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November 28, 2006

Meyer Library 40th Anniversary Open House

Filed under: Events — Charles Fosselman @ 10:33 am
meyer Meyer Library 40th Anniversary Open House
Friday, December 1, 2006
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM

As tenants of the Meyer Library, the EAL will participate in the 40th anniversary festivities. Please see the schedule below and stop by to catch a performance or join a tour of the library!

For more information on the event and people’s Meyer memories, please see http://meyer40th.stanford.edu

When What Where Presenter
Throughout the event ASUL Booth Lobby ASUL Members
Meyer Photo Displays Lobby & 2nd Floor  
East Asia Library Art Exhibit 4th Floor  
Coffee & Cookies Lobby  
     
11:00 Music by Counterpoint Lobby Counterpoint
Academic Computing Tour 2nd Floor Allan Chen
East Asia Library Tour 4th Floor Charles Fosselman
     
11:30 Technical Services Tour 3rd Floor Cath Tierney
Music by Mariachi Cardinal 4th Floor Mariachi Cardinal
     
12:00 TeamSpace Demo Lobby Allan Chen
Paper Airplane Competition 2nd Floor Mimi Calter
East Asia Library Tour 4th Floor Dongfang Shao
     
12:30 Performance by RT Carr Lobby RT Carr
Technical Services Tour 3rd Floor Karen Kalinsky
     
1:00 Academic Computing Tour 2nd Floor Allan Chen
Technical Services Tour 3rd Floor Phil Schreur
East Asia Library Tour 4th Floor Charles Fosselman
     
1:30 Welcome & Introduction; 24 Hour Study Rm Mike Keller
Paper Airplane Prizes;    
Staff Service Awards    
     
2:00 How Buildings Learn 24 Hour Study Rm Stewart Brand

November 20, 2006

Chinese Art Exhibit at EAL

Filed under: Collections, Events — Charles Fosselman @ 9:55 am

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Meyer Library, the East Asia
Library is holding an exhibition of works of the renowned calligrapher
C.C. Wang and stone carvings of Niu Kesi from November 16 to December
15, 2006.

C.C. Wang (王己千 Wang Chi-Ch’ien or Wang Jiqian, 1907-2003), distinguished artist, collector and connoisseur, was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, and studied traditional Chinese painting under Gu Linshi (1865-1933) and Wu Hufan (1894-1968) from the 1920s to 1940s. Living mostly in New York City since 1949, C.C. Wang contributed greatly to upgrade both of art history value and art market value of Chinese painting. Some 60 works from his collection are now kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in which a room named “C.C. Wang Family Gallery” was dedicated to.

Niu Kesi (牛克思), the style name of Hanli Li, born 1954 in Qingtian County, Zhejiang Province, China, and studied stone carving under his father Tingjiao Li (1921-1971) since childhood. In 1972, he was selected by government to Balin County, Inner Mongolia to pass on his skill there. In the period of 1984-1994, Niu Kesi traveled widely across Europe and to Macao. Since 1995, he has skillfully combined artistic conception with careful, precise carving, thus making a pioneering contribution to the creation of large scale stone carving. Niu Kesi was the winner of the 1999 China National Craftsmanship Award and was honored with the title of “Master of Jade and Stone Carving” in 2004.

November 15, 2006

Si ku quan shu online is now available for Stanford users

Filed under: Chinese collection, Collections — Zhaohui Xue @ 9:43 am
skqs Si ku quan shu 四库全书 is the electronic version of the Wenyuange edition of Si ku quan shu. It features a collection of 3,460 Chinese classical works in 36,000 volumes or 4.7 million pages, which includes works on philosophy, history, literature and art, political systems, social studies, economics, astronomy and geography, mathematics, medical studies, technology, etc. The full-text database of all included 36,000 volumes is fully searchable. As the largest encyclopedic collection of Chinese classical works, it is the single richest source for Chinese studies. Here is the link.

November 11, 2006

Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center Digital Library now available

Filed under: Collections — Charles Fosselman @ 1:44 pm
TBRC Image Full-text access to the TBRC Digital Library is now available to Stanford-affiliated users at tbrc.org.
The TBRC Digital Library is a fully searchable database containing an extensive collection of scans of Buddhist texts regarding people, places, traditions and teachings.