Stanford Libraries Online Archive Expands Access to French Revolution Treasures

Participants, spectators and critics produced scores of historical documents during the French Revolution. These items are now available in the French Revolution Digital Archive, a digital collection recently released by Stanford Libraries. FRDA brings together two foundational sources for French Revolution research: the Archives parlementaires, a day-to-day record of parliamentary debates and discussions held between 1789 and 1794, and Images de la Révolution française, a vast visual corpus from the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

SUL Names Winner in its Prize for Innovation
in Research Libraries

Entries for this year’s Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries (SPIRL) spanned the globe. Institutions from Germany, Japan, Korea and Spain as well as several from the U.S. competed for the international award and recognition. North Carolina State University Libraries’ James B. Hunt Jr. Library was chosen as this year’s winner for the creative and bold vision that went into designing an innovative model for a research library as a high-technology research platform.

Science, Technology, and Society

This month’s photo gallery presents illustrated books from the winter-quarter class reserve carts in Special Collections for courses in The Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS), the only major at Stanford to offer both a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degree, and Science in the Making: Integrated Learning Environment (SIMILE), a new residentially-based program organized around the question of when something we might call “science” identifiably began, what it became, and what it might become.

News & Views

Eleven New Digital Archives ... March Madness Sale ... Humanities Center Celebrates Publications ... Issei Oral History Project ... A Robust Repository ... Hebraica Librarian Honored ... Medieval Manuscript Club ... Tech Toy Saves Lives ...
and other news.

Exhibits & Events

The first in a series of exhibitions on printmaking processes is now on view in the reading room of the Art & Architecture Library. Woodcut and relief printing, intaglio, lithography, and screen printing have all been used to produce book illustrations at various points in printing history. Intaglio is one of the oldest of these processes and is the focus of the current exhibition, "Intaglio: The Art of Incision."