The Branner Earth Sciences Library

The Branner Earth Sciences Library contains 125,000 volumes, including
2,000 serial titles, and 270,000 sheet maps. The library is also a
depository for the U.S. Geological Survey and the California Geological
Survey, and is housed in the Mitchell Earth Sciences Building at 397
Panama Mall.

Branner Library began as the 5,000 volume private collection of John Casper Branner, Stanford's first professor and second president, who came to Stanford in 1891.

"One of Branner's material legacies was the nucleus of what is now the Branner Earth
Sciences Library. Branner was a compulsive purchaser of books and
periodicals; his collection quickly became the de facto
departmental library, although it remained in his possession. It was
finally bought by the university at the time of Branner's retirement in
1915, and under careful management and expansion, it has become one of
the best of such libraries in the nation."

Visit Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections.