

providing in-depth indexes to students and researchers from 

numerous scientific disciplines. 

Michael L. Newman 

Head, Falconer Biology Library 

Electronic Journal Publishing HighWire Press, a division of the 

Stanford University Libraries, was created to ensure the continuing 

success of independent, scholarly publishers in their 

efforts to disseminate the latest, high-quality content worldwide. 

HighWire is the online host to five of the top six medical 

journals in the world, as well as the definitive editions 

of over 1,000 other journals, in the life sciences and other 

important fields of research. One of HighWire’s major goals of 

putting scholarly research online is to expand research to the 

far reaches of the world, places where traditional brick-andmortar 

paper libraries cannot keep pace with the needs 

of basic health care and human services. Many of the publishers 

supported by HighWire are part of such initiatives that 

include free access to poor countries: through projects of the 

World Health Organization, HINARI and AGORA, through a 

free access to developing nations program created by High- 

Wire, through cooperation with PatientInform, a layman’s 

Web site, and by offering free access to back content without 

restriction. HighWire is host to nearly two million free fulltext 

articles. 

John R. Sack 

Director and Associate Publisher, 

HighWire Press 

Opposite Top 

Heavily used materials 

in the Swain Chemistry 

and Chemical 

Engineering Library 

stacks. 


HighWire Press 

citation map shows a 

“genealogy” of article 

links. 

Left 

“A Way Out of the 

Smoking Jungle.” A 

California Department 

of Health Services 

image used to promote 

the Global Tobacco-Free 

Research 

Initiative. 

Right 

Detail of print serial 

subscriptions card file 

in Falconer Biology 

Library. 

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Stanford Fisheries Policy Project Oceans today face daunting 

global challenges: pollution, climate change, and overfishing, 

among other threatening problems. Many major fisheries are 

in decline. Where scientific solutions are possible, they must 

be implemented hand-in-hand with political, legal, economic 

and social change. The Stanford Fisheries Policy Project, 

organized by the Hopkins Marine Station and the Stanford 

Law School, is currently engaged in breakthrough studies in 

the management of fisheries. To support the project’s research, 

Miller Library is expanding its fields of collection to acquire 

additional materials on worldwide marine policy issues. 

Joe Wible 

Head, Miller Library of 

Marine Biology 

Geothermal, Electrical and Environmental Archive 

The Engineering Library, with the assistance of the Branner 

Earth Sciences Library and the Stanford Linear Accelerator 

Center, is acquiring the archival collection of the Rogers 

Engineering Company, a San Francisco consulting engineering 

firm specializing in geothermal, electrical and environmental 

projects worldwide from 1946-1990. Engineering 

project files, site maps, environmental impact reports, and 

scale models will support student and faculty research in 

renewable energy initiatives on campus. The collection will 

especially benefit the Stanford Geothermal Program, which 

offers specialized graduate degrees in geothermal reservoir 

engineering in coordination with the Department of Energy 

Resources Engineering. 

Helen Josephine 

Head, Engineering Library, 

Terman Engineering Center 

Left 

Page from Edwin V. 

Warren’s diary and 

ticket stub. 

Right 

Idyllically located in 

Pacific Grove, California, 

Miller Library of 

Marine Biology plays a 

central role in Stanford’s 

environmental research 

programs. 

Opposite 

Farquhar Transparent 

Globe of the Geocentric 

Celestial Sphere 

housed in the Physics 

Library. 

Witness to Western American Mining and Environment 

In 1903, Stanford student Edwin V. Warren, Class of 1908, 

rode his bicycle from his home in Pacific Grove to Sacramento, 

continuing by train, ship and foot to Douglas Island, just south 

of Juneau, Alaska. There, while working in the Treadwell Gold 

Mines to earn money for tuition, as he did again the following 

year, Edwin kept his manuscript diaries in two small leatherbound 

volumes. Full of commentary on mining life and natural 

scenery, the journals are especially rich in observations 

on birds. A graduate student in the Department of History 

passed along word of the diaries’ existence and through the 

Lane Fund for Western United States History, the Stanford 

University Libraries acquired the diaries from Warren’s 

grandson. Already the diaries have been used by an undergraduate 

writing her senior thesis on the geology of the area 

around the Treadwell mines. The many and varied themes 

of the diaries – from the social and working conditions in the 

mines to detailed observations of flora and fauna – illustrate 

the multidisciplinary nature of environmental history. 

Benjamin Stone 

Curator, American and 

British History 

Energy and Environmental Policy Resources Vulnerable areas 

of the environment are affected daily by natural factors such 

as climate change and human factors such as energy policy 

and patterns of resource consumption. Natural scientists 

and social scientists who work on environmental topics need 

access to daily technical and policy-related information. To 

meet this demand, an interdisciplinary group of social science 

and science and technology subject specialists jointly have 

purchased access to several daily topical newsletters: Environment 

& Energy Daily for legislative initiatives and deliberations, 

Greenwire for energy and environmental policy news, and Land 

Letter – The Natural Resources Weekly Report. These important 

sources of environmental news from E&E Publishing, Inc. 

are supplemented by the publisher’s special reports on topics 

such as the Everglades, climate change, sustainable design 

and grid power from the sea. 

Anthony Angiletta 

Dean and Virginia Morrison Curator for 

Social Sciences, Demography and 

Population Studies 

The Initiative on the Environment and Sustainability 

Issues of the environment and sustainability tend to be complex, merging concerns 

with hard science, applied technology, policy, business, law, and social science. 

The Stanford Libraries are deeply engaged with this initiative through many of its 

collections across campus. 

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The International Initiative 

In addressing critical issues of peace and security, governance, and advancing human 

well-being at local, regional and global levels, the scholars associated with the International 

Initiative require a bewildering breadth of library resources. Student interest in 

worldwide issues has never been higher, and the Libraries are racing to provide up-to-date 

materials from around the world, continuously acquiring materials in various formats 

from more than 100 countries and in more than 100 languages. 

Building a New Collection in Korean Studies Established in 2005, 

the East Asia Library’s Korean Collection strives to support the 

teaching, research, learning, and other activities and services 

of the recently-created Korean Studies program. The collection 

has been able to grow quickly, owing to the generous 

support of the Libraries and the Center for East Asian Studies, 

in close cooperation with the Korean Studies faculty. This year, 

the Stanford University Libraries were named as one of twelve 

member institutions of the Korean Collections Consortium of 

North America. As a member of the consortium, the East Asia 

Library has received a five-year grant from the Korea Foundation, 

which enables the purchase of a large number of books 

including thousands of volumes of Korean classic works. 

Kyungmi Chun 

Korean Studies Librarian 

The Local History of Bene Berak The Libraries acquired a significant 

archival collection documenting the founding and early 

history of the town of Bene Berak, near Tel Aviv. The collection 

was assembled by Haim Perl, a founder of Bene Berak 

in the 1920s and the great-grandfather of the late journalist 

Daniel Pearl ’85. Along with similar archives, such as the Simcha 

Blass collection on water resources in Israel acquired in 

2005 and the Eliasaf Robinson Collection on Tel Aviv acquired 

in 2006, the Haim Perl archive will provide unique research 

materials to support Middle Eastern studies and the International 

Initiative. 

Zachary Baker, 

Reinhard Family Curator 

of Judaica and Hebraica 

Collections 

Top 

Reference materials in 

the East Asia Library. 

Bottom 

Election pamphlet: 

“Profile of the Bene 

Berak Labor Council 

and Its Accomplishments” 

(late 1930searly 

1940s). 

Opposite 

The Korea Daily newspaper, 

available in the 

East Asia Library. 

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Focus on South Asian Studies There is a new multidisciplinary 

emphasis in South Asia on campus, as evidenced by the inauguration 

of the Center for South Asia in 2006. Correspondingly, 

there is growing student and faculty demand to broaden 

our Area Studies collection scope to include South Asian materials. 

For example, Tibetan studies – with its rich tradition of 

manuscript transmission dating from the seventh century – is 

a relatively new academic focus at the Department for Religious 

Studies and Center for Buddhist Studies. The Libraries 

are responding to this development with important acquisitions 

of vernacular sources, some as original editions, some 

as microform facsimiles, and many electronic resources (such 

as the Digital Tibetan Library, an ongoing digitization project 

by The Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center). Furthermore, the 

Asian Studies program has been enriched by a timely gift of a 

new book fund in Burmese studies, the Steeve and Helen Kay 

Book Fund. 

Wojciech Zalewski 

Bibliographer for Religious Studies 

Combating HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa Timely and 

accurate information is vital to the success of an innovative 

project at Stanford: “Combating HIV/AIDS 

in Southern Africa: The Treatment Revolution and Its 

Impact on Health, Well-Being and Governance.” Based 

on the 2005 Group of 8’s commitment to put 10 million 

people infected with HIV/AIDS on treatment within 

five years, this project will research the impact of this 

treatment revolution on health, well-being and governance 

in sub-Saharan Africa. Supported by the Libraries’ 

African Collection, 10 Stanford faculty and instructors 

teach related courses on African health issues, of 

which the fight against HIV/AIDS continues 

to occupy center stage. 

Karen Fung 

Curator, African Collection 

Top 

Meyer Library computer 

clusters provide 

a variety of specialized 

software, as well 

as peer consulting 

from expert student 

workers. 

Middle 

Leaf from Tibetan 

prayer book. 

Bottom 

J. Henry Meyer 

Memorial Library is 

swarmed by bicycles 

during Dead Week. 

Opposite Left 

Tibetan monk praying 

as he reads scripture 

similar to facing 

image. 

Opposite Right 

Digitizing a fragile object 

in the Preservation 

Digital Imaging 

Facility. 

Middle Eastern Film Series Throughout the academic year, the 

Libraries’ Islamic and Middle Eastern Collections sponsored 

a series of showings of feature films from the Middle East, 

one of which was the Egyptian hit film The Yacoubian Building. 

Through the auspices of Abderahman Salaheldin, Consul 

General of Egypt in San Francisco, its director, Marwan 

Hamed, and its star, renowned actress Yousra, were invited to 

a reception in the Munger Rotunda. Guests viewed a short film 

by Mr. Hamed and participated in a panel discussion at which 

the director and actress addressed issues of free speech and 

film making in the Middle East, from practical matters such 

as the impact of financial restraints on directors to universal 

questions such as the role of women in film and society. 

John Eilts 

Curator, Middle East Collection 

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Multidisciplinary Research Across the University 

Although the three initiatives in human health, environmental sustainability, and 

international affairs are Stanford’s largest and broadest multidisciplinary efforts, there 

are other significant activities occurring throughout the university that are also aimed at 

seeking solutions to societal problems and improving the world around us. Multidisciplinary 

programs involve collaborative research and scholarship from several disciplines 

and often two or more schools. Library subject specialists, who can provide discovery, 

acquisition, and access to diverse materials, often become active members of research 

teams studying complex issues from multiple viewpoints. 

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Across Campus 

Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections and the 

Social Sciences Data Center in Green Library provide support 

for patrons using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). GIS 

are a suite of hardware, software and data that allow a user to 

build multi-layered maps based upon the similarity of geographic 

space. The layers of disparate data are then queried 

to elucidate complex relationships between the information 

displayed in a graphical format. Patterns become apparent 

that would not have been readily seen were the data displayed 

in another form. This set of tools is used widely across campus 

by faculty and students in the fields of epidemiology, earth 

sciences, archaeology, anthropology, business, urban planning, 

engineering, and conservation biology. As the hub of 

GIS support on campus, the Libraries foster and enhance their 

use across a wide variety of disciplines and in all the schools; 

an important consideration as work becomes increasingly 

multidisciplinary across campus. 

Julie Sweetkind-Singer 

Head, Branner Earth 

Sciences Library 

Spoken Word Archive of Contemporary Thinkers Michael Toms 

and Justine Willis Toms, Co-Founders and Co-Presidents 

of New Dimensions Broadcasting Media Network, donated 

the entire New Dimensions archive to the Stanford University 

Libraries. Comprising 35 years, about 6,000 hours, of recordings 

heard on public radio throughout the world, the recordings 

include interviews with the Dalai Lama, Krishnamurti, 

Linus Pauling, Joseph Campbell, Timothy Leary, Deepak Chopra, 

Bill Moyers, Alice Walker, Maya Angelou and about 3,000 

others. New Dimensions’ guests have included leaders whose 

papers are archived at Stanford, including utopian architect 

and thinker R. Buckminster Fuller and Stewart Brand, creator 

of The Whole Earth Catalog, thus creating a rich, multimedia 

trove of opportunities for students to explore the spoken and 

written words of these important thinkers, as well as to incorporate 

the spoken word into their own course projects. 

Roberto Trujillo 

Head, Department of Special 

Collections and Field Curator 

for Special Collections 

Opposite 

A technician sets up 

a book to be automatically 

scanned by 

Stanford’s page-turning 

robot. 

Top 

Many sorts of maps 

are housed in the 

Branner Earth Sciences 

Library along with 

extensive geo-referenced 

digital data. 

Financial Mathematics: A Case Study in Interdisciplinary Degrees 

The Interdisciplinary Master of Science Degree in Financial 

Mathematics is a relatively new program that requires carefully 

coordinated support from the Libraries. Most graduates 

of the program find positions as quantitative modelers and 

traders at investment banks and hedge funds. Faculty from 

four departments – Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, and 

Management Science & Engineering – as well as the Graduate 

School of Business plan the curriculum and course offerings. 

The program also sponsors a well attended Financial Mathematics 

Seminar open to the public. The 2006-2007 series 

featured academic speakers from Columbia, Chicago, Princeton, 

London and Zurich and leading industry speakers from 

Credit Suisse, Bloomberg, and the Federal Reserve Board, 

among others. In response to student and faculty requests, 

the Math Library has begun an acquisition program for select 

titles in Financial Mathematics. 

