Tom Nakashima wrote:
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Stanford allows the public to use their libraries. It's not quite as easy
as wandering in off the street, but it's not difficult.

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Thought you had to have a Stanford ID.

A member of the public can get a card permitting them access to the
libraries for some fixed number of visits per year. I don't recall
exactly how many. Also, alumni and alumnae have free access.

My son is a freshman at Stanford University. Says he loves to study in the
music library because very few students use it.
He also thinks it's haunted. Late one night he was the only one in the
music library, looking over their great selection of cello concertos and
said he thought he heard someone playing the harpsichord very softly.
-tom

Good for your son. It's an achievement even to get in. Stanford is a
great place to go to college. It has just the right mix of brilliant
professors, serious students, a beautiful campus, and nearly perfect
weather. I taught there occasionally as a visiting scholar when I worked
at SRI, and I have a residence in Menlo Park, virtually right next door.
My wife went there for undergraduate study and law school.

I highly recommend going to a baseball game at the sunken diamond, the
most intimate baseball venue I've ever seen. Stanford regularly has a
kick-ass baseball team, too.

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