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Library
Archives
Mailing Address
Paul Thomas
Hoover Institution Library
Stanford CA 94305-6010
USA
Carol Leadenham
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford CA 94305-6010
USA
Telephone
(650) 723-2054
(650) 723-3563
Fax
(650) 736-0012
(650) 725-3445
E-mail (Reference)
thomas@hoover.stanford.edu leadenham@hoover.stanford.edu
Loan Desk
Maria Quinonez or hoovercirc@hoover.stanford.edu telephone (650) 723-2058
 
Archives materials do not circulate
Location
First floor of Hoover Tower
Courtyard level of Herbert Hoover Memorial Building
Hours
Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday, 8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Paging
Materials are brought from the stacks to the reading room every half hour from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Archival holdings are brought from the stacks to the reading room at 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., and 3 p.m.
 
 
Parking
There are two day-use parking lots on Galvez Street (one at Campus Drive and one at Memorial Way) that accept currency, coins, or credit cards. On Saturdays all campus parking, except handicapped spaces, is available without charge to visitors. Campus parking map

Users with disabilities
The Library is accessible by a ramp on the west side of the Hoover Tower, between the Tower and the Cummings Art Building. For more information about accessibility for the Hoover Library please call the Circulation Desk at (650) 723-2058 or send your request to hoovercirc@hoover.stanford.edu.

The Archives is accessible by a ramp from Crothers Way (behind the Herbert Hoover Memorial Building and Hoover Tower, between the Herbert Hoover Memorial Building and Green Library) and then an elevator just inside the front door of the building. For more information, please call (650) 723-3563 or send your request to Carol Leadenham.
 
List of collections stored off-site
Some of the archives’ collections are stored off-site, and it may be possible to have a limited number of boxes brought to the archives reading room for examination. A minimum of two days notice is required. Please contact Carol Leadenham for more information.

Collections Stored Off-site Boxes
Academy for Educational Development 1-122, 125, 127-161, 163-495
American Educational Research Association 1-13, 17-99
American Forum for Global Education 1-429
American Institutes for Research 1-50
Charles F. Kettering Foundation 1-484
Council on Postsecondary Accreditation 1-99
De Witt, Nicholas 1-641, 645-648, 718-719
Deukmejian, George 1-2863
Drachler, Norman 1-73, 76-194
Educational Research Council of America 1-96
Eggertsen, Claude 1-164
Freeman, Roger 1-401, 405-460, 463-494
Gross, Calvin 1-92
Inkeles, Alex 1-79, 82-125, 131-372
International Association for Evaluation of
Educational Achievement
1-154, 157-204, 212-234, 241-246,
250-570
International Council for Educational
Development
357-604
International Institute for Educational
Planning
1-123
Spaulding, Seth 1-131
Stanford University Institute of Hispanic-
American and Luso-Brazilian Studies
Collection
1-777, 784-858
Willis, Benjamin 1-72, 75-242, 244-363


Public catalogs
The Stanford University online public access catalog Socrates contains information on books and serials in the Library, and descriptive overviews of collections in the Archives. Socrates searches can be limited to the Hoover Institution Archives or Hoover Institution Library. Finding aids are also available for many Archives collections at http://sunsite2.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/oac/hoover and in the Archives reading room. Photocopies of finding aids, subject lists, and new accession lists can be purchased by mail from the Carol Leadenham.
 
Places to eat
Please visit Campus Eateries

Places to stay
January
New Year’s Day
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
 
Martin L. King Jr. Day
Monday, January 21, 2008
February
President’s Day
Monday, February 18, 2008
May
Memorial Day
Monday, May 26, 2008

July

Independence Day  
Friday, July 4, 2008
September
Labor Day
Monday, September 1, 2008
November
Thanksgiving Day
Thursday, November 27, 2008
 
Day after Thanksgiving
Friday, November 28, 2008
December 2008- January 2009  
Winter closure
Monday, December 22, 2008, through Friday, January 2, 2009
     

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