Linda Yamamoto 

Head, Mathematical & 

Computer Sciences Library 

Middle 

A selection of New 

Dimensions archival 

recordings hints at 

the variety of topics 

covered. 

Bottom 

Much used volumes 

of the Annuals of Mathematical 

Statistics. 

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Multimedia Digitization in the Humanities In parallel to highprofile 

book-digitization projects like Google Book Search, 

the Libraries are deeply engaged in collecting and creating 

other forms of digital collections that are of increasing importance 

and utility to students and faculty. For example, much of 

two documentary photography collections were recently made 

available as digital resources: the Douglas Menuez Photography 

Collection (focusing on the history of Silicon Valley), and 

the Stanford Historical Photograph Collection. These collections 

allow students from many disciplines – history, art, and 

business, to name a few – to engage with striking historical 

materials, as well as to gain a deep visual sense of Stanford’s 

own historical and geographical place. The Libraries recently 

acquired important audio collections to complement extensive 

holdings in the Archive of Recorded Sound, including 

Smithsonian Global Sound, which is a listening library of 

the world’s aural and musical traditions, with rich searching 

features and unparalleled access to unique historical and 

contemporary recordings of music and the spoken word. This 

collection is of interest across the disciplines, for students not 

only of the world’s arts and cultures, but also of all the 

human sciences. 

Glen Worthey 

Humanities Digital 

Information Service 

Stephen Jay Gould Archive and Collection: 

The Working of a Public Scholar Stephen Jay Gould was an Ameri- 

can paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of 

science. He was one of the most influential and widely read 

writers of science of his generation and spent most of his 

career teaching at Harvard University and working at the 

American Museum of Natural History in New York. His widow, 

Rhonda Roland Shearer of New York City, donated Professor 

Gould’s extensive professional and personal papers as well as 

his personal library, including his rare book collection, to the 

Stanford Libraries. The manuscript and archive collection 

of Gould exceeds 300 linear feet and the collection of books 

numbers in the thousands. Together, these materials can 

reveal the methods and intellectual processes of this distinguished 

educator and researcher. 


The Ida M. Green University 

Librarian and Director of Academic 

Information Resources 

The Future of the United States Census The Social Sciences 

Resource Center hosted a symposium and panel discussion 

entitled “Censuses and Surveys: Still Useful for the Common 

Good” Jointly sponsored with the School of Humanities and 

Sciences and the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, 

the symposium featured nationally-recognized speakers who 

explored the challenges of data collection, accuracy, declining 

participation, and privacy concerns surrounding the United 

States Census. Because the census has such broad impact on 

so many aspects of American life, it invites, as well as supports, 

broadly multidisciplinary scholarship. 

William Wheeler 

Curator for Anthropology, 

Psychology, and Sociology 

Opposite 

Lawrence Manning, A. 

M. Peterson, and O. G. 

Villard, Stanford University 

Department of 

Electrical Engineering, 

1950. Photograph 

from the Stanford 

Historical Photograph 

Collection. 

Left 

Stephen Jay Gould 

bookplate. The papers 

and library of the late 

biologist and popular 

essayist have been 

given to Stanford. 

Below 

Stanford alums and 

Sun Microsystems 

co-founders Vinod 

Khosla (left) and Scott 

McNealy (seated in 

chair), with Frank 

Caufield and John 

Doerr of Kleiner- 

Perkins, 1992. 

Above 

Stanford Engineering 

students, ca. 1912. 

Photograph from the 

Stanford Historical 

Photograph Collection. 

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Improving K-12 Education /Reinventing Graduate 

Education /Extending the Renaissance in 

Undergraduate Education 

The Stanford Challenge addresses teaching methods and results, both as a way of ensuring 

an exceptional student experience at Stanford and as a pressing social issue throughout 

society. By developing education leadership and policy, as well as by designing and 

testing model learning environments, Stanford’s “Improving K-12 Education” programs 

confront challenges faced by the public education system in the United States. On campus, 

programs for “Extending the Renaissance in Undergraduate Education” and “Reinventing 

Graduate Education” strive to assure unparalleled opportunities for Stanford 

students to become effective leaders in a complex global society. The Libraries are essential 

in providing materials and support to ensure educational success at all levels. 

Above 

A traditional tool, an 

unabridged dictionary, 

remains in frequent 

use in the Cubberley 

Education Library. 

Opposite Top 

The Stanford University 

Press publishes a 

lively list of scholarly 

and policy-related 

works in many 

disciplines, including 

education. 


Joachim von Sandrart, 

Iconologia Deorum, oder 

Abbildung der Götter… 

Nürnberg: Gedruckt 

durch C.S. Froberger, 

in Verlegung des Authoris, 

1680. Acquired 

through the Stanford 

University Bookstore 

Fund. 

Library Information Center as Hub for Information Literacy 

As Stanford seeks to produce graduates who are independent 

thinkers and problem solvers, the Information Center plays 

a crucial role through its emphasis on lifelong information 

literacy. A vital point of first contact for many visitors to Green 

Library, the Center provides answers to research questions in 

person, by telephone, by email and by Instant Messaging. The 

Information Center’s Instruction Program also provides students 

with the skills necessary to discover, evaluate, and use 

information from a variety of sources and in multiple formats. 

All freshmen attend information literacy workshops as part 

of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric, as well as the Structured 

Liberal Education Program. Honors students also attend 

advanced information literacy workshops as they prepare to 

write their Honors theses. 

Chris Bourg 

Head, Information Center 

Student Discoveries in Special Collections Access to rare and 

unique materials is a defining feature of both undergraduate 

and graduate education at Stanford. In most cases, Special 

Collections acquisitions are made with teaching and research 

value in mind. Subject specialists conducted more than 100 

class sessions this year using prior collaborative sessions with 

faculty to tailor material selection to precise course content. 

Students examined a wide array of antiquarian and modern 

materials and received expert assistance with research 

papers. Separately, a group of students, on their own initiative, 

organized and attended the Green Teas presentations by faculty, 

subject specialists and collectors on bibliophilic topics. 

Combined, these programs helped highly motivated students 

navigate their first research experiences with Special Collections 

materials. 

John E. Mustain 

Rare Book Librarian and Classics 

Bibliographer, Special Collections 

Curriculum Resources for Teachers Cubberley Library serves the 

School of Education, a leading center of educational research, 

to improve K-12 education in the United States. The continually 

expanding Cubberley Curriculum Collection includes 

hands-on science kits, newly published textbooks, and a wide 

range of the best in children’s literature to support language 

arts instruction. The Library recently revised its Web pages, 

using an open source content management system known as 

Drupal, to give better access to library resources. Additionally, 

new pages were created to serve the Stanford Teacher Education 

Program, a nationally renowned, innovative program 

leading to a Master of Arts in Education and a preliminary 

California teaching credential. Electronic resources, in addition 

to on-site books and journals on educational reform 

and teaching methods, are frequently consulted by members 

of the Stanford community as well as by local elementary and 

secondary teachers. 

