Sundance Film Festival's "Welcome to Leith", a documentary about a North Dakota town facing an attempted takeover by extremists, opens today in theaters across North America AND is screening on Kanopy from today.

Welcome to Leith chronicles the attempted takeover of a small town by notorious white supremacist Craig Cobb. As his behavior becomes more threatening, tensions soar, and the residents desperately look for ways to expel their unwanted neighbor. With incredible access to both longtime residents of Leith and white supremacists, the film examines a small community in the plains struggling for sovereignty against an extremist vision.

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Natalie Jean Marine-Street Joins Stanford Historical Society's Oral History Program

The Stanford Historical Society (SHS) and University Archives are pleased to announce that Natalie Jean Marine-Street has joined our ranks as the Oral History Program Manager (OHPM) for the SHS. As OHPM, Natalie will manage current oral history projects, plan and execute new projects, and serve as steward for existing SHS oral history collections.

Natalie is a Ph.D. candidate in United States History at Stanford. Her research focuses on the interrelationships between business, gender, and politics and the role of persuasion in the economy. Her dissertation project examines the history of female sales agents who, from the mid-nineteenth century, sought economic independence by travelling to sell new, mass-produced consumer goods. Inquiring about “lady agents” sheds light on how mass consumerism spread, how work and identity interact, and how occupations become gender-typed, contributing to economic inequality.

Please join us in welcoming Natalie to the fold.

Franz Kunst accepts continuing appointment in Special Collections

We are thrilled to announce that Franz Kunst has joined our Department as a Manuscripts Processing Archivist. Please join us in welcoming him to the fold.

This is not his first appearance in Special Collections as he has been at Stanford University since 2006, when he began working as an intern at the Hoover Institute on an assessment of their audio holdings for their Radio Free Europe collection. In 2007 he joined the Manuscripts Division in Special Collections and has worked for us and the Archives of Recorded Sound on many special projects over the past nine years. Some of these have been bulk processing projects which opened up over 80 undocumented collections in the Archives of Recorded Sound and several large collections in Special Collections, including: Douglas Engelbart, Donald McQuivey, Washington Apple Pi. Additionally Franz has completed several smaller collections: Karl Cohen, Tom Law poster collection, Fred Buenzle.

Other notable projects are: the Riverwalk Jazz Project and the Educational Collections project where he processed several major collections, such as the papers of Ruth Asawa and Gyorgy Kepes. Franz has a B.A. from UNC, Chapel Hill in American Studies and Folklore and an MLIS from San Jose State University.

Theremin demonstrating his instrument, Stanford University, 1991

Missing footage of Theremin at Stanford found

Earlier this year, I reported on recent work the Archive of Recorded Sound (ARS) had undertaken to preserve video footage of Leon Theremin's visit to Stanford in 1991. In addition to participating in a symposium during his visit, hosted by the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Theremin was also the guest of honor at a concert held in Frost Amphitheater on September 27, 1991 during the Stanford Centennial Finale Weekend. The video footage preserved by the ARS earlier in the year unfortunately only included part of this notable concert. It was found to be missing some key performances, including an arrangement of Rachmaninov's Vocalise, featuring Theremin's daughter Natasha Theremin playing the vocal parts on her father's instrument, accompanied by Max Mathews conducting the orchestral parts with his radio batons. This footage was presumed lost...until now.

Swain Library news - 26 June 2015

Swain Library News - 26 June 2015 (PDF)

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 96th edition is available
Electrochemical Society Publications - Open Access Fee Waived for 2015
lynda.com - Online Video Training Library
American Society of Microbiology ebooks - Trial Access
Synthetic Reactions Updates
Pharmaceutical Substances version 3.8 released
RSC Historical Collection
Featured Books on the Chemistry of Fireworks

Before you leave for summer break, don't forget to return or renew library material

Headed away from the Farm for summer break? Before you catch that plane, ride, train, or bus be sure and return or renew your library books. Use My Account to make sure everything is returned, renew materials you choose to take with you, pay fines and fees, or cancel holds or recalls on materials you no longer need.

Stanford's 2015 Commencement Speaker is Richard Engel

Stanford's 2015 Commencement speaker is journalist -- and Stanford alumnus -- Richard Engel. You can read about him and about Commencement Weekend both in this article from the Stanford Report and on the 2015 Commencement website. Commencement will take place in the Stanford Stadium on Sunday, June 14.

Richard Engel graduated from Stanford in 1996 with a BA in International Relations; he is currently the chief foreign correspondent for NBC News. You can check the SearchWorks catalog for titles by Engel available in the libraries. You can also view further biographical information about Richard Engel in the Biography in Context database.

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