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They also host the world's largest curated videogame collection. Henry is a treasure.

by VonGuard 4y ago

enos_feedler 4y ago
Is it possible for non students or Stanford affiliates to get access to this stuff?
- nvrspyx 4y ago
  You can visit some of the libraries (listed below from [0]) and request access to most of the archival collections, but you won't be able to borrow anything from either. Note that [0] also applies to the free visits (7 days per year) as well, not just the fee-based library card holders. - Art & Architecture - Branner Earth Sciences - East Asia - Green - Music - Science (Li & Ma) - Terman Engineering Note that the video games in the collection are considered archival materials, it requires requesting material online ahead of time and you may only use it in a reading room[1] (unless I think you're assigned as a proxy lender by a faculty member, but you have to be a student/affiliate to be one) and the process is open to the public[2]. IIRC from my freshman year when I did a paper on video games, they had special reading rooms with equipment to use the video games, but that was over 10 years ago now. You may need to also request/reserve the necessary equipment as well. 0: https://library.stanford.edu/using/access-and-privileges/privileges-university-library-affiliates/fee-based-library-cards https://library.stanford.edu/using/access-and-privileges/pri... 1: https://guides.library.stanford.edu/c.php?g=1024656&p=7865812 https://guides.library.stanford.edu/c.php?g=1024656&p=786581... 2: https://library.stanford.edu/spc/using-our-collections https://library.stanford.edu/spc/using-our-collections
  - 1letterunixname 4y ago
    The Cantor Museum is also free and open to the public and has an impressive collection. Interestingly, they have one each of the gold and silver spikes from the Transcontinental railroad. (They're not at Promontory, UT.) The Museum of the City of New York has the other silver spike. The other golden spike was presumed lost until 2005 but is now on display in the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento.

They also host the world's largest curated videogame collection. Henry is a treasure.

enos_feedler 4y ago

Is it possible for non students or Stanford affiliates to get access to this stuff?

nvrspyx 4y ago
You can visit some of the libraries (listed below from [0]) and request access to most of the archival collections, but you won't be able to borrow anything from either. Note that [0] also applies to the free visits (7 days per year) as well, not just the fee-based library card holders. - Art & Architecture - Branner Earth Sciences - East Asia - Green - Music - Science (Li & Ma) - Terman Engineering Note that the video games in the collection are considered archival materials, it requires requesting material online ahead of time and you may only use it in a reading room[1] (unless I think you're assigned as a proxy lender by a faculty member, but you have to be a student/affiliate to be one) and the process is open to the public[2]. IIRC from my freshman year when I did a paper on video games, they had special reading rooms with equipment to use the video games, but that was over 10 years ago now. You may need to also request/reserve the necessary equipment as well. 0: https://library.stanford.edu/using/access-and-privileges/privileges-university-library-affiliates/fee-based-library-cards https://library.stanford.edu/using/access-and-privileges/pri... 1: https://guides.library.stanford.edu/c.php?g=1024656&p=7865812 https://guides.library.stanford.edu/c.php?g=1024656&p=786581... 2: https://library.stanford.edu/spc/using-our-collections https://library.stanford.edu/spc/using-our-collections
- 1letterunixname 4y ago
  The Cantor Museum is also free and open to the public and has an impressive collection. Interestingly, they have one each of the gold and silver spikes from the Transcontinental railroad. (They're not at Promontory, UT.) The Museum of the City of New York has the other silver spike. The other golden spike was presumed lost until 2005 but is now on display in the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento.