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Stanford Libraries and Resources

Student studying in the Lane Reading Room inside Green Library.
Student studying in the Lane Reading Room inside Green Library.

Stanford University Libraries are a dynamic network of resources, spaces and subject experts assembled with the mission to stimulate intellectual curiosity, sustain academic research and support teaching and learning. With over 12 million items, 50 subject specialists and 20 campus libraries, the opportunities for contributing to and transforming scholarship are infinite. Readers globally browse the expansive holdings in Searchworks, the Libraries catalog.

The Libraries provide a spectrum of emerging data technologies, including the Stanford Digital Repository for analysis and preservation of data, as well as spaces for study and public programs.

Cecil H. Green Library is the main library. Stanford affiliates and visiting scholars frequently use Special Collections in the Field Room in Green Library, the Archive of Recorded Sound at the Music Library, the Branner Earth Sciences Library, the Bowes Art & Architecture Library, the East Asia Library, the Silicon Valley Archives, and the David Rumsey Map Center.

For more information visit the Stanford Libraries and SearchWorks Catalog websites.

Stanford University Press

Founded in 1892, Stanford University Press publishes approximately 140 books a year across the humanities, social sciences, law and business. These books inform scholarly debate, generate global and cross-cultural discussion, and bring award-winning scholarship to the wider reading public.

At the leading edge of both print and digital dissemination of innovative research, with more than 3,000 books currently in print, SUP is a publisher of ideas that matter, books that endure.

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