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• MALDEF/PRLDEF Guide Published
• Library Instructions for the Summer

• Upcoming Series of Events
• Law Library Already on Summer Hours

• System Change: A Poem

I am delighted to announce the publication of the Research Guide to the Records of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) and PRLDEF (Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund). Copies of the book have been catalogued for General Reference and the Special Collections Reading Room. The processing of the papers was funded by an NEH grant, and a gift from Anheuser Busch supported production of the guide.

The two groups are the preeminent advocacy organizations in the nation for, respectively, Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans. Professor Albert Camarillo notes in his introduction that these records "will provide a rich source of documentation for scholars to examine the complex political history of Mexican American and other civil rights advocacy groups during the last third of the twentieth century." Indeed at Stanford a number of students are already mining the papers for their dissertations, and the collection, since processing was completed, is one of the most heavily used in the department. In addition, MALDEF President Antonia Hernandez points to their importance beyond scholarship, stating that "the history and accessibility of MALDEF's civil rights achievements and struggles, and that of our sister organization ... is critical in the education and empowerment of those who follow us in the continued challenge of equality."

As successor to Maggie Kimball as Project Manager of this, the largest manuscript processing project ever completed at Stanford, I was blessed with a gifted and energetic coworkers: Steven Mandeville-Gamble, the first Project Archivist, completed the arrangement and rehousing of the records far ahead of schedule, and Terrie Mesa who followed Steve, did an outstanding job not only in compiling the guide but in doing the lion's share of the actual design of the book. The result is a handsome as well as a vital tool for researchers. Roberto Trujillo, Curator for Mexican American, Latin American, and Iberian Collections was always ready with timely advice, support, and encouragement. My thanks go to one and all, and to the excellent team of student assistants who did most of the actual listing and rehousing.

--David Sullivan, Special Collections

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Rose Adams will be coordinating Library Instruction--arranging for workshops, scheduling the instruction area in Green, and distributing handouts starting now and continuing through the summer. Please contact her at 5-1180 or mesora@leland if you need any of these or would like to help with instruction.

We have Socrates booklets and Socrates (Z-fold) reference guides. We also have a slightly revised version the Gladis handout.

--Kathy Kerns, Reference Services

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A series of events titled "The Library of the Present" is planned to help build a community in the Bay Area devoted to the sharing of knowledge, wisdom, and other representations of culture in convivial public communication spaces both real and virtual. Members of CPSR, Processed World, Library TNT, Northern California Independent Booksellers' Association, SFPL LEUC, and Progressive Library Workers are already contributing. Other groups concerned with shared communication are urged to join in.

Call 510-524-2155 for more information.

--Melissa Riley, Chair, IFC, Librarians' Guild
--Submitted by Maria Grandinette, Conservation

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Unlike the rest of the University, the Law School is on semesters and the Law Students have already finished finals and are gone for the Summer. We've started our summer hours which are:

Monday - Thursday 8AM - 10PM
Friday 8AM - 6PM
Saturday 9AM - 5PM
Sunday Closed

We will be closed on July 4th.

--Elaine Cattell, Law Library

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--Anonymous

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