STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 14, 2004--Stanford University today announced an ambitious plan to cooperate with Google Inc. in digitizing hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of books ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beneath a red awning tucked between Fleming's Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar and a mere big brown bag's throw from Bloomingdale's in Palo Alto's Stanford Shopping Center is a small space filled with ...

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 ...

Archivists at Stanford libraries face contractual and technical challenges in keeping an increasing amount of digital material, like eBooks and email, safe and accessible for future generations. For ...

Amid all the fuss over Stanford University’s announcement that they are unveiling a bookless library (is it the wave of the future? A sign of the literary apocalypse?), everyone seemed to be missing ...

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 ...

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 ...

When an aging library is torn down, Stanford University’s historic East Asian collection will suddenly find itself homeless. The collection comprises 520,000 Chinese, Japanese and Korean volumes that ...

When the 1980 documentary “House” about a West Jerusalem home that embodies the Israeli-Palestinian conflict last screened at ...