Stanford Libraries

09/25/2026

Join artist and designer Yiying Lu, creator of Twitter’s Fail Whale and six emoji adopted into the Unicode Standard, and Thomas Mullaney, Professor of History at Stanford University, for an opening talk celebrating Wild & Bright, an exhibition of nine large-scale digital paintings from her multi-year series on endangered species, on view in Hohbach Hall at Green Library through 2028.

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What can a whale, a dumpling, and an endangered clouded leopard tell us about belonging? Join artist and designer Yiying Lu, creator of Twitter’s Fail Whale and six emoji adopted into the Unicode Standard, for an opening talk celebrating Wild & Bright, an exhibition of nine large-scale digital pai...

09/11/2026

“Fossils are our only opportunity to see into past biodiversity,” said Christine Garcia, curator and manager of Stanford’s Geoscience Specimen Collection. Studying them, she said, can help scientists understand ancient ecosystems and make better decisions about protecting biodiversity.

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It looked like an odd rock at first, but a geomorphologist found a 10,000-year-old Pacific mastodon tooth.

08/04/2026

We've launched a new online Spotlight Exhibit featuring a nearly complete run of ACLU News, published by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California from the 1930s to the present!

https://library.stanford.edu/news/stanford-stewards-newly-acquired-aclu-norcal-archives

06/08/2026

Stanford University Libraries presents Ginsberg at 100: Selections from the Allen Ginsberg Papers at Stanford, on view in the Peterson Gallery and Munger Rotunda of the Cecil H. Green Library from June 5 to September 5, 2026. In honor of the centenary of Allen Ginsberg’s birth on June 3, 1926, Sta...

06/04/2026

06/04/2026

We are excited to announce two new members to our leadership team! Sarah Sussman will join as the Assistant University Librarian for Collections and Public Services in the Humanities, Area Studies, and Social Sciences, and Alma Parada will serve as the Assistant University Librarian for Collections and Public Services in Sciences and Engineering.

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PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA (June 4, 2026) – Stanford University Libraries are excited to announce two new members to its leadership team effective June 1. Sarah Sussman will join as the Assistant University Librarian for Collections and Public Services in the Humanities, Area Studies, and Social Scienc...

06/01/2026

We’re celebrating one of our student workers, Ash Arumugum, who will be graduating with an M.A. in education! 🎓🎉

"I worked at the Robin Li and Melissa Ma Science library for my entire Stanford experience, and it was such a wonderful time. The library has become a second home to me on campus, and I have enjoyed forming close relationships with the library staff, my fellow student employees, and our library ‘regulars’! Whether I was opening or closing shift, the library was a great place to start and end my days. A big thank you to Aparna Sharma for being such an inviting and fun work mentor!” - Ash Arumugum.

Thank you for all that you’ve done for the libraries, Ash, and congratulations! 🥳

05/13/2026

Stanford Day of Giving is here!

With a collection exceeding 15 million items across various genres and formats, including a robust selection of electronic resources, the libraries are supported by 50 subject specialists and comprise 20 campus libraries. We also offer consultations and workshops to support learning and research.

Make a gift to the Libraries to create a lasting impact. Remember that any gift you make today will be doubled (up to $5,000)!

https://dayofgiving.stanford.edu/pages/university-libraries

We thank you for your support and generosity!

Thanks to a $3 million match, gifts made to any university libraries fund during Stanford Day of Giving will be matched 1:1, up to $5,000 per designation, until matching funds are exhausted. Full match terms and conditions can be found here.

04/16/2026

“That’s what we do in the Libraries, right? Our main reason for being here is offering support to people in doing research or teaching a class, and that, for me, is the big thing.”

At Stanford, the story of technology isn’t just told. It’s preserved, studied, and brought to life.

Since 1980, Henry Lowood has shaped how Stanford collects and interprets the history of science and technology, and media. For over more than four decades, his work has helped define how we understand the cultural impact of video games, virtual worlds, and interactive simulations, as well as document the ways in which Silicon Valley transformed into a global leader of technology.

A fan of board games growing up, Henry acquired Stanford’s first game collection in 2000, right when the academic field was taking off. As the founder of How They Got Game, he has led efforts to preserve digital games as historical artifacts, partnering with institutions like the Library of Congress and the Internet Archive to ensure these emerging forms of media aren’t lost to time.

For National Librarian Day, be sure to check out all the amazing things happening at the Libraries in the link here: https://library.stanford.edu/news-and-events

📸: H. Taghap
🤝: Stanford Libraries