University IT is tremendously excited to let you know that the lynda.com service is now available for free at Stanford.

Thanks in part to the generous support many campus partners, Stanford faculty, staff, and students can start using this highly-respected service to spur their learning and development, as well as get just-in-time help on subjects that include business, design, digital media, web development, and so much more. There are over 3,000 titles "chunked" into short topic-based videos that your colleagues can access at their convenience, 24x7.

Members of the Stanford community and the public are invited to join us for a panel discussion on the history of computing at the GSB on Monday, October 20, Noon to 1 p.m. in room C-102 at the Knight Management Center.

In Emerging Collaborations for Accessing and Preserving Email, written by Chris Prom, Assistant University Archivist and Professor, University of Illinois for the Library of Congress website, a Stanford Libraries technology was one of several featured: "One of the most exciting presentations was provided by Peter Chan and Glynn Edwards from Stanford University."

Salon interviewed Stanford professor Franco Moretti, whose Distant Reading (2013) recently won the National Book Critics Circle award for criticism: “As a literary critic who says he aims to study books without actually reading them, Franco Moretti has positioned himself as an iconoclast."