© Hoover Institution Herbert Hoover Memorial Building and Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibit Pavilion

Mailing address
Carol Leadenham
Reference Archivist
Hoover Institution
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-6010, USA
Tel (650) 723-3563
Fax (650) 725-3445

E-mail
leadenham@hoover.stanford.edu

Orientations are available for Stanford students and faculty, and can be tailored to special interests.

Hours
Monday through Friday, 8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
(closed for holidays; call for details)

Archival holdings are brought from the stacks to the reading room at 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., and 3 p.m.


Winter Closing of Hoover Library and Archives
December 20, 2006, through January 1, 2007
Stanford University will continue its practice of shutting down all nonessential services for an extended period during the two-week period from December 20, 2006, through January 1, 2007. The Hoover Institution Library and Archives will be closed during this period and will reopen on Tuesday, January 2, 2007.
 
Saturday Schedule, January–May 2006

The following Saturdays are available:
February 4, 25
March 11, 18
April 8, 22
May 6
On these Saturdays the Archives will be open from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm.

The Archives Reading Room is open on the designated Saturdays by appointment only. To make an appointment please call Carol Leadenham at (650) 723-3563 by the previous Wednesday if at all possible. Note the following requirements for Saturdays:

Directions
The Hoover Institution Archives is located on the Courtyard Level of the Herbert Hoover Memorial Building at the intersection of Serra and Galvez Streets on the campus of Stanford University. Stanford University is located approximately 35 miles south of San Francisco and 20 miles north of San Jose. From 101, exit Embarcadero west (Stanford University). Embarcadero becomes Galvez after crossing El Camino Real. From 280, exit Page Mill east. Left on El Camino Real (82). Left on Serra to Galvez. For more information (including public transportation) visit http://www.stanford.edu/home/visitors/directions.html

Parking
There are two day-use parking lots on Galvez Street (one at Campus Drive and one at Memorial Way) that accept currency, coins, or credit cards. On Saturdays all campus parking, except handicapped spaces, is available without charge to visitors. Campus parking map

Users with disabilities
The Hoover Institution Archives is accessible to wheelchairs via a ramp from Crothers Way (behind the Herbert Hoover Memorial Building and Hoover Tower, between the Herbert Hoover Memorial Building and Green Library) and then an elevator just inside the front door of the building. For more information, please call (650) 723-3563 or send your request to leadenham@hoover.stanford.edu. Maps Stanford University and vicinity

List of collections stored off-site
Some of the archives’ collections are stored off-site, and it may be possible to have a limited number of boxes brought to the archives reading room for examination. A minimum of two days notice is required. For a list of these collections, see Off-site collections. Please contact Carol Leadenham for information about off-site collections.

Public catalogs
Collection-level descriptions are available on the Stanford University online public access catalog Socrates (can be limited to Hoover Institution Archives). Up-to-date card catalogs are still maintained for archival collections in the archives reading room. Registers and other finding aids are also available for most collections in the reading room. Photocopies of finding aids, subject lists, and new accession lists can be purchased by mail from the reference archivist.

Hoover Institution Archives finding aids
More than 1,000 finding aids to collections in the Hoover Institution Archives can be found online, at http://sunsite2.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/oac/hoover, and additional ones are being added as they are produced. These finding aids were encoded by a team at U.C. Berkeley, as part of the U.C. EAD Project, which became the Online Archive of California (OAC). The goal of the project was to provide a prototype union database of finding aids to archival collections in all nine University of California campuses as well as a few non-U.C. institutions, including the Hoover Institution Archives.