About the Exhibits Program

Since the re-opening of the Bing Wing of Green Library in September of 1999, the exhibits staff of Special Collections, in collaboration with a host of curators, have organized several memorable exhibits including John Steinbeck: From Salinas to Stockholm; No Guts, No Glory: A History of the Stanford Alpine Club; In Company: Robert Creeley's Collaborations; and The Great Art of Knowing: The Baroque Encyclopedia of Athanasius Kircher, among others.
At present, the Department of Special Collections presents four primary exhibits per calendar year. The goals of the exhibits program are to:
•enhance the visibility and accessibility of Special Collections materials, and other objects on display, by providing viewers with a scholarly, visually dynamic, and interpretive context in which to consider them;
•inform the University community about the possibilities for teaching and research in Special Collections and the Libraries as a whole;
•encourage working collaborations between departments on campus, library staff, faculty, students, and the broader Stanford community.

For more information about the exhibits program, please contact: Becky Fischbach, Exhibits Preparer and Designer; Stanford University, Department of Special Collections, Stanford, CA 94305; ph. 650-725-1020; fax 650-723-8690; email: efischba@stanford.edu

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Image at the top right: from Giorgio de Sepibus, Romani Collegii Musaeum Celeberrimum, 1678, frontispiece.