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Question: Does Stanford have old magazines that I could photocopy or scan? How can I browse through them? Are any available online?

Come and celebrate the Grand Opening of Coupa Café's coffee kiosk! On Tuesday, April 6, from 4-6 p.m., there will be a live band, free coffees and other surprises.

Located between Green and Meyer Libraries, the Coupa Café offers a variety of freshly prepared food items and organic coffee drinks, teas and other beverages. You can get anything from a snack to a full meal and it's open weekdays from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends (with plans to extend hours in coming months).

"This is a great development," said University Librarian Mike Keller. "Coupa has done a marvelous job of efficient design to expand the kiosk service. This will be a real boon both to library denizens and to students living in nearby dorms."

For more information, see the recent Stanford News article.

Question: I'm looking for an honors thesis that I know was written at Stanford a few years back. I tried looking in Socrates, but couldn't find it. Is there anywhere else I should look?

Answer:It's best to contact Special Collections and University Archives via their How To Request Materials page. They maintain their own internal database for Honors Theses.

In the summer of 2008, SULAIR purchased a video archive of interviews with major figures in the feminist art movement. The material was compiled over two decades by filmmaker and artist Lynn Hershman Leeson for use in her feature-length documentary on the rise of the feminist art movement in the United States, !Women Art Revolution.

Acquired via a collaborative purchase organized by Henry Lowood, Roberto Trujillo, and Peter Blank, and with support from the Director’s Office, it was the expressed wish of Hershman and SULAIR that these interviews be made freely available to encourage and support further research into feminist studies, art history, and American studies. To that end, SULAIR has just launched the !Women Art Revolution collection web site.

Starting Monday, March 22, 2010, the computer science collections will be moving out of the Mathematical & Computer Sciences Library. The active monograph collection is being transferred to the Engineering Library during Spring Break, while less-used materials and the bound serials will be transferred to SAL3 from late March through April.

SULAIR has the following new positions this week:

Assistant University Librarian for Collection Development (Humanities and Social Sciences) (#36951)

Image Quality Assurance Specialist (#37312)

Associate Director, HighWire Press Publishing Services (#37535)

HighWire Content Analyst/Senior Content Analyst (#37534)

Digitization Workflow Engineer (#37588)

Question: I have heard that Palo Alto City Libraries have movies, audio books, children's books and popular magazines that Stanford Libraries don't carry. Can I get a library card and borrow from the public library?

SULAIR's Library Development Office publishes monthly issues of ReMix: News from the Stanford Libraries. March's issue has a variety of interesting news items and links. This includes a description of the new displays and group study space in Green Library, news about the collection of books about Antarctica coming to SULAIR, a summary of how students in a Stanford history class assembled an archive of unique local importance and offered it to the Stanford Libraries as both exhibit and permanent resource, and news about SULAIR's Stephen Jay Gould archive.

The next Reference Forum will be on Tuesday, March 30 (not on Wednesday, March 24, as announced in a previous SULAIR News article). It will take place from 10-11:30 a.m. in Green Library's SSRC Seminar Room.

The next Reference Forum will be on Tuesday, March 30 from 10-11:30 a.m. in Green Library's SSRC Seminar Room.

A special group webcast will discuss Section 108 of the US Copyright Act, which applies to limitations and exclusive rights of digitization and reproduction of library materials and archives. All are welcome to attend.