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Dec 2019: We are reopening in February! Chiang Ching-kuo, Year in Review

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

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In the Galleries

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Hoover's centennial exhibition is now open in the Hoover Tower rotunda!

Hoover@100: Ideas Defining A Century  runs through July 31, 2020. The exhibition is free and open every day, 10 am–4 pm. Closed for major holidays, Stanford home football games, and campus winter closure.

In the Media
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Listen to Hoover fellow Bertrand M. Patenaude discuss Alexander Kerensky's time at Hoover in this podcast from the Stanford and the Twentieth Century series
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A Focus Taiwan news article about Hoover's recently acquired Chiang Ching-kuo diaries

This year has been one of the busiest in L&A history, as staff members moved thousands of newspapers from the Lou Henry Hoover Building to offsite storage. Hoover's holdings have headlines from across the world and in almost every language imaginable. Here are a few fast facts from this year's move:

  • 31,996 items rehoused into 18,980 boxes

  • 18,668 boxes moved

  • 90 countries represented

  • 4,051 titles

  • Dates range from 1850 to 2013

  • Rehousing lasted from September 2018 through October 2019

  • 61 finding aids created

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