Hoover Institution - Library and Archives

Fun with Damaged Tapes
November 17, 2009 Damaged materials are fun. Looks weird, right? But it’s true. We in the audio staff naturally focus on the conservation and preservation of naturally decaying and obsolete materials.

Tackling the Challenges of Audio Archives
November 10, 2009 Because archival materials are collected to be used (in this case, heard), we’d like to introduce you to the vast array of sound recordings housed at the Hoover Archives.

Remembering a revolutionary
November 6, 2009 Bertrand Patenaude is a Hoover research fellow and author of a meticulous biography, Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary.

Jazz at Liberty
November 3, 2009 Recently I asked a colleague, “How many times have you gone looking for John Kennedy’s speech at the Brandenburg Gate and wound up listening to Phil Woods blowing sax?”

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Eye on the Archives

Slide show of images from the Lin Zhao collection

On October 26, the Hoover Institution Library and Archives opened a collection of the letters and diaries of Chinese political activist Lin Zhao for public use.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Tape Boxing Project Completed

Tapes had been stored individually on the shelves

Images of the ambitious project to box, label, and accurately count the 80,000 seven-inch open-reel audiotapes.

Hoover Making History since 1919

In celebration of the Hoover Institution’s 90th anniversary, this slide show features photographs, posters, memorabilia, and documents from the Institution’s beginning as a library in 1919 to the influential public policy and research institution that it has become today.

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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.

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1. Russia/CIS
2. Americas
3. East Europe
4. Library and Archives - Visiting Us
5. Middle East
6. Romania - List of Archival Holdings (Romanian version)
7. Use of Materials
8. Shattered Peace: The Road to World War II
9. Persian Publications
10. East Asia

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