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1. Law Library Holiday Hours
2. New Curator for American & British History

The Law Library holiday hours are as follows:

        Dec. 15         10AM-Midnight
        Dec. 16-19      8AM-Midnight
        Dec. 20         8AM-6PM
        Dec. 21         9AM-5PM
        Dec. 22-29      Closed
        Dec. 30         8AM-Midnight
        Dec. 31         8AM-5PM
        Jan. 1          Closed
        Jan. 2          8AM-Midnight
        Jan. 3          8AM-10PM
        Jan. 4          Back to regular hours

Regular Hours:

        Monday-Thursday AM-Midnight
        Friday          8AM-6PM
        Saturday        9AM-5PM
        Sunday          10AM-Midnight

-- submitted by Elaine Devon Cattell

Tomas Jaehn has been appointed the Curator for American & British History with the Stanford University Libraries effective January 13, 1997. Dr. Jaehn comes to Stanford from the Idaho State Historical Society Library & Archives where he has had responsibility for the acquisition and collection development of book and archival collections -- the ISHS Northwest Book Collection, rare books and manuscripts.

Dr. Jaehn is an Americanist having received his Ph.D. in History from the University of New Mexico in 1994. Jaehn's concentration was in the American West with minors in Modern U.S. History, European History, and Women's Studies. Jaehn also completed graduate studies between 1982 and 1984 in History and English at the University of Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany and an M.A. in History in August 1982 from New Mexico Highlands University in American History with a minor in American literature. Dr. Jaehn also served as Adjunct Professor in History at Boise State University, been a research assistant at the Center for the American West at the University of New Mexico, and was a Clinton P. Anderson Fellow at the Center for Southwest Research at the University of New Mexico Library. Selected publications include the forthcoming "Multiculturalism in New Mexico: The Hispanic Southwest in German Literature During the 19th and Early 20th Centuries," in Amerikastudien; "The Unpolitical German in New Mexico, 1846-1914," in the New Mexico Historical Review (71 January 1996); The Environment in the 20th Century West: A Bibliography, published by the Center for the American West at the University of New Mexico in 1991; and "Charles Blumner: Pioneer, Merchant, and Civil Servant," in the New Mexico Historical Review (63 October 1986).

-- submitted by Roberto G. Trujillo