One chapter is closing — and another is opening — as Stanford University moves toward the creation of its first “bookless library.” Box by box, decades of past scholarship are being packed up and ...

Stanford University has dropped out of the Association of Research Libraries, a prominent advocacy group for college and university libraries. Stanford officials said they were disappointed with the ...

The e-book has arrived folks, and if Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s new iPad with its slew of e-reader apps doesn’t prove it, then ponder this: Stanford University’s Engineering school may be entering an ...

The libraries at Stanford University have been a juggernaut of innovation over the last 20 years. They have reenvisioned scholarly communications with the launch of HighWire Press, initiated digital ...

Stanford University is making a leap in its future library programme by preparing the launch its own bookless library. Instead of checking out books, monitoring their progress and having to have them ...

The periodical shelves at Stanford University’s Engineering Library are nearly bare. Library chief Helen Josephine says that in the past five years, most engineering periodicals have been moved online ...

Following sharp budget cuts during the global economic recession, Stanford’s libraries will experience their first significant funding increase this academic year. The University allocated an ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. and SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Stanford University Libraries (SUL) has assumed permanent stewardship of the California Historical Society Collection (CHS), a trove ...

In this multipart series, American Libraries presents case studies and interviews with thought leaders looking at research trends in academic libraries. We’ll be covering the topics of social justice, ...

One chapter is closing — and another is opening — as Stanford University moves toward the creation of its first “bookless library.” Box by box, decades of past scholarship are being packed up and ...

In 2004, Stanford University became one of the first institutions to allow Google to digitize chunks of its library collection as part of the Google Books Library Project. The periodical shelves at ...