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Stanford’s Big Local News and Libraries supported a Pulitzer-winning investigation into Baltimore’s fentanyl crisis, helping journalists uncover overdose patterns among Black men.

Lost for more than half a century, the rare Chinese typewriter whose name means “clear and fast” was discovered in a New York basement and entrusted to Stanford Libraries.

Stanford University Libraries are digitizing films from the 1920s onward, providing a lens into key historical moments while presenting new research opportunities for students and faculty.

A new tool allows researchers to proactively review their content and identify AI-generated text.

The archive contains over 600,000 items dating back to the 18th century, including original artifacts from the Gold Rush and 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.

Each year, a handful of undergrads support Stanford Archives as processing assistants. “It quenches your intellectual curiosity, and you get to work with a lot of really interesting, and sometimes weird, stuff,” says Bradley Strauss, ’25.

A pilot presentation featuring objects from the Department of Special Collections at Stanford University Libraries looks to journals, sketchbooks, postcards, and other ephemera for insight into artists’ inspiration and processes.

Stanford Libraries is highlighting a collection of books by Native and Indigenous authors this month in celebration of Native American Heritage Month.

Libraries play a critical role in preserving video games, but legal restrictions are impacting preservation efforts in unexpected ways, says Stanford’s Silicon Valley Archives curator Henry Lowood.

Manuscript Sciences at Stanford wants scholars of all disciplines to engage with the question, how can we automate discovery about objects that are unquantifiable?