Redwood City Campus | New Head of Miller Library | Adventures in Oversized Imaging | Digital Yiddish Theatre Project
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ReMix: The Stanford University Libraries Newsletter
    January 2016 – Issue 96
 

Redwood City Campus

The Redwood City campus of Stanford University, scheduled to open in 2019, will provide office space for more than 2,300 employees and include a fitness center and pool. (ZGF Architects)

The Board of Trustees has approved plans for the contemporary Stanford in Redwood City campus, an amenity-filled workplace and the university's first significant expansion beyond the main campus.
 

New Head of Miller Library

Amanda Whitmire
 
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Amanda Whitmire as the new Head of Miller Library at the Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford’s research outpost on the coast at Pacific Grove, California. Amanda replaces Dr. Joseph Wible (Joe) who retired after over three decades of service with Stanford Libraries.
 

Adventures in Oversized Imaging

Ōmi Kuni-ezu 近江國絵圖 Japanese Tax Map, 1837. Courtesy Stanford University Libraries.
 
Cartographic Technology Specialist, Deardra Fuzzell, recounts the challenges and innovative processes of digitizing an 11' x 17' Ōmi Kuni-ezu 近江國絵圖 Japanese Tax Map from 1837.
 

Digital Yiddish Theatre Project

At center: Boris Thomashefsky (with beard) and Aaron Lebedeff (in suit and spats), in an unidentified production, circa 1920. Photo: Museum of the City of New York.
 
A discovery by Zachary Baker, assistant university librarian for collection development in the humanities & social sciences, revealed the close connections between two great stars of the Yiddish theatre, Boris Thomashefsky (1866-1939) and Aaron Lebedeff (1873-1960).
 

News & Views

49th California International Antiquarian Book Fair
 
A Wonderland of Books ... Red Horse ... 125 Stanford Stories ... Conservation Treatment Videos ... Browsing the Ancient Web with an Ancient Browser ... California Poet Laureate ... and other news.
 

Calendar

JanExhibit 3The Chinese Typewriter: The Design and Science of East Asian Information Technology; Celebrating a Half-Century of Hillel@Stanford
 
Two exhibits opened this month: The Chinese Typewriter: The Design and Science of East Asian Information Technology on view in the East Asia Library, and Celebrating a Half-Century of Hillel@Stanford on view in Green Library's East Wing.

 
 
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