Monthly Archives: August 2006

Collection Spotlight: Korean Studies

About the Korean Studies Collectionby Kyungmi Lee The Korean Studies Collection was established in 1987 to support the teaching and research of faculty and students in the Korean Studies Program at Stony Brook University. Starting with only 100 books, the

Posted in Asian and Asian American Studies

Black Thought and Culture TRIAL through Sept 30th.

Black Thought and Culture from Alexander Street Press is available as a TRIAL until Sept 30th. Once you have tried the Black Thought and Culture database, please return to this blog and complete our online survey. Your opinions will help

Posted in Database Trials

Using Library Resources Saves You Time and Money

by Karen Kostner When that research paper is assigned do you ever wish you had better resources than those Google often retrieves? While you may get about 30,000,000 hits, seldom are they of much substance for academic research. Sure, sometimes

Posted in Library Science

Freaks from Brooklyn

Let’s go on a little fishing trip. There’s nothing else I can call it: you’re at a website you wanted to be at, you start exploring it, and then….maybe that site’s URL is intriguing. Or maybe you see all those

Posted in History, Library Science