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News
November 6, 2009
New Finding Aids Posted Online
Finding aids to the collections described below are now available through the Online Archive of California.
November 2, 2009
Hoover Institution acquires Melita Norwood papers
Kim Philby was part of the Cambridge Five, who were arguably the most notorious Soviet spies operating in Great Britain from the 1930s through the 1950s.
October 27, 2009
Sound Recordings Newly Digitized by Hoover Archives
Among the sound recordings recently digitized for access and preservation by Hoover's audio lab are the items listed below. To make an appointment to listen to the recordings at the archives or to purchase copies, click on Audiovisual Services.
October 23, 2009
Landslide—a portrait of President Herbert Hoover on PBS
This documentary explores the facts and fictions behind the presidency of Herbert Hoover, including the Great Depression and its lasting impact on government.
October 20, 2009
New Finding Aids Posted Online
Finding aids to the collections described below are now available through the Online Archive of California.
October 14, 2009
Hoover Acquires Rare Periodical
The Russian Federation—like its predecessor, the USSR—has a network of some forty “closed cities,” entry into which requires special permission, both for Russians as well as for foreigners.
October 12, 2009
Chinese Official Li Yuanchao Visits Hoover Institution
As part of his visit to Stanford University, Li Yuanchao toured the Hoover Institution Library and Archives. Li is secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Secretariat, member of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, and minister of the CPC Central Organization Department.
October 6, 2009
Audio Interviews of Latin American Leaders Available at Hoover
A substantial collection of digitized audio interviews of more than one hundred Latin American leaders is available for listening in the Hoover Archives reading room.
September 24, 2009
Hoover’s Archival Collections Described and Made Searchable on a Single Website
The project to add a description of every archival collection at Hoover to the Online Archive of California is complete, with the OAC now containing descriptive overviews of all Hoover's 5,725 collections, as well as detailed container lists for about twelve hundred of those collections.
September 15, 2009
Sound Recordings Newly Digitized by Hoover Archives
Among the sound recordings recently digitized for access and preservation by Hoover's audio lab are the items listed below. To make an appointment to listen to the recordings at the archives or to purchase copies, click on Audiovisual Services.
September 14, 2009
Hoover Library and Archives launches a blog
In the Hoover Institution Library and Archives blog, Hoover Archives staff will share what makes their work interesting, provide surprising answers to questions from patrons, and fill the readers in on the mysteries of, curiosities in, and treasures from the Hoover Archives.
September 8, 2009
Close to Five Thousand German Posters Added to Online Database
With the recent addition of more than 4,000 images from Germany, the Hoover Institution’s searchable online poster database now provides access to some 22,000 images of political posters in Hoover’s poster collection.
September 2, 2009
Hoover Institution Archives yields fresh insights into modern Chinese history
Richard Sousa, director of the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, recently attended the “Symposium on T.V. Soong: His Life and Personal Papers” in Shanghai, sponsored by Fudan University, the Hoover Institution, and the Shanghai Research Institute of Sun Yat-sen and Soong Ching-ling.
August 28, 2009
Russian Ambassador Reviews Collections from Hoover Archives
During a visit to the West Coast, Sergey Kislyak, Russian ambassador to the United States, visited the Hoover Institution Library and Archives on August 26.
August 26, 2009
New Finding Aids Posted Online
Finding aids to the collections described below are now available through the Online Archive of California.
August 20, 2009
Hoover Archives in Stilwell Documentary by Phoenix TV
A Chinese-language television documentary on Joseph Stilwell that includes footage shot at the Hoover Institution can be viewed in its entirety on You Tube. To view the segment taped at Hoover, forward to 6:12.
August 20, 2009
Stilwell Diaries at Hoover Featured in Phoenix TV Documentary
Another segment in the Chinese-language television documentary series about Joseph Stilwell, including footage shot at the Hoover Institution, can be viewed in its entirety on You Tube. To view the segment taped at Hoover, forward to 1:14.
