Stanford Law School just distributed its annual Facebook, a bound photo directory for the school. The first such Facebook was issued here in 1983.
So while sitting at the reference desk this morning, waiting for customers (it’s been a slow Friday), I counted faces in the first and most recent Facebooks and came up with this comparison:
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1983/84 2008/09
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Faculty 45 55
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Visitors/lecturers 11 83
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Fellows 6 23
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Deans (other than faculty) 3 6
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Library staff 25 28
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Law school staff 53 130
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Advanced degree students 9 65
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First year students 171 170
Very interesting! Seems the faculty/staff is more apt to be displayed digitally than in the original Facebook? That or there’s just simply more of them! Either way, I enjoyed looking at the numbers.
Before the SLS facebook became a separate publication they published similar photos in the Law School Journal in the first issue of the school year. I think it was just students then so it probably won’t feed your statistics.