Kathryn M. Kerns 

Head, Cubberley Education Library 

Advances in Information Technology Through Academic Computing, 

Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information 

Resources provides faculty and students with technology, 

expertise and resources to support learning, research and 

teaching. The Student Computing unit provides technology 

enhanced labs and classrooms in Stanford’s 77 student residences, 

Meyer, Green and the branch libraries, and Tresidder 

Student Union, as well as consulting, technology help, and 

training for Stanford’s students. The Faculty Services unit 

hosts Academic Technology Specialists to work with faculty on 

their use of technology in teaching and research, an Academic 

Technology Lab, and provides CourseWork, the campus 

course management system. The Digital Library Systems 

and Services unit operates technology services, systems and 

infrastructure for the Stanford University Libraries, including 

the library management system and component parts, Web 

and access systems, digitization lab software, and the core 

server, database, storage, backup and Web infrastructure. As 

the Libraries move to an increasingly digital profile, Academic 

Computing provides and manages digital resources 

for the Libraries through their complete lifecycle, including 

digitization, metadata design, specification and generation, 

digital preservation, online discovery and access, and overall 

management of digital materials. 

Lois Brooks 

Director, Academic Computing 

University Publishing Promotes Educational Research 

In line with its ongoing efforts to develop a publishing program 

that supports and complements the academic strengths 

and intellectual mission of the University, Stanford University 

Press has published a core list of titles covering the breadth of 

education research, from pre-school and K-12 through higher 

education at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The 

Press has published prominent authors from the Stanford 

School of Education and sought cutting-edge research that 

will improve our nation’s public education system, inform 

scholars and students, and educate our future leaders. Our 

commitment to education research will continue and grow in 

coming years, with education now being a major focus of our 

acquisitions. 

Geoffrey R. H. Burn 

Managing Director, 

Stanford University Press 

Clarifying Copyright for Books Copyright law has become a pressing 

issue as libraries and businesses develop plans to digitize 

materials and make works in the public domain widely available. 

In April, the Stanford University Libraries released the 

Copyright Renewal Database, dubbed the “Copyright Determinator,” 

which was developed under a grant from the Hewlett 

Foundation. Available on the Libraries’ public Web site, the 

Determinator brings all 1923-1963 U.S. book-renewal records 

together in a single database and, more significantly, makes 

searchable renewal records that had previously been distributed 

only in print. The Stanford Libraries are pleased to be 

able to offer this service to the scholarly community and are 

working with national partners to integrate this data into a 

much broader system for the analysis of copyright status. 

Mimi Calter 

Executive Assistant to 

the University Librarian 

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Ira Nowinski: Photographs of Native Americans The Libraries 

have acquired a number of collections of photographs by Ira 

Nowinski, the latest of which is a collection of 71 photographs 

of California Native Americans in the 21st century. This collection 

includes prints of Native Americans at the Chumash 

Pow Wow, the Morongo Indian Reservation, Palm Springs, 

Hupa Valley, Grinding Rock State Park, Hopland Indian 

Reservation, the Santa Ynes Reservation, and the Klamath 

River Valley, all in California. These photographs of California 

Native Americans augment Stanford’s holdings on Nowinski, 

including an archive of some 15,000 prints and negatives. 

Benjamin Stone 

Curator, American and British History 

Roberto Trujillo 

Head, Department of Special Collections 

and Field Curator for Special Collections 

Irving Rosenthal: Beat Generation Editor and Novelist 

The Stanford University Libraries obtained the extraordinary 

archive of Irving Rosenthal, editor of numerous important 

Beat writers and author of the novel, Sheeper. Acquired in part 

through the Charlotte A. Felton Fund and the Kline-Roethke 

Book Fund, this archive builds on the Stanford University Libraries’ 

holdings of the Beats. As editor of The Chicago Review 

in the late 1950s, Rosenthal published poetry by Jack Kerouac, 

prose from Edward Dahlberg, and the first parts of William 

Burroughs’ Naked Lunch. Subsequent moves to New York and 

Tangiers led to friendships with Allen Ginsberg, Herbert 

Huncke, Paul Bowles, and Jack Smith. Significant correspondence 

and materials from all these figures, among many others, 

are included in the archive. 

Annette Keogh 

Curator, American and 

British Literature 

Engaging the Arts and Creativity 

The arts play a central role in training students – future leaders – to think creatively. 

In keeping with this concept, the Libraries continually strive to expand their resources 

to ensure ample opportunity for creative discovery in the arts. Having resources to 

illustrate the richness of human culture is vital to maintaining the role of the arts 

and humanities in a liberal arts education. 

Left 

The Music Library 

collects musical 

resources for theorists, 

historians, and 

performers, including 

sheet music. 

Right 

Ira Nowinski, Chumash 

Pow Wow, Malibu, 

California, 2006. 

From the Ira Nowinski 

collection, California 

Native Americans in 

the 21st century. 

Opposite Left 

Charles Hobson, Degas 

Dancing, monotype. 

From the Charles 

Hobson collection: 

design and production 

materials for artist’s 

books, 1985-2006. 

Charles Hobson overlays 

historical images, 

texts, and drawings in 

technically-demanding, 

complex and 

rich ways to produce 

unique books. 

Opposite Right 

Poster celebrates 50 

years of the Monterey 

Jazz Festival. 

Charles Hobson: Book Artist Charles Hobson is an artist who 

uses pastel, monotype and other printmaking variations to 

construct images for books and works on paper. The Stanford 

Libraries have been collecting his works for many years. In 

2007 Hobson donated his archive to the Libraries. This extensive 

archive includes the working drafts, ideas, prototypes, 

photography, monotypes, prints, and production material 

for all of his artist’s books. The archive reveals in depth the 

creative processes, technical solutions, and development of 

ideas in his work over time. In so doing, it reveals much about 

the interplay of creativity, expression, and history of artistic 

ideas. The Department of Special Collections is now planning 

to exhibit selections from the Hobson archive in the Libraries 

in conjunction with a related exhibit at the Cantor Arts Center. 

The Libraries will also be publishing a catalog for these 

exhibits. 

Roberto Trujillo, 

Head, Department of Special Collections 

and Field Curator 

for Special Collections 

Monterey Jazz Festival Recordings The Libraries’ Archive of 

Recorded Sound holds the archival recordings of the Monterey 

Jazz Festival performances dating back to 1958. The preservation 

of this collection is a multi-year, multi-part project, 

initiated jointly by the Stanford University Libraries and the 

Monterey Jazz Festival, to preserve original audio and video 

recordings in the collection. These recordings document the 

world’s longest running jazz festival through recorded performances 

of the most significant jazz musicians of the second 

half of the 20th century. Grant funds have been awarded by the 

Grammy Foundation, the National Historical Publications and 

Records Commission, and the Save America’s Treasures grant 

programs to digitize the fragile, aging and degrading media 

and to improve the storage of the original tapes. High-quality 

listening copies are now available, providing unprecedented 

access to this unique collection. 

Jerry McBride 

Head, Music Library and 

Archive of Recorded Sound 

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Librarians and Humanists Exploring Virtual Worlds 

Working with Michael Shanks, Professor of Classics, the 

History of Science & Technology program in the Humanities 

Resource Group is collaborating with the Stanford Humanities 

Lab on a project in the virtual world Second Life. Together, 

they have created an archive of the works of media and film 

artist Lynn Hershman, who also contributed substantially to 

the project. Funded in part by the Daniel Langlois Foundation, 

the project built a historical archive of this important artist’s 

work in a 3-d virtual world owned and operated entirely by its 

residents. Many Stanford students populate areas in Second 

Life, including two islands for graduate students in the School 

of Education. Its virtual world was also used as a basis for 

projects in the “Humans and Machines” course offered to undergraduates 

in the Introduction to the Humanities Program. 

Henry Lowood 

Curator, Germanic and 

History of Science Collections 

Chinese Calligraphy and Stone Carvings As part of the ongoing 

effort to enhance the visitor experience at the East Asia 

Library, the calligraphic works of C.C. Wang and Niu Kesi’s 

stone carvings were exhibited over the past year. C.C. Wang 

(Wang Chi-Ch’ien or Wang Jiqian, 1907-2003), distinguished 

artist, collector and connoisseur, was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu 

Province, China, and studied traditional Chinese painting. He 

contributed greatly to upgrade both the art history value and 

art market value of Chinese painting. Niu Kesi (“Superior to 

Marx” in Chinese) was born in 1954 in Qingtian County, Zhejiang 

Province, China, and studied stone carvings under his 

father, Tingjiao Li (1921-1971). He has since been regarded 

as a pioneer of large scale stone carving, skillfully combining 

artistic vision with careful, precise carving. 

Zhaohui Xue 

Chinese Studies Librarian, 

East Asia Library 

Avant-Garde Remembered The Art and Architecture Library 

recently purchased three journals of the Parisian avantgarde 

– Le Coq (subsequently titled Le Coq Parisien) (1920), 

Réverbères (1938-39), and Néon (1948-49) – in honor of Alex 

Ross on his retirement as Head Librarian after 32 years of service. 

Editors and contributors include the Dadaist and Surrealist 

luminaries Tristan Tzara, Max Ernst, André Breton, and 

Jean Cocteau. These rare ephemera build upon the Library’s 

growing collection of avant-garde journals, each exemplifying 

that medium’s multiple capacities for artistic interdisciplinarity, 

literary idiosyncrasy, political assertion, and graphic 

experimentalism. An exhibition of these journals kicks off 

the Library’s new exhibition program and will be on display 

through the 2007 Fall Quarter. 

Anna Fishaut 

Assistant Art Librarian, Art and 

Architecture Library 

Rejuvenating Art at the Visual Resources Center Formerly part 

of the Department of Art & Art History but transferred to the 

Libraries in September 2006, the Visual Resources Center 

completed its first year as a unit of the Art and Architecture 

Library. With strengths in European, American, Chinese and 

Japanese art and architecture, the VRC’s collection of over 

300,000 35mm slides and 34,000 digital images primarily 

supports teaching and research in art and art history. While 

work continues on migrating the existing collection from slide 

to digital, driven primarily by Art faculty request, important 

progress is being made in expanding the scope of the existing 

collection and extending VRC services to the greater Stanford 

community. 

Peter Blank 

Head, Art and 

Architecture Library 

Left 

Artist Lynn Hershman’s 

presence in Second 

Life is informed by her 

decades of pioneering 

work in conceptual and 

video art. 

Right 

Calligraphy and Stone 

Carvings exhibition 

enriches the East Asia 

Library public area. 

Below 

Edison Diamond Disc 

Phonographs Sheraton 

Model C 150, 1917 

(left) and Chippendale 

Model C 250, 1919 

(right) housed in the 

Archive of Recorded 

Sound. 

Left 

Issue from Le Coq 

sheds light on early 

20th century artistic 

trends. 

Right 

Viewing traditional 

slides at a light table 

in the Visual Resources 

Center. 

Below 

Manipulating digital 

images in the Visual 

Resources Center. 

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Benefactors 

Thanks and 

Endowed Book Funds at the Stanford 

University Libraries 

Endowed book funds provide deep collectionbuilding 

to support advanced research. Several 

hundred donors – alumni, families, and others – 

have created focused acquisition funds in beloved 

subjects to enable the Libraries to collect in 

depth and breadth. Without these enduring gifts, 

Stanford’s research and educational resources 

would not have attained the level of distinction we 

now almost take for granted. Endowment income 

currently provides more than one quarter of our 

total acquisitions budget. A minimum gift of 

$25,000 makes this program the most accessible 

of all named endowments at Stanford; successive 

gifts often span generations. 

For more information about endowing a book fund 

and for current subject needs suggested by subject 

specialists, please contact the Library Development 

Office at 650-723-3866. 

New Endowed Book Funds 

The Richard L. Bennett Memorial Book Fund 

Ann Kay established an endowment to support 

the acquisition of works of fiction and materials 

relating to the history of the sciences in memory of 

her husband, Richard L. Bennett (AB ’52 AM ’53), 

who worked for 26 years at the University and was 

instrumental in the success of Stanford’s Centennial 

Campaign. 

The Steeve and Helen Kay Book Fund 

Steeve (MS ’75) and Helen Kay sponsored an 

endowment to support the acquisition and 

preservation of library materials at the East Asia 

Library, with a preference for materials relating to 

Burma/Myanmar. 

Donors to Existing Book Funds 

Lucie Harris Alexander 

Lucie King Harris Books for Music Fund 

Frederick and Marcia Backer 

Maria Hart Backer Memorial Book Fund 

Robert D. Bacon 

Robert D. Bacon Endowed Book Fund 

Salo W. and Jeannette M. Baron Foundation 

Jeannette Meisel and Salo Wittmayer Baron 

Book Fund 

John and Carol Binns, Jr. 

Bert Elliott Woodburn, Jr. Memorial 

Book Fund 

Michael and Janet Burd 

Janet and Michael Burd Book Fund 

Ruby B. H. Choy 

Melvin Leigh Ho Memorial Fund 

Jean Coblentz 

Galt-Coblentz Endowed Book Fund 

Charles and Jackie Davis, Jr. 

Judith L. Davis Memorial Book Fund 

Mark and Nadine Dunker 

Frances and Barney Bricker Book Fund 

Virginia E. Fehrenbacher 

Don E. Fehrenbacher Memorial 

Book Fund 

Herbert and Bernadine Fong 

Dr. Frank Y. Chuck and Dr. Bernadine 

Chuck Fong Family Book Fund 

James M. Friedman, Estate 

Jay Fund of the Stanford University Libraries 

Tobey Baron Gitelle 


Book Fund 

Richard and Rona Goldstein 

Richard Jay and Rona Goldstein Book Fund 

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Goodan 

Bill Goodan Book Fund in the History of Science 

Charles and Marcia Growdon 

Arthur C. Cohn Memorial Book Fund 

John K. B. Harris 

John Kiely Beebe Harris Book Fund 

Lawrence and Jane Harris, Jr. 