August 14, 2009
PBS’s Antiques Roadshow shoots segment in the Hoover Archives
The segment filmed on August 14, 2009 focuses on Hoover’s vast poster collection, consisting of more than 100,000 political posters from around the world, 33,000 of which are cataloged in a searchable database.
August 12, 2009
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Tape Boxing Project Completed
An ambitious project to box, label, and accurately count the 80,000 seven-inch open-reel audiotapes in the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) broadcast records is complete.
August 6, 2009
Sound Recordings in Boris I. Nicolaevsky Collection Digitized
Thirty-nine tape recordings containing the speeches and words of Boris Nicolaevsky, Rafail Abramovich Abramovich, and others have been completely digitized for access and preservation.
July 29, 2009
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Motion Picture Films Available for Streaming
Two English-language films produced by RFE/RL in the 1960s can be viewed on Hoover’s RFE/RL website. The films, which were used to promote RFE/RL operations in the United States, are part of the RFE/RL corporate records held by the Hoover Institution Archives.
July 27, 2009
Commonwealth Club Database Complete from 1944 to 1980
Nine hundred and fifty sound recordings of programs presented at the Commonwealth Club before 1980 are now fully described in Hoover’s database of club recordings.
July 20, 2009
Hoover Archives Hosts Record 42 Researchers in One Day
Supplementing its usual daily research traffic, the opening of more Chiang Kai-shek diaries and a two-week visit by the Hoover Soviet Archives Research Project team saw the Hoover Archives achieve a new visitor record on July 14.
July 16, 2009
Radio Free Europe (RFE) Serbo-Croatian Tapes Digitized
The entire collection of audiotapes created by RFE’s Serbo-Croatian Language Service has been digitized for preservation and access. Use copies of the recordings are available for listening at the Hoover Archives.
July 8, 2009
Final Diaries of Chiang Kai-shek Open for Research on July 8, 2009
The diaries of Chiang Kai-shek from 1956 to 1972 are available to researchers at the Hoover Archives as of Wednesday, July 8, 2009, when they will join earlier Chiang diaries from 1917 to 1955, which were opened between 2006 and 2008
July 1, 2009
New List of 206 Tapes in Milton Friedman’s Economics Cassette Series
A list of audio programs in Milton Friedman’s extensive Economics Cassette Series (ECS), 1969–78, is now available (click here and then scroll down to box 103).
June 25, 2009
Hoover Institution Library and Archives Exhibition A Revolutionary Idea: Hoover Making History since 1919
The Hoover Institution is marking the ninetieth anniversary of its founding with an exhibit titled A Revolutionary Idea: Hoover Making History since 1919. The exhibit opens on June 30, 2009
June 24, 2009
Newly Digitized Sound Recordings in the Christopher T. Emmet Jr. Papers
Listening copies of all recordings on lacquer discs in the Emmet papers, 1913–1974, are now available in the Hoover Archives reading room. A list of the newly digitized recordings is also available.
June 17, 2009
Finding Aid to the Firing Line Broadcast Records Posted Online
A guide to the paper documents in the Firing Line broadcast collection is available online.
June 12, 2009
Estonian president visits the Hoover Institution
Estonian president Toomas Ilves visited the Hoover Institution Library and Archives on Thursday, June 11. During a presentation in the archives, he was shown materials from the Estonian collections...
June 11, 2009
New and Revised Finding Aids Posted Online
Finding aids to the collections described below are now available through the Online Archive of California.
June 9, 2009
Hoover Archives Staff Participate in Association for Recorded Sound Collections Conference
Brandon Burke, associate archivist for recorded sound collections, and Jim Sam, audio specialist, participated in several activities at the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) annual conference held at the end of May in Washington, D.C.
June 9, 2009
President Ma of Taiwan meets with Richard Sousa, director of the library and archives at the Hoover Institution
The president of Taiwan, Ma Ying-jeou, met with Richard Sousa, director of the library and archives at the Hoover Institution, at the presidential palace in Taiwan.
June 3, 2009
New Increment of the Papers of Friedrich von Hayek Arrives at the Hoover Institution Archives
Some of the last remaining papers of the economist and Nobel laureate Friedrich von Hayek (1899–1992) arrived at the Hoover Institution Archives in May.
June 2, 2009
Iris Chang’s papers at the Hoover Institution Archives are a valuable resource for authors and filmmakers
Currently available for viewing online as a free Internet download (www.snagfilms.com/films/title/nanking/), the 2007 documentary Nanking.
June 1, 2009
New Finding Aids Posted Online
Finding aids to the collections described below are now available through the Online Archive of California.
May 28, 2009
Firing Line Transcripts on Hoover Website
Sixty Firing Line transcripts are available on Hoover’s Firing Line database, with more to come.
May 26, 2009
Four Thousand British Posters Added to Online Poster Database
With more than four thousand images from the United Kingdom having been recently added, the Hoover Institution’s online, searchable poster database now has some eighteen thousand images of political posters from its collection.
May 20, 2009
Hoover Archives Staff Participate in Society of California Archivists’ Conference
Janel Quirante, assistant archivist for visual materials, was a presenter on the panel “From Vault to Computer/TV Screen: Sharing Your Moving Image Treasures with the World” at the Society of California Archivists’ recent annual general meeting in Riverside, California.
May 18, 2009
Online File Delivery for Audiovisual Reproduction Orders
Hoover Archives audiovisual services now offer digital file transfers via the online service Basecamp.
May 13, 2009
Royalty visits the Hoover Institution Archives
On May 13, the Hoover Institution Library and Archives welcomed Prince Michel de Bourbon-Parme and Princess Maria Pia of Savoy, accompanied by Hoover overseer Howard Leach, former U.S. ambassador to France.
May 12, 2009
New Finding Aids Posted Online
Finding aids to the collections described below are now available through the Online Archive of California.
May 8, 2009
New Finding Aids for Collections about China and Taiwan Posted Online
Finding aids to the China and Taiwan collections described below are now available through the Online Archive of California.
May 4, 2009
Enhanced Guides to Soviet Archives Microfilm Collection
An enhanced set of guides to the Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State microfilm collection is online.
April 30, 2009
Hoover Institution Archives Acquires the Papers of Leon Gouré
The Hoover Institution Archives recently acquired the papers of well–known Sovietologist and civil defense expert Leon Gouré, who died in 2007 at the age of eighty–four.
April 28, 2009
Hoover Institution Archives Acquires Papers of Middle East Specialist and Award-winning Journalist John K. Cooley
The papers of John K. Cooley, a veteran journalist who covered the Middle East and North Africa for the Christian Science Monitor and ABC News, have recently been acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives.
April 27, 2009
Papers of Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister Imre Pozsgay Available for Research at the Hoover Institution
In August 1989, hundreds of East German visitors poured across the border from communist Hungary to Austria and freedom. As one of the earliest cracks in the barrier between the East and West, this milestone event foreshadowed the lifting of the Iron Curtain...
April 22, 2009
Thirty-three Thousand Records Added to Kuomintang Database
Descriptions of three collections, totaling more than 33,000 entries, have been added to the Kuomintang (KMT) database. This Chinese-language, searchable database guides researchers to relevant reels of KMT microfilm. The microfilm is available in the Hoover Archives reading room.
April 17, 2009
Newly Digitized Sound Recordings in Hoover Archives Reading Room
Listening copies of many spoken-word recordings are now available in the Hoover Archives reading room.
April 13, 2009
Archival Perspectives on Hoover’s Poster Digitization Project
Archival considerations in the development of Hoover's poster digitization project are described in the winter 2009 issue of the Society of California Archivists Newsletter
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