SBU Libraries celebrates Banned Books Week with a special display located just inside the entrance of the Central Reading Room. Banned Books Week is an annual event meant to highlight the importance of access to books and the freedom to…
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Bibliotecas Universitarias celebra el Mes de la Herencia / University Libraries Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
Celebre el Mes de la Herencia Hispana con las Bibliotecas Universitarias. ¡Pase por la sala de lectura central y vea solo algunos de los artículos que recomendamos de nuestra colección! ¿Te gusta lo que ves? ¡Publica una foto en las…
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Love Who You Love: The University Libraries celebrates Pride Month
Commemorating the anniversary of the riots that followed a police raid on The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, Pride Month has grown over the last 50 years to become an international month-long celebration raising awareness and showing…
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Socially-engaged art project draws crowds to Central Reading Room
Last month, SBU Libraries partnered with Professor Nobuho Nagasawa of the Department of Art to host her socially-engaged art project “Emotional Treasures, Emotional Revelations.” Beginning with a kickoff event on November 11, participants in this project created a small four-fold…
Deported: An American Division Exhibit and Panel Discussion
On September 26th, University Libraries welcomed photographer Rachel Woolf and her award winning photos to Central Reading Room. Nancy Hiemstra, Geographer; Assistant Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Author of Deportation and Detention (forthcoming, 2019); Irma Solis, New York Civil Liberties Union (Suffolk County);…
SBU Libraries Hosts Panel Discussion in Honor of National Poetry Month
On April 10th, Stony Brook University Libraries hosted a panel in honor of National Poetry Month. This event was intended to foster a discussion of poetry as a mode of expression, and of the relationship between that expression (format, content, etc.)…
New Melville Library Display Features Medieval Manuscripts
collection recently published by Stony Brook University Libraries. Photographs from the Otto F. Ege compiled portfolio Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts, Western Europe, XII-XVI Century are featured. Special Collections, Stony Brook University Libraries owns portfolio “No. 19” of the 40 unique…
University Libraries, Simons Center Gallery and Zuccaire Gallery Featured at Art Crawl
On Friday, November 3, guests of the Art Crawl experienced an exciting and diverse array of photographs, paintings, multi-media installations, and sculpture. Four galleries at Stony Brook University were featured at the second event of the semester. Art Crawls unite Stony Brook…
Book Swap In Central Reading Room!
Bored with textbooks? Need some adventure and can’t really escape to some exotic place? Looking for a good book to read? You only have to look as far as the Central Reading Room Book Swap stand!! Thanks to the cooperation…
New Exhibit Opens in the Central Reading Room
Artist Salvador Dalí’s vibrant and surreal interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is on display in the newly renovated Central Reading Room, Melville Library. The works are part of a unique portfolio housed in Special Collections of the University…
