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Slide Show of Poster Conservation at the Hoover Institution
March 17, 2010 The Hoover Institution houses a collection of more than 30,000 cataloged and an estimated 70,000 uncataloged posters. Those posters in the cataloged increment are encapsulated and stored in flat file drawers. . . .

Talk on the history of Hoover Library
March 5, 2010 Nicholas Siekierski, an assistant archivist and exhibit and outreach coordinator at the Hoover archives, will outline the history of the Hoover library and highlight some famous “treasures” from its archives at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 6, in the Fireside Room at Burgess Recreation Center, 700 Alma St. in Menlo Park.

One-of-a-Kind Commonwealth Club DATs Digitized

March 3, 2010 All digital audiotapes (DATs) of unique Commonwealth Club programs—that is, programs not also recorded on some other audio format—at the Hoover Institution Archives have been reformatted for preservation.

Hugh Gibson’s Diaries Documenting Herbert Hoover’s Post-World War II Food Mission Available Online

February 11, 2010 Gibson wrote this daily journal when he accompanied Herbert Hoover around the world on the so-called food mission to assess needs and coordinate efforts in alleviating the famine caused by severe droughts and the devastation wrought by World War II.

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William X. Scheinman (1927–1999) papers

Images William X. Scheinman (1927–1999) papers

H. H. Kung papers

Images from H. H. Kung’s papers

Preparing an Archival Collection for Freezing

One of five incoming pallets of collection materials.

The Hoover Archives recently acquired a large manuscript collection that had been stored in a barn on the East Coast, where it was exposed to extreme temperatures and possibly rodents, insects, and other biological agents. To avoid introducing such organisms into Hoover’s stacks, the collection was frozen to eliminate them. Before they could be frozen, however, the papers required some preparation, which members of the archives staff performed outside the building on a rain-free day in December.

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A Revolutionary Idea: Hoover Making History since 1919

In celebration of the Hoover Institution’s ninetieth anniversary, this exhibition of photographs, posters, memorabilia, audiovisual materials, documents, and books from its library and archives traces the Institution’s development from its origin in 1919 as a special collection at Stanford’s main library to the influential public policy and research institution that it is today.