Acknowledgments 

Asterisk (*) following a name indicates 

the donor is deceased 

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Lawrence and Margaret Harris III 


Maria Louise Harris 


Robert Cronley Harris 


Caroline H. Henderson 


Carlton and Linda Ho 


Elaine C. Ho 


Antoinette Howell, Estate 

Warren R. and Antoinette M. Howell 

Rare Book Fund 

Jackman Charitable Trust 

C. M. Jackman Charitable Trust Book Fund 

Donald and Robin Kennedy 

Robin and Donald Kennedy Fund for 

Jewish Studies 

Ronald P. Klein 

Milton and Annette Klein Book Fund 

J. Burke and Iris Hay-Edie Knapp 

J. Burke Knapp Book Fund 

Doris H. Linder 

Doris H. Linder Book Fund 

Woodford McClellan 

Bert Elliott Woodburn, Jr. Memorial 

Book Fund 

Maggie McComas 

Muller-McComas Book Fund 

Thomas and Joyce Moser 

Mary Churchill Small Moser Book Fund 

Mrs. Donald W. Moulton 

Donald W. and Anne M. Moulton 

Endowed Book Fund 

Henry Muller 

Henry Muller Fund 

Caroline Peck 

Templeton Peck Memorial Book Fund 

Catherine C. Peck 


Templeton Clift Peck and Carol Shapiro 


Regina Bandet Polkow 

Henry and Regina Bandet Fund for 

Jewish History and Culture 

Dana A. Rasmussen 

Sidney C. Rasmussen, Jr. Family Book Fund 

J. Chris Rasmussen 


Vivian Rasmussen 


Clifford Schireson and John Venekamp 

Clifford N. Schireson Book Fund 

Anne Jacobson Schutte 

Mildred Ashworth Jacobson Memorial 

Book Fund 

Christopher T. Seaver 

R. Arthur and Juliette Tiernan Endowed 

Book Fund 

Smart Family Foundation 

Allan Morgan Standish Library Fund 

Peter D. Stansky 

William Abrahams and Peter Stansky 

Book Fund 

Verna Pace Steinmetz 

Verna Pace Steinmetz Book Fund 

Mrs. Bernard M. Strean 

The James Ruffin Webb Book Fund 

Shirley Struble 

William I. and Shirley P. Struble Endowed 

Book Fund 

Robert and Shoshana Tancer 


Book Fund 

Dan Duncan Tarbell, Estate 

Dan Duncan Tarbell Library Book Fund 

George and Victoria Thacher 

Joseph Anthony Mecia Memorial Library Fund 

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis F. Wheeler 

Brent Eugene Barksdale Book Fund 

David and Rene Whitehead 

Barry Whitehead Memorial Book Fund 

Sybil Zaches 

Greg G. Peterson Memorial Book Fund 

David C. Zalk 

David C. Zalk, Class of 1970, Endowed 

Book Fund 

Collection Support 

Gifts from these friends significantly enhanced 

our ability to provide the materials and services 

on which students and faculty rely. 

John and Gioia Arrillaga 

Alfredo R. Baeza 

Rosemary G. Bauer 

Mark Adams Becker 

Robert and Sally Beckham, Jr. 

John and Ann Beman 

Daniel and Jeanne Benatar 

Karol and Anna Maria Berger 

Samuel Jack Brenner 

Pierre Casimir-Lambert 

Michael K. Chang 

Author and Helen Charette 

Albert and Betty Cohen 

George and Frances Collins 

Kem Holland Cook 

Raymond Joseph Cormier 

Peter Larry Cosovich 

Joseph and Kathryn Cusick 

Robert Clark De Wall, Estate 

Richard and Patricia Fitchen 

Mark and Kristin Fleischauer 

Bill and Cynthia Floyd 

John Mackie Fontius 

Friends of Walter Blume 

The Honorable and Mrs. John A. G. Gavin 

Jean Holmes Gillett* 

Joseph and Sandra Gordon 

Sarah Roberta Graham 

Mary Frances Hazelton 

Andrew C. Herkovic and Kathy Hudson 

IBM Corporation 

Mary Catharine Johnsen 

William and Judith Kays 

Michael A. Keller and Carol Lawrence 

Dudley and Marion Kenworthy 

Koret Foundation 

Kurt Salmon Associates 

Bill and Jean Lane 

John and June Lilienthal 

Dorothy Ann Lloyd 

Lockheed Martin Corporation 

Carolyn Longstreth 

Ruth Lycette 

Arlene E. Macy 

Christopher Madden and Patricia Beck 

Richard B. Madigan 

Marsh and Susan McCall, Jr. 

Betty Hale McLaughlin 

John and Marchal Meenan 

Thomas Tucker Mein 

Marcos Jordan Montes 

Hughson F. Mooney 

Annelise Cooney Mora 

Morgan Stanley 

George and Ann Morris, Jr. 

Thomas and Karen Nagy 

C. Larry O’Rourke 

Jerry and Charlene Porras 

Adityo and Eniko Prakash 

William Stanley Price 

Barnard P. Protine 

Elizabeth K. Raymond 

Edward C. Reed, Jr. 

William Hanna Robbins 

Bernard and Shelley Ann Ross 

Marc and Lesley Schwarzman 

John William Semion 

Michael Stern 

Toper and Tiffany Taylor 

Sharon A. Thoms 

William Arthur Weber 

Jack and Mary Lois Wheatley 

Leslie Bradford Wheeler 

Professor and Mrs. H. Kenneth White 

Neil and Donna Wiley 

Thomas and Ellen Wyman 

Selected Donors of Collection Materials 

Stanford gratefully acknowledges these donors 

of books, journals, manuscripts, recordings and 

other research materials, many of which would 

be unobtainable by other means. 

Ruth Asawa 

Rebecca E. Barchas and John A. Gehrs 

Thomas and Lilly Beischer 

John and Ann Bender 

Bliss and Brigitte Carnochan 

Stewart Chuber 

Margaret Cruz* and Debra Lee McAuliffe 

Reid Dennis 

Edward A. Feigenbaum 

Nina Guralnik 

Charles Hobson 

Irwin T. Holtzman 

Lynn Hershman Leeson 

Steve Leibson 

Marilyn Levinson 

Estate of Arthur Loeb 

Sally and Sterling* McNeese 

Misako Mitsui 

Choi Mong-Lyong 

Lee Mun-Woong 

Frank J. Novak* 

Ira Nowinski 

Donald Palmer 

Stephen H. Rogers 

Donald Rothchild* 

David M. Rumsey 

Hans Sauter 

Robert Schediwy 

Rhonda Roland Shearer 

Kang Woo Sik 

Beth-Ellen and Robert Straccia 

Michael Toms and Justine Willis Toms 

Toshiba International Foundation 

Jesus Trevino 

Fred Wenninger* 

Grants, Technology, and Project Support 

Peter and Helen Bing 

The Book Club of California 

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation 

Korea Foundation 

The Library of Congress 

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 

National Historical Publications and 

Records Commission 

National Park Service – Save America’s Treasures 

David M. Rumsey 

Stanford President’s Innovation Fund 

Sun Microsystems 

Founding Grant Society 

The Founding Grant Society is one way Stanford 

recognizes those who provide support for Stanford 

in their estate plans. We are deeply grateful to donors 

who make bequest intentions in the Libraries’ 

behalf and invite them to be actively engaged with 

us: take advantage of our programs, peruse our 

publications, and provide us with counsel. 

