Rooms and Resource Centers
Group
Study Rooms | Lane
Reading Room | Bender
Room | Humanities/Area
Studies Resource Center (HASRC) | Jonsson
Social Sciences Reading Room | Social
Sciences Resource Center (SSRC) | Velma
Denning RoomBender Room
Introduction
The Albert M. Bender Room is located on the fifth floor of the newly restored
Bing Wing. This space, with its wonderful views of the Quad and the hills
beyond the campus, offers comfortable seating and a quiet atmosphere for
study, leisure reading, and reflection.
The Bender Room contains a collection of good books of current and classic
interest in fiction and non-fiction. This collection has been made possible
by a generous gift from the Stanford University Bookstore.
The Memorabilia Area of the room together with its adjacent reading
area has been dedicated to the love of reading and to Anna May Bell Dunlap,
AB 1900, and Sue Elizabeth Dunlap Hillman, AB 1931, by the generosity
of a gift from Barbara Ann Hillman, AB 1962.
History
Looking
back, historical notes show that in 1933, the Stanford Library's scattered
special collections, approximately 5,000 volumes, were placed in a seminar
room on the top floor of the library called the Rare Book Room. Several
years later the room was renamed for Albert M. Bender, the San Francisco
bibliophile whose philanthropy benefited the Stanford rare book collections.
Photo Tour of Restoration
If you would like to view a short photographic tour of the reconstruction
project in the Bender Room, please start
here.
Floor Plan
Map of the 5th floor.
Artist's rendering of Bender Room plans, 1998.
Last modified:
June 24, 2005
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