Sound pioneer Ray Dolby's personal papers are donated to Stanford Libraries' Silicon Valley Archives
STANFORD, Calif., Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On what would have been his 90th birthday, the Dolby Family and Stanford Libraries announce the placement of Ray Dolby's papers at Stanford University. Dolby's papers join the archives of Ampex Corporation, an industry leader in magnetic recording and where Dolby worked early in his career. Dolby Laboratories purchased the Ampex archives and donated it to Stanford Libraries in 2001. Both collections are part of the Stanford Libraries' Silicon Valley Archives, which recently expanded its program to include exhibition, teaching and event spaces in the newly renovated Hohbach Hall in Cecil H. Green Library.
- STANFORD, Calif., Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On what would have been his 90th birthday, the Dolby Family and Stanford Libraries announce the placement of Ray Dolby's papers at Stanford University.
- "The addition of Ray's papers in the Silicon Valley Archives offers scholars a rich corpus of primary source material spanning the early years of sound recording inventions and history," said Michael A. Keller, the Ida M. Green University Librarian at Stanford.
- The Ray Dolby Papers will have research value across many disciplines at Stanford and beyond and the connections between Dolby and Stanford continue to be discovered.
- "The Silicon Valley Archives includes collections that document the historical interplay between technology and entertainment," said Henry Lowood, the Harold C. Hohbach Curator at Stanford Libraries who oversees the Silicon Valley Archives.