Richard and Susan Blois 

Allen B. Cagle 

Eleanor Cranston Cameron 

Robert L. Chambers* 

Gordon B. Crary, Jr. 

James and Mary Hinz 

Ronald P. Klein 

Suzanne Lewis 

Mrs. Glenn L. Milburn 

John S. Rhoades* 

Elizabeth Boardman Ross 

Jane Sommerich 

Verna Pace Steinmetz 

Robert M. Walker 

Professor and Mrs. H. Kenneth White 

Edwin E. Williams 

David C. Zalk 

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Special Collections 

Exhibitions 

Recognition 

Faculty Committees 

The Exhibits Program provides open invitations to 

students, staff, collectors and community to meet 

the Libraries’ subject specialists and view materials 

from Special Collections in a scholarly, visually 

dynamic, and interpretive context. Three to four 

exhibitions are presented each year in the Munger 

Rotunda and the Peterson Gallery. Sponsorships 

are available, which defray installation costs and 

make possible the publication of exhibit catalogues, 

which are permanent, illustrated records distributed 

to hundreds of libraries and individuals. The 

Library Development Office can provide additional 

details. 

Charles Dickens and Show Biz 

October 2006—January 2007 

Father-and-son team Ralph J. Crawford Jr. and 

Bruce J. Crawford were guest curators for Charles 

Dickens and Show Biz. Materials drawn primarily 

from their extensive personal collections of 

Dickens editions and memorabilia comprised the 

show, which examined the 19th century author and 

his connections to theater and film. Charles Dickens 

and Show Biz used rare editions of dramatic works 

by Dickens and his contemporaries, letters, vintage 

playbills, movie memorabilia, and theater costumes 

to highlight the author as a playwright, actor 

and theatrical producer, as well as to illustrate the 

many ways in which Dickens’s work has been interpreted 

in performance. A generously illustrated 

80-page catalogue of the exhibition was written by 

the Crawfords some months before Ralph passed 

away, designed by Jerry Kelly, and published under 

the Stanford University Libraries imprint. 

California Printers in the Fine Press Tradition, 

1975—2006: Selections from Stanford’s 

Special Collections 

February—June 2007 

40 California fine presses were the focus of this 

exhibition showing work from three decades of 

printing, beginning with the book arts renaissance 

of the 1970s and early 1980s, through the present. 

Exhibited books ranged from small volumes of 

poetry written, designed, and letterpress-printed 

by single proprietors, to deluxe, limited-edition 

titles from literary fine presses, to innovative, 

highly collaborative works by creative writer/artist/ 

printer partnerships. A descriptive history of each 

press, written by co-curators Becky Fischbach and 

Roberto Trujillo, accompanied the book chosen 

to represent it. The Rotunda section of the gallery 

was devoted to a didactic display that used photographs, 

tools, and models as well as text to instruct 

visitors in the arts of the book: type and printing, 

bookbinding, paper making, and paper decorating 

techniques. This eight-case exhibition remained 

on display through the summer months. 

The Vico Collaborations 1972 | 2003 | 2006 

July—December 2007 

Jack Stauffacher of The Greenwood Press, San 

Francisco, has published three portfolios highlighting 

and celebrating the work of 18th century 

Neapolitan philosopher Giambattista Vico, the 

latter two in collaboration with photographer 

Dennis Letbetter. The portfolios pay homage to 

both the content and the physical qualities of the 

first and second editions of Vico’s La Scienza Nuova, 

his most famous and influential work. Just as Vico 

abstracted thought from direct observations of 

the natural world, Stauffacher and Letbetter used 

physical objects to abstract effect in their collaborative 

prints: Stauffacher through use of wood 

and lead type to compose beautifully balanced 

collages employing letterforms as abstract shapes; 

Letbetter through use of the camera’s lens to focus 

attention on the physical vehicles of meaning: type, 

paper, vellum, and ink. 

Advisory Council 2006—2007 

The Advisory Council assists by promoting Stanford 

University Libraries & Academic Information 

Resources and providing new points of view on 

a broad spectrum of library issues. Its annual 

meetings – comprising some of the best and brightest 

within research library leadership, as well as 

distinguished scholars, professionals and industry 

leaders – are an extraordinary gathering of minds 

and experience, focused on the challenges of supporting 

excellence in scholarship and learning. 

We are indeed grateful for their dedication to 

our mission. 

Paul L. Saffo, Chair, Futurist 

Stewart Brand, President, The Long 

Now Foundation 

Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive, 

The British Library 

Michael K. Chang, Vice President, Bertram Capital 

Guerrino De Luca, President and CEO, 

Logitech, Inc. 

Victor Guerra, Dirección General de Tecnologías 

de la Información, Secretaría de Salud, Mexico 

William A. Halter, Lieutenant Governor 

of Arkansas 

Helen Hayes, Former Librarian to the University, 

University of Edinburgh 

Charles J. Henry, Vice Provost and University 

Librarian, Rice University 

James Higa, Senior Director, Apple Computer 

Susan M. Kornfield, Partner, Bodman LLP 

Rick Luce, Vice Provost and Director of Libraries, 

Emory University 

Deanna B. Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library 

Services, The Library of Congress 

Anthony A. Newcomb, Professor of Music and 

Italian Studies, University of California Berkeley 

James O’Donnell, Provost, Georgetown University 

Ann Okerson, Associate University Librarian, 

Yale University Library 

David Rumsey, President, Cartography Associates 

Roger Summit, Founder, Dialog 

Akihiko Takano, Director, National Institute 

of Informatics 

Gregory M. Tusher, Founder, Greenstone 

Partners & Co. 

Christopher Warnock, CEO, ebrary 

Karin Wittenborg, University Librarian, 

University of Virginia 

Associates of the Stanford University Libraries 

In June 2007, SULAIR announced the discontinuation 

of its perennial operational subsidy to the 

Associates of the Stanford University Libraries and 

the consequent dissolution of the group. Despite 

this necessary action, SULAIR remains deeply 

grateful to the many ASUL officers and members 

who have supported its mission of serving teaching, 

learning, and research, and looks forward to 

their continuing engagement with and interest in 

the Libraries at Stanford. The several book funds 

established by collective gifts from ASUL members 

will continue to enrich the Libraries’ collections 

without change. 

