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On view now
Stanford University Libraries presents Spotlight on Special Collections, on view May 15, 2025, through August 31, 2025, in the Peterson Gallery and Munger Rotunda, Cecil H. Green Library, Bing Wing.
New Acquisitions exhibition, Bowes Art & Architecture Library, Summer 2025
Exhibition6/9/2025June 9, 2025 - September 12, 2025The Colonial Gulf: How Empires Documented a Region
Exhibition6/2/2025June 2, 2025 - December 11, 2025
Nuremberg Trial Archives
The Taube Archive of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 1945-1946 (IMT) is now available as the result of a partnership between the Stanford Libraries and the Stanford Center for Human Rights and International Justice.
Featured collections
Ruth Asawa Papers
View the collectionThe papers of Japanese American artist and educator Ruth Asawa document her art as well as her involvement in arts education, civic art, and arts administration. The collection contains correspondence, notes, portfolios, publicity, articles and publications, design sketches, photographs, and audiovisual media.
Gordon Moore Papers, 1958–2005
View the collectionThis collection contains Moore’s Intel lab notebooks, personal and business correspondence, Intel presentations, memos and white papers, personal notes from meetings, greeting cards, photographs, cassette tapes and videos.
Eliasaf Robinson Tel Aviv Collection
View the finding aidThis collection comprises a rich trove of books, pamphlets, magazines, printed ephemera, posters, postcards, photographs, maps, architectural plans, and original documents about the early history of Tel Aviv, "the First Hebrew City."
Kogu me lugu: digital video interviews, 2014
View the collectionExplore this collection of oral history interviews with members of the Estonian diaspora who have lived under or fled from the Soviet and/or German occupation in Estonia.
Maps of Africa
View the exhibitStanford Libraries is home to a strong collection of maps of Africa, including maps donated by Oscar I. Norwich and Caroline Batchelor as well as maps from the Barry Lawrence Ruderman Collection, the University of Cape Town Collections, and the David Rumsey Map Collection.
The Durand-Lesley Propeller Collection
Read our article about the collectionThe Durand-Lesley propellers in the Terman Library are the surviving artifacts of a famous experiment in early aviation history which defined a process method in engineering research still in use today.
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