The Hoover Institution Library & Archives is pleased to announce the winners of this year's Silas H. Palmer fellowship competition. Eight Stanford students will receive an award of $2000 to support their research based on Hoover's collections.

At the invitation of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Eric Wakin, the Robert H. Malott Director of the Library & Archives, and Hsiao-ting Lin, a research fellow and cocurator of the East Asian Collection, visited Taipei, where they met with Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou; Deputy Foreign Minister Andrew Kao; leaders of the Democratic Progressive Party; and scholars from the Academia Sinica (the national academy of Taiwan); and the Academia Historica (the entity charged with recording the national history of pre-1949 Republic of China and post-1949 Taiwan).

The Hoover Institution Library & Archives are pleased to accept applications for participation in the 2015 Hoover Archives Summer Workshop on Totalitarian Regimes. Held at Stanford's Hoover Institution from July 20-31, 2015, the workshop brings together an interdisciplinary slate of scholars who are using the collections of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives to study totalitarian regimes, broadly defined. A wide range of research is suitable for this program, limited only by the holdings of the Hoover Library & Archives itself. Scholars from any field who would benefit from immersion in the archives are welcome. Participants must be holders of the Ph.D. or scholars with a commensurate publication record, or be advanced graduate students.  

The Library & Archives enjoyed a year of significant changes and new initiatives. In 2014, we acquired exciting new collections, made improvements to our physical and digital infrastructure, and, most importantly, guided thousands of researchers and visitors as they explored our materials.