Officers 

Patrick Hunt, Chair 

Daniel B. Armistead, D.D.S., Co-Vice Chair 

for Programs 

Katherine A. Mize, Co-Vice Chair for Programs 

Linda K. Jack, Vice Chair for Membership 

Michael T. Donnellan, Treasurer 

Mandy MacCalla, Secretary to the Board 

George Hardin Brown, Immediate Past Chairman, 

Professor of English Emeritus 

Members of the Board 

Jonathan Clark 

Bruce Crawford 

Althea Davis 

Elizabeth Doyle 

Barbara C. Gelpi 

Mary Holzer 

Charles Junkerman 

Michael A. Keller, ex officio, The Ida M. Green 

University Librarian and Director of 

Academic Information Resources 

William P. Mahrt 

Assunta Pisani, ex officio, Associate University 

Librarian for Collections and Services 

John Sommer 

Roberto Trujillo, ex officio, Frances and Charles Field 

Curator of Special Collections and Head, Department 

of Special Collections 

David C. Weber, honorary, Director of Stanford 

University Libraries, Emeritus 

Academic Council Committee on Libraries 

The Committee on Libraries serves to exercise 

the general responsibility of the faculty for the 

Libraries of the entire University. The committee 

formulates policies concerning the character 

and use of the collections and academic information 

resources of the Stanford Libraries, with 

due regard to the purpose and function of each 

particular library. 

Douglas Brutlag, Chair, Biochemistry 

Alex Aiken, co-opted-Chair, C-ACIS, 

Computer Science 

William Clusin, Cardiovascular Medicine 

Shelley Fishkin, English 

Thomas Grey, Music 

Luukas Ilves, Student 

Connie Juel, Education 


University Librarian and Director of Academic 

Information Resources 

Pamela Lee, Art 

Michael Marrinan, Art 

Scott Mollet, Student 

Ingram Olkin, Education/Statistics 

Dana Powers, Student 

Thomas Weber, Management Science 

and Engineering 

Above 

Poster for Charles 

Dickens and Show Biz 

exhibition mounted 

in Green Library, Fall 

2006. 

Below 

The Arts of Fire, Frances 

Mayes, The Heyeck 

Press, 1982, one 

of over 40 modern 

California fine press 

books shown in the 

Green Library exhibit 

in 2007. 

Right Top 

Detail of a lead type 

form, photographed 

by Dennis Letbetter. 

Right Bottom 

Detail of a wood 

type print by Jack 

Stauffacher. Both the 

photograph and the 

broadside are from 

The Vico Collaborations 

portfolio, San Francisco: 

The Greenwood 

Press, 2003. 

Academic Council Committee on Academic 

Computing and Information Systems 

The Committee on Academic Computing and 

Information Systems formulates policies concerning 

the computing and information systems of the 

University to meet the academic (as distinct from 

administrative) needs of the faculty, students and 

academic staff. It also reviews the implementation 

of those policies. 

Alex Aiken, Chair, Computer Science 

Douglas Brutlag, co-opted-Chair, C-LIB, 

Biochemistry 

James Caputo, Student 

William Clebsch, ex officio, Information Technology 

Systems and Services 

John Huguenard, Neurology 

Simon Jackman, Political Science 


University Librarian and Director of 

Academic Information Resources 

Kincho Law, Civil and Environmental Engineering 

Mark Musen, Medicine 

Nikesh Kotecha, Student 

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Administrative Officers 

Giving to SULAIR 

Robert O’Leary, ex officio, Executive Director 

Administrative Systems 

Serge Plotkin, Computer Science 

Dana Powers, Student 

Robert Tibshirani, Health Research and Policy 

Stanford Digital Repository Faculty 

Advisory Board 

The Stanford Digital Repository is one of the most 

far-ranging and complex undertakings in the 

history of the Libraries. A new advisory board was 

formed to help steer a strategic course for SDR as 

it grows to meet the needs of faculty, departments, 

and collections in assuring the permanence and 

utility of digital information assets. 

Russ Altman, Chair, Genetics and Medicine 

Karen Cook, Sociology, IRiSS 

Shelley Goldman, Education 

Roland Horne, Petroleum Engineering 

Michael Shanks, Classics 

Fred Turner, Communications 

Erika Wayne, Law Library 

Jennifer Widom, Computer Science 

Course Management Systems Faculty 

Advisory Board 

The Libraries’ Academic Computing unit joined 

forces with the University of Michigan, Indiana 

University, University of California, Berkeley, 

and MIT to develop the next generation of course 

management tools, with the support and encouragement 

of the Mellon Foundation. This landmark 

venture, called the Sakai Project, has produced 

flexible, modular, sophisticated, open-source 

course management software for the education 

community. 

Michael A. Keller, The Ida M. Green University 

Librarian; Director of Academic Information Resources; 

Publisher of HighWire Press; Publisher of Stanford 

University Press 

Lois Brooks, Director of Academic Computing 

Geoffrey R. H. Burn, Managing Director of Stanford 

University Press 

Andrew C. Herkovic, Director of Communications 

and Development 

Susan Horsfall, Budget Officer 

Kathy Hudson, Director of Administrative Services 

Margaret Kimball, University Archivist 

Carol Olsen, Director of Human Resources 

Jerry C. Persons, Chief Information Architect 

Assunta Pisani, Associate University Librarian 

for Collections and Services 

Catalina Rodriguez, Acting Director of 

Human Resources 

John R. Sack, Director and Associate Publisher 

of HighWire Press 

Robert Schwarzwalder, Associate University 

Librarian for Science and Engineering 

Catherine Tierney, Associate University Librarian 

for Technical Services 

2006—2007 Report 

Design: Chuck Byrne / Design 

Photography: 

California Department of Health 

Services: 7 left 

© California Department of 

Health Services 

Doris Cheung: 13 right 

L.A. Cicero: 5 

HighWire Press: 4 top, 6 bottom 

Sonia Lee: 3, 10 top, 12 bottom 

Dennis Letbetter: 28 top right 

© Dennis Letbetter 

Douglas Menuez: 17 top 

© Douglas Menuez 

Ira Nowinski: 20 right 

© Ira Nowinski 

Bill O’Hanlon: 15 middle 

Amber Ruiz: 23 top right, 23 bottom 

Connie Shao: cover, 4 bottom, 6 top, 

7 right, 9, 11, 12 top, 15 top, 

15 bottom, 18, 20 left, 22 bottom, 

back cover 

Dongfang Shao: 22 top right 

Stanford Historical Photograph Collection: 

16, 17 middle 

Stanford University Libraries, Department 

of Special Collections: 8 left, 10 bottom, 

19 bottom, 20 right, 21 left, 23 top left, 

28 bottom left, 28 bottom right 

Wayne Vanderkuil: 14 

Joe Wible: 8 right 

Wojciech Zalewski: 13 left 

Typeface: Filosofia by Zuzana Licko 

Paper: PhoeniXmotion, Xenon 

Printing: Autumn Press 

Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information 

Resources welcome gifts of all sizes in 

support of our mission of service to teaching, 

learning, and research. Regular donations sustain 

a foundation of excellence year by year as we support 

new areas of study and new technologies of 

information management on campus. All gifts to 

the Libraries count toward meeting the goals of 

The Stanford Challenge. 

The Library Development Office offers assistance 

to donors and alumni who are considering special 

gifts, such as endowed acquisition funds, which 

have been crucial to building collections at Stanford 

for over a century. If you would like further 

information about planned giving, life income 

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